Geography
What do the letters NE, NW, SE, SW mean on a map?
Intermediate directions
Which is the tallest animal in the world?
Giraffe
What is the strongest bone in the human body?
Femur
What force was discovered and named by Sir Isaac Newton in 1665?
Gravity
What was the ancient Egyptian writing system called?
Hieroglyphics
What is a continent?
a. A large landmass that is surrounded by water
b. A small chain of islands
c. A small country
d. A body of water.
Which animal is a Doe?
Female deer
What part of the human body is responsible for getting rid of the harmful toxins?
The liver.
Which planet in the solar system was considered an actual planet for decades until August 2006, when it was reclassified as a dwarf planet?
Pluto
What object, beginning with the letter Q, did people write with during the Middle Ages?
Quill
Which continent is directly below North America on a map?
a. Africa
b. New zealand
c. Mexico
d. South America
South America
What do we call a group of lions?
A pride.
What is the center of a cell called?
The nucleus
What is the fastest spinning planet in the solar system?
Jupiter
What city in the world was the first to be attacked with an atomic bomb?
Hiroshima
What is the capital of Germany?
Berlin.
Which is the only land animal that can't jump?
The Elephant.
Who was the German-born physicist that developed the special and general theories of relativity? This same physicist won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921.
Albert Einstein
What famous scientist first outlined the Three Laws of Motion?
Sir Isaac Newton
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first two men in the entire world to do what?
Walk on the moon
Name the seven continents.
North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Antarctica, Australia, Africa.
Which insect can lift up to 50 times its body weight?
An ant.
Gravity
How many stars are there in our solar system?
One - the sun.
In Einstein’s famous E = MC2, what do the letters stand for?
E stands for energy, M stands for mass, and C stands for the speed of light