History
Who was the first President of the United States?
Geogre Washington.
Who was the first dictator of Rome?
Julius Caesar.
What planet do we live on?
Earth.
What is the capital of France?
What do you call the answer to an addition problem?
Sum
What punctuation mark ends an exclamatory sentence?
An Exclamation Mark. (!)
What streaming service is home to "Stranger Things"?
What are the three primary colors?
Red, Yellow, and Blue.
What 1994 film follows a boy whose uncle kills his father to steal the throne?
The Lion King.
What year was the Declaration of Independence signed?
1776.
Who painted the Mona Lisa?
Everything in the universe is made of tiny particles that are called?
Atoms.
How many states are in the United States?
50.
What is the term for a number that can only be divided evenly by 1 and itself?
Prime.
What is the term for a word that means the same, or nearly the same, as another word?
Synonym.
What video game features players building and surviving in a blocky, pixelated world?
Minecraft.
What do you call a song's repeating section that usually contains the main message?
Chorus.
What movie features a fish named Marlin searching the ocean for his son?
Finding Nemo.
What country did the United States fight in the Revolutionary War?
Great Britain.
Who painted "The Starry Night?"
Vincent Van Gogh.
Living things need food, water, and this gas to survive.
Oxygen.
If you fly from California to Australia, what ocean are you crossing?
The Pacific Ocean.
What do you call the middle number in an ordered data set?
In the sentence "The ancient oak tree swayed gently," identify the adjective.
Ancient.
What popular app is known for short videos, trending sounds, and dance challenges?
TikTok.
What's the name of Grant Wood's painting featuring a farmer and a woman in front of a house?
"American Gothic."
What Pixar film takes place almost entirely inside a girl's head?
Inside Out.
What was the name of the ship the Pilgrims sailed on to America?
The Mayflower.
Who is famous for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man?
Rosa Parks.
What is H2O more commonly known as?
Oxygen.
What is the largest continent by land mass?
Asia.
What measures the distance of the outside of a shape?
The perimeter.
What's another word we use for story in the classroom?
Narrative.
What Marvel superhero is known as "the friendly neighborhood" hero and shoots webs?
Spider-Man.
What instrument family includes the violin, viola, and cello?
Strings.
What 1993 film brought dinosaurs back to life using DNA?
Jurassic Park.
Who invented the lightbulb?
Thomas Edison.
What was the name of the last queen of France?
Marie Antoinette.
What force pulls objects toward the Earth?
Gravity.
What is the smallest continent?
Australia.
What measure the amount of space INSIDE of a shape?
The Area.
What literary device is used when an author gives human qualities to a non-human thing, like "The wind whispered through the trees"?
Personification.
What singer released the album "Midnights" and is known for her "Eras Tour"?
Taylor Swift.
What art movement focuses on expressing strong emotions rather than realistic images?
Expressionism.
What 1977 film was the first to use the opening crawl of text in space?
Star Wars: A New Hope.
Who delivered the famous civil rights speech entitled "I Have a Dream!"
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Which president is most responsible for ending slavery in the United States?
Abraham Lincoln.
What organ in the body pumps blood?
The heart.
What is the longest river in the world?
The Amazon.
What do we call a whole number that's positive OR negative?
An Integer.
What is the term for the main problem or struggle a character faces in a story?
Conflict.
In "Bluey," what city in Australia does the Heeler family live in?
Brisbane.
Who painted "The Scream"?
Edvard Munch.
What is the highest grossing film of all time, adjusted for inflation?
Gone With The Wind.
What war was fought between the North and South regions of the U.S.?
The Civil War.
What famous baseball player was known as "The Sultan of Swat"?
Babe Ruth.
What is the process where plants make their own food called?
Photosynthesis.
What is the largest country in the world?
Russia.
What do we call a mathematical phrase that has numbers and/or variables, but NO equal sign?
An Expression.
First person.
What is the name of the squid-like creatures in "Splatoon" that players control?
Inklings.
What is the term for when two or more musical notes are played at the same time to create a pleasing sound?
Harmony.
What 1990 film left an 8-year-old alone to defend his house from burglars?
Home Alone.
What ancient civilization built the pyramids at Giza?
The Egyptians.
This author wrote only one book, when she was 14 years old. She died shortly thereafter.
Anne Frank.
What causes night and day on Earth?
The Earth's rotation.
What is the largest state in the United States?
Alaska.
What do we call a mathematical phrase that has numbers and/or variables and INCLUDES an equal sign?
An Equation.
What type of writing uses "he/she/they" from outside a character's perspective?
Third person.
In the video game Fortnite, what is the name of the last-player-standing mode the game is most famous for?
Fortnite.
What painting by Edward Hopper shows lonely figures sitting in a late-night diner?
Nighthawks.
What film was the first ever to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2002?
Shrek.
What was the name for a secret network that helped enslave people escape to freedom in the United State?
The Underground Railroad.
This author is best known for writing short stories, such as 'The Black Cat', as well as his poem, 'The Raven'.
Edgar Allan Poe.
Animals that eat only plants are called this.
Herbivores.
What is the capital of California?
Sacramento.
What do you call an angle that measures exactly 90 degrees?
Right angle.
What part of speech connects two complete sentences together?
A conjunction. ("Like", "and", "but", or "so.")
What is the name of SpongeBob's pet snail?
Gary.
What is the term for the empty space around and between subjects in a work of art?
Negative Space.
What 1982 Spielberg film became the highest-grossing movie of its time?
E.T.
Who was the first man to walk on the moon?
Neil Armstrong.
What is the name of the president who was in office from 2008-2016?
Barack Obama.
What tool is used to look at stars and planets?
A telescope.
What is the capital of the United States?
Washington D.C.
What do you call the answer to a division problem?
Quotient.
What do we call the "bad guy" of a story, or the person who comes into conflict with the protagonist?
The antagonist.
In the Amazon show "Invincible," what is the name of the superhero team that Omni-Man belongs to?
Guardians of the Globe.
"The Scream" is associated with what art movement, which aimed to show inner emotional experience rather than outer reality?
Expressionism.
What 2009 Pixar film opens with one of the saddest sequences in movie history?
Up.