Lit
Name any word with a silent “k” that begins with “kn.”
Knife, knock, know, knight, etc.
Robbery committed at sea is called . . .
Piracy
What is the least common multiple of 8 and 10?
40
The time signature on sheet music indicates the number of beats per …
Measure
The highest temperature ever recorded on what continent is about 59 degrees F?
Antarctica
Whose poems deal with Jimmy Jet, Dirty Dan, Little Peggy Ann McKay, Hector the Collector, the Glurpy Slurpy Skakagrall, a chickie who doesn’t want to hatch, a place where you wash your shadow, and crocodiles going to the dentist?
Shel Silverstein
Name the last continent to be discovered.
Antarctica
How would you express 93/7 as a mixed number?
13 2/7
Peter Tchaikovsky wrote what ballet based on a fairy tale about a princess, a prince, a wicked fairy’s spell, a good fairy, and a long sleep?
Sleeping Beauty
What natural body process has two main functions including excretion of waste products such as salts and cooling the body by the evaporation of water from the skin surface?
Perspiration (sweating)
This is from what story?
Almanzo Wilder stood in the line of young men near the door, and Laura was embarrassed. She saw now that several young men were taking young ladies home. She felt her cheeks flushing and she did not know where to look.
Little House on the Prairie
What sea is immediately north of Colombia?
Caribbean Sea
An eighth of a circle has how many degrees?
45
According to the song, “if your heart is in your dreams, no request is too extreme when you do what as dreamers do?”
Wish Upon A Star
You can see your breath on a cold day because what happens to the water vapor you exhale?
It condenses.
How many syllables are in this line by an 19th-century California gold-mining magnate?
Here’s to low-grade ore and plenty of it.
10
Communities of people who routinely move from place to place rather than settling down in one location are called . . .
Nomads
If Jules is older than Kary, Kary is older than Sam, Sam is younger than Jules, and Ron is older than Jules, who is oldest?
Ron
What art form completes this quote by Thomas Stoppard?
"It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall, it’s a painting, and if you can walk around it, it’s a . . . "
Sculpture
The skeletons of what marine animals form much of the framework of warm water reefs?
Coral
This excerpt is from what fairy tale?
In the morning she was asked how she had slept. “Oh, very badly!” said she. “I have scarcely closed my eyes all night. Heaven only knows what was in the bed, but I was lying on something hard so that I am black and blue all over my body. It’s horrible!”
The Princess and the Pea
What region stretches from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Mexico southeastward to the Isthmus of Panama where it connects to the Colombian Pacific Lowlands?
Central America
The short side of a right triangle is 6 and its hypotenuse is 8. If the short side on a similar triangle is 18, what is the length of the hypotenuse on that triangle?
25
Any collection of three or more harmonious tones that are played simultaneously is called a . . .
Chord
Although they belong to a completely different order, what insects are sometimes called “white ants” because they slightly resemble ants and live in colonies?
Termites