Math
Literary Awards
Instruments
Literary Terms
Mythology
100
Which of the following is the longest: 7 miles, 10 kilometers, 1000 meters, or 10,560 feet?
What is 7 miles?
100
Complete the title of the Frances Hodgson Burnett novel, the Secret __________, on which the 3-time Tony Award-winning play with the same title is based.
What is Garden?
100
This wind instrument, whose tones are produced by the tension of the lips, is used to play reveille and taps.
What is the bugle?
100
This is the rhyme scheme of the following "There is an old man of Tralee,/Who was bothered an bit by a flea,/So he put out the light,/Saying, "'Now he can't bite,/For he'll never be able to see'".
What is aabba?
100
This name identifies a tribe of warriors known for their great size, strength, and ferociousness.
What are the Amazons?
200
7200 meters equals this many kilometers.
What is 7.2?
200
U.S. award established in 1917 by a newspaper publisher and awarded in 1961 to Harper Lee for To Kill A Mockingbird.
What is the Pulitzer Prize?
200
Family of instruments to which a bassoon belongs.
What is a woodwind?
200
Figure of speech in, "The willow is like a nymph with streaming hair."
What is a simile?
200
He had a golden touch for everything.
Who is Midas?
300
68 kilograms equals this many grams.
What is 68,000?
300
International award established in 1901 by the Swedish inventor of dynamite and awarded in 1962 to John Steinbeck.
What is the Nobel Prize?
300
Family of instruments for which a violin belongs.
What is a stringed instrument?
300
Name given to any poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative poem?
300
This dog guarded Hades.
What is Cerberus?
400
9 milliliters equals this many liters.
What is .009?
400
Medal established in 1921 for the year's outstanding children's book and awarded to Mildred Taylor in 1977 for Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
What is the Newbery Medal?
400
Family of instruments to which a clarinet belongs
What is a woodwind instrument?
400
Two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry.
What is a couplet?
400
This Roman god's bow and arrows would leave you love struck.
Who is Cupid?
500
105 centimeters equals this many kilometers.
What is .00105?
500
Medal established in 1938 for the year's most distinguished picture book for children and awarded in 1964 to Maurice Sendak for Where the Wild Things Are.
What is the Caldecott Medal?
500
Family of instruments to which a xylophone belongs.
What is a percussion instrument?
500
Humorous poem consisting of 5 lines usually with the rhyme scheme of aabba.
What is a limerick?
500
This Greek nymph could only repeat the words said by others.
Who is Echo?