Math
If I have four dogs and two birds in one room, how many legs total?
20 or 22 (counting me)
Who was the 16th president of the United States?
Abraham Lincoln
Define and provide an example of an adverb.
A word that can modify or describe a verb, adjective, another adverb (quickly,happily).
What direction do latitude lines run on a globe?
Left to right
"My very educated mother just served us nachos." What is this supposed to help us remember?
Order of the planets from the sun.
Solve for X. 6x +4 = 22
x = 3
13 for the 13 Colonies
Spell the word that means "a place where people pay to sit and eat meals that are cooked and served on the premises."
Restaurant
In what two hemispheres is the United States located?
Northern & Western
In a basketball game, how many players from each team are on the court at the same time?
5
If a rock weighed 3.5 US tons, how many pounds it it?
7,000 pounds
Who was the President during the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
John F. Kennedy
Name something written by the Brontë sisters.
Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
What do you call smaller rivers that flow into another river?
Tributaries
Leonard is my mother's, father's, sister's, son. What specifically is my relationship to Leonard?
First cousin once removed.
A rectangle has a perimeter of 26 units and a width of 5. What is its length?
8: Perimeter is 2L + 2W → 26 = 2L + 10 → 2L = 16 → L = 8
Stalemate
State the difference between "affect" and "effect".
Effect = Noun (no sleep has a bad effect)
Affect = Verb (sleep affects studying)
Name 4 out of 7 of the New 7 Wonders of the World.
Great Wall of China, Chichen Itza, Petra, Machu Picchu, Christ the Redeemer, Colosseum, Taj Mahal
Name the first five books of the Bible.
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy
What is the next number in the sequence? 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, ___
13
What is the cause of World War I?
Serbian assassination of Austria-Hungary's Archduke, Franz Ferdinand
Complete the quote from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: "If music be the food of love..."
"Play on."
Name 2 out of 4 commonwealth states.
Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, or Virginia
Put these people in order of birth, first to last. Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, King Tutankhamun, Martin Luther, Marco Polo
King Tutankhamun (1341 BCE), Cleopatra (69 BCE), Marco Polo (1254), Joan of Arc (1412), Martin Luther (1483)