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100

What time period was fire harnessed?

What is one million years ago?

100

What were the three main things fire caused/gave to humanity?

What is an increase in brain size, cooking, and heat?

100

What protected early humans from freezing and going extinct?

What is fire?

100

What is fire?




Who does fire kill the most today?

What is a rapid, exothermic chemical reaction called combustion, involving a fuel, an oxidizer, and heat?




Who are humans?

100

What is Sammy's favorate date in history and why?

What is 1797 because that was the year when a stable form of light green was first made by the french chemist Louis Nocolas Vauquelin?

200

When did Humans gain the ability to walk up right?

What is 6.5 million years ago?

200

What type of food did early humans cook?

What is meat?

200

What engine using fire sparked the industrial revolution?




When was it invented?

What is the steam engine?




What is 1712?

200

What is the Pleistocene?

What is the last ice age?

200

What color is a black hole?

What is no color because it obsorbs all light?

300

When did the Pleistocene start?




When did the Pleistocene end?

What is 2.58 million years ago?




What is 11,700 years ago?

300

What tools did fire allow humans to make or improve?

What is arrow heads and sharper blades?

300

What type of energy uses a ball of fire?

What is solar energy?

300

What is cooking?

What is the art and science of preparing food for consumption?

300

In 1902, the Caribbean island of Martinique was devastated by the eruption of Mount Pelée, which destroyed the city of Saint-Pierre. Out of a population of roughly 30,000 people, there were only three recorded survivors. One was a shoemaker, and one was a young girl who escaped in a boat.

Who was the third survivor, and what unique circumstance allowed him to survive the blast?

 What is the survivor was Ludger Sylbaris, and he survived because he was locked in a poorly ventilated, thick-walled stone jail cell?

400

When did humans diverge from apes?

What is 7 million years ago?

400

What did fire cause predators to do?




What was the top predator at the time?

What is flee, chance fleeing prey, and avoid humans?




What is the saber-toothed tiger?

400

What fire weapon keeps all wars from becoming global?

What is a nuke?

400

Who are Hominids?

Who is the human lineage, most commonly meaning the broader group of great apes and their ancient forebears between apes and humans?

400

In the modern periodic table, there are 118 elements. Almost every letter of the English alphabet is used as a symbol for at least one element (e.g., H for Hydrogen, C for Carbon).

However, there is one single letter (other than Q) that does not appear anywhere on the periodic table—not as a symbol, and not even in the full name of any element. What is that letter?

What is the letter is J?

500

When was Greek fire invented?

What is 672 C.E.?

500

How big did human brains grow after fire was harnessed?

What is 650cc to 1500cc?

500

What animal was most cooked on a fire?

What is Bos taurus?

500

What are recognizable hearths?

What are historical centers of innovation from which ideas, technologies, and social practices diffused to other regions. These areas were often where agriculture and early urbanization developed, leading to major civilizations?

500

What is the biggest star in the universe?




How much bigger is it compared to the sun?

What is Stephenson 2-18?




What is 2,150?

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