Toss Up 1
Planets
The surface temperature of what planet regularly reaches nearly 900 degrees Fahrenheit?
Venus
Matter
In what state of matter are most solvents?
liquid
Inventions
What invention by Benjamin Franklin was characterized by these two innovative features?
- a hollow baffle or metal panel that directs the flow of the fumes
- a flue that acts as an inverted siphon
Franklin Stove
Colonial Period
What was the primary commodity handled by these organizations?
Russian - American Company
New Netherland Company
Hudson's Bay Company
furs
Currency
In 2016, it was announced that what woman's prominent portrait will appear on the U.S. $20 bill?
Harriet Tubman
Bonus -
Which is the largest of their terrestrial planets in our solar system?
Earth
Bonus -
Whenever virga occurs, rain is changed from a liquid to what other state of matter?
gas (vapor)
Bonus -
What powered James Watt's machine that converted energy into mechanical force?
steam
Bonus -
The two most prominent colonists expelled by Puritan leaders from the Massachusetts Bay Colony were Anne Hutchinson and who else?
Bonus -
What name for a unit of money applies to the official currencies of these countries?
Argentina, Dominican Republic, Chile, Uruguay, Philippines, Cube, Colombia and Mexico
peso
Bonus -
Astronomers say that what planet will become ringed when its moon, Phobos, breaks up?
Bonus -
What is the term for any space that is practically void of matter?
vacuum
Bonus -
What did Eli Whitney's invention remove from cotton bolls?
seeds
Bonus -
In what early American colony was Virginia Dare born?
Roanoke
Bonus -
What currency is used in Ireland, Latvia, Belgium, Cyprus, Slovakia and Italy?
euro