Science and Nature
What is the process by which water changes from a liquid to a gas?
vaporization or evaporation
Who was the first person to walk on the moon?
Neil Armstrong
Who wrote the poem "The Raven?"
Edgar Allan Poe
What is the name of a polygon with five sides?
pentagon
What is the name of the closet star to Earth?
The Sun
What is the main gas that makes up the Earth's atmosphere?
Nitrogen
What is the name of the river that flows through Egypt?
The Nile River
What is a five-line poem with a specific rhyming scheme (AABBA) and syllable structure?
a limerick
What is a2 + b2 = c2?
Pythagorean Theorem
What is the name of the largest body of salt water that covers a large portion of the Earth's surface?
Pacific Ocean
What is the name of the scale used to measure the intensity of earthquakes?
Richter scale
Which country is home to the Eiffel Tower?
France
What is a group of lions called?
a pride
What is 15% of 60?
9
What country gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States?
France
What is a mammal that carries its young in a pouch?
a marsupial
What is the smallest continent in the world?
Australia
What is the literary device that gives human qualities to inanimate objects or animals?
personification
What is the square root of 169?
13
Which states were the first and last states to join the United States of America?
Delaware (1787) and Hawaii (1959)
What is the function of red blood cells?
To carry oxygen throughout the body
What was the name of the political protest in 1773 by American colonists against British tax policies?
The Boston Tea Party
What is the term for a word formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word (ex NASA)?
acronym
What is the next prime number after 29?
31
What is the most abundant element in the Earth's crust?
Oxygen