Maths
Science
Riddles
Grammar
100
What digit is in the ten thousands place?
4,392,865
9
100
All matter is made of _______.
atoms
100
You can see me in water, but I never get wet.
Your reflection.
100
Complete this analogy:
height : inches :: weight : ______
Pounds
200
1,000,000 - 472,689 = ?
527,311
200
You know the three states of matter. Name one process where matter changes from one state to another. (There are many options.)
Four main possibilities are: freezing (from liquid to solid), melting (from solid to liquid), boiling or evaporating (from liquid to gas), condensation (from gas to liquid)
200
When you have me, you feel like sharing me, but if you do share me, you don't have me.
A secret.
200
What is wrong with this sentence?
He walked to the store and buy some milk.
The verb tenses don't agree - walked is past tense and buy is present tense.
300
147 xx 64
9,408
300
What word do we use to describe everything (living and nonliving) that exists in a particular environment?
Ecosystem
300
An English word has six letters. Remove one letter and twelve remains. What is the word?
Dozens
300
Where do the commas go?
I saw a happy fluffy adorable little puppy on my walk home yesterday.
After happy, fluffy, and adorable.
400
Reduce to simplest form:
12/18
2/3
400
The tube that carries food to the stomach.
Esophagus
400
What question can you never answer "Yes" to?
"Are you asleep?"
400
He walked away from her with a weary sigh. He couldn't stand to leave, but he had to. She watched him go, not sure how to feel.
What narrative voice is being used above?
Third person omniscient
500
432 + 697 + 825
1,954
500
How many centimeters in a meter?
100
500
Three times what number is no larger than two times that same number?
Zero
500
This sentence asserts a claim that the writer intends to prove.
A thesis statement.
600
(12-:4)^2+5xx3-16-:4
20
600
What is volume?
The amount of space something takes up.
600
What invention lets you look right through a wall?
A window.
600
Give an example of a protagonist and an antagonist (not necessarily from the same story).
Answers will vary. Judge will decide.
700
4.2 xx 3.17
13.314
700
What are the three types of rock?
Igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic.
700
What came first, the chicken or the egg?
The egg. Dinosaurs lay eggs long before there were chickens.
700
What is setting?
Where AND when a story takes place.
800
12,964-:14
926
800
Which organ removes waste from the blood?
kidney
800
What tastes better than it smells?
Your tongue.
800
What is the difference between mood and tone?
Tone is the author's attitude towards his/her/their subject. Mood is how the author is trying to make the reader feel.
900
Find the area:
30 ft2
900
What are the three types of -vores? (words that describe what an animal eats)
Omnivore, Carnivore, herbivore
900
What do you throw out when you want to use it, but take in when you don't want to use it?
An anchor.
900
What is theme?
A universal idea, lesson or message explored in a creative work, usually summed up in a single sentence.
1000
Find the volume:
5,124 yd3
1000
Name the tree primary participants in an ecosystem's food chain/web.
Producer, Consumer & Decomposer
1000
Say my name and I disappear. What am I?
Silence
1000
What is an allegory?
A story that is not intended to be taken literally, but is intended to teach a lesson or convey a message.