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Waukee Trivia
100

What is the smallest unit of life?

The cell

100

What does HTML stand for?

Hypertext Markup Language

100

What field of engineering would help design/plan bridges?

Civil or Construction Engineering

100

What is the Pythagorean Theorem?

(Give the formula)

a2 + b2 = c2

100

What are the mascots for the two high schools in the district?

Northwest Wolves and Waukee Warriors

200

What is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature?

Mercury

200

What does RAM stand for?

Random Access Memory

200

What type of engineering helps convert raw materials into useful products? 

Chemical engineering

200

What is the measurement of angle 1?

115 degrees

200

What does the WILC stand for?

Waukee Innovation and Learning Center

300

What are the names of all the planets in our solar system?

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

300

Where was the first digital computer made?

Iowa State University (Go Cyclones!)

Name: Atanasoff-Berry Computer

300

What field of engineering helps create medical devices?

Biomedical engineering

300

Solve 3x2 - 7x - 6 for x (hint: there will be 2 answers)

X = 3, -2/3

300

How many elementary schools are currently open in the district?

10

400

What cell organelle is responsible for the production of proteins?

Ribosomes

400

When was the first iPhone released? Day, Month, Year

Team closet to the date gets the points

June 29th, 2007

400

What type of engineering works with power producing machines?

Mechanical/electrical/aerospace engineering

400

Casey buys a bracelet. She pays for the bracelet and pays $0.72 in sales tax. The sales tax rate is 6%. What was the original cost of the bracelet before tax?

$12


400

What was the population of Waukee according to the US Census in 2020? (Closest team gets the points)

23,940

500

What is Newton's Third Law?

For every force, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Ex. the force of a book on a table is equal to the force of the table on the book (when both are at rest)

500

How many gigabytes are in a terabyte?

1,024 gigabytes (exact)

500

What field of engineering deals with supply chain management?

Industrial Engineering

500

A bag contains 12 red marbles, 5 yellow marbles, and 15 green marbles. How many additional red marbles must be added to the 32 marbles already in the bag so that the probability of randomly drawing a red marble is 3/5?

18 red marbles


500

What was the name of the coal mine that used to operate in Waukee?

Shuler Coal Mine