Geography
Which country is home to the Amazon Rainforest in South America?
Brazil
What is a figure of speech that compares two unlike things using “like” or “as” called?
Simile
Who is the author of the Harry Potter series?
J.K. Rowling
What is a “palindrome”?
A word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward.
What is the name of the large, circular depressions on the surface of the Moon, caused by the impact of meteoroids?
Crater
What is the capital of Italy?
Rome
What is a comparison between two things without using “like” or “as” called?
Metaphor
What is the name of the lion in C.S. Lewis’s “The Chronicles of Narnia”?
Aslan
What part of the human body is primarily affected by pneumonia?
Lungs
What is the process of plants taking in carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen called?
Photosynthesis
Which state is located directly west of New York?
Pennsylvania
What is a part of a sentence that tells what the subject is or does called?
Predicate
What is the name of the tiger in Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book”?
Shere Khan
What was the name of the ancient Roman city destroyed by a volcanic eruption?
Pompeii
What is the hardest natural substance on Earth?
Diamond
What is the largest continent on Earth?
Asia
What is a word that joins words or groups of words together called?
Conjunction
Who is the author of the “Charlotte’s Web”?
E.B. White
What is the next number in the sequence: 1, 4, 9, 16, ___?
25
What is the main gas that makes up the Earth’s atmosphere?
Nitrogen
Which country is known as the Land of the Rising Sun?
Japan
What is a sentence that asks a question called?
Interrogative sentence
In which book series do a group of kids form a secret society called the Mysterious Benedict Society?
“The Mysterious Benedict Society” by Trenton Lee Stewart
Which part of a plant helps transport water and nutrients from the roots to other parts of the plant?
Xylem
What is the process of changing from a solid directly to a gas called?
Sublimation