ELA/Trivia
Out of the following choices, this is the spelling of the word that means "belonging to whom":
who's, whose
What is w-h-o-s-e?
This is the sum of two complementary angles.
What is 90o?
This person was referred to as "Honest Abe."
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This is the color of a giraffe's tongue.
What is black?
According to the book of Exodus, this is where Moses received the 10 commandments.
What is Mount Sinai?
This is the part of the computer that "QWERTY" refers to.
What is the keyboard?
What is 21/5 or 4 1/5?
This is the largest continent.
What is Asia?
This is what the center of an atom is called.
What is a nucleus?
This was the last apostle to die.
Who was St. John?
Out of the choices of "rough" or "softly" this is the correct adverb for the following sentence:
Kelly _____________ skated over the ice.
What is softly?
This is the quotient for 630/9.
What is 70?
This country has the most active volcanoes.
What is Indonesia?
This is the galaxy Earth belongs to.
What is the Milky Way?
In the Stations of the Cross, this is the number of times Jesus fell.
What are 3?
This is the inning in a baseball game of which the song Take Me Out to the Ball Game.
What is the 7th inning?
Name the two consecutive numbers whose sum is the cube root of 125.
What are 2 and 3?
This is the decade of the Great Depression in the U.S.
What is the 1930's?
correct=regular
exact answer October 1929-1939=quadruple!
This is the color you get when you mix all the colors of light.
What is white?
According to the Catholic church, this is the year the church was founded.
What is 33 A.D.?
This is the allegedly blind Greek author who composed the fable "The Tortoise and the Hare."
Who was Aesop?
This is the branch of mathematics whose name is derived from 2 Greek words that mean earth and measure.
What is geometry?
This is the city and state in which the Declaration of Independence was signed.
What is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
one part=regular points
entire answer=quadruple!
This is who discovered the laws of motion.
Who was Sir Isaac Newton?
In 1979 Pope John Paul II declared this patron saint of those who promote ecology (branch of biology that deals with relationships of living things and their physical surroundings).
Who was St. Francis of Assisi?