Science
The force that attracts objects to the center of the Earth
What is gravity?
The part of speech that is used to name a person, place, thing or quality
What is a noun?
With its origins in Montreal, this sport has several North American teams, including the Colorado Avalanche and the Edmonton Oilers
What is (ice) hockey?
A person who studies the weather
What is a meteorologist?
Reaching temperatures as high as 470 C, this 2nd planet from the sun is known to be the hottest in the solar system, and shares its name with the Roman goddess of love.
What is Venus?
An example being the word 'exciting' in 'an exciting day out', this word category is used to describe or modify nouns.
What is an adjective?
The most recent Olympic Games took place in this city
What is Tokyo?
Located between two North American countries, this waterfall has a vertical drop of 50m
What are the Niagara Falls?
This process by which plants convert light into a source of food
What is photosynthesis?
Always preceded by the word 'to' in the infinitive form, this word category indicates an action.
What is a verb?
This Québécois tennis player reached the semifinals of the 2021 US Open
Who is Félix Auger-Aliassime?
This tiny country surrounded by Rome has less than 500 residents and is home to the leader of the Catholic Church
What is the Vatican?
The study of stars, planets and galaxies.
What is astronomy?
A type of literature where the content is imagined and does not describe real events
What is Fiction?
Using terms such as dump, serve, dig, floater, and wipe, this team sport involves a net and sometimes takes place on a beach
What is volleyball?
The capital of India
What is New Dehli?
The smallest in the solar system, this planet also shares its name with a chemical element.
Mercury
'He is as smart as a computer.'
Comparing one thing to something else, what type of figurative language is this?
What is a simile?
This sport can be played on different surfaces, including grass, clay and carpet
What is tennis?
Sometimes referred to as a 'twister', this weather phenomenon is column of air that can turn at speeds as fast as 510 km/h
What is a tornado?
The chemical responsible or making leaves green
What is chlorophyll?
A type of figurative language, examples include 'You are my sunshine' and 'Life is a rollercoaster'
What is a metaphor?
Who is Usain Bolt?
In 1886, this country gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States
What is France?
Often referred to as a 'pride' when in groups, this species is distantly related to the domestic cat
What are lions?
The literary techniques of giving human qualities to objects that are not human, e.g. 'the sun smiled down on the town'
What is personification?
In England, the biggest teams of this sport play in the Premier League and the Championship League
What is football?
Located in the US state of Nevada, this military compound is often associated with conspiracy theories involving extraterrestrial beings
What is Area 51?
Often nicknamed the Blue Planet, this celestial body has a diameter of almost 13,000 km
What is the Earth?
An example being 'It's raining cats and dogs', the literal meaning of these expressions do not match their true meaning
What is an idiom?
Using a mallet to hit a small ball into the opposing team's goal, this sport is unique in that the players all ride on horses
What is polo?
Located in the Arctic circle, this island is the world's largest and belongs to Denmark
What is Greenland?
An Englishman famous for having an apple fall on his head, he discovered the law of gravity
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
The part of the sentence that performs the action of the verb. An example would be 'mom' in the sentence 'My mom drives into the city every day'
What is a subject?
Played with a shuttlecock, this sport is named after a town in England
What is badminton?
A landlocked European country whose official languages are French, German, Italian and Romansh
What is Switzerland?
A thin barrier between the body and the surrounding environment, this organ is the largest in the human body
What is the skin?
What are palindromes?
This sport was created in 1891 by Canadian professor James Naismith
What is basketball?
Used to measure the intensity of earthquakes, this scale named after a seismologist whose surname begins with 'R'
What is the Richter scale?