History
Who invented the light bulb in 1879?
Thomas Edison
What is the term for a word that is similar in meaning to another word?
Synonym
What country is Paris the capital of?
France
What is the biggest organ in the human body?
The liver
You peer through a window into a classroom and count 20 eyes. If each person has a normal number of eyes, how many people are in the room?
10
What are the first ten amendments to the constitution called?
The Bill of Rights
What are the comparative and superlative forms of the word "big"?
bigger and bigest
To travel from New York to London, one must fly over which ocean?
Atlantic
What gas do plants breathe in that humans and animals breathe out?
Carbon dioxide
On a class field trip, there are 4 buses taking 36 students to the zoo. If each bus has the same number, how many students are on each bus?
9 students on each bus
What is Rosa Parks most famous for?
Refusing to give up her seat in the front of the bus
The main series of events in a story is called a what?
Plot
On what continent is the country of Greece located?
Europe
The process by which plants eat and make energy is called what?
Photosynthesis
If a shopping cart contains 1 apple, 2 bananas, 3 oranges and 4 hot dogs, what percent of the cart's total content is fruit?
60%
Who wrote the national anthem of the United States of America?
Francis Scott Key
What type of word is "truthfully"?
Adverb
The United States and Mexico are separated by which river?
The Rio Grande
What planet is nicknamed the "Red Planet"?
Mars
A farmer notices that every day for the past 10 days, the number of pigeons in his field has doubled. There are 1024 pigeons in the field today and there were 2 pigeons there the first day? How many pigeons were there yesterday?
512
In which decade did Hong Kong revert from British rule?
1990s (1997)
Who is the most famous English playwright?
William Shakespeare
Imaginary lines traversing the globe from pole to pole are called what?
Meridians
What species can live on both water and land?
Amphibians
Solve the following equation:
(2*4)/(5+3+1)0
8