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100

The study of mushrooms called:

a. Botany

b. Zoology

c. Mycology

d. Geology

What is mycology?

100

Which is the most abundant element in the universe?

a. Oxygen

b. Carbon

c. Hydrogen

d. Nitrogen

What is hydrogen?

100

Which famous physicist discovered the concept of gravity?

a. Albert Einstein

b. Galileo Galilei

c. Sir Isaac Newton

d. Nikola Tesla

Sir Isaac Newton

100

What is full of holes but still holds water? 


What is a sponge?

100

Who was the first student to attend UNC?  


Who is Hinton James?

200

 The length of a goldfish's memory:

a. 3 seconds

b. 3 minutes

c. 3 days

d. 3 months


What is 3 days? 

200

Which freezes faster, hot water or cold water?

a. Hot water

b. Cold water

c. They freeze at the same time

d. It depends on the container

What is hot water (Mpemba effect)?

200

What is the unit of work? 

Joule 

200

What has a head and a tail but no body?

What is a coin?

200

When was the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill founded?


What is December 11, 1789?

300

The heaviest organ in the human body

a. Brain

b. Heart

c. Liver

d. Skin

What is the liver?

300

Can gold be created from other elements?

a. Yes

b. No 

Yes

300

If a bug and a car collide, which one experiences the greater force?

a. the bug

b. the car

c. they both experience the same amount of force

they both experience the same amount of force

300

I’m hard to create, but I can’t be destroyed. I can only change form. What am I?


What is energy?

300

What President of the United States attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill?


Who is James K. Polk?

400

The number of bones sharks have in their bodies:

a. 0

b. 206

c. 108

d. 56

What is 0 bones?

400

What element did Joseph Priestley discover in 1774?

Oxygen

400

Why do bowlers put a spin on a ball?


What is to increase momentum (rotational + linear)?

400

What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it?

What is silence?

400

How many bells are inside of the Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower?


What are 14 bells?

500

Who has more hair follicles, blondes or brunettes?

Blondes

500

Why is tungsten a good metal for electric light bulb filaments?

What is a high melting point?

500

A force that decreases the velocity of an object as it moves through air is called?


What is drag?

500

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I? 


What are footsteps?

500

Where did head cheerleader Vic Huggins acquire the first live Ramses in 1924 from for $25? 

(2 potential answers) 

What is Texas or Tennessee?

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