Geography/ Landmarks
Science
English/Literature
Math
History/Government
100

 A person wanting to see the Liberty Bell would have to travel to what state?

What is...Pennyslvania 

100


Derived from the name of a Roman goddess, what is the collective name for all the different kinds of plants growing in a given region?

What is...flora

100

Complete this title of a biography. The Greatest Showman on Earth: A Biography of ..

Who is...P.T. Barnum

100

In what sport do participants call out a solution to the following? Cube root of 64!

What is...golf  

100

What ancient Hellenistic ruler of Egypt shared power with her father, Ptolemy XII, with Ptolemy XIII and XIV, and later had relationships with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony?

Who is...Cleopatra

200

The three U.S. national parks in the Sierra Nevada are Yosemite, Kings Canyon, and what other?

What is...Sequoia 

200


Those controlled substances that contribute to muscle bulk while having many harmful physical and psychological effects are called ..

What are...steroids

200

What adjective means 'having unlimited, total knowledge of everything'?

What is...omniscient
200

Roy caught an 8-pound bass and an 11-pound bass. How much must his third bass weigh in order that all his fish average 7 pounds?

What is...2 pounds

200

What Portuguese explorer, employed by the king of Spain, embarked in 1519 from Seville, sailed through the strait that now bears his name, and was killed in the Philippines in 1521?

Who is...Magellan

300


In what state are cities with these nicknames located? City of Witches, Birthplace of Basketball, The Whaling City, The Birthplace of American Liberty, Beantown

What is ...Massachusetts

300


An inward collapse of a vessel is an ..

What is...implosion 

300

From a literary point of view, rewarding the good and punishing the bad is what kind of justice?

What is...Poetic Justice 

300

A DVD player with a list price of $100 is marked down 30%. If John gets an employee discount of 20% off the sale price, how much does John pay for the DVD player ?

Individual Question

  1. $86.00

  2. $77.60

  3. $56.00

  4. $50.00

  5. $44.00

What is... C: 

100(0.70) = 70 is the amount that would be paid if the DVD was marked down 30%, but there is another discount of 20%, so the price is going to be 80% of the marked-down price. The price will be 70(0.80) = 56.

300

In 1812, Napoleon's army suffered nearly 500,000 casualties while retreating from what Eastern European city?

What is...Moscow

400

What waterfall in Venezuela is more than twenty times higher than Niagara Falls?

What is...Angel Falls 

400

In spacecraft, what is the name for a chamber between the flight deck and the vacuum of space that is used by crew members when beginning or returning from space walks?

What is...an air lock

400

What is the collective noun for a group of crows? 

What is...a murder

400

Which of the following is a factor of the polynomial 2x2 – 3x – 5 ?


  1. x – 1

  2. 2x – 3

  3. 2x – 5

  4. 2x + 5

  5. 3x + 5



What is... H. 

2x2 – 3x – 5 = (x + 1)(2x – 5).

400

This is about whom? Some difficulties arose after her husband's election. She was accused of extravagance and disloyalty to the Union cause. Her mind was weakened by the loss of three of her four sons and by the terrible assassination

Who is....Mary Todd Lincoln (Mrs. Lincoln)

500

Wombats are burrowing marsupials native to Australia and what nearby island separated from the continent by the Bass Strait?

What is...Tasmania

500


Equine encephalitis is a mosquito-borne type of viral encephalitis originally isolated as an encephalitis that affects what mammals?

What are...horses

500


It has been called 'Exhibit A on the consequences of wrong choices.' Name this story by Leo Tolstoy in which the central character leaves her husband and son for an affair with another man and ends up losing everything.

What is...Anna Karenina

500

The volume, V, of the right circular cone with radius r and height h, shown below, can be found using the formula V =  r2h. A cone-shaped paper cup has a volume of 142 cubic centimeters and a height of 8.5 centimeters. What is the radius, to the nearest centimeter, of the paper cup?

A. 2

B. 4

C. 8

D.12

E. 16 

What is....B (4)

 This is the correct response. Solving for r :  = r2. So r =  =  ≈ 4.

500

Eva Anna Paula Braun's name when she died in 1945 was Eva Anna Paula ...

Who is....Hitler