Math
What is the name for a 6-sided polygon?
A. Pentagon
B. Decagon
C. Hexagon
C. Hexagon
Which process is how plants convert sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into oxygen and energy in the form of sugar?
A. Photosynthesis
B. Symbiosis
C. Statisfactory
A. Photosynthesis
Which part of speech shows an action or a state of being in a sentence?
A. Noun
B. Verb
C. Conjunction
On November 21, 1620, 41 male passengers signed which governing document while anchored at a Massachusetts harbor?
A. The Mayflower Compact
B. The Harbor of Massachusetts
C. The Jungle in India
A. The Mayflower Compact
Spanning 11 time zones, which nation is the largest country in the world by total land area?
A. Mauritania
B. India
C. Russia
C. Russia
Which term means the answer to a multiplication problem?
A. The answer
B. The product
C. The quotient
B. The product
Alfred Nobel invented dynamite by mixing kieselguhr with what highly volatile liquid explosive?
A. The heat
B. Nitroglycerin
B. Nitroglycerin
Which figure of speech compares two things using the words "like" or "as?"
A. Simile
B. Methapor
C. Pronoun
A. Simile
Grown together by pre-Columbian Native Americans, "The 3 Sisters" of farming were beans, squash, and which staple grain?
A. Vegtables
B. Corn
C. Fruit
B. Corn
Straddling the equator across more than 17,000 islands, which Southeast Asian nation is the world's largest archipelago?
A. Australia
B. Indonesia
C. Mexico
B. Indonesia
What is the area in square feet of a rectangular room that measures 20 feet by 22 feet?
A. 440 Square Feet
B. 42 Square Feet
C. 100 Square Feet
A. 440 Square Feet
Discovered in the early 1600s, the four largest moons of Jupiter are named after the lovers of which mythological Greek or Roman deity?
A. Neptune's winds
B. Saturn's rings
C. Zeus / Jupiter (or the moons of Jupiter)
C. Zeus / Jupiter (or the moons of Jupiter)
Which term describes the underlying message, lesson, or central idea of a story?
A. The resolution
B. The conflict
C. The theme
C. The theme
Which Catholic institution was established during the 15th century to find and punish heretics in Spain?
A. The English Language
B. The German Inquistion
C. The Spanish Inquistion
C. The Spanish Inquisition
Extending more than 1,200 miles off the northeast coast of Australia, which massive living structure is the world's largest coral reef system?
A. The Great Barrier Reef
B. The Nile River
C. Indonesia
A. The Great Barrier Reef
In 1795, which scientist simplified Euclid's axiom about lines that still say they never meet?
A. Milton Lynxley
B. Alex Trebek
C. John Playfair
C. John Playfair
Proposed by British physician Edward Jenner in 1796 using cowpox, which word comes from the Latin root for "cow"?
A. A diesase
B. A vaccine
C. A heart attack
B. A vaccine
Which type of punctuation mark is used to separate items in a list or to join two independent clauses with a conjunction?
A. A comma
B. An exalmation mark
C. A question mark
A. A comma
In the 1760s, what are the two English surveyors used milestones to mark the famous boundary line between Maryland and Pennsylvania?
A. Romeo and Juilet
B. Mason and Dixon
C. Mowgli and Baloo
B. Mason and Dixon
Flowing northward for more than 4,000 miles through Africa before emptying into the Mediterranean Sea, what is traditionally considered the longest river in the world?
A. The Gulf of Mexico
B. The Nile River
C. The Caribbean Sea
B. The Nile River
Which value is equal to 12 monkeys squared?
A. 144
B. 24
C. 1
A. 144
Around 1908, geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan began using which tiny common insect to help establish the chromosome theory of heredity?
A. A fruit fly
B. Fly trap
C. Fish
A. A fruit fly
Which text structure explains the reasons why something happened and the results that followed?
A. Conjuctions
B. Cause and Effect
C. Conflict resolution
B. Cause and Effect
Who was the King of Macedonia who defeated the Persians and built an empire stretching all the way to India?
A. Alexander the Great
B. James A. Garfield
C. Leorando Da Vinci
A. Alexander the Great
Located on the border between Switzerland and Italy, which iconic, pyramid-shaped peak is one of the highest summits in the Alps?
A. Asia
B. Egypt
C. The Matterhorn
C. The Matterhorn