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200

Who plays the Grinch in the live action of the movie?

Who is Jim Carey?

200

What two things are classified as nucleic acids?

What are DNA and RNA?
200

What are the columns on a periodic table called?

What are groups or families?

200

What is the full name of the man who created Newton’s Laws?

Who is Sir Isaac Newton?

200

What did Alexander Graham Bell do?

What is invent the telephone?

400

Which country did eggnog come from?

What is England


400

What type of protein carries out most metabolic functions?

What are enzymes?

400

What type of bonding shares valence electrons between atoms?

What are covalent bonds?

400

Where does sound travel faster; water or air?

What is water?

400

What is “metallurgy”?

What is the science about metals and their properties?

600

What are the three of Santa’s reindeers names that begin with D?

Who are Dasher, Donner, and Dancer?

600

What two functional groups are in proteins?

What are carboxyl and amino?

600

What do you call the group of elements with a full set of 8 valence electrons?

What are noble gases?

600

What is the layer of the atmosphere closest to us on Earth?

What is the troposphere?

600

Around what year was the wheel invented? (BCE)

What is 3500?

800

How many gifts in total were given in “The 12 Days of Christmas” song?

What is 364?

800

What property of carbon makes it open on all four sides for bonding?


What is tetravalency?

800

What is the name of the chemical process where water is removed to bond substances together?

What is dehydration synthesis? 

800

What type of rock floats in water?

What is pumice?

800

The “Sidereus Nuncius”, or Starry Night, was published in 1610 by who?

Who is Galileo?

1000

 What is Frosty the Snowman’s face made out of? (Name all 3 things)

What are eyes made out of coal, button nose, and corn cob pipe

1000

What amino acid binds to the trp operator to prevent RNA Polymerase from binding to the active site?

What is tryptophan?

1000

What model shows that electrons can lie anywhere in a specific area around a nucleus rather than a fixed orbit?

What is the electron cloud model?

1000

What year was the sound barrier first broken?

What is 1947?

1000

What oath of ethics is taken by doctors and is named after an Ancient Greek physician?

What is the Hippocratic Oath?