Freshman
What is made up of air, water, land, and living things?
Answer: The environment.
What is the name of the layer of the Earth's atmosphere that we live in?
Answer: The troposphere.
What do you call it when a bowler makes three strikes in a row?
Answer: A turkey.
What is the economic problem where individuals, acting in their own self-interest, deplete a shared resource, ultimately harming everyone?
Answer: The Tragedy of the Commons.
What does a compass rose show?
Answer: Directions
What is the process by which some animals produce light called?
Answer: Bioluminescence.
What binary number systems, often found in computer programming, use only these two digits?
Answer: 0 and 1.
The “shot heard round the world” describes the beginning of which battles in the American Revolution?
Answer: The battle of Lexingtion and Concord
How many elements are in the periodic table?
How many sides does a trapezoid have?
Answer: Four.
What value is, by definition, the smallest prime number?
Answer: Two.
In trigonometry, the cosecant ratio is the reciprocal of what other ratio?
Answer: Sine
Who wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird"?
Answer: Harper Lee
Which three states share a border with California?
Answer: Arizona, Nevada, and Oregon.
A sporting event is held every year on Memorial Day. What is it?
Answer: The Indianapolis 500.
What is the two-word phrase by which type II error's are more popularly known in day-to-day vernacular?
Answer: False negative.
What is the standard form of a quadratic equation?
Answer: ax² + bx + c = 0
Which battle between the U.S. and British effectively ended the Revolutionary War?
Answer: The Battle of Yorktown.
What involves mixing waste with other chemicals to produce less toxic substances?
Answer: Neutralization.
Formed of leaflike parts called sepals, what five-letter word means the bottom part of a flower, which provides support for the petals?
Answer: The calyx