Math
What is 5+7?
12
What is the fifth planet from the Sun.
Jupiter
What year did Christopher Columbus sail the ocean seas?
1492
What is the figure of speech that involves the comparison of one thing of another and uses "like" or "as"?
Simile
American football
What are the order of operations for solving a math problem?
Parenthesis, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction
What is the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water?
Photosynthesis
Which two (2) states were the last to join the United States?
Alaska and Hawaii
The drought ________ plant growth. (past tense)
Is it effect, affect, effected, or affected
Affected
Which pop culture icon made the famous song "Thriller" in 1982?
Michael Jackson
SURPRISE it's actually history alongside math, but it's a Daily Double:
Who is the inventer of Calculus
What is the change of state called when a solid goes to a gas?
Sublimation
What was the road that linked China with the West called? It carried goods and ideas between the two great civilizations of Rome and China around the mid 14th Century.
Silk Road
Which word is the adjective?
Harry picked up his yellow pencil off the floor.
Picked
What year did the first iPhone release?
2007
What is the equation to find the area of a triangle?
1/2(b*h)
There are three (3) main rock types. What type of rock does magma turn into when it is cooled?
Igneous
What was the historical region of Western Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system that was located in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent called?
Mesopotamia
What two (2) elements does a construction need to be a complete sentence?
Subject, Predicate
What is the name of the lead singer of Queen
Freddy Mercury
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What is the element symbol for tin?
Sn
Who was the 35th president of the United States?
John F. Kennedy
What is the part of speech called when a word modifies the kind of reference a noun has?
Example: a, the, every
How many actors have played a live-action Batman onscreen since 1966 (double if you can name them all).
Seven (7)
Adam West
Michael Keaton
Val Kilmer
George Clooney
Christian Bale
Ben Affleck
Robert Pattinson