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• Question 1 out of 10

  Before erasers were invented, what was commonly used to get rid of pencil marks?

  Cotton swab

  Dried glue

  Bread

  Tablets of wax

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• Question 2 out of 10

  When was the first public school founded in the United States?

  April 23, 1635

  December 9, 1952

  October 12, 1492

  May 14, 1607

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• Question 3 out of 10

  Which state has the largest transit system for school buses?

  California

  Texas

  New York

  Georgia

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• Question 4 out of 10

  The original Crayola Crayons originally came with how many crayons in a box?

  12

  8

  4

  24

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• Question 5 out of 10

  How many words can the average pencil write?

  55,000 words

  70,000 words

  45,000 words

  90,000 words

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• Question 6 out of 10

  What is considered to be the hardest subject in high school?

  Trigonometry

  Physics

  English

  Global History

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• Question 7 out of 10

  Where did the tradition of giving a teacher an apple come from?

  Denmark

  Panama

  China

  Austria

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• Question 8 out of 10

  What percentage of Americans had high school diplomas in 1910?

  25%

  6%

  18%

  9%

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• Question 9 out of 10

  School buses have been around since 1915 (as long as the automobile), but the official color of bright yellow wasn’t adopted until what year?

  1942

  1939

  1961

  1952

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• Question 10 out of 10

  Five of the fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence graduated from the oldest public school in the US. Who were they?

  Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, and William Whipple

  Thomas Jefferson, John Penn, Francis Lewis, Samuel Adams, and William Floyd

  Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, Lewis Morris, John Adams, and William Hopper

  Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Robert Treat Paine, Samuel Adams, and William Hopper

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