Math
What is 8 squared?
(Katie)
64
What is the type of error in the following sentence?
As Mark walked to the park, his dog trailed behind.
a) spelling b) comma c) capitalization
d) nothing
(Annabelle)
d) nothing
Which branch of the U.S. government involves the president?
(Ari)
Executive branch
Who invented the earliest form of the telescope?
a) Galileo b) Kepler c) Aristotle d) Copernicus
(Beckett)
a) Galileo
When was Sewickley Academy founded?
a) 1859 b) 1843 c) 1838 d) 1902
(Ari, Katie)
C) 1838
How would one read/say this number...?
1.7523
(Narayan)
One and seven-thousand, five-hundred, twenty-three ten thousandths
How would book titles NOT be written in text?
a) italics b) underlined c) bold
d) quotation marks
(Ari)
d) quotation marks
Sophia will participate in a dance competition in each of the following states except...
a) Nevada b) Illinois c) Tennessee d) New York
(Sophia)
d) New York
Pluto would be considered a....
a. planet b. asteroid c. dwarf planet d. star
(Morgan, Alderman)
c. dwarf planet
What grade did Martin Luther King Jr. skip?
a) 5th b) 9th c) 10th d) none
(Narayan)
b) 9th
How many grams are in 2.5 kilograms?
(Adam)
2,500 (1,000 grams in every kilogram)
What are the seven words that make up the F.A.N.B.O.Y.S. (conjunctions)?
(Andrew)
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
What are the three branches of the U.S. government?
(Myron, Lily, Adam)
legislative, judicial, and executive branches
What does K.F.A. stand for?
a) kinetic force area b) kilometer fraction anomaly
c) known from antiquity d) Kelvin-Fahrenheit aspect
(Myron, Adam)
c)
What do the three rings stand for on the Sewickley Academy crest/shield?
A) Hearts, Hands, and Minds
B) Community, Diversity, and Educational Vigor
C) Mathematics, Social Sciences, and Literature
D) Children, Families, and Teachers
(Andrew, Beckett, Annabelle)
A) ...also in our Mission Statement
What does the 'E' in PEMDAS stand for?
1) expression 2) equation 3) exponent 4) error
(Ari)
3) exponent
Which sentence is correct?
a) I ate pizza, fish, and ice cream for dinner.
b) I ate pizza fish and ice cream for dinner.
c) I ate pizza, fish and ice cream for dinner.
(Victoria)
a) I ate pizza, fish, and ice cream for dinner.
How many Spanish-speaking countries are there in the world?
a) 21 b) 24 c) 17 d) 27
(anonymous)
a) 21
What does an A.U. (astronomical unit) measure?
a) the average distance from the earth to the sun
b) the measurement of the span of our solar system
c) the measurement of the span of our galaxy
d) the circumference of the sun
(Andrew, Saketh)
a)the average distance from the earth to the sun
This number 300,000 is associated with which vocabulary term?
a) 300,000 degrees Kelvin at the core of the sun
b) 300,000 kilometers in 3,000 meters
c) 300,000 kilometers per second is the speed of light
d) 300,000 miles is the diameter of our solar system
(James)
c) 300,000 kilometers per second is the speed of light
What is 5 to the third power?
a. 125 b. 625 c. 25 d. 740
(Myron)
b. 625
What is the type of error in the following sentence?
"My Cat, Penelope, loves me," said Vivi.
a) commas b) quotation marks c) capitalization
d) ending punctuation
(Vivi)
c) capitalization
Which is not a Spanish-speaking country?
a) Argentina b) Peru c) Uruguay
d) Chili
(Delaney)
d) Chili ---there is no country named Chili
It's spelled Chile
What is Messier 87?
a) a planetary nebula b) black hole
c) galaxy d) star
(Vada)
b) black hole imaged in 2019
In what year did Sewickley Academy experience a fire?
a) 1970 b) 1838 c) 2001 d) 1899
(Sophia, Edison, Colette)
a) 1970
In the following list of data, which is the outlier?
2, 2, 8, 0, 1, 3, 37, 4, 5, 4, 1
(Lily)
37...lies outside the other average numbers
Which pair of words are homographs?
a) their, they're b) which, witch c) can, can
d) day, night
(Liam)
can, can (I can do it!, The can of soup is on the counter.)
What percentage of people in the government branches must vote for a law to be made?
a) one-third b) two-thirds c) two-fifths
d) one-fourth
(Aahana)
b) two-thirds
When an object has enough mass to pull itself into a spherical shape (in space), it is called:
a) density b) hydrothermal enteropathy
c) hydroelectric entity d) hydrostatic equilibrium
(Narayan)
d) hydrostatic equilibrium
In what year did Sewickley Academy become co-ed (both boys and girls could attend)?
a) 1838 b) 1970 c) 1925 d) 1901
(Vada, Anna)
c) 1925
Which is the closest star to Earth?
a) Proxima Centauri b) Sirius c) Sol d) Polaris
(Lily)
c) Sol - the sun
Which sentence is correct?
a) "Should the too of us go to the movies, two?"
b) "Should the two of us go to the movies, too?"
c) "Should the two of us go too the movies, to?"
d) "Should the to of us go two the movies, too?"
(Colette)
b) "Should the two of us go to the movies, too?"
Which was not a Central American culture of the past?
a) Incas b) Aztecs c) Mayans
d) Mesopotamians
(Ruby and Aurelio)
d) Mesopotamians
This is the largest known nebula...
a) Eagle nebula b) Tarantula nebula
c) Cat's Eye nebula d) Orion nebula
(Aria, Anna)
b) Tarantula
Which word means 'to cover up, block from sight' ?
a) ellipse b) nova c) eclipse d) cosmos
(Hudson, Aurelio)
c) eclipse
What math word means 'sharing a side or corner'?
a) congruent b) parallel c) adjacent d) reflection
(Liam)
c) adjacent
Which sentence is correct?
a) "Hi, " Joetta said
b) Colby asked, "Which ice cream do you want?"
c) "Chocolate!, Joetta shouted.
d) "That's my favorite flavor too?" Colby replied.
(Ruby)
b)
In what city did the bus boycott originate in 1955?
a) Chicago b) Birmingham c) Montgomery
d) Miami
(Aurelio)
c) Montgomery, Alabama
What is the escape velocity of a black hole?
a) 11 km/sec b) 600 km/sec
c) more than 300,000 km/sec
d) almost 200,000 km/sec
(Matt)
c)
How many terrestrial planets are there in our solar system?
a) 8 b) 4 c) 3 d) 5
b) 4 - Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars
What is 3 to the power of 4?
(Eli)
81
Find the error in the following sentence...
Harlowe Shapley is best known for realizing many of the stars seen in the night sky are actually galaxys.
(Aahana)
galaxys should be galaxies
This is the only Spanish-speaking country in Africa...
a) Zimbabwe c) South Africa d) Equatorial Guinea
c) Congo
(Mrs. Christof's class)
d) Equatorial Guinea
Which is not made of rock and metal?
a) meteor b) asteroid c) comet
d) terrestrial planet
(Leyland)
c) comets are made of frozen gases and dust
In what year did Martin Luther King Jr. give his famous 'I Have a Dream' speech?
a) 1961 b) 1963 c) 1972 d) 1958
b) August 28, 1963