Stars, Stripes & Bright Ideas
This man served as the first president of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
This planet is closest to the Sun.
What is Mercury?
In the sentence “The dog barked,” this word is the noun.
What is dog?
This city is the capital of Washington State.
What is Olympia?
Halloween is celebrated on this date.
What is October 31?
The Statue of Liberty was a gift from the people of this country.
What is France?
This force keeps your feet on the ground and makes dropped objects fall.
What is gravity?
In the sentence “The bright lantern glowed,” this word is the adjective.
What is bright?
This is the largest ocean basin on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Botanically speaking, a pumpkin is this type of food.
What is a fruit?
These brothers made the first successful powered-airplane flights in 1903.
Who are Wilbur and Orville Wright?
Water vapor changing back into liquid water is called this.
What is condensation?
This word is the past tense of freeze.
What is froze?
A dolphin belongs to this animal class, not the fish family.
What is a mammal?
This green pigment breaks down in leaves during fall.
What is chlorophyll?
This founding document is dated July 4, 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Plants use sunlight to make sugars through this process.
What is photosynthesis?
In the sentence “She answered quickly,” quickly is this part of speech.
What is an adverb?
This is the main language spoken in Brazil.
What is Portuguese?
This is the name for the full moon nearest the start of fall, or the autumnal equinox.
What is the Harvest Moon?
This Founding Father invented the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This feature of Earth—not its distance from the Sun—causes the seasons.
What is Earth’s tilted axis?
This word describes something that is active mainly at night.
What is nocturnal?
It has keys but no locks, a Space bar but no room, and an Enter key but no door.
What is a keyboard?
Before pumpkins became the popular choice, people in Ireland carved this root vegetable into Halloween lanterns.
What are turnips?