Waterfall Trivia

Waterfall Trivia
Unit 3 – Circles & Spheres

Rules
Questions come in rounds of 5.
Turn in answers after a round.
Each question will be shown for 2 min.
Please use your notes!
Rounds 1 & 2: Questions worth 1-5 points
Rounds 3 & 4: Questions worth 6-10 points
Final round: Wager 1-15 points

Round 1 Question 1

Round 1 Question 2
A 30 year old man married a 25 year old woman. She died at age 50and her husband was so devastated that he cried for years. Tenyears after he stopped crying, he died. If he had lived to be 80,how many years was he a widower?

Round 1 Question 3

Round 1 Question 4
By the fall of 1621 only [what fraction?] of the pilgrims, who had sailed on the Mayflower, survived. The survivors, thankful to be alive, decided to give a thanksgiving feast.

Round 1 Question 5
Your answer MUST include why.

End of Round 1
Q1 answer: 120
Q2 answer: 25 years
Q3 answer: 4
Q4 answer: ½
Q5 answer: A, is tangent because the Pythagorean Theorem holds

Round 2 Question 1

Round 2 Question 2
In what month is Thanksgiving celebrated in Canada?

Round 2 Question 3

Round 2 Question 4
What is at the beginning of eternity, the end of time, the beginning of every end, and the end of every place?

Round 2 Question 5

End of Round 2
Q1 answer: ML = 40, JK = 41
Q2 answer: October
Q3 answer: 5
Q4 answer: the letter “e”
Q5 answer: 4.5

Round 3 Question 1

Round 3 Question 2
A man left a legacy of $10,000 to three relatives and their wives.
Together, the wives received $3960. June received $100 more than Camille, and Martha received $100 more than June. Jack Smith was given just as much as his wife, Horace Saunders got half as much again as his wife, and Terry Conners received twice as much as his wife.
Which wife belongs to which husband?

Round 3 Question 3

Round 3 Question 4
How many turkeys are raised annually in the United States?
(note: your answer must fall within 20% of the correct answer)

Round 3 Question 5

End of Round 3
Q1 answer: 35
Q2 answer: Jack /Camille; Horace Saunders /June; and Terry Connors/Martha.
Q3 answer: 16
Q4 answer: 250 million (200-300 million are acceptable)
Q5 answer: 3

Round 4 Question 1

Round 4 Question 2
Use the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 once only, in this multiplication sum to make it correct.
? ?x ?-------? ? ?

Round 4 Question 3

Round 4 Question 4
If today is Tuesday, what is the day after the day before the day before tomorrow?

Round 4 Question 5

End of Round 4
Q1 answer: 13
Q2 answer: 54x3-----162
Q3 answer: 16.47
Q4 answer: Tuesday
Q5 answer: 140

Round 4 Question 5

Final Round

Final Round Solution
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Waterfall Trivia

by Megan Golding on Nov 23, 2009

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