Language and
Literature
Literature
This part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
This is the capital city of France.
What is Paris?
This is the force that keeps us on the ground.
What is gravity?
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
This is the hardest natural substance found on Earth.
What is diamond?
This is the playwright of plays such as "Romeo and Juliet," "Hamlet," and "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
Who is William Shakespeare?
This is the tallest mountain in the world.
What is Mt. Everest?
What is photosynthesis?
This war was fought between the Northern and Southern states of the U.S.
What is the Civil War?
This language has the highest number of native speakers worldwide.
What is Mandarin Chinese?
This punctuation shows possession, as in "Sarah's book."
What is an apostrophe?
This famous clock tower is a landmark in London.
What is Big Ben?
What is the telephone?
This ancient civilization built the Colosseum.
Who are the Romans?
What is a bat?
What is a protagonist?
This is the highest waterfall in the world, located in Venezuela.
This is the study of stars, planets, and other celestial bodies.
What is astronomy?
This wall was the global symbol of division during the Cold War until it fell in 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This "food" is famous for never spoiling, even after thousands of years. (Hint: Not water!)
What is honey?
This part of speech describes any word that sounds like the noise it describes. (Ex. "Boom" or "Bang" or "Crash")
What is onomatopoeia?
This is the capital city of the continent of Australia.
What is Canberra?
This element on the periodic table is represented by the letter "O."
What is oxygen?
This ancient Roman city was buried by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
What is Pompeii?
This is how many times larger the sun is than the moon. (Answer is a number. Example: "What is 10 times larger?" Closest guess without guessing over the number wins.)
What is 400 times larger?