General
This is the national animal of Scotland?
What is the unicorn?
What is the Andes? (5,500 mi/7000km long)
This word correctly finishes the sentence: “Yesterday, I ___ to the library.”
What is "went?"
This author wrote the Aeneid.
Who is Virgil?
This number follows in the sequence: 2 – 4 – 8 – 16 – ___.
What is 32?
This ancient civilization built Machu Picchu in South America.
Who are the Incas?
This is the smallest country in the world.
What is the Vatican?
This is the opposite of modern.
What is "ancient?"
This is the best selling book series in the 21st Century.
What is Harry Pottter?
This is the name for a word the reads the same in either direction.
What is a Palindrome? (eg. racecar, mom, dad, kayak)
This famous clock tower is in London.
What is Big Ben?
This city is the capital of Canada.
What is Ottowa?
In the sentence “She sings beautifully,” beautifully is this kind of word.
What is an "adverb?"
This author wrote the poem "The Lady of Shalott."
Who is Alfed Lord Tennyson?
A doctor gives you 3 pills and tells you to take one every half hour. It will take you to this long to take all three pills.
What is 1 hour?
(0 min: 1st, 30 min: 2nd, 60 min: 3rd)
A standard modern piano has this number of keys.
What is 88?
This is the deepest known point on Earth.
What is the Mariana Trench?
This is the corrected version of “If I would have known, I would tell you.”
What is “If I had known, I would have told you”?
The pianist and composer Clara ____ was married to which famous composer?
Who is Robert Schumann?
There are 10 people in a room.
Each person greets every other person exactly once.
There are this many greetings in total.
What is 45?
This word means a government ruled by a small group of powerful people.
What is oligarchy?
This country has the most islands.
What is Sweden? (More than 250,000 islands)
The quote "Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the Father through the features of men's faces," comes from this poem (or was written by this author).
As Kingfishers Catch Fire (by Gerard Manley Hopkins)
This literary tactic consists of intentional exaggeration.
A father and his son are 36 years old combined.
The father is 30 years older than his son.
This is the age of the son:
What is 3 years? (The father is 33)