Math - NE - Level 1 – In a pet store, 1/2 of the animals are fish, 1/10 are dogs, 1/5are birds, and the remaining six are cats. How many animals are in the store? (Answer: 30 animals)
Math - NE - Level 1 - How many positive factors does 48 have? (Answer: 10 factors)
Math - NE - Level 1 - What is one third of 75% of 240? (Answer: 60)
Math - NE - Level 2 – The third term in an arithmetic sequence is 15 and the fifth term is 23. What is the first term? (Answer: 7)
Math – NE – Level 2 - What is the 20th number in this arithmetic sequence: 2, 5, 8, 11,....? (Answer: 59)
Math - NE - Level 2 - There are 4 quarts in a gallon. One dollar is worth 4.5 krone. A quart of gasoline costs 2 krone. How many dollars does a gallon of gasoline cost? Express your answer rounded to the nearest cent. (Answer: $1.78)
Math – NE – Level 2 - Three people split $18,000 in a ratio of 4:3:2 [4 to 3 to 2]. How much money is the largest share worth? (Answer: $8000)
Math - PR - Level 1 – Fourteen students in Mr. Flynn’s math class were asked to shake hands with each other. Each students shook hands with each of the other students exactly once. How many handshakes occurred in Mr. Flynn’s class? (Answer: 91 handshakes occurred)
Math - PR - Level 1 – A cooler contains 3 bottles of iced tea and 5 bottles of lemonade. If Sadie randomly takes a bottle out of the cooler, what is the probability that it is a bottle of lemonade? Express your answer as a common fraction. (Answer: 5/8)
Math - PR - Level 1 - There are ten NAL teams in a school district. Each team plays each other team twice in the season. What is the total number of NAL games played in this season? (Answer: 90 games)
Math - PR - Level 1 - In Fred's refrigerator there are six bottles of soda, three bottles of juice, and one bottle of water. If Fred randomly takes a bottle out of the refrigerator, what is the probability that it is the bottle of water? Express your answer as a common fraction. (Answer: 1/10)
Math - PR - Level 1 – How many different ways can the letters of the word MOUTH be arranged so that all the vowels are to the left of all the consonants? (Answer: 12 ways)
Math - PR - Level 1 – How many different six-digit numbers can be formed using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 if no digit is repeated in a number? (Answer: 720 numbers)
Math - PR - Level 1 – Winston Churchill’s A History of the English-Speaking Peoples is a four-volume series. If these books were placed on a bookshelf with their spines facing out and the text on the spines right side up, in how many different orders can these four books be placed on the bookshelf? (Answer: 24 orders)
Math - PR - Level 1 – How many different four-digit numbers can be obtained by using any four of the digits 2, 3, 4, 4, and 4? (Answer: 20 numbers)
Math - PR - Level 1 – How many different four-digit numbers can be formed using each of the digits in 1999 exactly once? (Answer: 4 numbers)
Math - PR - Level 1 - Darren's teacher pairs each student with a partner to create exactly 12 pairs of students. Next week, each student will be paired with a different partner. Darren's next partner can only be chosen from how many students? (Answer: 22 students)
Math - PR - Level 1 – In how many distinct ways can five children be seated around a circular merry-go-round which has five identical seats? (Answer: 24 ways)
Math - PR - Level 1 -- A CD player is loaded with 7 CDs. The CD player is then programmed to play the CDs in random order. What is the number of different ways that the compact discs can be played? (Answer: 5040 ways)
Math - PR - Level 1 – How many ways can a group of four people be seated around a square table if Polly insists on always sitting in the same chair? (Answer: 6 ways)
Math - PR - Level 2 – How many different arrangements are possible for 5 keys on a circular key ring? (Answer: 12 arrangements)
Math - PR - Level 2 – A three-digit number is selected at random. What is the probability that none of the three digits is a prime number? Express your answer as a common fraction. (Answer: 1/5)
Math - PR - Level 2 – Two girls and three boys sat in a five-seat row at a movie theater. What is the probability that the two people at each end of the row were both boys or both girls? Express your answer as a common fraction. (Answer: 2/5)
Math – PR- Level 2 - Two standard six-sided dice are rolled once. Determine, as a fraction, the probability that both numbers rolled will be the same. (Answer: 1/6)
Math - PR - Level 2 - Sonya has grown a perfect rose bush. The bush has 24 branches. Each branch has 12 limbs, each limb has 6 twigs, and each twig produces 3 roses. How many roses are on the bush? (Answer: 5184 roses)
Math - WP - Level 1 – At $6.50 per baseball, how much will it cost to buy 1 1/3 dozen? (Answer: $104)
Math - WP - Level 2 - A fish tank weighs 80 pounds when 40% full of water, and it weighs 140 pounds when completely full. How many pounds does the tank weigh when empty? (Answer: 40 pounds)
Science - GS - Level 2 -- A 6-ounce can of tuna has 13 grams of protein. This is 23% of the recommended daily allowance (RDA) based on a 2000-calorie diet. What is the number of grams of protein need to get 100% of the RDA for this diet? Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest tenth. (Answer: 56.5 grams)
Science - LS - Level 1 -- Blue whales typically eat 40 million of which sea creatures each day? (Answer: krill)
Science - PS - Level 1 -- The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second. How many miles per hour is the speed of light? Express your answer in scientific notation to one decimal place. (Answer: 6.7 x 108)
Science - PS - Level 1 -- Which planet has the fastest rotation, where a day lasts slightly less than 10 Earth hours? (Answer: Jupiter)
Sci – GS – Level II – What is the curved surface of water called in a graduated cylinder? (meniscus)
Sci – ES – Level II – List the three types of tectonic plate boundaries. (convergent, divergent, transform)
Sci – ES – Level I – The magnitude of earthquakes is measured by which scale? (Richter scale)
Sci – LS – Level II – What is the difference between biotic and abiotic parts of an ecosystem? (biotic are living, abiotic are nonliving)
Sci – ES – Level I – What is the name of the twice daily rise and fall of the water level in the oceans? (tide)
Sci – ES – Level II – What is the cause of ocean tides? (the gravitational pull of the moon and sun)
Sci – PS – Level II – What is the term used to describe the shortest or longest day of the year? (solstice)
Soc St – UH – Level I – Who is the woman known as the mother of the Civil Rights movement? (Rosa Parks)
Social Studies - EC - Level 1 - How many digits are in a Social Security number? (Answer: 9 digits)
Social Studies - WG - Level 1 - The ancient temple of Angkor Wat appears on which Asian country’s flag? (Answer: Cambodia)
Social Studies - WH - Level 1 - The ruins of the Minoan capital of Knossos can be found on which Mediterranean island? (Answer: Crete)
Social Studies - WH - Level 2 - After being a monarchy for two centuries, which Asian country voted itself a republic in 2008? (Answer: Nepal)
Social Studies – UG – Level 1 – Name the state whose nickname is “The Granite State.” (New Hampshire)
Social Studies – UG – Level 1 – Name the state whose nickname is “The Bluegrass State.”
(Kentucky)
Social Studies – UG – Level 1 – What state’s nickname is “Land of the Purple Sage?” (Wyoming)
Social Studies – UH – Level 1 – What do we call the time period after the Civil War when Congress undertook rebuilding the South? (Reconstruction)
Social Studies -- UH – Level 2 – Who monopolized the making of steel during the Industrial Age? (Andrew Carnegie)
Social Studies – UH – Level 2 – Who monopolized the refining of oil during the Industrial Age? (John D. Rockefeller)
Social Studies – UH – Level 1 – In what state would you find the United States Military Academy at West Point?
(New York)
Social Studies – UH – Level 1 – State the name for the time period when alcohol was illegal. (prohibition)
Social Studies – UH – Level 1 – What state was formerly referred to as Seward’s Folly?
(Alaska)
Social Studies – UH – Level 1 – What event was a 1900 uprising in China against foreign influences? (Boxer Rebellion)
Eng – GR – Level I – Which part of speech is used to show action? (verb)
Eng – LT – Level I – The main rival of a central character in a play or novel is called by what term? (antagonist)
Eng – LT – Level I – The character Rikki-Tikki-Tavi in the short story from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling is what type of animal? (mongoose)
Eng – SP and VC – Level I – Say, spell and define: lenient
(not harsh; inclined to being tolerant)
Eng – SP and VC – Level I – Say, spell and define: phenomenon
(a notable and observable fact or event which is extraordinary or marvelous)
Eng – GR – Level I – What are the three punctuation marks used to close a sentence? (period, question mark, exclamation point)