General Science
World Capitals
Founding Fathers
Musical Instruments
Classic Novels
Miscellaneous
100
This object is the center of our solar system.
What is the sun?
100
This Capital City sits along the River Thames.
What is London?
100
Famous for flying a kite in a thunderstorm to study electricity.
Who is Ben Franklin?
100
The didgeridoo comes from this country.
What is Australia?
100
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
What is A Tale of Two Cities?
100
This color is made by mixing red and blue.
What is purple?
200
This scale measures the strength of earthquakes.
What is the Richter Scale?
200
What is Moscow?
200
This man boldly wrote his name the largest on the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Hancock?
200
This percussion instrument is shaken and often filled with beads or seeds.
What is a maraca?
200
This novel by J.D. Salinger features the character Holden Caulfield.
What is The Catcher and the Rye?
200
This country gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States.
What is France?
300
The term for the oscillation of water particles in the ocean.
What is a wave?
300
This capital city was founded in 1790, its wide boulevards inspired by Paris.
What is Washington DC?
300
This Boston patriot famously rode to warn "The British are Coming!"
Who is Paul Revere?
300
This string instrument is traditionally associated with bluegrass and folk music.
What is the banjo?
300
This novel by Harper Lee features the characters Scout and Atticus Finch.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
300
This country was formerly known as Persia.
What is Iran?
400
A normal human has this many pairs of chromosomes.
What is 23?
400
This capital city sits at the mouth of the River Liffey.
What is Dublin?
400
This man served as the second President of the United States.
Who is John Adams?
400
This large brass instrument provides the bass line in marching bands.
What is the tuba?
400
This novel by Daniel Defoe tells of a castaway on a deserted island.
What is Robinson Crusoe?
400
This word refers to the study of word origins.
What is etymology?
500
This scientist proposed the Three Laws of Motion.
Who is Isaac Newton?
500
This European capital is nicknamed "The Eternal City".
What is Rome?
500
This founding father invented the glass harmonica in 1761.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
500
This percussion instrument consists of tuned wood or metal bars arranged like a keyboard, struck with a mallet to play.
What is the xylophone?
500
This Tolstoy novel examines adultery, marriage, and social judgment in 19th-century Russia.
What is Anna Karenina?
500
This term refers to a word that is spelled the same forward and backwards. (ie. racecar)
What is a palindrome?
600
The term for a baby eagle. (Not fledgling)
What is an eaglet?
600
This capital city is built on 14 islands connected by bridges.
What is Copenhagen?
600
He coined the phrase, "Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death!"
Who is John Henry?
600
There are this many distinct notes in an octave on a keyboard. (White and Black keys)
What are 12?
600
This novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky explores guilt and morality through a murderer named Raskolnikov.
What is Crime and Punsihment?
600
This U.S. state was the last to join the Union.
What is Hawaii? (1959)
700
Ascorbic Acid is better know as...
What is Vitamin C?
700
This capital city is home to the Brandenburg Gate.
What is Berlin?
700
This pamphlet written by Thomas Paine helped inspire American Independence.
What is Common Sense?
700
This brass instrument is known for its slide instead of valves.
What is the trombone?
700
This novel by Miguel de Cervantes follows a would-be knight who tilts at windmills.
What is Don Quixote?
700
This ancient civilization built Machu Picchu.
Who are the Inca?
800
This scientist developed the laws of planetary motion.
What is Johannes Kepler?
800
The "City of a Thousand Minarets".
What is Cairo?
800
The first Secretary of the Treasury.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
800
This string instrument is tuned in fifths and sits between the violin and cello.
What is the viola?
800
This novel by Oscar Wilde features a man whose portrait ages instead of him.
What is The Picture of Dorian Grey?
800
"Four Score and seven years" is this many years.
What is 87?
900
This phenomenon causes the bending of light as it passes through water or glass.
What is refraction?
900
This Capital city is the only in the world to exist in two continents; Europe and Asia.
What is Istanbul?
900
The first Secretary of War of the United States.
Who is Henry Knox?
900
This instrument is the largest member of the violin family.
What is the double bass?
900
This novel by Franz Kafka begins with a man waking up as an insect.
What is Metamorphosis?
900
This continent contains the most countries.
What is Africa? (54)
[Asia=48-49]
[Europe=43-44]
1000
This process turns a liquid directly into a gas without becoming a liquid first.
What is sublimation?
1000
The highest (elevation above sea level) capital city in the world.
What is La Paz? (Bolivia)
1000
This lesser-known founding father is the only one to have signed all four major founding documents. (Continental Association, Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, US Constitution)
Who is Roger Sherman?
1000
In Sergei Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf", the Cat is represented by this instrument.
What is the Clarinet?
1000
This novel by Joseph Conrad features a journey up the Congo River.
What is Heart of Darkness?
1000
This object travels around Earth about once every 90 minutes.
What is the International Space Station?