This US state is the proud producer of over 100 million pounds of potatoes annually, the most in the country..
What is Idaho?
100
A popular but false holiday legend states that a chemical in this food makes you sleepy
What is turkey?
100
This extremely dry biome is never found around the equator
What is the tundra?
100
The term for the average mass of an atom of an element as it occurs in nature
What is atomic mass/atomic weight?
100
This Staples High School cafeteria lady, known only by her first name, has long stood guardian over the chicken, cookies, and smoothies that students know and love.
Who is Robin?
200
While often called a yam in North America, this food is distinctly different from the true yams of Asia, Africa, and Oceania. It is also the official vegetable of the state of North Carolina.
What is sweet potato?
200
This is one thing that taxidermy, pillows, and Thanksgiving have in common
What is stuffing?
200
When you have reached approximately 25,000 mph, you have achieved escape velocity. You are escaping from this.
What is gravity?
200
This is the most electronegative of all the elements
What is Fluorine?
200
This English Department teacher graduated from the University of Chicago and coaches a popular Staples girl's sports team.
Who is Ms. (soon to be Mrs.) Parrish?
300
This mode of reproduction is performed by potatoes through use of tubers.
What is asexual reproduction?
300
In 78,000 years, these two very different holidays will next occur on the same day.
What are Hanukkah and Thanksgiving?
300
This is the atmospheric gas that absorbs the vast majority of UV light hitting Earth
What is ozone?
300
This is a common household item is the product of a soft metal that explodes in water and a highly poisonous gas
What is table salt (NaCl)?
300
This Science Department teacher is known for his exceptional piano skills and distaste for properly tied ties.
Who is Mr. Scrofani?
400
This popular East Coast food outlet, one of which is in Westport, Connecticut, lists its daily source of potatoes on the wall.
What is Five Guys?
400
This highly poisonous parasitic plant of the order Santalaceae is extremely popular during the holiday season
What is mistletoe?
400
The amount of time it takes the Earth to complete one full rotation
What is 23 hours 56 minutes?
400
This element is often used as a mood stabilizer, has the opposite effect on one's voice as the element it follows, and is the name of a Sirius XM alternative rock radio station
What is Lithium?
400
This Social Studies teacher has the most common last name among faculty members in Staples, and is also the new Staples Hiking Club advisor
Who is Mr. Miller?
500
This historical event involving spuds lead to a massive immigration influx in the United States in the 1840s and 50's.
What is the Irish Potato Famine (or Great Famine)?
500
The caribou, which lives exclusively in the uppermost Northern Hemisphere, would be little-known if not for its place in holiday mythology. This is its better-known name
What is a reindeer?
500
This is the only continent currently without an active volcano
What is Australia?
500
This is the most dense element that occurs naturally on Earth
What is Osmium?
500
This Science Department teacher is known for, among other things, his stylish college hairdo and wrecking destruction on the pipes of his childhood home with melted wax.