Are You Smarter than a Middle Schooler?

English

100

Whose or Who's cow is that?

What is who's?

200

Is this sentence grammatically correct?

John, Sue, and Bob ate cake, lemons and truffles.  

What is no?

300

What is the difference between an indirect object and a direct object?

The direct object "takes" the action of the verb. The indirect object answers the question "to whom or for whom the action was done?"

400

How do you spell the word that means:

"A condition when bones become fragile and break easily"

What is Osteoporosis?

500

Double Jeopardy!!!!

What is the final comma in a list of things?

Math

100

What is 5x142857?

714,285

200

What property does this represent:
(a)(b)(c) = (c)(b)(a)

What is the commutative property?

300

What degree is this polynomial: x⁵  (in mathematical terms)

What is quintic?

400

State the quadratic formula.

What is ( -b +/ √b² -4ac )/2a ?

500

Is this a prime equation? 

x^2-4x+3

Bonus 100 pts if you can name the concept used to figure this out.

What is no? 

What is discriminant?

Geography

100

What is the largest canyon in the world?

What is the Grand Canyon?

200

How many different time zones are there?

What is 24?

300

Does longitude go vertically or horizontally?

What is vertical?

400

What is the smallest country in Europe?

What is the Vatican City?

500

What is the capital of New York?

What is Albany?

Logic

100

What fallacy is committed here?

Mrs. Plaid: "Joe, why didn't you do your homework?"

Joe: "Oh! Look at that plane?"

What is red herring?

200

What does it mean if two propositions are logically equivalent?

What is if they have identical truth values in a truth table?

300

Translate this statement and say what type of statement it this:
A⊃B

What is if a then b? What is hypothetical?

400

What fallacy is committed here? 

Bob: "Well I don't want to do my project with Phil because his great grandpa fought in wars and I am a Quaker so I don't believe people should fight each other in battles."

What is genetic fallacy?

500

State the disjunctive syllogism.

What is 

p v q 

~p

/q

ACT

100

What is -2^3 - 8 * 10 - 4 + 2 - 6

What is -96?

200

What is (x⁶)³ equal to?

What is x¹⁸?

300

The 1^st term in the geometric sequence below is -13. If it can be determined, what is the 6^th term?
-13, 26, -52, 104, -208

Hint: It might not be able to be determined

What is 416?

400

When (3x-2)⁴ is expanded and the like terms are combined, what is the coefficient of the x⁴ term?

What is 81?

500

The number a is an integer > 1. The number b is an integer < 1. The number a^b is: 

- zero

- positive

- negative 

- irrational

- an integer

What is positive?