Math
If a train was supposed to arrive at 3:15 pm and arrived 35 minutes late, it arrived at... ?
What is 3:50pm?
This star is the center of our solar System.
What is the sun?
This man wrote the poem that later became the lyrics to “The Star-Spangled Banner.” (National Anthem)
Who is Francis Scott Key?
This novel takes place mostly on a river in Missouri.
What is The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?
What’s the main character in a story called?
Protagonist
How many continents are there?
7
This is the formula for the area of a rectangle.
What is A= LxW
The number of body segments in a typical crustacean.
What is three (Head, thorax, and abdomen) ?
This person built the Great Pyramid of Giza
Who is Pharaoh Khufu
What novel has a deserted island that becomes the setting for a breakdown of civilization.
What is Lord of the Flies?
This is the person, place, thing, or idea that a sentence is about.
What is the subject?
What city is the colosseum in?
Rome
Another name for a 90 degree angle
What is a right angle?
What are the 3 forms of matter
Gas solid liquid
These wars were recorded by Thucydides
What is the Peloponnesian wars?
This Roman leader is warned to “beware the Ides of March.”
Who is Julius Caesar?
If a sentence uses a linking verb, it must have this to describe or rename the subject.
What is a predicate nominative or predicate adjective?
When a writer makes a brief reference to a famous person, story, or event without explaining it, this literary device is being used.
What is an allusion?
What does PEMDAS stand for?
Parenthesis, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction.
Name the four major oceans
Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Artic
This amendment states that powers not given to the federal government belong to the states or the people.
What is the Tenth Amendment?
This epic poem features a hero who battles a monster named Grendel.
What is Beowulf?
These are the words forming the acronym of a LSU Thesis Statement
What is Limited, Specific, and Unified
He wrote the Epic Poem The Illiad
Who is Homer
This is the rounded to the second decimal value of pi.
What is 3.14?
The Brain is a part of this system.
What is the Nervous System
This 1835 battle of the Texas Revolution is famous for the slogan “Come and Take It,” displayed on a flag with a cannon.
What is the Battle of Gonzales?
This curious, imaginative orphan moves to Prince Edward Island and often gets into trouble because of her imagination.
Who is Anne Shirley?
Three trailing dots used at the end of a sentence that indicates something has been omitted from quoted text, or that a speaker or writer has paused or trailed off in speech or thought is called what?
An ellipsis
I was born from Zeus' head.
Who is Athena