How many zeros are there in one trillion?
6
Who was the 18th U.S. president?
Ulysses S. Grant
The person in a novel who tells the story from a third-person perspective is called a what?
A narrator
Which is faster: sound or light?
Light
What % of the worlds fresh water is in the Great Lakes?
about 20%
What year was the lightbulb invented?
1879
How many bones are in the average human body?
206
What is the name of American Cruise Lines shipbuilding yard?
How many cups are there in 1.5 gallons?
24 cups
16 cups = 1 gallon
Who was called the 'underground railroad conductor'?
Harriet Tubman
What are words that describe verbs called?
Adverbs
What do you call a scientist who studies rocks
Geologist
What is the capital city of Canada
Ottawa
This company created its revolutionary new product on June 29, 2007.
Apple (Iphone)
You’ll find me in Mercury, Earth, Mars and Jupiter, but not in Venus or Neptune. What am I?
the letter R
What kind of salmon is the Oregon state fish?
Chinook Salmon
What does X =?
5 + (3x2) - X = 5
x = 6
Who invented the lightbulb?
Thomas Edison
Who wrote the "Harry Potter" series?
J.K. Rowling
What is a force that occurs when one object rubs against another object?
friction
What is the large island of the coast of southeastern Africa?
Madagascar.
Who was the creator of Windows Computers
Bill Gates
How long is a "fortnight"?
14 days
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If a train was supposed to arrive at 3:55 pm and arrived 1/5 of an hour late, what time did it arrive?
4:07 pm
1/5 of an hour = 12 minutes
When is the next leap year?
2028
What would you call the central character of a story whose actions drive the plot?
Protagonist
True or False: The human shoulder is a ball and socket joint
True
Which country boasts the most natural lakes?
Canada
Studies show there could be more than 879,800 lakes in Canada.
This was the most popular web browser for 14 years
Internet Explorer
It’s the only place in the world where today comes before yesterday. Where is it?
the dictionary
Early Shoshone Native Americans made a curved shape with their hands to convey to early explorers, "This river has a good run of salmon". Europeans mistook the sign and named the river what?
Snake River
How many minutes in a year?
60x24x365=525,600
What year did France give us the Statue of Liberty?
1885 (close enough by 10years)
How many syllables are in the sentence 'Sara, that is incomprehensible'?
10
What is the first A in NASA stand for?
National AERONAUTICS and Space Administration
What is the largest desert in the world?
Antarctic Polar Desert
How many Megabytes in a Gigabyte
approximately 1000
What has one eye but can’t see?
A needle
How long is the Columbia River?
1234 miles long.