English
Which of the following is a type of punctuation mark?
a) Ampersand
b) Hashtag
c) Parenthesis
d) Asterisk
c) Parenthesis
What is the longest wall in the world?
The Great Wall of China
What’s the name of the deepest place in the ocean?
Mariana Trench
What is the name of the statistical measure of central tendency represents the middle value in a data set when the numbers are arranged from smallest to largest?
Median
This number equals to the number of square inches in a square foot.
144
Which of the following is a type of conjunction?
a) And
b) But
c) Therefore
d) All of the above
d) All of the above
Who is commonly credited with creating the first printing press?
Johannes Gutenberg
What is the term for the measure of disorder or randomness in a system?
Entropy
A culture of 5000 bacteria triples every 15 minutes. What is the size of the bacteria population after 2 hours have elapsed?
32,805,000
Despite its slight vertical tilt, the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy can best be described as this type of 3D geometric figure.
Cylinder
What is the correct order of the three main parts of an essay?
a) Introduction, body, conclusion
b) Body, introduction, conclusion
c) Conclusion, introduction, body
d) Conclusion, body, introduction
a) Introduction, body, conclusion
What do the stripes on the American flag represent?
The 13 original colonies
Mycology is the scientific study of what?
Fungi
If 1/3 of a number is 4 less than 1/2 of the number, the number is
Let x represent the unknown number. Since 1/3 of x is 4 less than 1/2 of x, x/3 = x/2 - 4. So, 2x = 3x - 24, giving x = 24
What is the longest English word without repeating any letters?
Subdermatoglyphic
What is the process of making a word past tense by adding “-ed” or “-d” called?
a) Conjugation
b) Inflection
c) Derivation
d) Tense agreement
b) Inflection
What year were the first enslaved Africans brought to American colonies?
1619
What mammal has the most powerful bite?
Hippopotamus
What expression goes with "three more than the product of x and 7"?
7x + 3
What’s the sun primarily made of?
Hydrogen
Who wrote the poem “The Waste Land”?
a) T.S. Eliot
b) W.B. Yeats
c) Robert Frost
d) Emily Dickinson
a) T.S. Eliot
How many Native Americans were relocated during the Trail of Tears?
An estimated 100,000 Native Americans were removed from their territories and relocated
Which planet has the shortest day, of about 10 hours?
Jupiter
What is the probability of randomly pulling a J, Q or K from a deck of cards?
12/52 = 3/13
The United States bought Alaska from which country?
Russia