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Olympics
2013
Math
Science
ELA
100
This athlete is the most decorated Olympian in history.
Who is Michael Phelps?
100
This was the highest grossing film of 2013.
What is Iron Man 3?
100
This is the order of operations.
What are parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition and subtraction?
100
This is the human body's biggest organ.
What is skin?
100
SE Hinton was this age when she wrote The Outsiders.
What is... 15 when she started writing, 16 when she wrote the majority of it, and 17 when it was published? (any answer is acceptable)
200
This Russian city is hosting the 2014 Winter Olympics.
What is Sochi?
200
This South African leader/activist passed away in December of 2013.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
200
This is the largest two digit prime number.
What is 97?
200
This is the name of the process used by plants to convert sunlight into food.
What is photosynthesis?
200
These coordinating conjunctions combine two sentences.
What are for, but, so, yet, or, and, nor?
300
This city has hosted the Olympic games more than any other city.
What is London?
300
This song spent the most weeks at #1 on the billboard charts in 2013.
What is Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke?
300
This is when each member of the domain is paired with exactly one member of the range.
What is a function?
300
This is the name of the weather instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure.
What is a barometer?
300
This is the literary technique found in the following sentence. "Your love is like a heat wave."
What is a simile?
400
The first Olympics were held in honor of this Greek God.
Who is Zeus?
400
This natural disaster devastated many of the islands in the Phillippines in November of 2013.
What is Typhoon Haiyan?
400
This is the answer you get when you solve the following equation. 2 3/8 - 1 1/16
What is 1 5/16?
400
This is the first element on the periodic table
What is hydrogen?
400
This is when the reader knows something that the character in the story does not.
What is dramatic irony?
500
These are the four indoor sports at the Winter Olympics.
What are curling, figure skating, speed skating and ice hockey?
500
The government's failure to raise the debt ceiling caused this to happen last October.
What is the government shutdown?
500
This is the value that you get for x in the following equation. 15 = x/5 + 17
What is -10?
500
This is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.
What is mercury?
500
The Giver is the first book in the series that also includes these two books.
What are Gathering Blue and Messenger?