Which Supreme Court landmark case ended segregation in public schools?
Brown Vs. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas, 1954
100
What do you call a group of islands or a chain of islands?
Archipelgo
100
What is the slope of the line 3y + 9x = 27
-3
100
Who founded Taoism in 6th century B.C., during the Warring State Period?
or
The saying "A thousand miles of journey begins with a single step."" is also attributed to him.
Laozi (or Lao-Tzu, or Lao Tzu)
100
What is the action verb in the following sentence?
"They play basketball together."
Play
200
Which country will the United States open an embassy after 50 years of hostility?
Cuba
200
What technology did Johannes Gutenburg create that made information more readily available?
The printing press.
200
Given the parabola: y = – x² + 10x + 3
What is the equation of the axis of symmetry of this parabola?
x = 5
200
What is a pictograph or pictogram?
A characters that conveys its meaning through its resemblance to the actual object.
200
What tense (simple present or present progressive) is the verb in the sentence below?
"He is writing a book."
Present Progressive
300
What term was used for westward expansion of the United States?
Manifest Destiny
300
What is the oldest belief system in the world?
Animism
300
When 36 is subtracted from the square of a number, the result is five times the number. What is the positive solution?
9
300
This phrase literally means "you good". It is also the most common greeting in Mandarin Chinese.
Ni Hao
300
What is the subject pronoun in the sentence below?
"She is a girl."
She
400
What type of tactics did the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement use?
Civil disobedience and Non Violence
400
What is an example of a non-political revolution?
Neolithic Revolution, Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment, Industrial Revolution, Agrarian Revolution or Green Revolution
400
"A password consists of three digits, 0 through 9, followed by three letters from an alphabet having 26 letters.
If repetition of digits is allowed, but repetition of letters is not allowed, determine the number of different passwords that can be made.
1.56×10^7
or
15,600,000
400
On which festival do Chinese people visit the tombs of their ancestors and burn spirit money for them to use in afterlife?
Qingming Festival
400
Every sentence in English must have a subject and a ....
verb
500
What is the term used to describe a tradition or practice in government that is not mentioned in the US Constitution?
Unwritten Constitution
500
What was the name of the epidemic that killed 25% of Europe's population during the Middle Ages?
The Bubonic plague.
500
Three fair coins are tossed. What is the probability that two heads and one tail appear?
3/8
500
On this second most important festival of the year (next to Chinese new year), Chinese people gather with their family, give thanks to the harvest and enjoy a nice slice of moon cake. What is the name of this festival?
Mid-Autumn or Zhongqiu festival
500
Fill-in the blank:
He ______ basketball with his friends every Monday.