Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?

Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? (Math)

100

What is the answer to a division problem called? 

The Quotient 

200

What place value is the digit 7 in in the following number? 1.0870

Thousandths Place

300

What is the difference between an isosceles and a scalene triangle?

Isosceles has 2 congruent sides and a scalene has no congruent sides

400

Put in order from smallest to largest forms of measurement in the metric system: centimeter, kilometer, dekameter, millimeter

millimeter, centimeter, dekameter, kilometer

500

What is 122/11 in simplest form?

11 1/11

Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?

100

How many feet in 1 yard?

3

200

Name 5 states and their capital.

Alabama- Montgomery

Alaska- Juneau 

Arizona- Phoenix 

Arkansas- Little Rock 

California- Sacramento 

Colorado- Denver

 Connecticut- Hartford

Delaware- Dover

Florida- Tallahassee 

Georgia- Atlanta

Hawaii- Honolulu

Idaho- Boise

Illinois- Springfield

Indiana- Indianapolis

Iowa- Des Moines

Kansas- Topeka

Kentucky- Frankfort

Louisiana- Baton Rouge

Maine- Augusta

Maryland- Annapolis

Massachusetts- Boston

Michigan- Lansing

Minnesota- Saint Paul

Mississippi- Jackson

Missouri- Jefferson City

Montana- Helena

Nebraska- Lincoln

Nevada- Carson City

New Hampshire- Concord 

New Jersey- Trenton

New Mexico- Santa Fe

New York- Albany

North Carolina- Raleigh

North Dakota- Bismarck

Ohio- Columbus

Oklahoma- Oklahoma City

Oregon- Salem

Pennsylvania- Harrisburg

Rhode Island- Providence

South Carolina- Columbia

South Dakota- Pierre

Tennessee- Nashville

Texas- Austin

Utah- Salt Lake City

Vermont- Montpelier

Virginia- Richmond

Washington- Olympia

West Virginia- Charleston

Wisconsin- Madison

Wyoming- Cheyenne

300

What are parallel lines?

Lines that go in the same direction but never touch

400

What are perpendicular lines?

Lines that intersect at 90 degrees

500

Which is not a quadrilateral?

A. Square

B. Rectangle

C. Triangle

C. Triangle

Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?

100

Describe the difference between a food web and a food chain.

A food chain is only connected to one organism. A food web is how multiple food chains impact each other and cross between organisms.

200

What does the exponent tell us?

How many times we multiply a number by itelf.

300

What is an obtuse angle?

An angle that measures greater than 90 degrees. 

400

True or False: The angles in an obtuse triangle are all greater than 90 degrees.

False, only one is.

500

What does PEMDAS stand for? In which order do we solve PEMDAS?

Parenthesis, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction.

Left --> Right

Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?

100

What is a theme?

The moral/lesson of the story

200

Describe the difference between a homophone and a homograph

A homophone sounds the same and a homograph is spelled differently

300

What is the syllable pattern for a Haiku Poem?

5-7-5

400

What does the greek root "scrip/script" mean?

To Write

500

Which season has the longest shadows?

Winter 

Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader (Reading)

100

Which genre is about a person's life and written by that person?

A. Fiction

B. Biography

C. Autobiography

C. Autobiography 

200

Which word is spelled incorrectly?

A. Onomatopoeia

B. Saxophone

C. Apprecciate

D. Guarantee 

C. Apprecciate

Appreciate

300

What is an alliteration?

A type of figurative language where all words begin with the same sound.

400

What is Man vs. Nature? Give an example.

When a character has conflict with a force of nature such as weather.

Into the Wild

500

What is the difference between an adjective and an adverb?

An adjective describes a noun and an adverb describes a verb.