Hundred Dollar Questions
Jeopardy
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A B C D E
$100
What is the biggest country in the world?
Answer: Russia
What is the smallest
country in the world?
$200
Answer: Vatican city
What is the tallest building in the world?
$300
Answer: The Burj Khalifa
What is the oldest country in the world?
$400
Answer: Republic of San Marino.
By many accounts, the Republic of San Marino, one of the world's smallest countries, is also the world's oldest country. The tiny country that is completely landlocked by Italy was founded on September 3rd in the year 301 BCE
Which is faster; a lion or a tiger?
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Answer: The tiger runs between 30–40 miles an hour, while lions top out at up to 50 miles an hour. Neither has much stamina for running, but the lion can run farther.
Which is stronger; a grizzly bear or a polar bear?
$200
Answer: Pound for pound, the Polar bear is much stronger than the Grizzly bear. Since Polar bears are carnivores, they regularly have to take down prey ranging from Moose that are lighter than them to Seals and even Belugas whales which can weigh almost a ton and a half or 1400kg.
Which has a longer lifespan; a Galápagos tortoise or a blue whale?
$300
Answer:
Galapagos tortoise: 150 years.
Blue Whales: 80-90 years
Which metal has the highest metling point; Steel or Tungsten?
$400
Answer:
Tungsten: 3,422 °C�Steel: 1300-1500 °C
Which is less dense; the moon or Pluto?
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Answer:
The moon: 3.34 g/cm³
Pluto: 1.88 g/cm³
Which planet is the second closest to the sun?
$200
Answer: Venus
What is the name of the deepest part of the ocean?
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Answer: The Mariana Trench or Marianas Trench is located in the western Pacific Ocean about 200 kilometres east of the Mariana Islands; it is the deepest oceanic trench on Earth. It is crescent-shaped and measures about 2,550 km in length and 69 km in width.
Which building was the
tallest building in the world, for the longest amount of time?
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Answer: The earliest structures now known to be the tallest in the world were the Egyptian pyramids, with the Great Pyramid of Giza, at an original height of 146.5 metres (481 ft), being the tallest man-made structure in the world for over 3,800 years, until the construction of Lincoln Cathedral in 1311.
$100
Which is the densest planet in our solar system?
Answer: Earth
What is the most common element on Earth?
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Answer: Oxygen
What is the least common (naturally occurring) element on Earth?
$300
Answer: Astatine
What is the name of the most active volcano on Earth?
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Answer: Mt Etna
I shave every day, but my beard doesn't get shorter. What am I?
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Answer: A barber / A razor
What gets wetter as it dries?
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Answer: A towel
I’m tallest when I'm born, shorter when I’m young, and shortest when I’m old. What am I?
$300
Answer: A candle
The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
$400
Answer: Darkness