The number of world records swimmer Mark Spitz set when he won seven gold medals at the 1972 Olympics.
What is seven?
100
Photosynthesis is carreid out in this part of the cell.
What is chloroplast?
100
The most remote weather station in the world is located in this country.
What is Canada?
(Eureka weather station is 600 miles from the North Pole.)
100
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal . . ." is written in this document.
What is The Declaration of Independence?
200
This organ makes urine.
What is the kidney?
200
In this year the Olympics used for the first time electric timing devices and a public address system.
What is 1912?
(This was in Stockholm.)
200
The name of the protective outer layer of trees.
What is bark?
200
This number of loincloths that were found in King Tut's tomb after it was discovered in 1922.
What is 185?
200
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
The total number of olives, olive leaves, stars, and arrows in the Great Seal of the United States.
What is 52?
300
The most acidic part of the digestive system.
What is the stomach?
300
The maximum weight permitted for calves in rodeo calf-roping competition.
What is 350 pounds?
300
This is the fastest animal on two legs.
What is an ostrich?
300
Nearly half the earth's population lives in temperate climate zones. This percentage of the earth's land has a temperate climate.
What is 7%?
300
These were the next three states admitted to the Union after the original 13 colonies.
What are Vermont, Kentucky, and Tennessee?
400
This can be caused by a deficiency of vitamin C.
What is scurvy?
400
This sport was the first to have its top players named to an All-American team.
What is football?
(The first year to have All-American football players was 1889.)
400
This is what the young of bats are called.
What are pups?
400
This European country has two elements on the periodic table named after it.
What is France?
(Gallium (Ga) and Francium (Fr). The name gallium is derived from Gallia, the Latin name for amost all the region we now know as France.)
400
This was the first national monument.
What is Devil's Tower?
500
This organ destroys old red blood cells.
What is the spleen?
500
This boxer was the first Olympic gold medalist to win a professional world boxing title.
Who was Flloyd Patterson?
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
The larva of a toad is called this.
What is a tadpole?
500
Two countries in South America have capitals that are located on the mouth of the same river - the Rio de la Plata. Name the countries and their capitals.
What are Buenos Aires, Argentina and Montevideo, Uruguay?
500
Lucky Lady II made the first non-stop round-the-world flight under the command of James Gallagher, had a crew of 14 men, and was refueled 4 times in the air by a B-29 tanker in this year.