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100
In literature, this refers to the underlying message or central idea that the writer wants readers to think about.
What is the theme?
100
A runner completes a 5 km training run at a constant speed of 12.5 km/h.
How long does it take them to finish the run?
What is 24 minutes?
100
This process in plants converts sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water into glucose and oxygen.
What is photosynthesis?
100
In politics this is represented by the acronym MMP
What is the Mixed Member Proportional?
100
Played Craig in the recent Hollywood blockbuster, The Wrecking Crew.
200
This part of speech shows the relationship between a noun (or pronoun) and another word, often indicating location, direction, or time, e.g., under, between, during.
What is a preposition?
200
A sports shop advertises 30% off a jacket that originally cost $120.
After the discount, 15% GST is added to the sale price.
What is eighty-four dollars?
200
his law states that force equals mass times acceleration (F = ma).
What is Newton’s Second Law?
200
This is the capital of Peru.
What is Lima?
200
This person scored the second highest individual points total in the NBA this week.
Who is Bam Adebayo?
300
This technique occurs when the audience knows something important that the characters in the story do not know.
What is dramatic irony?
300
A ladder is placed against a wall.
The base of the ladder is 24 m from the wall, and the ladder forms the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle with the ground and wall.
If the ladder is 30 m long, how high up the wall does it reach?
What is eighteen metres?
300
This cell organelle is known as the “powerhouse”, because it produces energy for the cell through respiration
What are mitochondria?
300
This year saw the Russian Revolution, leading to the fall of the Tsar and the rise of the Bolsheviks.
What is 1917?
300
Approximately 20% of the world’s oil passes daily through this strategic waterway, which is only about 21 miles wide at its narrowest point.
What is the Strait of Hormuz?
400
This figure of speech involves deliberate exaggeration for effect, e.g., “I’ve told you a million times!”
What is hyperbole?
400
A cyclist rides 15 km to a training session and returns along the same route.
The trip to training takes 45 minutes, and the return trip takes 45 minutes as well.
What is twenty kilometres per hour? (their average speed for the whole trip)
400
This phrase was yelled out when Archimedes solved the density question of gold while taking a bath
What is "Eureka!"
400
This narrow strait connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates Spain from Morocco.
What is the Strait of Gibraltar?
400
This person was announced as the host of NZs version of Celebrity Tipping Point
Who is Daniel Faitaua?
500
This figure of speech combines contradictory words, e.g., “deafening silence” or “bittersweet.”
What is an oxymoron?
500
A school hires buses for a tournament.
Each bus holds 40 students, but 15 seats must be reserved for staff and equipment on each bus.
If 125 students are travelling, how many students will be on each bus if the load is shared equally across 5 buses?
What is twenty-five students?
500
This type of chemical reaction absorbs energy from its surroundings, causing the temperature of the surroundings to drop.
What is an endothermic reaction?
500
This 15th century Peruvian citadel was not rediscovered until 1911
What is Machu Pichu?
500
The leader of Israel at the centre of world events
Who is Netanyahu?