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100
The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guards against these two things.
What are searches and seizures? Unless there are exigent circumstances, a warrant must be issued by a judge when proof of probable cause has been established.
100
This instrument can draw a perfect circle.
What is a compass?
100
For many seniors, this is their sole source of income.
What is Social Security?
100
A thunderstorm may also produce this frozen precipitation, even during summer months.
What is hail?
100
Of knitting and crochet, it’s the one that predominantly uses needles.
What is knitting? Knitting requires two needles, while a hook is used for crocheting.
100
If you place an egg in a glass of water and it sinks to the bottom, it is this.
What is fresh, or good? If the egg floats, it’s a sign that the egg is no longer fresh.
200
Twelve “peers” of the defendant, plus alternates, typically make up this deliberative body in a trial.
What is a jury? Both criminal and civil trials use juries, a practice that derives from English common law.
200
The measurement around the widest part of a ball or the outside boundary of a circle is called this.
What is the circumference? In school, we learned that pi multiplied by the diameter equals the circumference.
200
This term applies to animals that eat mostly other animals (meat).
What is carnivore?
200
This planet is known as the third rock from the sun.
What is Earth?
200
Of the games played on a checkerboard, this is generally considered the easiest.
What is checkers?
200
A hen lays approximately this number of eggs in a day.
What is one? A hen lays an egg every 24 to 26 hours. Within 30 minutes, a new egg begins to form.
300
This is said to be nine-tenths of the law.
What is possession? In other words, if you own something, it is easier for you to keep it.
300
This is the term for half the diameter.
What is the radius? The radius is the distance from the midpoint of the circle to any point on the outside of the circle.
300
Overnight flights are often called this ophthalmologic nickname.
What is red eye? They’re also called all-nighters.
300
To smother a fire, you must remove this gas from it.
What is oxygen?
300
Before recreational drones were invented, children and their parents would head to the nearest park to fly these miniature flying machines.
What are model, remote-controlled, or radio-controlled airplanes?
300
The color of the eggshell is not an indication of nutritional value, but this can be.
What is the color of the yolk? Often but not always, the brighter and darker the yolk color (leaning more toward orange than yellow), the more nutrition the egg provides.
400
If someone lives on your property for an extended period, they may be able to claim this even if you didn’t grant them permission or know they were living there.
What are squatters’ rights?
400
When Earth turns on its axis, we call it this.
What is rotation? It makes one complete rotation every 24 hours.
400
The American Lung Association was founded to fight this disease.
What is tuberculosis?
400
A severe storm occurring inland is often accompanied by this wind event.
What is a tornado?
400
This two-person, alliterative, three-word children’s game begins with the letter T.
What is tic-tac-toe?
400
This color egg is typically more expensive.
What is brown? Hens that lay brown eggs are usually larger than chickens that lay white eggs, so feeding a larger hen is more expensive.
500
When either side in a trial fails to show up, the judge can enter this type of judgment.
What is a default judgement?
500
When Earth makes a complete trip around the sun, we call it this.
What is revolution? It takes roughly 365 days for Earth to travel in an elliptical path around the sun.
500
When the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA; DOW) was inaugurated, it contained this number of stocks.
What is 12? The DJIA was launched in 1896, and none of the original companies are still on the list. Today, the DOW comprises 30 stocks, and the composition of stocks is a radical departure from the original one.
500
Cold and hot deserts share the lack of this.
What is humidity/moisture? The driest non-polar desert is the Atacama Desert, located in South America along the Pacific Ocean coastline. The continent of Antarctica is the largest desert.
500
Of soft and hard cheeses, amateur cheese artisans usually make this type of cheese at home.
What is soft? Hard cheeses must age at specific temperatures and humidity levels in a cave-like environment, and most people do not have access to such a space.
500
This is how you tell whether an egg is raw or hard-boiled.
What is spinning the egg? If it wobbles, it’s raw. The liquid in the raw egg sloshes as you spin it, causing it to wobble. If the egg is steady as it spins, it’s hard-boiled.
600
This is the most authoritative and widely used dictionary of law terms.
What is Black’s Law Dictionary?
600
The perpetual cycle of birth, life, and death is known as this.
What is circle of life? It refers to the interconnectivity of life and its progression from birth to death.
600
Campanology is the study of this.
Hint: Spanish translation
What are bells? It includes the history of church bell ringing, the construction of the bells, and ringing techniques.
600
Author Ray Bradbury wrote this dystopian novel, titled with the approximate temperature at which paper ignites.
What is Fahrenheit 451? Modern studies suggest paper ignites between 424ºF and 475ºF, depending on type and conditions.
600
Hobby numismatists collect these.
What are coins?
600
Cloudy egg whites indicate this.
What is the egg is fresh? Carbon dioxide is the cause of the cloudiness and is present only in fresh eggs.