Which is an idiom?
a) Barney bought better butter.
b) You drive me up a wall!
c) This is the ugliest carpet in the universe.
b) You drive me up a wall!
100
In what year did California become a state?
1850
100
Which Spanish explorer is best known for searching for the fountain of youth?
Juan Ponce de Leon
100
Who is the author of the Wayside School series of books that are popular with 4th and 5th graders?
Louis Sachar
100
Is 21 a prime or composite number?
composite
200
In the word transportation, what is the root word?
-port
200
Where was the gold discovered that started the California Gold Rush?
Sutters Mill on the American River
200
Who was involved in the French and Indian War (the two sides)?
French with their Indian allies vs. British and their Indian allies
200
How many books are in the Harry Potter series?
seven
200
What is the simplest form of the fraction 12/30?
2/5
300
Which sentence uses the correct form of their/there/they're?
a) They're are no cookies left!
b) Their are no cookies left!
c) There are no cookies left!
c) There are no cookies left!
300
Who was known as "the father of the missions?"
Junipero Serra
300
What kind of economic system was prevalent in the Middle Colonies?
free market economy
300
Which popular historical fiction book about the gold rush features Jack Flagg and his butler Praiseworthy?
By the Great Horn Spoon
300
How many vertices does a triangular prism have?
6
400
Which is an example of onomatopoeia?
a) oink oink
b) messy as a pig
c) wallowing in mud
a) oink oink
400
Who rounded up the funding to finance the building of the transcontinental railroad?
Theodore Judah
400
What was the main reason the British Parliament imposed the Sugar Act and Stamp Act on the colonies?
To help pay the debt from the French and Indian war
400
Why did Old Yeller die at the end of the book Old Yeller?
He was in a fight with an animal that had hydrophobia, so he had to be shot to prevent contamination.
400
How would you read the following decimal using correct place value notation? 3.09178
three and nine thousand one hundred seventy- eight hundred thousandths
500
Which contains a plural pronoun, and which word is it?
a) Why don't you help out?
b) When will they get here?
c) How will Bob and Helen travel?
b) they
500
Which California Indian group lived along the coastal region of present-day Los Angeles?
Chumash
500
Who said, "Give me liberty or give me death!"
Patrick Henry
500
What is the setting of the book Fever 1793 (about a young girl involved in the yellow fever epidemic)?