History
The names of the mythical twin brothers who were raised by a wolf. One would go on to found a great city on 7 hills.
Romulus and Remus.
Class of animal that live part of their lives in water and part on land. Name means “living in two places.”
Amphibians.
What is the name of the main character in The Chocolate Touch?
Name the 4 kinds of sentences.
Declarative, Interrogative, Exclamatory, and Imperative.
Complete the next line:
How doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining hour,
And gather honey all the day
From every opening flower!
The 3 classes or social levels in Roman society.
Patricians, plebeians, and slaves.
A type of mirror whose reflective side bends inward. The reflected image may be right side up, upside down, bigger, or smaller.
Concave mirror.
Almanzo and his family live on a farm in which state?
New York.
Name the 8 parts of speech.
Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions, interjections.
Complete the next line:
There was very little for them to eat,
Nothing special and nothing sweet;
Only bread and a little broth,
And a bit of fruit (and no tablecloth):
A wicked Roman emperor. A section of Rome burned during his reign. People believed he did it.
Nero.
Name the galaxy nearest to our own galaxy.
Andromeda Galaxy
What is the goblins' weakness in The Princess and the Goblin?
Their feet.
What are the 3 relative pronouns?
Who, which, that.
Complete the next line:
As the dawn was breaking the Sambhur belled
Once, twice, and again!
And a wolf stole back—and a wolf stole back
To carry the word to the waiting Pack;
And we sought and we found and we bayed on his track
Once, twice, and again!
Name the 13 original colonies.
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia.
A famous comet named for an English astronomer who was a friend of Isaac Newton. This comet is visible from Earth every 76 years, when it visits the inner solar system.
Halley's Comet.
What is the name of the mongoose who protects a family from the snakes in the garden in The Jungle Book?
Rikki-tikki-tavi
Define a clause.
A clause is a group of words behaving as one part of speech and containing a subject and a predicate.
Complete the next line:
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
Searched for El Dorado/7 Cities of Cibola, a city of gold but instead found 7 little mud villages.
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
Name the 4 parts of the Outer Eye.
Sclera, cornea, iris, pupil.
How many different owners does Black Beauty have throughout his life?
9
List the 47 prepositions.
Aboard, about, above, across, after, against, along, among, around, Before, behind, below, beneath, beside, between, beyond, at, by, Down, during, except, for, from, inside, in, into, near, Of, off, on, out, outside, over, past, since, through, Throughout, to, toward, Under, up, until, Upon, with, within, Without, underneath
Complete the next line:
“Forward, the Light Brigade!”
Was there a man dismayed?
Not though the soldier knew
Someone had blundered.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.