History
From which country did Mexico gain its independence in the 19th century?
Spain
What type of words should always be capitalized?
Proper nouns
How many continents are there?
Seven
What is the largest internal organ in the human body?
Liver
Other than water, the most-consumed beverage in the world is ____. Tea
Tea
What are the three branches of the United States government?
Legislative, judicial, and executive
What are the five interrogative or "question" words?
Who, what, when, where and why?
To travel from New York to London, one must fly over which ocean?
The Atlantic ocean
Bats are mammals. True or false?
True
A gallon of water weighs how many pounds?
8 pounds
The first fireworks were invented in the 7th century in what country?
China
Adding conjunctions such as "and" or "but" turns a simple sentence into what type of sentence?
Compound sentence
How many Great Lakes are there in the United States? Bonus point: Names?
Four—Michigan-Huron, Superior, Ontario, and Erie
The process by which plants "eat" and make energy is called ____.
Photosynthesis
Which of the Earth’s four layers is liquid?
The outer core
From whom did the United State buy territory in the Louisiana Purchase?
Napoleon/France
What do you call a group of crows?
A murder
How many kingdoms are part of the United Kingdom? Bonus point: Names?
Four—England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales
What is the part of the eye that controls how much light enters?
The pupil
Opposite angles in a parallelogram are called ____.
Complementary
The modern-day city of Istanbul was known by what name in the 13th century?
Constantinople
The words "the," "an," and "a," are known as what in English grammar?
Articles
Imaginary lines traversing the globe from pole to pole are called ____.
Meridians
The Earth has four layers, the thickest of which is the mantle. What is the thinnest layer called?
The crust
In Einstein’s famous E = MC^2 what do the letters stand for?
E stands for energy, M stands for mass, and C stands for the speed of light