What is the square root of 64?
8
What is the chemical symbol for water?
H₂O
Who wrote the famous play Romeo and Juliet?
William Shakespeare
Who painted the Mona Lisa?
Leonardo da Vinci
What is the capital city of the United States?
Washington, D.C.
What is the value of pi (π) to two decimal places?
3.14
What is the largest organ in the human body?
Skin
What is the plural form of “child”?
Children
Name the three ships Christopher Columbus sailed to the Americas in 1492
Niña, Pinta and Santa Maria
Which continent is the Sahara Desert located on?
Africa
What is the sum of the angles in a triangle?
180 degrees
How many bones are in the adult human body?
206
How many lines are there in a Haiku poem?
3
In what year did the Titanic sink?
1912
What is the longest river in the United States?
Missouri River
What is the volume of a rectangular prism with a length of 4 cm, width of 3 cm, and height of 5 cm?
60 cubic centimeters (Volume = Length × Width × Height)
What is the name of the energy-producing organelles found in animal and plant cells?
Mitochondria
A grouping of lines within a poem is called what?
A stanza
In colonial America, what was the Sugar Act?
A tax on molasses and wine
Which country is home to the Great Barrier Reef?
Australia
How many miles is one kilometer?
0.621 miles
In the initials of the federal agency known as NASA, what does the first "A" stand for?
Aeronautics
What literary device is used in the phrase "The wind whispered through the trees"?
Personification
On what date did the U.S. Congress vote to declare independence from Britain?
July 2, 1776 (Two days later, on July 4th, they voted to adopt the Declaration of Independence, and on August 2, 1776, the final document was signed.)
Costa Rica borders two countries. Nicaragua is one of the countries. What is the other?
Panama