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Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
Little Rock
100

What is one of the four founding charter schools?

What is The Ohio State University, Swarthmore College, University of Michigan, or Syracuse University?
100

Where is the SC located who wants to host an SC get-together?

Where is San Diego, California?

100

What is the superlative for many?

What is most?

100

What was the name of the group of students that enrolled at Central High School to fight against segregation in schools in 1957?

What is the Little Rock Nine?

200

What famous Mortar Board alumni was initiated at Carnegie Mellon University in 1996 and lived the true story behind the film "127 Hours"?

Who is Aron Ralston?

200

Which SC has a daughter currently attending their alma mater?

Who is Wilson Chan?

200

Which is larger: 10000 grams or one kilogram?

What is 10000 grams?

200

There are three different types of rock: name one of them.

What is igneous, sedimentary or metamorphic?

300

What was the title of the Forum originally?

What is the Mortar Board Quarterly?

300

Which two SCs are 2021-2022 Fellows?

Who are Jill Kleinkauf and Kate Gladhart-Hayes?

300

What is the past tense of cut?

What is cut?


300

Which state in America produces approximately 50% of America's rice?

What is Arkansas?

400

What was the first national project, selected in 1985?

What is organ donor awareness?
400

Where is the SC located who announced a major life update through a t-shirt?

Where is Findlay, Ohio (or Northwest Ohio)?

400

How many bones are there in the human skeleton?

What is 206?

400

When the Little Rock Zoo opened in 1926, it had only two animals: name one of them.

What is a circus-trained bear or an abandoned timber wolf?

500

In what city was the national conference held when Mortar Board opened membership to men in 1975?

Where is Kansas City, Missouri

500

Which SC has two pet rats?

Who is Blair Canedy?

500

What are imaginary lines traversing the globe from pole to pole called?

What are meridians?

500

For 11 years, the Peabody Hotel in downtown Little Rock held a daily "duck march" wherein a group of mallards were led into the lobby's fountain at 11 am. Then at 5 pm, the ducks, fielded by the hotel's red-jacketed duck master, were herded into an elevator and sent waddling back up to their ducky penthouse on the roof. What is the building now?

What is the Little Rock Mariott (our conference venue!)?