1st Grade English/ELA
What literary device gives human qualities to nonhuman things?
Personification
What is known as the powerhouse of the cell?
Mitochondria
What imaginary line divides Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
Equator
What is 3/4 + 5/8?
1 and 3/8
What 1803 land deal nearly doubled the size of the United States?
The Louisiana Purchase
What do you call two words that sound the same but have different meanings, like “their” and “there”?
Homophones
What type of blood vessel carries blood away from the heart?
Artery
What is the largest continent by land area?
Asia
What is 15% of 260?
39
What scandal led to President Richard Nixon's resignation?
The Watergate Scandal
What grammatical term describes a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun beside it, as in “My brother, Marcus, plays basketball”?
An Appositive
What process changes a solid directly into a gas without becoming a liquid first?
Sublimation
What U.S. state is made up entirely of islands and is farthest south?
Hawaii
What is the least common multiple of 12, 18, and 30?
180
What treaty officially ended World War I?
Treaty of Versailles
What is the term for a phrase whose meaning cannot be understood literally, such as “break a leg”?
An Idiom
What is the process by which plants release water vapor through tiny openings in their leaves?
Transpiration
Which continent lies in all four hemispheres?
Africa
What is 7,812 / 36?
217
Which battle is commonly considered the turning point of the American Civil War?
The Battle of Gettysburg
A young girl grows up in the South while her father defends a Black man accused of a crime, forcing her to confront racism and injustice in her town.
What book is this?
To Kill a Mockingbird
Which scientist used an improved telescope to observe Jupiter’s moons and provided evidence that not everything orbited Earth?
Galileo Galilei
What is the only country that borders both the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf?
Iran
Three-fifths of a number is 18 less than the number itself. What is the number?
What 1857 Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans were not U.S. citizens and that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories?
Dred Scott v. Sandford