This element is a precious metal. Some countries base their currency on it. It is also sometimes used to fill cavities in teeth.
What is gold?
100
One third plus one half plus one fourth. (10 seconds)
What is 13/12 or 1 and 1/12?
100
These metal tools could be used if you had a splinter, or if you wanted to pluck your eyebrows.
What are tweezers?
100
A popular English dish is "fish and chips". What do we call "chips" in America?
What are french fries?
100
Three-dimensional shape made of 6 squares.
What is a cube?
200
Dmitry Mendeleev was a teacher of chemistry who began work on the periodic table in the 1860's. He was from this country.
What is Russia?
200
(1/3)^2 as a decimal. (10 seconds)
What is 0.111111111...?
200
This pair of bean-shaped organs filters our blood.
What are the kidneys?
200
This U.S. state harvests the most fish in the country.
What is Alaska?
200
An octahedron has eight faces made from 8 of this shape. (be specific)
What are equilateral triangles?
300
The nucleus of an atom is made of this.
What are neutrons and protons?
300
This number is equal to 12 times 12 x 12 (15 seconds)
What is 1,728?
300
This pair of elements make up table salt.
What are sodium and chloride?
300
This common carnivorous fish gives birth to its
young live.
What is a shark?
300
Name three geometric solids that are not polyhedron.
What are cones, cylinders, and spheres?
(answers may vary)
400
Pb is the symbol for this element.
What is lead?
400
This number goes evenly into 400 sixteen times. (10 seconds)
What is 25?
400
Some elements cannot exist by themselves, even when they are isolated from any other type of atom. Elements of this nature will combine with atoms of the same element in order to be stable. They are called this.
What are diatomic elements?
400
Most fish exchange gases using this part of their body.
What are gills?
400
This building is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense.
What is The Pentagon?
500
The heaviest of the naturally-occurring Noble gases.
What is radon?
500
Sixteen cubed. (15 seconds)
What is 4,096?
500
A pair of numbers with no common factors other than 1 are said to be this.
What is relatively prime?
500
In the movie "Finding Nemo", Nemo was this kind of fish.