This famous painter (and inventor, scientist, and mathematician), is most famous for the Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
100
This part of speech is vital for composing a sentence, and it describes what the subject is doing.
What is a verb?
100
Name the ancient civilization/empire that had its capital in modern Italy.
What is the Roman empire?
100
Name the author of this quote and the play it comes from - "To be or not to be, that is the question."
What is Hamlet by William Shakespeare?
100
This animal uses echolocation.
What is a dolphin or a bat?
200
This painter, who is also a Ninja Turtle, forever humiliated his enemies by painting them in Hell in the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
200
This part of speech hooks up words and phrases and clauses.
What is a conjunction?
200
The terms "B.C." and "A.D." stand for these words.
What is "Before Christ" and "Anno Domini?"
200
This famous author of "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" once lived on Stark Avenue in Columbus.
Who is Carson McCullers?
200
Instead of teeth, whales use this substance to filter their food.
What is baleen?
300
A famous statue of this goddess is missing her head and both of her arms.
Who is Venus? ("Venus de Milo")
300
This type of sentence is not a complete sentence.
What is a fragment?
300
This U.S. president (who came between Ford and Reagan) was from the small town of Plains, GA, about 45 minutes from Columbus. He speaks for the public in the Plains High School auditorium every year on President's Day.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
300
This political satirist is very famous for his rhyming books for children.
Who is Dr. Seuss?
300
This species of bird can fly backwards.
What is a hummingbird?
400
This modern artist is famous for painting giant canvasses in a style that looks a lot like splatter paint!
Who is Jackson Pollock?
400
List all of the different conjugations (or ways of using the verb) "to be" (I __, you ___, etc.).
What is am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been.
400
This king of England is famous for his many wives.
Who is Henry VIII?
400
This book tells the story of a boy who is stranded on a raft in the ocean with wild animals. It was recently made into a hit movie.
What is "Life of Pi?"
400
A rhino's horn is not actually made of bone. It's made of this seemingly innocuous substance.
What is hair?
500
This time period is when art had a "rebirth" with artists such as da Vinci, Massacio, and Giotto.
What is the Renaissance?
500
This piece of punctuation connects two independent clauses; it is often used incorrectly to connect two dependent clauses.
What is a semi-colon?
500
Name the dates of the American Civil War.
What is 1861-1865?
500
This author, who wrote a very famous series composed of 7 novels, sneaks French and Latin words into her story to add a secretive layer of meaning.
Who is J.K. Rowling?
500
This sea animal has 16 color receptive cones, so it can see colors that humans cannot imagine!