Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader Math
The first day of the 20th century was?
January 1, 1901
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first two men in the entire world to do what?
Walk on the moon
What is the term for a word that is similar in meaning to another word?
Synonym
What species can live on both water and land?
Amphibians
What is the longest river in the world?
Amazon
What is the last thing you take off before bed?
Your feet from the floor!
9 students on each bus
Who wrote the national anthem of the United States of America?
Francis Scott Key
In the sentence “Sally is a very good drummer,” what part of speech is the word “very”?
Adverb
Which tool is used to estimate the likelihood of certain genetic outcomes?
Punnett Square
What is the largest country by size?
Russia
My spine is stiff, my body pale, I am always ready to tell a tale. What am I?
A book
Ron saves $32 every day. How much will he save in a year of 365 days?
$11,680
During World War I, the countries that sided against Germany were called:
Allied Powers
The name of a PARTICULAR person, place or thing.
Proper Noun
What phenomenon might be felt on the surface when two tectonic plates rub against each other?
Earthquake
What state is furthest north?
Alaska
When can you add two to eleven and get one as the correct answer?
When you add two hours to eleven o'clock, you get one o'clock.
The interior angles of a triangle always sum to...
180 degrees
Who founded the Red Cross?
Clara Barton
Who is the author of the 1960 novel about social and racial inequality To Kill a Mockingbird?
Harper Lee
How long does it take the moon to orbit Earth?
1 Month
How many countries are in North America?
23: Canada, the United States, Mexico, and all the sovereign states in the Caribbean and Central America.
I have keys, a lock and a space, but no rooms. You can enter, but you can't go outside. What am I?
A Keyboard
If a train leaves the station and travels at 60 miles per hour, how much time will have passed when it arrives at a station 300 miles away?
Five hours or 300 minutes
In what decade did Hong Kong revert to China from British rule?
The 1990s, specifically 1997.
Often seen at the end of a sentence, the three trailing dots that indicate the omission from speech or writing of a word (or words) that is superfluous or able to be understood from contextual clues are known as…?
An ellipsis
Why do you see often see lightning before you hear the thunder?
Light travels faster than sound
What’s the capital of New Hampshire?
Concord
There’s a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?
There aren’t any because it’s a one-story house.