Numbers & Operations
Measurement & Data
Environmental & Life Sciences
U.S. History
Maniac Magee
100
Evaluate the following: 4 x (5 + 2) - 3
What is 25?
100
Apply the formula for a rectangular prism to calculate the volume of a box that is 12 inches long, 10 inches wide, and 8 inches high.
What is 960 cubic inches?
100
This is defined as "all the living things in an area and their interactions with one another and their physical environment."
What is an ecosystem?
100
As home to the First Continental Congress in 1774, this city is considered the first capital of the United States of America.
What is Philadelphia?
100
After running away from his aunt and uncle and without a home, Maniac Magee lived here before moving in with the Beales?
What is the deer/bison area at the zoo?
200
Solve for n 4.56 x 9.9 = n
45.144
200
At 5 feet 4 inches, James Madison was the shortest president in U.S. history. How many inches tall was Madison?/
What is 64 inches?
200
The ears of a rabbit, the thorns on a rose bush, the monocular vision of a deer, and the long beak of a water bird. This is the process through which a species becomes better suited to its environment.
What is adaptation?
200
In an ironic twist, these two former presidents and founding fathers died on the exact same day, July 4, 1826.
Who are Jefferson and Adams?
200
One of the three events that led to the new kid getting the nickname "Maniac."
What are intercepting a pass for a touchdown, hitting McNab's fastball / frogball, and rescuing a kid from Finsterwald's backyard?
300
Evaluate the following: The difference of 19 and the quotient of 45 divided by 9, multiplied by ten to the power of 2.
What is 1,400?
300
Using the metric system, this unit would be appropriate to measure the length of an ant.
What is a millimeter?
300
Oysters and blue crabs have been historically important to both the economy and ecosystem of Maryland and the greater Chesapeake Bay region. Name two ways humans have caused a decline in the population of these two species.
What are overharvesting / fishing, habitat destruction, and pollution?
300
This town, established in 1607 in the Colony of Virginia, was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
What is Jamestown?
300
Grayson gave Maniac a home, and taught him a lot about life and baseball. Maniac did this in return for Grayson.
What is teach Grayson to read?
400
4.2 minus nine thousandths
4.191
400
This is the surface area of the face of a cube with a volume of 512 cubic feet?
What is 64 square feet?
400
The snowshoe hare sheds its fur twice a year. In the summer months the hare's fur is brown. In the winter months the hare's fur is white. In addition to regulating the hare's temperature, what is the other benefit of this adaptation?
What is camouflage?
400
On December 16, 1773, American colonists, protesting what they deemed "taxation without representation", destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent from Britain, dumping it into the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
400
This is how the town of Two Mills is divided.
What is black and white?
500
21,630 divided by 35
618
500
How many ribbons that are 3/4 of a foot long can you cut from 5 yards of yarn?
What is 20 ribbons?
500
All living things need food in order to survive. This is the process by which plants, also known as producers, convert energy from the sun into sugar. This is eventually used to fuel ALL living things.
What is photosynthesis?
500
On September 1, 1971, this team became the first in Major League Baseball to start an all-black lineup, 23 years after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier.
What is the Pittsburgh Pirates?
500
When Mars Bar and Maniac raced, Maniac infuriated Mars Bar by doing this.
What is winning the race while running backward?