5th Grade Math
200 X 40
8000 (4X Points)
Which country accidentally invented the first fireworks by throwing bamboo into fire back in 200 B.C.?
China
What was the name of the writing system used by the Ancient Egyptians?
Hieroglyphics
What is a theme?
The moral/lesson of the story
What percent of the world’s fresh water is in Antarctica?
90%
Which genre is not about a person's life?
A. Fiction
B. Biography
C. Autobiography
A. Fiction
Who was the first American Woman in Space?
Sally Ride
Another name for a 90 degree angle
right angle
What is the strongest bone in the human body?
Femer
Which ancient civilization built the Pantheon and Colosseum and invented the modern-day calendar?
The Roman Empire
How many syllables are in the word Rhinoceros?
4
In which country is the Yellow River, also known as Huang He?
China
Find the mistake:
Ms. Karina went to the store to buy some milk, She wanted to bake a cake for her class. She bought milk, eggs, and flour.
The comma after milk should be a period.
Mount Vesuvius (Pompei) overlooks which modern Italian city?
Naples
The number of hours in 3 days
72
Who was the German-born physicist that developed the special and general theories of relativity? This same physicist won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921.
Albert Einstein
What does PEMDAS stand for? In which order do we solve PEMDAS?
Parenthesis, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction.
Left --> Right
What word makes child plural?
children
In which continent is the world’s longest river, the Nile?
Africa
What does accumulate mean in the sentence below:
I wanted to accumulate stickers to build my collection.
A. To save
B. To increase number
C. To Draw
B. To increase number
What is the name of a plant with a jaw-like mechanism to trap flies and other small insects?
Venus Fly Trap
If a train was supposed to arrive at 3:15 pm and arrived 35 minutes late, it arrived at... ?
3:50pm
What is the fastest spinning planet in the solar system?
Jupiter
How many continents in the world are inhabited (meaning where people live all year)?
six
Name one of the two cities in Japan where the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb.
Hiroshima or Nagasaki
What are pieces of Earth’s crust and uppermost mantle, together referred to as the lithosphere?
Tectonic Plates
Which two countries were in a space race to the moon in the 1960s?
The United States of America and the Soviet Union
What is the world’s second-highest mountain after Everest, being situated in Asia?
K2
Number considered to be a "bakers dozen"
13
What Major League Baseball franchise is the most highly decorated with 27 World Series titles?
New York Yankees
Which book series was created by J.K. Rowling in which the literature features magical creatures, such as “nifflers” and “pygmy puffs?”
Harry Potter Series
What is the most widely spoken dialect in the Chinese language?
Mandarin
What is the only country with a coastline on both the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf?
Saudi Arabia
Which word is spelled incorrectly?
A. Attendance
B. Application
C. Apprecciate
D. Third
C. Apprecciate
Appreciate
Which planet in the solar system was considered an actual planet for decades until August 2006, when it was reclassified as a dwarf planet?
Pluto