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This planet is the closest to the Sun
What is Mercury?
100
Gaithersburg High School's original name
What is Logtown?
100
This city was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE.
What is Pompeii?
100
This trophy is awarded to the winner of the NHL championship every year.
What is the Stanley Cup?
100
This is the process by which plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to create their own food.
What is Photosynthesis?
200
This is the chemical element with the symbol K.
What is potassium?
200
MCPS's first public high school
Rockville HS (Now Richard Montgomery)
200
This Norse explorer is believed to have reached America before Columbus.
Who is Leif Erikson?
200
This team holds the record for the most World Series wins in MLB history with 27 championships.
What are the New York Yankees?
200
This is the chemical element with the symbol O and an atomic number of 8.
What is Oxygen?
300
This is the world's largest desert
What is Antarctica?
300
The actor who plays Zoey in K-pop Demon Hunters, Rei Ami, graduated from this MCPS High School.
What is Northwest High School?
300
This event, the largest land deal in U.S. history, nearly doubled the size of the country in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
300
In tennis, a score of zero is referred to as this four-letter word.
What is Love?
300
This organelle, often called the "powerhouse" of the cell, is responsible for cellular respiration and energy production.
What is the mitochondrion (mitochondria)?
400
Officially titled La Gioconda, this portrait was painted by Leonardo da Vinci in 1503.
What is the Mona Lisa?
400
This student served as the MCPS SMOB.
Who is David Naimon?
400
This general was the first and only president of the Confederacy during the U.S. Civil War.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
400
Three consecutive strikes in bowling are called this
What is a Turkey?
400
This is the scientific name for the eardrum, a thin, cone-shaped membrane that separates the external ear from the middle ear.
What is the tympanic membrane?
500
It is the only contiguous U.S. state that borders only one other state.
What is Maine?
500
The year the MCPS was founded
When was 1860?
500
In 1215, this document was the first of its kind to establish that a king was not above the law.
What is the Magna Carta?
500
The first official international cricket match was not between England and Australia, but between the USA and this country in 1844.
What is Canada?
500
In physics, this principle states that every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton's third law of motion?