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100

This is the type of syllable represented by the word “play.”

What is an open syllable?

100

These are the parts of a plant.

What are Roots, stems, flowers, and seeds? 

100

Put the following numbers in order from least to greatest

8.91

8.03

8.9 

8.1

8.350

8.43

What is 8.03, 8.1, 8.350, 8.43, 8.9, 8.91?

100

This is the literary device in which an object or idea represents something deeper.

What is symbolism?

100

What really "frosts" the office staff?

What are frivolous requests for ice packs?

200

This is the number of syllables in the name “Pinocchio,” and these are the syllables.

What is four? 

What is pin-o-chi-o?

200

This Supreme Court case overturned the doctrine of “separate but equal” in 1954.

What is Brown vs Board of Education

200

These are three (or all five for bonus points) tribes that were moved from their land as a result of the Indian Removal Act of 1830.

What are the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Seminole, Creek tribes?

200

This is the basic building block of all matter.

What is an atom?

200

This Jewish holiday is the most observed by families in America.

What is Passover?

300

A favorite "Letter Story" among kindergartners is about this sneaky letter who sneaks and uses the sounds of Ee and Ii when in the middle or at the end of a word, instead of its own.

What is the Sneaky Yy?

300

This characteristic defines a biome as a desert.

What is less than 10 inches of rainfall annually

300

This is the number of bones in the adult human body.

What is 206 bones?

300

This President was the first not from Massachusetts or Virginia.

Who was Andrew Jackson?

300

This year’s gala honorees include a power couple, a community hero, and enough badges to fill a squad car.

Who are Fran and Harvey Cantor, Scott Biondo, and the Creve Coeur Police?

400

This is an example of a glued sound.

What are ng or nk?

400

These are the names and meanings of the symbols (˘) and (¯).

What are Breve= short vowel, Macron= long vowel?

400

A square foot of wall space needs ⅛ qt of paint. Katie has 7 quarts of paint. She uses 2 quarts of it to paint a pipe. How many square feet of wall can she paint with the remaining paint?


What is 40 square feet?

400

This is the formula for the equation of a line.

What is y=mx+b?

400

This is the term for three colors that are next to each other on the color wheel.

What is Analogous?

500

This is the number of individual sounds in the English language.

What is 44?

500

These are five pollinators found in the state of Missouri.

What are Bees, hummingbirds, bats, butterflies, and moths?

500

This is another name for the Corps of Discovery.

What is the Lewis and Clark Expedition?

500

This is the term for the required time period when land rests and debts are forgiven.

What is Shmita?

500

This Israeli prime minister was assassinated, and this is the year it occurred.

Who is Yitzchak Rabin in 1995?