Geography
Science
Grammar/Vocabulary
Math
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100
What is the capital of Rhode Island?
A. Newport
B. Pawtucket
C. Providence
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C. Providence
100
Name one layer of the atmosphere
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Exosphere, thermosphere, mesosphere, stratosphere, troposphere
*"Ozone layer" gets half points unless you named the specific level it exists within (stratosphere)
100
How many syllables are in this phrase?
computational fluid dynamics
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10
100
Name as many digits of pi as you can
Write your answer. 30 seconds.
3.141592 65358979 3238462643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679
100
Name one Roman emperor
Bonus if you can quote one
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Augustus (27 bce–14 ce)
Tiberius (14–37 ce)
Caligula (37–41 ce)
Claudius (41–54 ce)
Nero (54–68 ce)
Galba (68–69 ce)
Otho (January–April 69 ce)
Aulus Vitellius (July–December 69 ce)
Vespasian (69–79 ce)
Titus (79–81 ce)
Domitian (81–96 ce)
Nerva (96–98 ce)
Julius Caesar was never an emperor. Half points.
200
Which planet is closest to the sun?
A. Mars
B. Mercury
C. Jupiter
D. Uranus
E. Venus
You have 20 seconds to ponder, then buzz in.
B. Mercury
200
Give an example of a non-Newtonian fluid
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Oobleck, blood, ketchup, toothpaste, etc.
200
Where is the prepositional phrase in this sentence?
I am the oldest kid in my family.
Bonus points for naming the object of the preposition.
Write your answer
"in my family" is the prepositional phrase. In is the preposition, family is the object of the preposition.
200
5 2/5 + 2/3
Write the answer, SHOW YOUR WORK, then buzz in.
91/15 or 6 1/15
200
What is the term length for a U.S. representative?
A. 2 years
B. 3 years
C. 4 years
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A. 2 years
300
Which of the following is NOT one of the Great Lakes?
A. Lake Superior
B. Lake Ontario
C. Lake Huron
D. Lake Michigan
E. Lake Champlain
F. Lake Eerie
Speed question. 30 seconds to consider then buzz in.
E. Lake Champlain
300
If you go to the Emergency Room with roasted feet because you put your feet into the campfire, what form of heat transfer roasted your feet?
A. Radiation
B. Convection
C. Conduction
D. Friction
Speed round!
C. Conduction
300
What is an appositive phrase?
Write either the definition or an example.
A noun or noun phrase that renames or clarifies another noun in a sentence, providing additional information about it.
For example: My boyfriend, Gavin, has earned his Bachelor's Degree.
300
If you spin in 10 circles holding a potato one foot from your body, how far as the potato gone?
Write the answer.
The potato has traveled a total of 62.8 feet BUT the question was not the distance traveled.
The potato has not "gone" anywhere.
300
Who is this historical figure?
A. Marie Curie
B. Amelia Earhart
C. Ada Lovelace
D. Young Mother Teresa
C. Amelia Earhart
400
Name all seven continents, in order from largest to smallest
Accuracy round, not speed. Both contestants will write their answer and turn them around at the same time.
Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia
400
How many tectonic plates are there? (major plates, unless you know how many there are total, for which you can get a bonus)
Additional bonus for naming any fault line
Write your answer.
7 major
or ~20 total
400
Which sentence has proper punctuation?
A. While I worked on my homework, I listened to music.
B. While I worked, on my homework, I listened to music.
C. While I worked on my homework I listened to music.
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A. While I worked on my homework, I listened to music.
400
How much change is shown?
Speed round! 10 seconds to count, then buzz in.
$1.06
400
When was the steam engine invented and what did this event signify?
Write it down.
Points if you got within a few years of the dates (somewhere between 1690-1710)
In 1698 Thomas Savery patented a pump with hand-operated valves to raise water from mines by suction produced by condensing steam. In about 1712 another Englishman, Thomas Newcomen, developed a more efficient steam engine with a piston separating the condensing steam from the water.
This signified the start of the Industrial Revolution.
500
Point to Portugal on this map
500
From memory, give one of Newton's Laws in its entirety
Write your answer.
Newton's First Law: An object at rest will remain at rest, and an object in motion will stay in motion with the same speed and direction unless acted upon by an external force.
2. Newton's Second Law: The acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the net force acting on it and inversely proportional to its mass.
This is often expressed as the equation F = ma (force equals mass times acceleration).
3. Newton's Third Law (Action and Reaction): For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
500
What is the meaning of the Greek root "auto" as in autograph, automobile, or autonomy?
Auto means of the self; directed from within
500
lim x→0 (ln(1-x-sin(x))/(1-cos^2(x))
Bonus points if you can name the movie
Write the answer.
The limit does not exist
Mean Girls
500
Recite as much as you can of
the preamble to the Constitution
OR
the Gettysburg address
OR
Tell me who said this
“The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.”
You have one minute to prepare, then buzz in.
We the people in order to form a more perfect union, Establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility,
Provide for the common defense,
Promote the general welfare and
Secure the blessings of liberty
To ourselves and our posterity
Do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Abe Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address