Ken Jennings' Part 1
The first person to survey the height of Mount Everest added an extra ___________ feet because 29,000 exactly seemed suspicious.
What is 2 feet?
How many countries border the United States, and what are they?
What is two, Mexico and Canada?
What stage is missing from the water cycle? Evaporation, ______________, precipitation.
What is condensation?
The world's largest living structure is twelve hundred miles long off the coast of Australia, and is even visible from space. What's it called?
What is The Great Barrier Reef?
What word means "crossing a continent"?
What is transcontinental?
What were the first 10 Amendments collectively known as?
What is the Bill of Rights?
What city was the first to ever have a population top seven digits?
What is Rome?
How is sovereignty best defined?
What is the right to rule?
How many justices are on the Supreme Court?
What is 9?
What's the only state with a one-syllable name?
What is Maine?
What is the world's biggest lake?
What is the Caspian Sea?
Choose the FIVE regions of the United States.
What is the Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, Midwest, and West?
What is defined as "a hill, but with a flat top"?
Mount Chimborazo is located in what South American country?
What is Ecuador?
What did the 15th Amendment to the Constitution do?
What is it gave African-American men the right to vote?
Who were the main members of the Axis alliance during World War Two?
Who was Germany, Italy & Japan?
What is the Japanese name for their country?
What is Nippon?
What is the Legislative Branch split into?
What is the Senate and the House of Representatives?
What are the three branches of government?
What is the name of the longitudinal imaginary line that passes through Greenwich, England?
What is the prime meridian?
What is the size of the Earth in mile?
Must be within 2,000 miles.
Bonus 300 points if you know the exact size.
What is 24,902 miles?
What is the best definition of the word adapt?
What is to change to fit a new set of conditions?
What is defined as an area in which places share similar characteristics?
What is a region?
About how deep is the Mariana Trench?
Must be within 2,000 feet.
What is 36,000 feet?
What war in North America ended in 1763?
What is the French & Indian War?
In what year were the first enslaved people brought over from Africa?
What is 1619?
What is the only country whose flag looks different on the back?
Where is Paraguay?
On what date was the Declaration of Independence approved?
What is July 4th, 1776?
What does E Pluribus Unum mean and why?
What is "Out of Many, One" and it references the many states that came together to form one country?
What is the name of the unscientific organization that does not believe that the Earth is round?
What is the Flat Earth Society?
What is the fear of maps called?
What is cartophobia?
What is the difference between a nonrenewable and a renewable resource?
What is renewable resources will naturally replenish themselves over time, like wind, solar, plants, trees, etc?
Non-renewable will be gone forever once used, like coal, fuel, etc?
Land along rivers is called a _________ _________, formed after a river overflows.
What are flood plains?
The Southern Ocean was not "created" until what year?
Must be within 2 years. Hint: it is within the last 30 years.
What is 2000?
What is the belief that it was Americans’ “clear duty” to expand the nation from coast to coast?
What is Manifest Destiny?
A _____________ is a union of states that agree to cooperate.
What is a confederation?
Missouri is known as The _____________ State.
What is The Show-Me State?
A place where citizens have the power to elect the leaders who make the country's laws and rules is called a __________.
What is a republic?
Which amendment gave women the right to vote?
What is the 19th amendment?
What is the world's oldest surviving republic?
Bonus 400 points: Give the full name.
What is the Most Serene Republic of San Marino?
The death of what British admiral and his fleet led to a prize to solve the problem of longitude?
Who is Sir Cloudesley Shovell?
What is an underground layer of porous rock that holds water called?
What is an aquifer?
How are weather and climate different?
What is weather refers to short term atmospheric conditions while climate is the weather of a specific region averaged over a long period of time?
What super volcano is technically bigger than Mount Everest, and located in Hawaii?
Where is Mauna Kea?
Provide TWO reasons as to why the American colonists decided to rise up against the British leading the American Revolution.
What is they fought the British because of unfair taxes? They fought because they didn't have self-government?
Who was the president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War?
Who was Jefferson Davis?
If a 2007 finding holds, the Amazon River is actually __________ miles longer than the Nile.
Must be within 10 miles.
Bonus 500 points if you can give the exact distance.
What is 93 miles longer?
The sharing and division of power between federal, state and local governments is called ______________.
What is federalism?
How is civics best defined?
What is the study of the rights and responsibilities of citizens?
The Washington Monument became the tallest building in what year?
Must be within 10 years.
What is 1884?