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100

What is the layer that traps heat within our atmosphere?

The Ozone Layer

100

What is the home country of Yoga?

India

100

What do we call an an angle which is greater than 90° and less than 180°?

An obtuse angle

100

Where was Martin Luther King, Jr. born?

Atlanta, Georgia

100

As Starbucks evaluates its environmental footprint, which product is the company trying to phase out?

Disposable cups

200

What flower plant does vanilla flavor come from?

Orchid

200

What is the first document limiting the power of the King in England?

The Magna Carta
200

What is the value of x in 5x=225?

45

200

Martin Luther King was the leader of which organization?

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

200

Claudine Gay resigned this week as the president of which university?

A) Amherst    B) Harvard   C) Stanford

Harvard

300

grass.....bird.....snake.....hawk 

Which is the secondary consumer?

The snake

300

Who is known as the father of Modern Medicine?

Hippocrates

300

How many seconds are in two hours?

7200

300

In 1964, what was Martin Luther King honored with?

The Nobel Peace Prize

300

Which classic video game was finally beaten this week nearly 40 years after its release?

Tetris

A 13-year-old from Oklahoma is believed to be the first human gamer to reach level 157 of Tetris.

400

___________ are small segments of the chromosome that code for a specific traits.

Genes

400

What was the first successful crop exported from America?

Tobacco

400

If a shopping cart contains one apple, two bananas, three oranges, and four hot dogs, what percentage of the shopping cart contains fruit?

60%

400

When Dr. King won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, he was the youngest man to receive the award. How old was he?

35

400

Which automaker recalled more than 112,000 vehicles this week due to a roll-away risk?

Ford

Ford is recalling more than 112,000 F-150 pickup trucks because of a potential axel issue that can be a roll-away risk.

500

All living things contain at least one _____.

Cell

500

What crop did the Cherokee tribe grow 3 kinds of?

Corn

500

What does 3equal?

729

500

Martin Luther King received a Ph.D. from Boston University in what field?

Theology

500

Which two teams — one from the Midwest and the other from the West Coast — will compete in college football’s national championship game next week? 

Alabama     Michigan     Ohio State   

   Oregon     Washington

Michigan and Washington