Doesn't Add Up
What is the name of the number which is used to state the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, and begins with the digits 3.14?
Pi
What is the name of the arrangement system for chemical elements?
The Periodic Table of Elements
How many continents are there in the world and what are their names?
Seven (North/South America, Africa, Asia, Australia, Antarctica, Europe)
What 19th-century poet wrote classic works such as The Raven and The Telltale Heart?
Edgar Allen Poe
How many players are on the court in a standard game of basketball?
10 Players (5 from each team)
What is the slope of the equation y=17x+8? (DOUBLE)
17
Name the three branches of the US Government.
In the Odyssey, Odysseus fools the Cyclops by telling him a fake name. What name did he use?
Nobody
In Quizbowl, what is the name of the round in which players are given two minutes to write down twelve answers that all share an initial letter?
Alphabet Round
The Pythagorean Theorem is a mathematical equation that states a2+b2=c2, where c2 is equal to what longest line of a triangle?
Hypotenuse
What is the name of the organelle found only in plant cells that gives plants their green color?
Chlorophyll
In 1932, Australia went to war with, and lost, what species of flightless bird? (DOUBLE)
Emus
In George Orwell's allegorical story Animal Farm, the animals attempt to build a large structure that gets torn down on two separate occasions. What structure did they try to build?
A windmill
Traditionally, on what day is the Super Bowl played? (DOUBLE)
In algebraic functions, X and Y are called the what?
Domain and Range
In reference to an average adult, how many teeth do humans have? (DOUBLE)
32
The Manhattan Project
In Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet, the title lovers are members of two opposing rival families. What are the families' names?
Capulet and Montague
What is the term for a shot in archery where an arrow already in the target is hit by another arrow?
Robin Hooding
Spirals are calculated using what series of numbers in which each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers? (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, etc.)
The Fibonacci Sequence
What is the name of the type of radiation given off by the Sun?
Ultraviolet
What Ancient Greek story about the storming of the city of Troy using a large wooden statue is often taught as fact, even though it's really false?
The Trojan Horse
Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise are the 3 sections in which what 99 chapter Dante Alighieri work? (DOUBLE)
The Divine Comedy
What two specific colors are especially prominent in the FFA flag?
National Blue and Corn Gold