Numbers and Math
What is half of 50?
25
“Ask not what your country can do for you…”
John F Kennedy
What is Earth’s closest star?
The Sun
In what war was the Battle of Gettysburg fought?
American Civil War
What garden tool has prongs and helps loosen soil and collect fallen leaves/branches?
Rake
How many degrees are in a right angle?
90
“Four score and seven years ago…”
Abraham Lincoln
What planet is called the Red Planet?
Mars
What conflict began with the invasion of Poland in 1939?
World War II
What vegetable is orange and helps your eyesight?
Carrot
What is 8 multiplied by 7?
56
“Be the change you wish to see in the world”
Mahatma Gandhi
What is the term for a group of stars forming a pattern?
A Constellation
What famous WWII battle happened on June 6, 1944?
D-Day (Normandy)
What do you call nutrient rich soil made from rotting plants?
Compost
What is the term for the distance around a circle?
Circumference
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
What are huge balls of ice and dust that orbit the sun?
Comets
What medieval war lasted over a century between England and France?
Hundred Years War
Irrigation
What is the term for a number that cannot be divided evenly except by 1 and itself?
Prime Number
“I think, therefore I am”
Rene Descartes
What is the closest complete galaxy to ours (the milky way)?
Andromeda
Which US President (then a general) served as the supreme commander of allied forces in Europe during World War II?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
What term, similar to agriculture, means farming fish or seafood?
Aquaculture