Olympic Jeopardy

Math

100

How many sides are in a pentagon?

5 sides

200

What is 3 5/6 in decimal form, rounded to 2 decimal places?

3.83

300

How do you calculate the area of a triangle?

Base times height divided by 2

400

How many seconds are in two and a half hours?

9000

Find the minutes in 2.5 hours (60+60+30) 

150 x 60 (seconds in a minute) = 9000 seconds

500

Bill wants to rent a truck for one day. Phil's Rentals charges a flat rate of $20 plus $2 per mile. Mother Truckers Inc. charges $3 per mile. After how many miles will the total cost for both companies be the same?

20 Miles

History

100

Who was the 16th president of the United States?

Abraham Lincoln

200

The president of the United States is elected to a term of how many years?

4

300

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Thomas Jefferson

400

Where was the First Continental Congress held?

Philadelphia

500

Where did the 'Shot Heard Round the World' take place?

Lexington and Concord

English

100

Which literary term means a short story designed to teach a moral or religious lesson?

Parable

200

Ms. Friery went walking in the jungle. Name the verb.

walking

300

What is the correct definition for the root "form"?

Shape (conform, reform)

400

What is a proper noun.

A specific person, place, thing, or idea.

500

'Jumbo shrimp' is an example of what literary device? 

Oxymoron

Science

100

What is physical substance in general, is distinct from mind and spirit; in physics, that which occupies space and possesses rest mass, especially as distinct from energy.

Matter

200

Double Jeopardy

_______works against gravity.

Helium 

300

Which layer of the atmosphere does weather occur? 

Troposphere

400

The process in which water flows across a semi-permeable membrane

Osmosis

500

Salt makes water boil faster.

True or False?

True

Geography

100

Double Jeopardy

Which country is both an island and a continent?

Australia

200

What is the largest country by land area?

Russia

300

What is the imaginary line that divides Earth into the Eastern and Western hemispheres?

Prime Meridian

400

What are the Earth's five oceans?

Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, and Southern (Antarctic) oceans

500

Which mountain range runs from Canada to New Mexico? 

The Rocky Mountains

Random

100

How many bones do adult humans have?

206

200

What are the primary colors?

Red, yellow, and blue.

300

Which animal can sleep for up to 3 years?

Snail

400

Double Jeopardy? 

Who painted the famous artwork "Starry Night"?

Vincent van Gogh

500

What is the only planet in the solar system that rotates clockwise?

Venus