The is the fourth planet from the sun and known as the "red planet."
What is Mars.
The number of sides in a triangle.
What is three?
This Italian explorer thought he landed in India when he found "the new world."
Who is Christopher Columbus.
In grammar, this is a person, place or thing.
What is a noun?
This federal holiday celebrates the news of the Emancipation Proclamation reaching the enslaved people in Texas.
What is Juneteenth? (June 19th)
This species of animal gives birth and provides milk for its young.
What is a mammal.
This word means the total length around a circle.
What is circumference?
This abolitionist and former slave wrote The North Star magazine.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This is the language that many English and Spanish "root" words come from.
What is Latin?
This virtue means giving to others who are in need.
What is charity?
This field of science is the study of rock.
What is geology.
What is a prime number?
This historical document is the "rulebook" for running the U.S. government.
What is the Constitution?
This genre is based on actual events in history from the perspectives of made-up characters.
What is historical fiction?
This patron saint is known for their love of nature and their vow of poverty.
Who is St. Francis of Assisi?
This is a physical change where water turns to water vapor.
What is evaporation.
This is the number of seconds in an hour.
What is 3600? (60 x 60)
This Civil War hero was a Union Army general who became the eighteenth president of the United States.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This is another word for the author's overall message of a story.
This apostle of Jesus became the first bishop of Rome, what we call the Pope.
Who is Peter?
This is the boiling point of water.
What is 212 degrees Fahrenheit?
This is name for the number that appears most in a series.
What is the mode?
This Shoshone girl helped Lewis and Clark explore the uncharted Northwest Territory and find a route to the Pacific Ocean.
Who is Sacagawea?
This literary device is a direct comparison, as in the statement "Life is a beach."
What is metaphor?
This phrase from the Declaration of Independence represents the core belief of the American people.
What is "All men are created equal."