WASHINGTON MAST ACTUAL PAPER 2026
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
⩥ Who is the founder of Microsoft?
Answer: Bill Gates
⩥ Planets
Answer: A celestical body moving in an ellipitial orbit around a star
⩥ Gravity
Answer: A force of attraction between objects that is due to their masses.
⩥ Prism
Answer: A piece of glass that seperates white light into colors of the
spectrum.
⩥ Primary colors
Answer: red, yellow, blue
⩥ Plane
Answer: Horizontal or flat, level surface
,⩥ 3^3
Answer: 27
⩥ Astronomy
Answer: The scientific study of the universe and the objects in it,
including stars, planets, nebulae, and galaxies.
⩥ Meteorologist
Answer: scientists who study the causes of weather and try to predict it
⩥ Calorie
Answer: A unit of heat used to measure the energy your body uses and
the energy it receives from food
⩥ Atomic number
Answer: the number of protons which determine the chemical properties
of an element and its place in the periodic table.
⩥ Gas
Answer: A state of matter with no definite shape or volume
⩥ 3 states of matter
Answer: solid, liquid, gas
,⩥ Meter
Answer: What is the metric unit for length?
⩥ Planets with rings?
Answer: Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune
⩥ Aorta
Answer: The largest artery in the body
⩥ Cerebrum
Answer: Largest part of the brain
⩥ Perpendicular
Answer: Intersecting at or forming right angles
⩥ Hypotenuse
Answer: the longest side of a right triangle
⩥ Equilateral
Answer: A triangle that has 3 equal sides.
, ⩥ Eye of hurricane
Answer: the low pressure center of a hurricane
⩥ Hg
Answer: Periodic symbol for mercury
⩥ Stomach
Answer: large muscular sac that continues the mechanical and chemical
digestion of food
⩥ The period of one of these objects is proportional to the square root of
its length and independent of its mass. Leon Foucault (lay-awn foo-
KOH) used one to demonstrate the (*) rotation of the earth. For 10
points- that object with a freely swinging mass are sometimes used to
keep time in clocks?
Answer: Pendulums (or pendula; accept simple pendulum, idea
pendulum, or simple gravity pendulum)
⩥ This composer wrote an organ piece titled "Toccata and Fugue in D
Minor" that is often used in horror films. A group of six composition
written by this man was dedicated to the (*) margrave Christian Ludwig
(LOOD-vig). For 10 points- name this German Baroque composer of
"The Brandenburg Concertos" (kahn-"CHAIR"-"toes").
Answer: Johann Sebastian Bach
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
⩥ Who is the founder of Microsoft?
Answer: Bill Gates
⩥ Planets
Answer: A celestical body moving in an ellipitial orbit around a star
⩥ Gravity
Answer: A force of attraction between objects that is due to their masses.
⩥ Prism
Answer: A piece of glass that seperates white light into colors of the
spectrum.
⩥ Primary colors
Answer: red, yellow, blue
⩥ Plane
Answer: Horizontal or flat, level surface
,⩥ 3^3
Answer: 27
⩥ Astronomy
Answer: The scientific study of the universe and the objects in it,
including stars, planets, nebulae, and galaxies.
⩥ Meteorologist
Answer: scientists who study the causes of weather and try to predict it
⩥ Calorie
Answer: A unit of heat used to measure the energy your body uses and
the energy it receives from food
⩥ Atomic number
Answer: the number of protons which determine the chemical properties
of an element and its place in the periodic table.
⩥ Gas
Answer: A state of matter with no definite shape or volume
⩥ 3 states of matter
Answer: solid, liquid, gas
,⩥ Meter
Answer: What is the metric unit for length?
⩥ Planets with rings?
Answer: Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune
⩥ Aorta
Answer: The largest artery in the body
⩥ Cerebrum
Answer: Largest part of the brain
⩥ Perpendicular
Answer: Intersecting at or forming right angles
⩥ Hypotenuse
Answer: the longest side of a right triangle
⩥ Equilateral
Answer: A triangle that has 3 equal sides.
, ⩥ Eye of hurricane
Answer: the low pressure center of a hurricane
⩥ Hg
Answer: Periodic symbol for mercury
⩥ Stomach
Answer: large muscular sac that continues the mechanical and chemical
digestion of food
⩥ The period of one of these objects is proportional to the square root of
its length and independent of its mass. Leon Foucault (lay-awn foo-
KOH) used one to demonstrate the (*) rotation of the earth. For 10
points- that object with a freely swinging mass are sometimes used to
keep time in clocks?
Answer: Pendulums (or pendula; accept simple pendulum, idea
pendulum, or simple gravity pendulum)
⩥ This composer wrote an organ piece titled "Toccata and Fugue in D
Minor" that is often used in horror films. A group of six composition
written by this man was dedicated to the (*) margrave Christian Ludwig
(LOOD-vig). For 10 points- name this German Baroque composer of
"The Brandenburg Concertos" (kahn-"CHAIR"-"toes").
Answer: Johann Sebastian Bach
