Words
what does the word rewrite mean?
to write again
Where will the Men's NCAA Basketball Final Four games take place?
Alamodome, San Antonio
Name the 3 branches of USA Government.
Legislative, Judicial, Executive
A scientist studying fossils is called:
paleontologist
What is the area of 13ft x 14ft rug?
182 sq ft
What is the smallest marine mammal, part of the weasel family and is very social?
sea otter
What is a homophone?
two words, sounding the same, but have different meaning & spelling
Where was the MLB's first game of the 2025 season played?
Tokyo, Japan
March 18, 2025
How many branches are in the USA military?
SEVEN
Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Space Force, Coast Guard, and National Guard.
For an animal to survive, name 3 things that must exist in its habitat.
food
shelter
water
Mia's dad gives each of his 4 kids equal parts of $340 to buy plants for their garden. The garden shop is selling all plants for $5! How many plants can each kid buy with their portion of the money?
17 plants each
340 / 4=85
85/5=17
Name the state whose bird is the Blue Hen Chicken.
Delaware!
Identify the adverb:
Caroline accepted the National Academic Excellence Award with humility, on the evening of June 4, 2024.
humility
Mice are being bred with this extinct animal by bioscientist to revive it - what is the animal?
Wooly Mammoth
Which president was born in Ohio, April 27, 1822; he joined the military at 17?
Ulysses Grant
How is water a natural and renewable resource?
The water cycle - evaporation, condensation, precipitation
List the all of factors for 66:
1, 66
2, 33
3, 22
6, 11
Name the state whose bird is a Robin, flower an apple blossom, and tree a white pine.
Michigan
Define: amendment
- a minor change or addition, designed to improve a text, legislation, something, etc.
Which NBA player become the 8th to reach the 30,000 points milestone?
Kevin Durant
Where did the Southern portion of the Silk Road conclude?
India
Explain the difference between animal instincts and learned behavior.
Animal instincts are involuntary and multi-generational (bear eating fish, squirrel building nest) where learned behaviors are changes to environment and not always past on through generations (bear eating trash from waste bin, squirrel eating from restaurant dumpster).
name TWO equivalent fractions for : 3/8
6/16
9/24
12/32
15/40
24/48
The concept of pi, used to determine the area of a circle, was first used by whom?
Babylonians / Ancient Egyptians - approx 4,000 years ago
How many syllables does astronomical have?
5
How many astronauts were in the capsule that splashed down off the coast of Florida, returning from a rescue mission at the ISS?
4:
Butch Wilmore & Suni Williams (left Earth June 5, 2024 for 8 day mission)
Nick Hague & Alex Gorbunov
500 feet
What is the difference between a mold and cast fossil?
mold fossil - leaves space in the shape of thing
cast fossil - minerals fill space, hardening into the shape of the space left
1-4/5=
1/5
In what year was the first on North American celebration of St. Patrick's Day held in Boston, MA?
1737
Pronounce this word:
peculiar
puh·kyoo·lee·ur
128 new moons were recently discovered around Saturn - how many total moons does Saturn have now?
274 moons of Saturn!
North America is home to how many countries?
TWENTY THREE
What process is energy from the sun introduced into the food chair?
Photosynthesis
What are the next two numbers in this pattern:
454, 436, 418, ___, ____
400, 382
Which branch of mathematics analyzes large collections of data to identify trends and patterns?
statistics