Girls Who Code Rock!

Math

100

What letter represents 5 in Roman numerals?

V

200

What is the largest two-digit prime number less than 100?

75

97

98

50

97

300

A 6×4 rectangle sits inside a 8×7 rectangle.

What is the area between the two rectangles?  (Hint: you may want to draw this.)

32

400

Lina was watching a football game. The team she was cheering for gained 6 yards on one play. The team lost 8 yards on the next play. It lost another 2 yards on the following play. Lina wants to know what her team's net change in field position was after these three plays.

-4

500

Solve for x.

11^x = 11⁴ * 11⁵

x = ?

9

Geography

100

Would it be correct to say: 

 a. "Loo-iss-vill" is the capital of Kentucky  

b. "Loo-ee-vill" is the capital of Kentucky 

c. neither is correct (give correct answer)

Neither, Frankfort is the capital of Kentucky!

200

Which is the southernmost capital of any country in the world? 

 a. Canberra - Australia 

b. Wellington - New Zealand 

c. Santiago - Chile

Wellington, New Zealand is the southernmost capital in the world.

300

If you go due south from Detroit, what is the first foreign country you encounter?

Canada

400

The five "Great Lakes" are: Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, (name the remaining three)

Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie, Lake Superior

500

Name the states bordering Illinois.

Wisconsin, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky

Computer Science

100

How do you write the number 3 in binary?

0011

200

Within 5 years, what year was the first Macintosh computer introduced?

1984

300

We did AR in GWC.  What does "AR" stand for?

Augmented Reality

400

When we created the content for our webpage, we worked in HTML, a computer language for creating websites.  To control the style or look of our web page, we worked in this file.

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)

500

Ms. Kelly Mack taught us all to care deeply about this when we create our websites.

accessibility

Misc

100

The president's face that is on the American penny.

Abraham Lincoln

200

The art of Japanese paper folding is called this.

origami

300

What piece on a chess board moves in an L-shape?

the knight

400

What are the three primary colors?

red, yellow, and blue

500

In the United States, how long is the term of a U.S. Senator?

2 years

8 years

4 years

6 years

6 years

Science

100

The colored part of a human's eye is called this.

iris

200

What pigment gives leaves their green color and absorbs light that is used in photosynthesis?

chlorophyll

300

The types of rock include:  igneous, (name the other two)

igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic

400

How long does it take for light to reach Earth from the sun?

7 seconds

1 hour

8 min and 20 secs

23 hours and 55 mins

8 mins and 20 seconds

500

A 50 lb. boy is sitting 4 feet from the center of a seesaw. How far from the center will a 40 lb. boy have to sit to achieve balance?

1 foot

same position

5 feet

3 feet

5 feet