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Massachusetts
100
The economic principle that describes their only being a limited amount of all resources
What is scarcity?
100
The United States started as a group of this many colonies
What is 13?
100
The amount of bone in the human body
What is 206?
100
The number of letters in the alphabet
What is 26?
100
Educator James K. Naismith invented this sport while working at a YMCA school in Springfield
What is basketball?
200
Economic structure in which the government plays a limited role in running the economy
What is a mixed economy?
200
This person was executed the same way as their husband (Louis XVI) via the guillotine
Who is Marie Antoinette?
200
The largest animal in the world
What is the blue whale?
200
The number of Great Lakes
What is 5?
200
This interstate highway is the longest interstate in the US spanning East to West from Boston to Seattle
What is I-90?
300
A point that falls within a PPC curve is deemed this
What is inefficient?
300
The leader of the communist revolution in Cuba
Who is Fidel Castro?
300
The third color in the rainbow
What is yellow?
300
The location the 2012 Olympics were held
Where is London?
300
This location is where the Obama family goes on their summer vacations
Where is Martha's Vineyard?
400
France makes boats at a lower opportunity cost than Germany does, an example of this type of advantage
What is comparative advantage?
400
This ancient Central American civilization was conquered by Spanish conquistadors in 1519
Who are the Aztec?
400
The largest desert in the world (potentially two acceptable answers)
What is the Sahara? (Antarctica will be accepted)
400
This place is the largest city in the world
What is Tokyo?
400
This is the largest reservoir in the state, and supplies much of Greater Boston's drinking water
What is the Quabbin?
500
In a perfect situation these two things would be equal in calculating the marginal analyis of a product.
What is marginal cost and marginal benefit?
500
The year the Berlin Wall was torn down
When was 1989?
500
This percentage of the population is left-handed... roughly
What is 10%?
500
The only president to speak English as a second language
Who is Martin Van Buren?
500
Nike purchased this Boston based shoe company in 2003 (It was THE basketball shoe for many years)
What is Converse?