Mathematics:

1. In mathematics, what is the name for a number that is not a prime number and has more
than two factors? Composite number
2. Lebron has a collection of 3 tennis balls, which are stored in a cylindrical container. Each

ball has a radius of 2π. Find the volume of air inside the cylindrical container. Answer
should be in decimal form, rounded off to 2 decimal places. 27.33πr^3
3. What is the total angle for a polygon which has a total of 24 sides? 3960 degrees
4. What do you call a polygon with infinite sides? Apeirogon
5. Bernard throwed a basketball up in the air. Determine the position of the rocm after 3
seconds after it was thrown. If its initial velocity is 14 m/s. Assume g = 9.8 m/s^2. 12.6
meters

General Information:
1. Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental
protection. What year was Earth Day first celebrated? 1970
2. In the United Kingdom, what is the day after Christmas known as? Boxing Day
3. What is the meaning of "fn" on your computer keyboard? Answer: Function
4. What is the long-standing nickname for IBM? Answer: "Big Blue"
5. Who owns Venmo? Answer: PayPal
6. What was Mac's first web browser? Answer: Samba
7. What year was eBay founded? Answer: 1995
8. What is the best-selling video game franchise? Answer: Mario
9. Who sent the world's first text message? Answer: Neil Papworth
10. What does Yahoo stand for? Answer: Yet Another Hierarchically Officious Oracle
11. What inspired the name for the iPod? Answer: the EVA Pod (ePod) in "2001: A Space
Odyssey"
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Pop Culture:
1. Cillian Murphy plays a 1900s mob boss in Birmingham, England in which streaming
series? "Peaky Blinders"
 2. What notable astronomer penned the 1980 best-selling book "Cosmos?" Answer: Carl
Sagan
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Literature:
1. The women in Amy Tan’s “Joy Luck Club” meet to play what game? Answer: Mahjong
2. "The Da Vinci Code" opens with a murder in which famous museum? Answer: The
Louvre
3. Which horror author penned the apocalyptic novel "The Stand"? Answer: Stephen King
4. Which book about a band of rabbits became a bestseller in 1972? Answer: "Watership
Down"
5. What was the original title of Ray Bradbury’s "Fahrenheit 451"? Answer: "The
Fireman"
6. The classic 1877 novel "Black Beauty" is about what kind of animal? Answer: Horse
7. Who was the first author to use a "typemachine" or typewriter in writing a manuscript?
Answer: Mark Twain
8. What 1988 book by Salman Rushdie is considered blasphemous by many Muslim
countries? Answer: "The Satanic Verses"
9. Which mystery writer holds the Guinness World Record for the most translated works?
Answer: Agatha Christie
10. What book holds the record for the fastest selling book in history? Answer: "Harry
Potter and the Deathly Hallows"
11. Who wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird"? Answer: Harper Lee
12. What 1949 science fiction book by author George Orwell describes a dystopian world in
the future? Answer: "1984"
13. What's the name of the pig in the book "Charlotte's Web"? Answer: Wilbur
14. "Call me Ishmael" is the first line from what classic novel? Answer: "Moby Dick"
15. What Charles Dickens novel begins with the sentence, "It was the best of times, it was
the worst of times"? Answer: "A Tale of Two Cities"
16. What is the name of the vampire in the 1976 Anne Rice novel "Interview With a
Vampire"? Answer: Louis de Pointe du Lac
17. What popular young adult book series sends "tributes" to participate in a televised
competition in which they fight to the death? Answer: "The Hunger Games"
 18. In the book "Pride and Prejudice," who is Elizabeth Bennet in love with? Answer: Mr.
Darcy
19. Who wrote "Flowers in the Attic"? Answer: V.C. Andrews
20. Jacob Black is a character in what Stephenie Meyer book series? Answer: "Twilight"
21. What Nicholas Sparks book about a young socialite and her long-time crush was made
into a movie starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams? Answer: "The Notebook"
22. In one of the most popular Dr. Seuss books, what won't Sam-I-Am eat? Answer: Green
eggs and ham

World History:
1. What U.S. woman was appointed as the first woman Speaker of the House? Answer:
Nancy Pelosi
2. Which American financier was convicted of running the largest Ponzi scheme in U.S.
history? Answer: Bernie Madoff
3. What year did World War I begin? Answer: 1914
4. What is the name of the first permanent English settlement in North America? Answer:
Jamestown
5. How old was Queen Elizabeth II when she was crowned the Queen of England?
Answer: 27
6. What was the first message sent by morse code? Answer: “What hath God
wrought?”
7. What president was a licensed bartender? Answer: Abraham Lincoln
8. Who was the first president to visit all 50 states? Answer: Richard Nixon
9. What year was Kodak founded? Answer: 1892
10. What inspired the creation of Google images? Answer: Jennifer Lopez’s dress at the
2000 Grammys
11. What year was the first Barbie doll released? Answer: 1959
12. How long was the first Thanksgiving? Answer: Three days
13. Which U.S. President was a law professor? Answer: Bill Clinton
14. Who was the youngest U.S. president? Answer: Theodore Roosevelt
15. When was the first iPod released? Answer: 2001
Earth science:
1. What is the instrument used to measure solar radiation? Pyranometer
2. What is the instrument used to measure humidity? Hygrometer
3. What is the term labeled for the southwest monsoon, characterized by frequent heavy
rainfall? Habagat
4. What is the angle at which the Earth is titled? 23.5 degrees
5. The time it takes for Earth to rotate to its axis with respect to the “fixed stars”, what is this
term called? Sidereal Day

Biology:
1. This is where the chlorophyll is found and the sight for the process of light reactions of
photosynthesis to happen? thylakoid

2. Give the chemical formula for photosynthesis. 6CO2+6H2O→C6H12O6+6O2.

3. Give the chemical formula for cellular respiration

C6H12O6 +6 O2 ——>6 CO2+ 6 H2O+ATP

4. This is comprised of a series of enzymatic reactions that transfer electrons within the
inner membrane of the mitochondria to form a gradient of protons that drives the
creation of ATP. Electron Transport Chain
5. The transport in which the cell engulfs solid particles to enter the cell. Phagocytosis
6. Who was the father of classical genetics? Gregor Johann Mendel
7. What is this law that states that each gamete will get just one of the two gene copies
present in the parent organism and that the gene copies are randomly allocated to the
gametes? Law of Independent Segregation
8. Who was the Father of Taxonomy? Carolus Linnaeus
9. What is this part of the neuron that increases the speed of the signal? Myelin Sheath
10. What is the cell that produces the myelin sheath? Schwann Cell
11. This is the hormone that balances water levels in the blood, what is this hormone?
Vasopressin
12. Which American biologist popularized sociobiology, the study of the genetic basis of the

social behaviour of all animals, including humans? Edward O. Wilson

 13. Which French microbiologist discovered the process of pasteurization? Louis
Pasteur
14. Give the protein synthesis that has a codon translation of GCU GCC GCA GCG.
Alanin (Ala)
15. Give the codon translation of Lysin. AAA AAG
16. Give the codon translation of Threonin. ACU ACC ACA ACG
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Chemistry:
1. Give the electron configuration of Gallium, with its atomic number being 31. 4p1
2. Give the electron configuration of calcium, with its atomic number being 20. 4s2
3. The molar mass of Nitrogen is 14.01. How many grams of Nitrogen is burned when it
releases 2500 kcal of heat? Calculate the amount of Nitrogen based on the chemical
formula, N + O2 -> NO2 + 500 kcal. 70.05 grams of nitrogen
4. Give the equilibrium expression of the chemical equation, 2 C6H5COOH + 15 O2 (g) =
14 CO2 (g) + 6 H2O. [CO2]14 / [O2]15

Physics:
1. Lewis is at an intersection, waiting to merge into the highway. When he had the chance,
he accelerated to 13.6 m/s^2 for 8.9 s. What is the car’s final velocity? 121.04 m/s
2. N