Literature
History
Science
ELA
Math
100
This is how much Billy paid for his two dogs together in Where the Red Fern Grows.
What is $40?
100
The creation myth of this Pre-Columbian culture of the Yucatan peninsula held that people were originally formed from corn.
Who were the Mayans?
100
This huge nuclear-powered sphere is the ultimate source for energy in nearly all ecosystems on earth.
The sun.
100
Fill in Lincoln's missing words below:
We cannot ______________________ this ground
We cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground
100
This is the type of angle shown below:
acute angle
200
This is what NIMH stands for in Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.
What is the National Institute of Mental Health?
200
Even though he was killed halfway into the voyage, this explorer gets credit for being the first to circumnavigate the globe.
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
200
This planet is the largest in the solar system.
What is Jupiter?
200
What literacy device is seen in the sentence below:
"Oh so slowly, sensational summer sends salutations to the serious students."
What is alliteration?
200
Write this number:
Three billion, six hundred five million, four hundred eighty two thousand, twenty one
3,605,482,021
300
What type of bird is Frightful in My Side of the Mountain.
A Peregrine Falcon
300
Bankrolled by his famous family, he was a major patron of Renaissance artists and founder of an art school which taught many famous painters and sculptors, including Michelangelo.
Who was Lorenzo de Medici aka Lorenzo the Magnificent?
300
This small gland is the size of a pea, located in your brain, and works to control the other glands in your body.
What is the Pituitary gland?
300
This famous English poet wrote and illustrated a poem that begins "I was angry with my friend; I told my wrath, my wrath did end."
Who is William Blake?
300
This quadrilateral is made up of two pairs of parallel sides.
What is a parallelogram?
400
This woman was Mary Lennox's nanny who dies of cholera in India.
Who is Ayah?
400
What year was gold discovered in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains?
When was 1848?
400
This is the formula for photosynthesis:
______ +_______+ ________ → glucose + ________
What is H2O + CO2 + Sunlight → Glucose + O2?
400
We memorized this poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
The Arrow and the Song
400
This is name of the triangle shown below:
What is a scalene triangle?
500
These are the two men to whom Nat Bowditch was Indentured.
Who are Mr. Ropes and Mr. Hodges?
500
This general received his nickname by leading a steadfast defense of the Confederate line during the First Battle of Bull Run.
Who was Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson?
500
When discussing air pollution, AQI stands for this.
What is Air Quality Index?
500
This is the literary device Billy uses here when describing his dogs:
"I told him dynamite came in little packages"
What is a metaphor?
500
Which number will come next in this Fibonacci sequence?
1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,____
1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34. Each number is the sum of two numbers before it.
1+1=2
1+2=3
2+3=5
5+3=8
5+8=13
8+13=21
13+21=34