a liquid mixture of hydrocarbons which is present in suitable rock strata and can be extracted and refined to produce fuels including petrol, paraffin, and diesel oil; oil.
What is petroleum?
100
a symbol used to represent an unspecified quantity
What is a variable?
100
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
What is personification?
100
18m (59ft) long by 9m (29ft 6in) wide
What is the size of a volleyball court?
200
Abigail Adams
Who wrote letters to her husband while he was in office?
200
an opening in the sea floor out of which heated mineral-rich water flows.
What are hydrothermal vents?
200
a symmetrical open plane curve formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to its side.
What is a parabola?
200
a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words
What is an idiom?
200
Game that originated in the USA, and is now played worldwide
Where did basketball originate from?
300
first governor of Massachusetts
What was John Hancock?
300
lipids Chemistry any of a class of organic compounds that are fatty acids or their derivatives and are insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents. They include many natural oils, waxes, and steroids?
What are lipids?
300
A number that cannot be expressed as the ratio of two integers.
What is an irrational number?
300
a style or category of art, music, or literature
What is a genre?
300
2.4m (8ft) high
What is the height of a volleyball net?
400
he succeeded Thomas Jefferson as president
Who did James Madison succeed as president?
400
Astronomy a cloud of gas and dust in outer space, visible in the night sky either as an indistinct bright patch or as a dark silhouette against other luminous matter
What is nebula?
400
A form of symbolic logic, devised by George Boole ( 1815 – 64 ) in the middle of the 19th century, which provides a mathematical procedure for manipulating logical relationships in symbolic form.
What is symbolic algebra?
400
the action of mentioning or alluding to something
What is the definition of reference?
400
when dribbling it one-handed
When can a player move the ball playing basketball?
500
Zachary Taylor
Whose son, Richard, served as a general for the confederates in the civil war?
500
an irregularly occurring and complex series of climatic changes affecting the equatorial Pacific region and beyond every few years
What is El Niño?
500
Mathematics a square matrix in which all the elements of the principal diagonal are ones and all other elements are zeros. The effect of multiplying a given matrix by an identity matrix is to leave the given matrix unchanged
What is matrix arithmetic?
500
written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure
What is a prose?
500
has been included in the Olympic Games since 1964.