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100

The study of mushrooms called:

a. Botany

b. Zoology

c. Mycology

d. Geology

What is mycology?

100

Which is the most abundant element in the universe?

a. Oxygen

b. Carbon

c. Hydrogen

d. Nitrogen

What is hydrogen?

100

Which famous physicist discovered the concept of gravity?

a. Albert Einstein

b. Galileo Galilei

c. Sir Isaac Newton

d. Nikola Tesla

Sir Isaac Newton

100

What is full of holes but still holds water? 


What is a sponge?

100

Who was the first student to attend UNC?  


Who is Hinton James?

200

How many bones does the human body have?

a. 206 bones

b. 189 bones

c. 203 bones

d. 216 bones

What is 206 bones? 

200

What element did Joseph Priestley discover in 1774?

a. Carbon

d. Hydrogen

c. Nitrogen

d. Oxygen

What is oxygen?


200

What is the unit of work?

What is joule? 

200

What has a head and a tail but no body?

What is a coin?

200

When was the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill founded?


What is December 11, 1789?

300

The heaviest organ in the human body after skin?

a. Brain

b. Heart

c. Liver

d. Skin

What is the liver?

300

What is the chemical equation for ammonium phosphate?

(NH4)3PO4

300

If a bug and a car collide, which one experiences the greater force (not impact)?

a. the bug

b. the car

c. they both experience the same amount of force

they both experience the same amount of force

300

I’m hard to create, but I can’t be destroyed. I can only change form. What am I?


What is energy?

300

What President of the United States attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill?


Who is James K. Polk?

(Gerald Ford briefly attended, enrolled for summer classes at the law school in 1938)

400

The number of bones sharks have in their bodies:

a. 206

b. 0

c. 108

d. 56

What is 0 bones?

400

How many atoms are in C11H12O22 (sucrose)?

What is 45 atoms?

400

This is the bending of light around a small object.

What is diffraction?


400

What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it?

What is silence?

400

How many bells are inside of the Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower?


What are 14 bells?

500

Who usually has more hair follicles, blondes or brunettes?

What are blondes?

500

Why is tungsten a good metal for electric light bulb filaments?

What is a high melting point?

500

A force that decreases the velocity of an object as it moves through a fluid is called?


What is drag?

500

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I? 


What are footsteps?

500

Where did head cheerleader Vic Huggins acquire the first live Ramses in 1924 from for $25? 

(2 potential answers) 

What is Texas or Tennessee?