AP Science
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100

This tool is used to measure atmospheric pressure.

What is a barometer?

100

The document that declared the United States independent from Britains rule was signed in this year. 

What is 1776?

100
Read about this type of letter in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic novel about a woman who faced public shame after committing adultery.

What is the Scarlett Letter?

100

Their name comes from the Nepalese word for “eater of bamboo.”

What is a panda?

100

Name this hit musical directed by Lin Manuel Miranda, surrounding the life and legacy of America’s first Treasury of State. 

What is Hamilton?

200

This term refers to the clarity of water, if a sample has high ___, there are a lot of particles suspended in it. 

What is turbidity?

200

This U.S. president enacted the New Deal program, in attempt to raise morale during the Great Depression.

Who is FDR?

200

This 1954 novel by William Golding surrounds the story of young boys who are stranded on a deserted island. I wonder what’ll happen next?

What is the Lord of the Flies?

200

Deforestation from this type of oil has devastating effects on animals, specifically in Indonesia and Malaysia.  

What is palm oil?

200

Name this type of musical note, which is given one beat in 4/4 time signature. 

What is a quarter note?

300

Also known as the Basic Reproduction Number, this term predicts the number of cases, on average, an infected person will cause during their infectious period. And you don’t want a high one. 

What is R Naught (R0)?

300

The Triple Entente was a WWI alliance that helped bring down the Triple Alliance. Name its three members. 

What are France, Britain, and Russia?

300

Leonardo DiCaprio played this classic character, and we’re not talking about Romeo. 

Who is (Jay) Gatsby?

300

This act was promoted in Netflix’s recent documentary, “Tiger King,” which restricts private ownership of large cats.

What is the Big Cat (Public) Safety Act?

300
This is the name for the second lowest male voice part. 

What is a baritone?

400

President Donald Trump backed out of this international agreement in 2017, which deals with greenhouse-gas-emissions mitigation, adaptation, and finance.

What is the Paris (Climate) Agreement?

400

Name this controversial law and the president that passed it in 1830, which authorized the exchange of Native American land east of the Mississippi with unsettled land in the west. 

What is Andrew Jackson and the Indian Removal Act?

400

Name this famous abolitionist, who wrote “Letter From Birmingham Jail” after getting arrested during a peaceful protest in Alabama.

Who is MLK?

400

The AZA regulates and upholds the standards for institutions worldwide. Name what it stands for.

What is the Association of Zoos and Aquariums?

400

Tony-award-winner Ben Platt plays this character, a high school boy with an anxiety disorder. 

Who is Evan Hansen?
500

This oil company was sued in 2018, after undermining public opinion about the scientific consensus that global warming is caused by the burning of fossil fuels, a conclusion made by research they funded in the 70s, with the purpose of delaying widespread acceptance and action on global warming.

What is Exxon/ExxonMobile

500

This English colony, known for its strict religious rules, was settled in 1630 by a group of 1,000 Puritan refugees.

What is the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

500
Shakespeare wrote about these two families, and their notorious feud in Romeo and Juliet.  

Who are the Capulets and the Montagues?

500

This word describes a pattern of interlaced lines, which form a net shape, and precedes a type of giraffe and phyton (one of which is at the Virginia Zoo). 

What is reticulated?

500

How well do you know Billy Joel? Finish this lyric, “slow down you crazy child, ________.”

What is “you’re so ambitious for a juvenile?”