JEOPARDY

GRADE 7

100

What are the five senses in our body?

sight, smell, hearing, taste, touch

200

This figure of speech compares two things using "like" or "as". 

 What is a simile?

300

What is the mean of the following numbers: 4,8,6,10 and 2?

What is 6

400

3rd President of the United States and the main author of the Declaration of Independence.

Thomas Jefferson

500

What is the second farthest planet from the Sun?

Uranus

GRADE 8

100

This is the time and place in which a story happens.

What is the setting

200

What is the sum of the interior angles of a triangle?

What is 180 degrees

300

This amendment abolished slavery in the United States?

What is the 13th amendment 

400

These are sections of DNA that carry the instructions for traits.

What are genes?

500

This type of figurative language gives human qualities to non-human things.

For example, "the wind whispered through the trees"

 What is personification?

GRADE 9

100

In the equation y=mx + b , what does m represent?

What is the slope?

200

This revolution began in 1775 and led to the creation of the United States.

What is the American Revolution?

300

What is the main function of the respiratory system?

 To move fresh air into your body while removing waste gases

400

The first sentence in a paragraph that introduces the main idea.

What is a topic sentence?

500

Find the circumference of a circle with a radius of 7cm. (Use pi=3.14)

what is 2πr= 2 x3.14 = 43.96cm 

GRADE 10

100

Who was the second president of the United States?

John Adams

200

These rocks are formed through the cooling and solidification of magma or lava

Igneous Rocks

300

What type of writing tells a story?

What is narrative writing?

400

if f(x)= 3x² 2x+1, what is f(2) ?

What is 9?

500

What revolution led to the rise of factories and machines in the 1700s-1800s?

What is the Industrial Revolution?

GRADE 11

100

Name the author of the The Great Gatsby.

 Who is F. Scott FitzGerald? 

200

What is the softest bone in the body?

Clavicle

300

Find the vertex of the parabola: y=x² -6x +5

What is (3, -4)

400

This landmark 1954 Supreme Court case declared that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, overturning Plessy v. Ferguson.

What is Brown vs Board of Education

500

these elements are located in group 18 of the Periodic table and are known for being unreactive.

What are Noble Gases?