Jeopardy Game #1 (Nickel-9-2)

Geography

100

This imaginary line divides the Earth into north and south hemispheres.

What is the equator?

200

The deepest part of the ocean.

What is Marianas Trench?

300

This desert is the largest in the world.

What is Antarctica?

400

This country has a total of 11 times zones.

What is Russia?

500

This country has the greatest number of lakes in the world; 879, 800.

What is Canada?

Science

100

In our solar system, this is the only planet to spin clockwise.

What is Venus?

200

It takes this amount of time for light to travel from the Sun to the Earth.

What is 8 minutes?

300

Each plant cell contains this organelle which harnesses the power of light.

What is a chloroplast?

400

The reason why a feather falls slower than a bowling ball is due to a difference in this phenomenon.

What is air resistance?

500

Within each star, this process results in the creation of chemical elements.

What is stellar nucleosynthesis?

Riddles

100

I have a face and two hands, yet I cannot clap.

What is a clock?

200

I cannot speak, but I always reply when spoken to.

What is an echo?

300

I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish or sea creatures. 

What is a map?

400

I am confined to one space, yet I can travel to many parts of the world.

What is a stamp?

500

I cease to exist when you utter my name.

What is silence?

Mathematics

100

If an object has an order of rotation of 6, then what is the angle of rotation?

60^o

200

A square room has an area of 144 m². What is the perimeter?

48 m

300

This number cannot be expressed as a ratio of integers.

What is an irrational number?

400

The side-length of a cube is  1/3. Suppose that it triples with each passing second. If 3 seconds pass, then what is area of one of the resulting cube's faces?

81 square units.

500

Akari and Natsuo are the same height. Yumiko's height is 161 cm. The mean of the heights of Akari, Natsuo, and Yumiko is 171 cm. What is Akari's height?

176 cm

Vocabulary

100

This verb is best used to describe the motion of a horse.

What is gallop?

200

This adjective refers to something that is extremely large or great, especially in scale or degree.

What is immense?

300

This noun is defined as the highest point in terms of distance or excellence.

What is zenith?

400

This verb means to make obscure, unclear, or unintelligible.

What is obfuscate?

500

This adjective refers to something that has many aspects.

What is multifarious?