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100

What system do our lungs belong to?

  •  Muscular
  •  Digestive
  •  Nervous
  •  Respiratory

Respiratory

100

Which of the following is a recessive trait?

  •  English Language
  •  Red Hair
  •  Short Hair
  •  Brown Hair

Red Hair

100

  • What is 90 degrees in terms of pi?

    • A. Pi/4

      B. Pi

      C.  2(pi)

      D. Pi/2


Pi/2

100

Working after Einstein proposed his famous equation, Lise Meitner was the first to show that a uranium atom can be split, converting a tiny amount of mass into a prodigious amount of energy in accordance with the formula E= mc2. What is the name of this splitting process?

Fission

100

What form of travel revolutionized transportation in the 19th century?

The steam ship

The steam train

Automobiles

The steam ship

200

What organ in your body absorbs the majority of nutrients from your food?

  •  Heart
  •  Small Intestine
  •  Stomach
  •  Mouth

Small Intestine

200

Your DNA is:

  •  Premium, High Quality DNA. Like, really good stuff.
  •  given to you either by your mom or your dad
  •  given to you mostly by your dad if you are a boy, mostly by your mom if you are a girl
  •  A combination of half of each of your parent's DNA

A combination of half of each of your parent's DNA

200

If two equations with two variables are to be solved together, what are they called?

A. Differential Equations

B. Simultaneous Equations

C. Parametric Equations

D. Linear Equations 

Simultaneous Equations

200

How long does it take for light to travel from the sun to Earth?

  1. 10 seconds
  2. 85 minutes
  3. 850 minutes
  4. 10 minutes
  5. 8.5 minutes
  • 8.5 minutes
200

What year is regarded as the birth of the modern car?

1886

1900

1896

1886

300

What is the difference between arteries and veins?

  •  Arteries carry oxygenated blood, while veins carry deoxygenated blood
  •  They are the same thing.
  •  Arteries carry food to our cells, while veins carry oxygen to our cells.
  •  Arteries carry blood away from the heart, while veins carry blood back to the heart.

Arteries carry blood away from the heart, while veins carry blood back to the heart.

300

Where is DNA located?

  •  Not in cells
  •  In cells, but not in the nucleus
  •  In a cell's nucleus
  •  All around us

In a cell's nucleus

300

What do we call the combination of the rational and irrational numbers?

A. Natural Numbers

B. Real Numbers

C. Integers

D. Whole Numbers 

B. Real Numbers

300

What radioactive element was used in the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima?

 Uranium; offer bonus point for naming specific isotope uranium-235

300

What civilization is credited with creating the first paved road?

Mesopotamia

Egypt

Rome

Mesopotamia

400

What is the part of the cell that contains the DNA and controls the cell?

  •  Cytoplasm
  •  Cell Membrane
  •  Cell Wall
  • Nucleus
  • Nucleus
400

A behavior that is coded into an organism’s DNA is known as:

  •  TRICK QUESTION HOTSHOT! Behavior isn't coded into DNA!!
  •  intelligence
  •  a learned behavior
  •  an instinct

an instinct

400

Which number is both prime and odd?

9

21

15

7 

7

400

 One interesting thing about light is that although it appears white, it can be broken out into a spectrum of different colors by passing the white light through a prism. What are the colors of the rainbow from longest wavelength to shortest?

Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet. (Also acceptable is red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet—forming the familiar mnemonic ROYGBIV. The labels used for colors are arbitrary and while indigo is no longer commonly used, it is included to make the sequence easier to remember.)

400

What were the earliest form of canoes made from?

Birch bark

Tree trunks

Sticks and leaves

Tree trunks

500

What is an organ system?

  •  Two or more organs that work together to perform a specific function for the organism.
  •  The function of the organ.
  •  A pathway for an organism to move throughout the body.
  •  The group of cells that make up an organ.

Two or more organs that work together to perform a specific function for the organism.

500

Which of the following is not one of the amino acid building blocks of DNA?

  •  Thymine
  •  Guanine
  •  Adeline
  •  Cytosine

Adeline

500

What is the base in the binary numeration system?

10

8

16

2 

2

500

What was the name of the top-secret U.S. government program to build the atomic bomb?

The Manhattan Project

500

What year was the first controllable airplane debuted?

1903

1906

1919

1903