WORDS & LANGUAGE
This punctuation mark ends a question.
What is a question mark?
This famous midnight rider warned the colonists the British were coming.
Who is Paul Revere?
This attack in 1941 brought the United States into World War II.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Octopuses have this many hearts.
What is three?
This planet is known as the Red Planet.
What is Mars?
A word that sounds the same as another but has a different meaning and spelling.
What is a homophone?
This event in 1773 involved tea dumped into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This Allied invasion of France occurred on June 6, 1944.
What is D-Day (the Normandy Invasion)?
This is the only mammal capable of true flight.
What is the bat?
This force keeps planets in orbit around the sun.
What is gravity?
This language has the most native speakers in the world.
What is Mandarin Chinese?
This document formally declared the colonies’ independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This leader was the Prime Minister of Britain for most of the war.
Who is Winston Churchill?
This country is home to the Great Barrier Reef.
What is Australia?
This part of the atom carries a positive charge.
What is the proton?
A word that has the opposite meaning of another word.
What is an antonym?
This 1775 battle is often called the “shot heard ’round the world.”
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
DAILY DOUBLE
These four countries were called the Allies in WWII
Who are United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, and China?
This everyday object was originally invented to solve the problem of dripping ink. (Specific)
What is the ballpoint pen?
This scale is used to measure earthquakes.
What is the Richter scale?
This term describes a word that is spelled the same but has different meanings and origins.
What is a homonym?
This European country was the first to officially recognize the United States.
What is France?
This secret project developed the first atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This metal is liquid at room temperature.
What is mercury?
This process allows plants to convert sunlight into chemical energy.
What is photosynthesis?