The document provides a series of trivia questions and answers across 5 topics: Potpourri, Chemistry, Math, Social Studies, and Literature. Each section has 5 multiple choice questions ranging in difficulty from 200 to 1000 points. The questions cover a variety of factual information such as the largest Great Lake, chemical elements, famous authors, mathematical formulas, and more.

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2. Basic Knowledge
Potpourri Chemistry Math Social Studies Literature
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3. Potpourri: 200
• Question:
• The bottom of the food chain that contains
the most energy.
• Answer
• What are producers?

4. Potpourri: 400
• Question:
• 1/2bh
• Answer
• What is the area of a triangle?

5. Potpourri: 600
• Question:
• The world’s largest known mammal.
• Answer
• What is the Blue Whale?

6. Potpourri: 800
• Question:
• Often called England’s national poet.
• Answer
• Who is William Shakespeare?

7. Potpourri: 1000
• Question:
• God of music, healing, plague, prophecies,
poetry, and archery.
• Answer
• Who is Apollo?

8. Chemistry: 200
• Question:
• Most common element. Abbreviated C.
• Answer
• What is Carbon.

9. Chemistry: 400
• Question:
• The oxidation of metal results in this element.
• Answer
• What is rust?

10. Chemistry: 600
• Question:
• Protons + Neutrons
• Answer
• What is atomic mass?

11. Chemistry: 800
• Question:
• This type of bond forms when an atom gains
or loses an electron
• Answer
• What is an ionic bond?

12. Chemistry: 1000
• Question:
• 6.02 x 1023 represents
• Answer
• What is a mole?

13. Math: 200
• Question:
• The equation length x width x height
• Answer
• What is volume?

14. Math: 400
• Question:
• Pythagorean Theorem
• Answer
• a2 + b2 = c2

15. Math: 600
• Question:
• 3.14 represents
• Answer
• Pi

16. Math: 800
• Question:
• branch of mathematics which investigates the
relations, properties, and measurement of
solids, surfaces, lines, and angles
• Answer
• What is geometry?

17. Math: 1000
• Question:
• branch of mathematics concerning the study
of structures, relation and quantity
• Answer
• What is algebra?

18. Social Studies:
200
• Question:
• Largest of the Great Lakes
• Answer
• What is Lake Superior?

19. Social Studies:
400
• Question:
• Gives the location of a place on earth North or
South of the equator.
• Answer
• What is latitude?

20. Social Studies:
600
• Question:
• The American Revolution began in this year.
• Answer
• What is 1775?

21. Social Studies:
800
• Question:
• Last state to abolish slavery.
• Answer
• What is Mississippi? (1995)

22. Social Studies:
1000
• Question:
• Allows for women’s suffrage.
• Answer
• What is the 19th Amendment?

23. Literature: 200
• Question:
• Wrote Little House on the Prairie.
• Answer
• Who is Laura Ingalls Wilder

24. Literature: 400
• Question:
• Famous Harlem Renaissance writer.
• Answer
• Who is Langston Hughes?

25. Literature: 600
• Question:
• Any word that imitates or suggests the source
of the sound it describes.
• Answer
• What is onomatopoeia?

26. Literature: 800
• Question:
• Japanese poetry consisting of only 17
syllables.
• Answer
• What is haiku?

27. Literature: 1000
• Question:
• Samuel Langhorne Clemens
• Answer
• Who is Mark Twain?