Geography
Science and Technology
Language Arts
Math
US History
100

This city is the capital of Italy.

What is Rome?

100
This person was the first astronaut to walk on the moon.

Who is Neil Armstrong?

100
In a formal essay, this is what you call the sentence that tells your reader your main claim and supporting evidence. 

What is a thesis statement?

100

These are three consecutive integers whose sum is 12.

What is 3,4,5?

100

This was the war between the Union and Confederate armies.

What is the American civil war?

200

This is the highest mountain in the Continental United States.

What is Mt. Whitney? (Sierra Mountains, California)

200

This is the chemical compound of salt.

What is sodium chloride (NaCL)?

200

This is what you call a verb with 'ing' attached to the end of it. (e.g., 'asking', 'helping', etc...)

What is the gerund?

200

This is the cube root of 27.

What is 3.

200

This was the first permanent English settlement in what would become the United States.

What is Jamestown, Virginia?
300

This country covers the largest area in the world.

What is Russia?

300

This is the most common programming language used for Artificial Intelligence projects. 

What is Python?

300

This is a branch of linguistics that deals with the arrangement of words or phrases to create well-structured sentences in a language.

What is syntax?

300

This is the name for the following type of notation for expressing numbers:

2.5 * 10^27

What is exponential notation?

300

This was the first college established in what would become the United States.

What is Harvard University?

400

Timbuktu is an ancient city in this country.

What is Mali?

400

This is the spiral galaxy nearest to the Milky Way.

What is Andromeda?

400

this is the formal name for the following symbol: &

What is ampersand?

400

This is the value of x in the equation:

3x + 8 = 29.

What is 7?

400

This was the common name referring to an area of Oklahoma, Kansas, and northern Texas affected by severe soil erosion (caused by windstorms) in the early 1930s, which caused many people to move. 

What is the Dust Bowl?

500

This is the world's longest river.

What is the Nile?

500

This is what the 'c' stands for in Einstein's famous equation, e = mc^2

What is the 'speed of light'?

500

This is the name of the score (from an assessment) that helps students find books at the 'just right' reading level.

What is lexile?

500
One of the two mathematicians credited with discovered calculus.

Who is Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, or Sir Issaac Newton?

500

This is the name for the state and local laws which were used to enforce racial segregation in the American South in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

What are Jim Crow laws?