Early Algebra
Midsemesterer
Later Semester
Final Jeopardy
Real Trivia
100

4x+7 >2x-3

(-5, +inf)

100

if g(x) = -3x + 1

(g(4) - g(1))/4-1 

-3

100

factor

25x2 - 4

(5x+2)(5x-2)

100

A Norse explorer thought to set foot on America before Christopher Columbus.

Who is Leif Erikson?

100

Queensborough community college was founded when?

1959

200

(1/3) x + 1 < (1/2)(2x-3)-1 

(21/4, +inf)

200

Last week, Mike got 5 apples and 4 oranges for $7. The week the prices are still the same and he got 3
apples and 6 oranges for $6. What’s the price for 1 apple and 1 orange?

Apple 1$ each

Oranges $0.50 each

200

5x2 + 5x -12

(x+1)(5x+2)

200

This 1997 movie focuses on a janitor at MIT.

What is Good Will Hunting?

200

Before being known as New York, the colony on Manhattan was known as this.

New Amsterdam

300

3|5x-2|-4=8

{-2/5, 6/5}

300

Find the slope of the line passing through

(3,5) (-1,1)

m =1 

300

Evaluate - sqrt(4/25)

-2/5

300

From a flowering plant, the Aztecs used it as a chocolate enhancer and the Spanish called it this, meaning “little pod.”

What is vanilla?

300

What is the first country to grant women's suffrage?

New Zealand (1893)

400
Write with positive Exponents:

(-2a3b2c0)3

-8a9b6

400

Today Matt drove from home to school in 30 minutes. He spent 6 minutes on local streets before
driving on the highway and 4 minutes on local streets towards school after getting off the highway. On local streets,
his average speed is 30 miles per hour. On the highway, his average speed is 60 miles per hours.
(1) Write the distance d (in miles) he drove as a function of the time t (in minutes)?

t1/2 from 0 to 6

(t-6)+3 from >6 to 26

1/2(t-26) + 23 from >26 to 30

400

The value of a car is depreciating according to the formula: V ƒ 25000(„3.2)-0.05x, where x is the
age of the car in years. Find the value of the car, to the nearest dollar, when it is five years old.

$18692

400

In 1921, he was appointed as an advisor on Arab affairs to then British Colonial Minister Winston Churchill

Who was Thomas Edward Lawrence, aka Lawrence of Arabia.

400

What 1940's invention was found to be in the blood stream of almost every American.

PFAS/PTFE. Aka Teflon.

500

A toy store has a promotion “Buy one get the second one half price" on a certain popular toy. The
sale price of the toy is $20 each. Suppose the store makes more profit when you buy two. What do you think the
store’s purchasing price of the toy is?

Less than $10

500

2x -y = 8

-3x - 5y =1

(3,-2)

500

A paint measuring 3 inches by 4 inches is surrounded by a frame of uniform width. If the combined
area of the paint and the frame is 30 square inches, determine the width of the frame.

6 1 inches

500

Real Final Jeopardy.

In 1994, Wired magazine described this 4- letter word as an idea leaping "from mind to mind... as viruses leap from body to body"?

What is a meme?

500

Activity

Team who picked this tile, picks another team to do one round of rock paper scissors with.