animals
What’s the only mammal capable of true flight?
Bat
Who sailed across the ocean in 1492 and is famous for discovering the “New World”?
Christopher Columbus
What do you call a word that sounds like a noise it makes?
Onomatopoeia
What planet is closest to the Sun?
mercury
What animal can’t jump, even though it has legs?
an elephant
What’s the largest species of penguin?
Emperor
What was the name of the ship that carried the Pilgrims to America in 1620?
The Mayflower
Which English word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Short-er
What do we call the group of eight major planets and their moons, dwarf planets, and other objects orbiting the Sun?
the solar system
What’s the only letter not in any U.S. state name?
Q
What animal has fingerprints so similar to humans that even crime scene investigators can mistake them?
Koalas
Who was the U.S. president during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
Say a palindrome sentence.
What planet is famous for having a huge storm called the Great Red Spot?
jupiter
What’s the tallest mountain on Earth — but most of it is underwater?
Mauna Kea
What kind of bird can sleep while flying over the ocean for days at a time?
Alpine Swift
What ancient civilization built the pyramids?
The Egyptians
What’s the longest word you can type using only one row on the keyboard?
typewriter
What element makes up most of the Sun’s mass?
hydrogen
What’s the rarest M&M color?
brown
What animal’s milk is pink?
Hippopotamus
What city was buried under ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted in ancient Rome?
Pompeii
What English word has all five vowels (a, e, i, o, u) in alphabetical order?
Abstemious
What is the name of the phenomenon where a massive star collapses under its own gravity, creating a region in space where not even light can escape?
black hole
What’s the fear of long words ironically called?
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia