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100

This letter does not appear in the name of any United States state.

Q

100

Justin Timberlake was a member of this band before his solo career

What is *NSYNC?

100

Two numbers total 100 and differ by 40. Name the two numbers


What are 30 and 70

100

This automobile component converts, the engines rotational power into different combinations of speed and torque.

What is the transmission?

100

This organelle is famously known the powerhouse of the cell.

What is mitochondrion ? Mitochondria

100

A falling object eventually stops accelerating through the atmosphere when drag equals this force. 

What is gravity?

200

Scotland’s national animal is this mythical creature.

What is a Unicorn? 

200

Freddie Mercury was the legendary frontman of this band

What is QUEEN?

200

A right angle has legs measuring six and eight. This is its hypotenuse.

10

200

A traditional, mechanical thermostat often uses two bonded metals that expand at different rates forming this temperature sensitive component

What is a bimetallic strip?

200

When iron reacts with oxygen and moisture to form rust.  The iron is undergoing this chemical process.

What is oxidation?

200

An aircraft produces a sonic boom when it exceeds this characteristic speed in a medium.  

What is the speed of sound?

300

A group of flamingos is known by this rather dramatic noun

What is a flamboyance? 

300

Don Henley and Glenn Frey were original members of this legendary American rock

Who are the Eagles?

300

$100 item is discounted by 20%. The discounted price is then increased by 20%.  This is the final price.

$96

300

Noise canceling headphones reduce unwanted sound by creating another sound wave designed to create this phenomenon

What is destructive interference?

300

When a solid changes directly into a gas without first becoming a liquid the process has this name.

What is sublimation?

300

A pressure cooker cooks food, faster because increased pressure raises this property of water.

What is the boiling point?

400

This country has more pyramids than Egypt

What is Sudan?

400

This Alabama, born artist was lead singer of the Commodores before having a massive solo career

Who is Lionel Richie?

400

A fair coin is flipped three times. This is the probability of getting three heads.

What is 1/8 or 12.5%

400

A hydraulic jack can allow a relatively small Input Force to lift a car because pressure applied to a confined fluid is transmitted throughout it. A principal name for this scientist.

Who is Blaise Pascal?

400

Carbon – 14 is useful for dating once living material because scientist know this property describing how long it takes half of a radioactive sample to decay.  

What is half-life?

400

Astronauts in the international space station appear weightless primarily because they and the station are doing this around the Earth

What is Free falling?

500

The dot above letters “i” & “j” has this surprisingly specific name 

What is a “Tittle”

500

This southern rock band released “Hold on Loosely” and “Caught up in You”

Who is 38 Special? 

500

If 5 machines make 5 widgets in 5 minutes, then this many minutes are required for 100 machines to make 100 widgets.  

5

500

An induction cooktop heats the compatiblecookware by producing these circular currents.  

What are eddy currents ?

500

This phenomenon causes an apparent change and the observe frequency of a wave when it’s source and observer move relative to one another.

What is the Doppler effect?

500

I figure skater pulls their arms inward while spinning and speeds up due to conservation of this quantity 

What is angular momentum?