Buerkle Virtual Trivia Night

Question 1

What is the freezing point of water in both degrees Celsius and degrees Fahrenheit?

Accepted Answer

0 and 32

Question 2

This St. Louis Blues player is the team's all-time leader in points, assists and games played

Accepted Answer

Bernie Federko

Question 3

What is the highest male voice?

Accepted Answer

Tenor

Question 4

The First Thanksgiving was actually created by George Washington to celebrate what hopeful moment in U.S. history?

Accepted Answer

The ratification of the Constitution

Question 5

What is the name given to the most recent Supercontinent?

Accepted Answer

Pangea

Question 6

Which abstract expressionist was known for using the “drip technique”?

Accepted Answer

Jackson Pollock

Question 7

Who was President for the shortest amount of time?

Accepted Answer

David Rice Atchison

Question 8

What is an equivalent fraction to ⅖?

Accepted Answer

4/10

Question 9

How many steps are in a mile?

Accepted Answer

2000

Question 10

Energy from food is called…

Accepted Answer

Calories

Question 11

What instruments are traditionally used in a string quartet?

Accepted Answer

2 violins, a viola, a cello

Question 12

What is this machine or tool called?

Accepted Answer

Iron and Ironing Board

Question 13

Lin-Manuel Miranda is famous for writing and starring in the musical "Hamilton". What was the first musical he wrote?

Accepted Answer

In the Heights

Question 14

What is a coprolite?

Accepted Answer

Fossilized feces

Question 15

What is this machine or tool called?

Accepted Answer

Mitre Saw

Question 16

In what game is “love” a score?

Accepted Answer

Tennis

Question 17

Which person has held a position at Buerkle the longest?

Accepted Answer

Susan Sutton

Question 18

What is this machine or tool called?

Accepted Answer

Standing Mixer

Question 19

What is this machine or tool called?

Accepted Answer

Desktop Computer

Question 20

What is this machine or tool called?

Accepted Answer

Table Saw

Question 21

A type of writing that tries to convince the reader of something is called _______.

Accepted Answer

persuasive

Question 22

In a room you see 2 dogs on a bed, a cat on a table, and 3 birds flying around a chair. How many legs are on the floor?

Accepted Answer

16

Question 23

What is an example of a quadrilateral?

Accepted Answer

Rectangle

Question 24

What animal did the Maya honor that almost became our national symbol?

Accepted Answer

Turkey

Question 25

A Venn diagram is used as a graphic organizer for which text structure?

Accepted Answer

compare/contrast

Question 26

What is this machine or tool called?

Accepted Answer

Cleaning station

Question 27

How many chromosomes do humans have?

Accepted Answer

46

Question 28

A Japanese form of verse that uses 5-7-5 syllables is called a ________.

Accepted Answer

haiku

Question 29

What is the ‘brain’ of a eukaryotic cell?

Accepted Answer

nucleus

Question 30

How many years ago did the Big Bang occur?

Accepted Answer

13.7 billion years

Question 31

During what age of Earth’s Geologic History did the Dinosaurs live

Accepted Answer

Mesozoic

Question 32

What technique in art uses lots of small dots?

Accepted Answer

Pointillism

Question 33

Who was the only President never to be elected (to the Presidency nor Vice-Presidency)?

Accepted Answer

Gerald Ford

Question 34

What utensil was once seen as sacrilegious to Italians?

Accepted Answer

fork

Question 35

Current principal, Jim Kern, began his career in Mehlville doing what?

Accepted Answer

History teacher

Question 36

How long is a marathon?

Accepted Answer

26.2 miles

Question 37

A football team consists of how many players on the field?

Accepted Answer

11

Question 38

A solo is one person performing alone, what do we call three?

Accepted Answer

trio

Question 39

"You're pulling my leg" is an example of an _________.

Accepted Answer

idiom

Question 40

What is the correct term for the top number in a fraction?

Accepted Answer

Numerator

Question 41

What sporting event is held every year on Memorial Day Weekend?

Accepted Answer

Indianapolis 500

Question 42

What modern day condiment was once sold as medicine?

Accepted Answer

Ketchup

Question 43

What is this machine or tool called?

Accepted Answer

Sewing Machine

Question 44

What is the chemical formula for rock salt?

Accepted Answer

NaCl

Question 45

After which principal was the Counseling Center named?

Accepted Answer

Jerry Langsdorf

Question 46

In what year was Oakville, Washington, and Mehlville consolidated into one school district?

Accepted Answer

1951

Question 47

Where is the Mehlville School District’s Facility department located?

Accepted Answer

In the Old Post Hospital building in Jefferson Barracks

Question 48

Stealing the words of other authors is called __________.

Accepted Answer

plagiarism

Question 49

Which Olympian has the most medals in Olympic history?

Accepted Answer

Michael Phelps

Question 50

Which is NOT a State of Matter?

Accepted Answer

Air

Question 51

Words that connect one paragraph to the next and help the text flow are _____ words.

Accepted Answer

transition

Question 52

What unit of time means 1/100th of a second?

Accepted Answer

Jiffy

Question 53

What number is an improper fraction always greater than?

Accepted Answer

1

Question 54

Which European capital city is really two separate cities?

Accepted Answer

Budapest

Question 55

A sentence that goes on and on with out proper punctuation is called a __________.

Accepted Answer

run-on

Question 56

Margaret Buerkle Middle School’s Library is named after which former school principal?

Accepted Answer

Clifford Stratton

Question 57

When is the most celebrated Math Holiday?

Accepted Answer

March 14

Question 58

Which change did NOT happen before Buerkle’s transition from a junior high to a middle school in 2003?

Accepted Answer

The addition of the Industrial Arts room on the bottom floor

Question 59

What is this machine or tool called?

Accepted Answer

Band Saw

Question 60

In what country does its citizens throw a cinnamon birthday party when you turn 25 years old?

Accepted Answer

Denmark

Question 61

John Legend is the first African American EGOT winner -- where is he from?

Accepted Answer

Ohio

Question 62

What famous cartoon couple nickname did principals Arthur Streb and Ross Bullington fondly earn?

Accepted Answer

Rocky and Bullwinkle

Question 63

How old is the Earth and our Solar System?

Accepted Answer

4.6 billion years

Question 64

A comparison using "like" or "as" is called a _____________.

Accepted Answer

simile

Buerkle Virtual Trivia Night

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Buerkle Virtual Trivia Night

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