Economics
Plural Animals
Totally Random
Cooking
History
100
This word describes unlimited wants, but limited resources. Essentially, it's why we have to budget our resources.
What is "scarcity?"
100
This is the technical name of a group of cows.
What is a "herd?"
100
This is the color of polar bear skin.
What is black?
100
This is the name for cooking in a hot oven.
What is "to bake?"
100
The owner of the Standard Oil Company.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
200
This describes money that you have to pay back IN ADDITION TO money that you borrow.
What is "interest" (in this case= APR or Annual Percentage Rate)?
200
This is the technical name for a group of whales.
What is a "pod?"
200
This is the second-largest city in New York State.
What is Buffalo?
200
This is the name for submerging a food in hot oil in order to cook it.
What is to "deep fry?"
200
The country where the Industrial Revolution first took root.
What is England?
300
This describes the purchasing power of money decreasing over time. In other words, the same amount of money buying less stuff than it used to.
What is "inflation?"
300
This is the technical name of a group of locusts.
What is a "plague?"
300
Apples are most closely related to which other fruit?
What are pears? (and quinces).
300
This is the name for cooking in a lightly-oiled pan.
What is " to sauté?"
300
Who was the SECOND president of the United States?
What was John Adams (1796-1800)?
400
This is the value of the next-best alternative. In other words, it's the value of the thing you did not choose.
What is "opportunity cost?"
400
This is the technical name of a group of giraffes.
What is a "tower?"
400
This is the heaviest thing in space
What is a black hole?
400
This is the name for an egg that has been cracked open and dropped into boiling water to cook it.
What is a "poached egg?"
400
The country that invented the first paper money.
What is China?
500
These are the raw materials and human inputs that you need to produce a product.
What are "factors of production?"
500
This is the technical name for a group of mice.
What is a "mischief?"
500
This is described by the term "A.U." or Astronomical Unit.
What is the distance between the Earth and the Sun?
***Bonus 500 Points if you can name the distance in either Miles or Kilometres***
500
Cooking in a sautee pan first with heat, then covered with a small amount of liquid.
What is Braising?
500
These are the two railroads that built the first Transcontinental Railroad that spanned the entirety of North America for the first time in 1869. (Name at least one)
1. Union Pacific Railroad
2. Central Pacific Railroad