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8th Grade Math
Plants
The Solar System
Australia
100

Experts in ornithology & apiology could teach you about these, & so could Dr. Ruth.

What are the birds and the bees?

100

# of hours per day a bank is open when its hours are 9 A.M. to 4 P.M.

What is 7?

100

The vines of this fruit were 1st grown in Europe in Cantalupo, Italy.

What is cantaloupe?

100

This planet's sidereal day lasts 23 hours, 56 minutes, & 4.09 seconds.

What is Earth?

100

The name "Australia" comes from a Latin word meaning this compass direction.

What is south?

200

Indiana Jones' field of study.

What is archaeology?

200

Of a $1.15 pound of candy or 1 1/2 pounds for $1.80, the better buy.

What is the $1.15 pound of candy?

200

Since camellias belong to this plant family, a stewardess might ask "coffee, camellia, or milk.

What is tea?

200

The symbol for this planet is, appropriately, a trident.

What is Neptune?

200

Of whites, Aborigines, or kangaroos, the one of which Australia has the most.

What are kangaroos?

300

While this study tries to predict when earthquakes will occur, it's still on shaky ground.

What is seismology?

300

Odds of losing if you try to pick the jack of spades blindly from the other spade picture cards.

What is 2:1 (two out of three)?

300

Of a grass, shrub or tree, kind of plant sassafras is.

What is a tree?

300

The perihelion is the point in the orbit of a planet when it comes closest to this.

What is the Sun?

300

Because Britain could no longer send them to America, they were sent to Australia.

What are criminals (convicts)?

400

Toxicology deals with the effects of & the treatment for these.

What are poisons?

400

The total cost of 3 typewriter ribbons at $2.99 each.

What is $8.97?

400

Yellow flower of the genus "Tagetes", named for the Virgin Mary.

What is a marigold?

400

Its largest moon, Ganymede, can be seen from earth through binoculars. 

What is Jupiter?

400

Name of this animal comes from Aboriginal word meaning "no drink", as they rarely do.

What is koala?

500

A necrology is a list of people who've all done this.

What is die?

500

The monthly payment on a 1-year loan whose total balance is $3,612.

What is $301?

500

Of 300,00, 3,000 or 30,000, the number of edible plant species.

What is 300,000?

500

Most of these are named after people who have spotted them.

What are comets?

500

Though he was never in Australia, its highest peak is named for this Polish patriot.

What is Mount Kosciuszko?