Language Arts
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Potpourri
100

What are the comparative and superlative forms of the word "big"?

What are "bigger" and "biggest"?

100

What is the biggest bone in the human body?

What is the femur?

100

Who was the first emperor of the Ancient Roman Empire?

Who is Caesar Augustus?

100

What is the area of a triangle with a width of 4 ft. and a height of 8 ft.?

What is 16 ft.?

100

What is the minimum age for President of the United States?

What is 35 years old?

200

In this book titled The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, what is the last comma called?

What is the Oxford Comma?

200

NaCl (Sodium Chloride) is the scientific classification for what household compound?

What is salt?

200

The alliance of Italy, Germany and Japan was called what during the Second World War?

What is the Axis of Evil?

200

When writing out a fraction, what are the numbers above and below the vinculum (the line used in fractions) called?

What are the numerator and denominator?

200

What two types of energy are used to describe how objects move? 

What are Kinetic and Potential energy?

*Bonus points if you know what each energy describes.

300

Who is the author of the 1960 novel about social and racial injustice, To Kill A Mockingbird?

Who is Harper Lee?

300

Animals that can live both on land and in water are called what?

What are amphibians?

300

The region known as the "Fertile Crescent" is located in modern-day what?

Where is the Middle East?

300

If a shopping cart contains 4 apples, 6 bananas, 20 grapes, 10 peaches, and 20 cookies, what percent of the items are fruits?

What is 66%?

300

What is the deepest part of the ocean called?

What is the Mariana Trench?

400

Often seen at the end of a sentence, the three trailing dots that indicate the omission from speech or writing of a word or words that are superfluous or able to be understood from contextual clues are known as…

What is an ellipsis?

400

What are the four states of matter?

What are solid, liquid, gas, and plasma? 

*Bonus points if you can give an example of each

400

What are the four parts of the United Kingdom?

What are Great Britain, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales?

400

What is the name of the theorem that states a^2 + b^2 = c^2?

What is the Pythagorean Theorem? 

*Bonus points if you know what this theorem is used for.

400

A machine that could theoretically work indefinitely without an energy source is known as what?

What is a perpetual motion machine?
500

Name the four basic types of points of view?

What are first person, second person, third person limited, and third person omniscient? 

*Bonus points if you can give an example of each form.

500

What is the next-closest (spiral) galaxy from the Milky Way?

What is the Andromeda galaxy?

*Bonus points if you can guess how many light years away it is?

500

What is the term used to describe the separation of powers between the federal government and the state governments?

What is federalism?

500

Solve the following equation: 

(2 x 4) / (5+1-3)^0 = ?

What is 'undefined'? 

(You can't divide by 0)

500

When a product's copyright expires, the right to reproduce it passes into what?

What is the Public Domain?
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