Math
What is 15 minus 7?
What is 14 times 5, minus 12?
8
58
What is the closest star to Earth?
If you weigh 120 pounds on Earth, why would you weigh only 20 pounds on the Moon? Is it because you lost mass, or because of something else? (Hint: All you need to say is a one word answer)
The sun
Gravity. Specifically because of weaker gravity on the Moon (your mass stays exactly the same).
Who was the very first President of the United States?
True or False: The Great Wall of China is visible to the naked eye from space or the Moon.
George Washington
False
What has hands but is not able to clap?
A clock
State the primary colors.
Red, Blue, Yellow
If you have 3 boxes of crayons and each box has 10 crayons, how many do you have?
Take the number 7. Square it, add 1, and divide the result by 2. What is the final number?
30
25
Water turns to ice when frozen. What does it turn into when it boils?
Which layer of the Earth's atmosphere shields us from the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays? A) The Troposphere B) The Ozone Layer C) The Ionosphere D) The Exosphere
Steam/Vapor/Gas
The Ozone Layer
What prehistoric reptiles ruled the Earth before going extinct?
Why did ancient cities build massive stone walls? A) Weather B) Defense C) Farming.
Dinosaurs
Defense
What gets wetter the more it dries?
A towel
What do you call a drawing of a person's face?
Which famous artist painted the Mona Lisa?
A portrait
Leonardo da Vinci
What shape has 6 sides?
A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?
Hexagon
5 cents or 0.05
Caterpillars turn into butterflies. What do tadpoles turn into?
If you drop a heavy bowling ball and a light feather in a room with no air, which one lands first?
Frogs
They hit the ground at the exact same time. Gravity pulls everything down at the exact same rate. Objects only fall slower in real life because air pushes up against them.
What famous ship sank in 1912 after hitting an iceberg?
Who was the first person to walk on the moon?
The Titanic
Neil Armstrong
What goes through towns and over hills but never moves?
A road
What material do you bake in an oven to make pottery like mugs?
What tool do you use to hold a canvas upright while painting?
Clay
An easel
How many minutes are in half of an hour?
A car travels at a constant speed of 45 miles per hour. Mentally calculate exactly how many miles it travels in 3 hours and 20 minutes. (Hint: 20 mins is 1/3 of an hour)
150 miles
Which planet is famous for its massive rings?
True or False: Sound travels faster in water than it does in air.
Saturn
True
What holiday do Americans celebrate on the 4th of July?
Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?
Independance Day
Thomas Jefferson
What has a horn but is not an animal?
If an electric train is traveling south, which way is the smoke blowing?
A car.
No where! Electronic trains don't have smoke.
If you mix the two primary colors yellow and blue together, what color do you make?
What tool do you use to hold a canvas upright while painting?
Green
A mural
Double 7, subract 5... what did you get?
Imagine a water lily pad in a pond that doubles in size every single day. If it takes exactly 48 days to cover the entire pond, on what day was the pond exactly half covered?
9
Day 47. Because it doubles every day, if it's full on day 48, it had to be exactly half full just one day before!
A push or a pull that moves an object is called a what?
What do you call a collapsed star with gravity so strong that light cannot escape?
A black hole
Which large bird is the official national symbol of the United States
What massive event caused the United States to enter World War II?
The bald eagle
Attack on Pearl Harbor
What can you hear but not see or touch, and it only speaks when you speak first?
An echo
What do you call a drawing that tricks your eyes into seeing something that isn't really there?
An optical illusion