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200

This literary device is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words in a sentence.

What is alliteration?

200

Solve this equation: (-7)-(-5)=__________.

What is -2?

200

The product of any chemical reaction is called ________.

What is a new substance?

200

This imaginary line at 0 degrees latitude divides the Earth into Northern and Southern hemispheres (hint: it passes through Ecuador).

What is the Equator?

200

A chemical substance that alters the way your brain and body function.

What is a drug?

200

This element of art refers to how things relate to each other in a visual composition. It’s the area between, around or within an object.

What is SPACE?

200

This is the name of the website we use to search for information.

What is Google?

200

This is the number of students that attend Pace Middle School.

What is 85?

400

This is the central message or lesson that a story or poem conveys.

What is the theme?

400

Simplify the expression: 4x + 3x + 2x - 8 + 2.

9x-6

400

The smallest part of any substance.

What is an atom?

400

This colorful cloth that uses intricate patterns and bright colors originates in West Africa.

What is Kente cloth?

400

The category of drugs that increase your heart rate and alertness.

What are stimulants?

400

This type of 3D artwork is defined by assembling found and often discarded objects to create something new.

What is Assemblage Art?

400

This is what we use to move the arrow on the screen.

What is a mouse or trackpad?

400

This person is the founder of Pace.

Who is Ms. Pontoriero?

600

This is the feeling associated with a piece of writing.  

What is mood?

600

Solve: -4w = 280

What is -70?

600

A changing electric field will produce a ___________.

What is a magnetic field?

600

This country competed with Spain to explore the world during the Age of Exploration, with explorers like Vasco da Gama and Bartolomeu Dias, they would go on to colonize Brazil.

What is Portugal?

600

BAC stands for this when talking about alcohol.

What is Blood Alcohol Content?

600

These types of colors sit next to each other on the color wheel and create harmonious designs—think blue, blue-green, and green.

What are Analogous Colors?

600

This helps keep your accounts safe and should be hard for others to guess.

What is a strong password?

600

Who biked down a Volcano in Hawaii?

Who is Ms. Findley?

800

This is the process of checking a piece of writing for errors before submitting it.

What is proofreading?

800

Supplementary angles add up to ________.

What is 180 degrees.

800

According to evolutionary biologists your great-great-great-great grandparents were a _______________.

What is a fish?

800

This city was the capital of the Byzantine Empire, founded by the first Christian Emperor; now called Istanbul.

What is Constantinople?

800

This odorless, tasteless drug can frequently be laced in street drugs and it is extremely dangerous even in small amounts.

What is fentanyl?

800

While mixing two PRIMARY colors produces a SECONDARY color, what do we call the combination of a primary and secondary color or the THIRD level of the color wheel.

What are Tertiary (colors)?

800

This is what we call a set of instructions a computer follows?

What is code?

800

This is the type of dancing Ms. Rodgers enjoys doing.  

What is Irish dancing?

1000

This word describes a character who opposes the protagonist in a story.  

What is an antagonist?

1000

This is how you write ⅗ as a decimal.  

What is 0.6?

1000

The trapping of gases like CO2 leads to this effect on the Earth.

What is the greenhouse effect?

1000

This man was famous as a scientist and a leading member of the American Revolution.

Who is Benjamin Franklin?

1000

STD stands for _____________.

What is Sexually Transmitted Disease?

1000

According to the rules of 1 and 2-point perspective, all receding lines must connect to the…

What is Vanishing Point?

1000

This is the main part of a computer that acts like its brain.

What is the CPU?

1000

This person had a mom that taught Kindergarten at Pace.

Who is Mrs. Hurtado?

1300

This should be the last sentence in the first paragraph of any essay.

What is a thesis statement?

1300

0.80 written as a simplified fraction is ________.

What is 4/5?

1300

As a roller coaster climbs the top of a hill, it accumulates this type of energy.

What is potential energy?

1300

This desert, the largest hot desert in the world, covers much of northern Africa.

What is the Sahara Desert?

1300

The passing of characteristics or diseases from one generation to the next.

What is heredity?

1300

This Pop artist used translational symmetry to create repeated prints of celebrities and everyday objects, such as soup cans.

Who is Andy Warhol?

1300

_____________ is when someone is mean to others online.

What is Cyberbullying?

1300

Once art supplies are put away, sketchbooks re-shelved and erasers accounted for, This is the heartfelt phrase Mr. Smith yells notifying all that our studio time has unfortunately ended.

What is GET UP. GET OUT?

1500

When an author creates vivid pictures in the mind of the reader by using words it is called_________. (Ex: Smiling from ear to ear, Ruth skipped cheerfully under the sun's warm, golden rays)

What is imagery?

1500

The formula for constant of proportionality is__________.

What is K = Y/X?

1500

Finding a dinosaur footprint is an example of this kind of fossil.

What is a trace fossil?

1500

This Native American group, with a large empire in Mexico, was infamously destroyed by the Spanish Conquistador, Hernán Cortés

Who are the Aztecs?

1500

The only guaranteed way to prevent pregnancy.

What is abstinence?


1500

This Indigenous group from Mexico is known for creating vibrant yarn paintings to represent spiritual symbols and nature.

What are Huichol (wee-CHOL) Indians?

1500

This is what we call the parts of a computer you can touch, like the mouse and keyboard.

What is hardware?

1500

Mrs. Simpkins favorite food is __________.

What is pizza?

1700

In poetry, the equivalent of a paragraph is called _________.  

What is a stanza?

1700

15% of 85 is _________.

What is 12.75?

1700

The is the term used to describe all planetary objects orbiting a star.

What is heliocentrism?

1700

This fascist political group infamously started World War 2 and committed the genocide of millions of European Jews, known as the Holocaust.

Who are the Nazis?

1700

The category of diseases that can be transmitted to you from another person.

What is communicable?

1700

This drawing technique uses a series of horizontal and vertical lines (think graph paper) to break down an image into smaller segments, making it easier to enlarge or copy accurately.

What is the Grid Method?

1700

This is what we call the parts of a computer you can touch, like the mouse and keyboard.

What is hardware?

1700

This is the year Pace was founded.

What is 1999?

2000

These are the five parts of the plot mountain.

What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution

2000

PEMDAS is the acronym for the order of operations and it stands for _______________.

What is parenthesis, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction?

2000

Light is both a ____ and a _____.

What is a wave and a particle?

2000

This mosque is at the center of the city of Mecca, and is the holiest shrine for the religion of Islam

What is the Kaaba?

2000

The three categories of alcohol are _________.

What is beer, wine and liquor?

2000

This Swedish born artist was well known for exaggerating scale and creating giant sculptures of everyday objects.

Who is Claes Oldenburg?

2000

In Scratch, this block repeats something over and over again.

What is a loop?

2000

This is the year the current Kindergarten students will graduate from High School.

What is 2037?