Geography
Name the capital of Texas.
What is Austin?
Animals with a backbone are called _____________.
What is an invertebrate?
Name the family of musical instruments which includes the drums.
What is percussion?
Name the six letter noun which refers to any member of the cat family.
What is feline?
Name the Beatrix Potter book which features a rabbit as the main character.
What is Peter Rabbit?
Name the South American river that contains the largest volume of water in the world.
What is the Amazon?
Name the planet in the solar system that is closest to the sun.
What is Mercury?
The abbreviation DJ stands for ________ ________.
What is disc/disk jockey?
Name a popular carnival ride that was created for the Chicago World's Fair in 1893.
What is the Ferris Wheel?
Name the type of boat described in this poem: Over the briny wave I go, In spite of the weather and in spite of the snow. What cares the hardy Eskimo? In my little skiff with paddle and lance I glide where the foaming billows dance.
What is a kayak?
Name the highest mountain in the world.
What is Everest?
Name the element whose symbol is O.
What is oxygen?
Name the song whose refrain says "Heigh ho, the dairy-o.
What is the Farmer in the Dell
Name the invention by Alexander Graham Bell which changed the world.
What is the telephone?
Name the literature term which refers to attributing human qualities to an inanimate object.
What is personification?
Name the force that acts upon an object to slow it down or stop it.
What is friction?
Name a simple machine that consists of a rope that fits into a groove in a wheel.
What is a pulley?
Name the musical family which encompasses the clarinet and saxophone.
What is woodwinds?
Name the man who invented the phonograph (record player).
Who is Thomas Edison?
Complete the adage from Poor Richard's Almanac: Early to bed, early to rise makes a man _______, __________, and _____________.
What is healthy, wealthy, and wise?
What is the ten letter noun which refers to words that are spelled the same both forward and backward.
What is a palindrome?
Name the composer who wrote the famous piece of music Messiah.
Who is George Handel?
Name the third President of the United States.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Name the mongoose made famous in one of Rudyard Kipling's most famous books.
Who is Rikki Tikki Tavi?