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100

Name one person that works with Papa.

Any person that works with me.

100

Name 5 red fruits.

https://www.fruitsmith.com/blog/post/red-fruit-names

red apple

cherry

strawberry

tomato

red plum

raspberry

pomegranate

cranberry

watermelon

red grape


100

10+10รท2x3=

25

100

What has hands but cannot clap?

Clock

100

What minimum parts of speech are needed to create a simple sentence?

noun or pronoun

verb

200

Name one of Papa's secrets for a happy life.

Puts things back where they were...


200

What is Papa's favorite fruit?  Papa has often said it was the "forbidden fruit."

Navel Orange
200

What does PEMDAS mean in math?

Parentheses

Exponents

Multiplication

Division

Addition

Subtraction

200

What building is built with the most stories?

Library

200
How many parts of speech are there?


BONUS:  300 extra points if you can name all of them.

noun

pronoun

adjective

adverb

verb

preposition

conjunction

interjection

300

What is the capital of California?

Sacramento

300

Name 2 fruits people often think are vegetables.

BONUS:  100 extra points for green colored fruits that you name (up to 200 points).  No points if the fruit you name are not green.

Tomato

Cucumber

Peppers

Avacados

Eggplants

Pumpkins

Squash

Olives

Peas

Corn

300

Euclid is known as the Father of ......?

Geometry

300

What question can you ask all day and you can get completely different answers?  Still, the all the answers can all be correct.


What is the question?

What time is it?

300

Name the core elements of a story and briefly explain each.

Characters:  people, animals, etc. of the story

Setting:  time, place, environment

Plot:  sequence of events

Conflict: main problem in story

Theme:  underlying message of story (e.g., love, courage, loss)

400

How many states are there in the country of Mexico? BONUS!!!!

Get 100 more points for every state you can name.

400

What is the red thing in an olive?



Pimento or red pepper

400

Name 4 branches of math.

Number Theory

Algebra

Geometry

Arithmetic

Combinations

Topology

Mathematical Analysis

Calculus

Statistics and Probability

Set Theory

Trigonometry

400

What do the numbers eleven, sixty-nine, and eighty-eight all have in common?

They can be read the same way when read upside down.

400

How many punctuation marks are there?  This answer has a range of 2.


BONUS:  100 points for each punctuation mark you name correctly.  

16

period

question mark

exclamation mark

comma

semicolon

colon

en dash/em dash

hyphen

parentheses

brackets

braces

apostrophe

quotation marks/single quotation marks

ellipsis

https://www.yourdictionary.com/articles/english-punctuation-marks

500

The capital of the country of Mexico is Mexico, D.F.  D.F. stands for what?

Distrito Federal

500

The German immigrants brought sausages to this North American state.  This state became the birthplace of the modern day hot dog.  What is the state?

BONUS:  500 extra points if you name the town. There is a one-time 200 point deduction if you name the wrong place (applies one time per team).

New York


Coney Island

500

What is the first name of the person who invented the infinity symbol?

TRAP:  100 points deducted for every wrong answer.

BONUS:  500 extra points if you guess the century in which he created the infinity symbol

John Wallis


1655 or 17th Century

500

What is always arriving but never gets here?

Tomorrow

500

Name 3 words that start with the letter X.  Word cannot be a proper noun.


TRAP:  100 points taken off for every word you say that is not a real word.  We can research word to settle debates.