Math
What is the next number in this sequence?
2,1,3,4,7,11
18
What is carried in a quiver?
Arrows
Name the largest island in the United States
Hawaii
Who was elected as president of the U.S. in 1792?
George Washington
Name the reaction characterized by unpleasant, often intense feelings and a desire to flee or hide.
Fear
What is the largest of three consecutive integers if their sum is 27?
10
What is the term for a ball intentionally tapped slowly within the infield by a batter?
Bunt
Name the largest body of water traversed by the tropic of Cancer.
Pacific Ocean
What document is the birth certificate of the United States?
Declaration of Independence
Name the author of stories that include these lines.
-Oh, the places you'll go.
-There is no one alive that is you-er than you.
-His heart was two sized too small.
-Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
-I meant what I said and I said what I meant.
Dr. Seuss
Sound takes about 5 seconds to travel 1 mile. If you shout across a wide valley and your echo returns in 10 seconds, how wide is the valley?
1 mile
Which MLB player was known as "The Bambino"?
Babe Ruth
Around what continent did Vasco da Gama sail to reach India?
Africa
The mathematicians of Babylon devised a system of counting based on the number 60, from which we get the number of degrees in a circle and the number of minutes in what interval?
Hour
What African mammal is this about?
In their odd, inimitable, vegetative gracefulness, they act as if it were not a herd of animals but a family of rare gigantic, long-stemmed, speckled flower slowly advancing.
Giraffes
What is the sum of numbers in these quantities?
-the number of days in a leap year
-the number of centiliters in one deciliter
-the number of ounces in 2 pounds
408
Which NFL team went undefeated for an entire season in 1972
Miami Dolphins
What country was supposedly saved by a finger in a dike?
Holland(Netherlands)
Archaeologists have determined that what group of people traveled the North America almost five hundred years ago before Christopher Colombus?
Vikings(Norsemen)
What is the meaning of the prefix in words such as heliometer, heliostat, and heliosphere?
Sun
According to the old saying, a miss is as good as how many feet?
5280
How long is a marathon in miles?
26.2 miles
What mountain range is considered the traditional boundary that separates the continents of Europe and Asia?
The Ural Mountains
This verse by Rudyard Kipling is about what conflict?
The snow lies thick on Valley Forge
The Ice on the Delaware,
But the poor dead soliders of King George
They neither know nor care
American Revolution
Who wrote this?
The only creature who is allowed at the pack council is Baloo, the sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf cubs the Law of the Jungle.
Rudyard Kipling