Reading
Who wrote The Chronicles of Narnia?
C. S. Lewis
How do plants turn sunlight into food?
Photosynthesis
Which punctuation mark works with a conjunction to combine two independent clauses?
A comma
Who was the first president of the United States?
George Washington
Where was Jesus born?
Bethlehem
What do we call the main character of a story?
Protagonist
What is the difference between a vertebrate and an invertebrate?
Vertebrates possess a backbone and a solid internal skeleton.
What is an adjective?
a word that describes a noun, pronoun, or other adjective
What came first: the chicken nugget or the egg mcmuffin?
egg mcmuffin: 1975
chicken nugget: 1983
Name two of Jesus' disciples.
Peter, James, John, Andrew, Bartholomew or Nathanael, James, the Lesser or Younger, Judas, Jude or Thaddeus, Matthew or Levi, Philip, Simon the Zealot, Thomas
What is the turning point of the story?
Climax
Name one type of mammal that lays eggs.
the duck-billed platypus and the echidna, or spiny anteater
What is one section of poetry called?
a stanza
When did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor?
December 7, 1941
What was Ruth's sister-in-law named?
Orpah
What type of literature did Maya Angelou write?
Poetry
Name all the planets in our solar system.
Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury, Mars, Venus, Neptune, Uranus
What is the process of making spelling, punctuation, and grammatical corrections in a text?
Editing
Who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during WWII?
Winston Churchill
Where did Saul lose his eyesight?
on the road to Damascus
Who wrote the play, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet?
William Shakespeare
What type of cloud has a flat bottom and a puffy top?
Cumulus clouds
Which type of poem has 14 lines and varying patterns of rhyme?
What year did the United States gain its independence?
1776
Name three of the Biblical judges.
Othniel, Ehud, Shamgar, Deborah, Gideon, Tola, Jair, Jephthah, Ibzan, Elon, Abdon, Samson