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100
What is a fraction?
A part or proportion of a whole number
100
What is the name of the most famous English playwright?
William Shakespeare
100
Who made the expedition across the Louisiana Purchase?
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
100
What is the name of the super continent?
Pangea
100
What are the names of the four Renaissance artists?
Donatello, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Leonardo Da Vinci
200
Why is the "Base 10" system called the Decimal System?
Decimal comes from the Latin word decimus, meaning tenth, from the root word decem, or 10. The decimal system, therefore, has 10 as its base and is sometimes called a base-10 system.
200
What are the three types of irony?
Verbal, dramatic, and situational irony
200
Who is the father of political science?
The philosopher, Aristotle
200
Who created gravity off an apple falling on his head?
Isaac Newton
200
Why do you often see lightning before you hear thunder?
Light travels faster than sound
300
What is a variable
A symbol (usually a letter) standing in for an unknown numerical value in an equation.
300
What is the difference between homophones and homographs?
Homophones are words that sound the same but are different in meaning or spelling. Homographs are spelled the same, but differ in meaning or pronunciation.
300
How many countries are in North America?
23
Being: Canada, United States, Mexico, and all the sovereign states in the Caribbean and Central America.
300
What is organelle is known for being the powerhouse of the cell?
The mitochondrion
300
What is the rarest blood type?
AB-
400
What is the circumference of a circle?
2πr
400
Where does the book "Holes" take place?
Camp Green Lake, correctional boot camp in a desert in Texas.
400
Why was Cleopatra so significant to Egypt?
By trading with Eastern nations—Arabia and possibly as far away as India—she built up Egypt's economy, bolstering her country's status as a world power. By allying herself with Roman general Mark Antony, Cleopatra hoped to keep Octavian, Julius Caesar's heir and Antony's rival, from making Egypt a vassal to Rome.
400
What is Albert Einstein's most famous formula
400
What is the last state to join the Union
Hawaii
500
What is the difference between an arithmetic sequence and a geometric sequence?
An arithmetic sequence has a constant difference between each consecutive pair of terms. This is similar to the linear functions that have the form y=mx+b. A geometric sequence has a constant ratio between each pair of consecutive terms
500
What is the theme of the book titled Lord of the Flies?
The central concern of Lord of the Flies is the conflict between two competing impulses that exist within all human beings: the instinct to live by rules, act peacefully, follow moral commands, and value the good of the group against the instinct to gratify one’s immediate desires, act violently to obtain supremacy over others, and enforce one’s will.
500
What is the Silk Road?
The Silk Road was a network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century. Spanning over 6,400 kilometers, it played a central role in facilitating economic, cultural, political, and religious interactions between the East and West.
500
What is the Big Bang?
The Big Bang event is a physical theory that describes how the universe expanded from an initial state of high density and temperature. Various cosmological models of the Big Bang explain the evolution of the observable universe from the earliest known periods through its subsequent large-scale form.
500
Who was the first person to win the Nobel Prize?
The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in 1901. The Peace Prize for that year was shared between the Frenchman Frédéric Passy and the Swiss Jean Henry Dunant.