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100

Define an algorithm

What is a list of steps that you can use to follow a task?

100

True or False?

Ketchup was sold as a medicine.

True

100

What does AYEI stands for...

 What is the Appleton Youth Education Initiative?

100

The planet is the 3rd rock from the sun, has large amounts of water on its surface, and is the only planet that currently has conditions that sustain life as we know it

What is Earth?

100
The car that Henry Ford invented

What is the Model T Car?

200

This technology allows for computer-aided designs to be built to be modeled in the physical world.

What is a 3D printer?

200

True or False? Moths eat wool clothes.

False, moths lay eggs in the wool, and the larvae eat it.

200

The name of the AYEI secretary

Akshaya Sivakumar

200

An elliptical orbit is...

What is the way that all objects in the solar system travel around the sun in this kind of orbit that is not circular, but more oval-shaped

200

The names of the brothers who built their own gliders and airplanes, which later led them to fly the first airplane in 1903

Who are the Wright Brothers?

300

Define a conditional

What are programs or "rewards" that only run when certain parameters are met?

300

Name at least 1 ANIMAL that has tried, or succeeded, to run for mayor.

There have been multiple dogs, donkeys, and monkeys that have won or tried.

300

The founder and current chairman of AYEI

Who is Ivan Fan?

300

The only two planets in the solar system without moons

What are Mercury and Venus?
300

The very first computer programmer was...

Who was Ada Lovelace?

400

What game show did a coded robot intelligence completely DESTROY the human champion in?

Jeopardy!

400

How many time zones does Russia have?

11

400

Name two initiatives AYEI holds!

 Act/sat prep, philharmonic ventures, technology clinic, college application camp, book drive, hackappleton

400

A black dwarf star is...

What is the last stage of a star's life?

400

The scientist who discovered the radioactive element radium was...

Who was Marie Curie?

500

A storage format that defines the way that data is stored, organized, or manipulated.

What is a data structure?

500

Which 2 people created Tom & Jerry?

Who are William Hanna and Joseph Barbera?

500

Name one of our advisory board members!

Alex Fan, Ivan Fan, Greg Hartjes, Greg Levenhagen, Chris Fleming, Edward Ruffolo, Mark McQuade, Judith Baseman, David Pynenberg, Mathew Mineau, Marjorie Sutter

500

The planet takes 163 Earth years (365 days = 1 Earth year) to orbit around the sun once

What is Neptune?

500

The inventor of the cinematograph was...

Who were Louis and Auguste Lumière?