Math
What makes a square a square?
Answer: Four Equal Sides
Who invented the light bulb?
Answer: Thomas Edison
Who wrote “Romeo and Juliet”?
Answer: William Shakespeare
What is the boiling point of water?
Answer: 100 degrees Celcius
Which country is the The Great Pyramids of Giza located in?
Answer: Egypt
Solar power generates electricity from what source?
Answer: Solar
Fill in the blank: Easy peasy ............ squeasy
Answer: Lemon
If a train was supposed to arrive at 3:15 pm and arrived 35 minutes late, what time did it arrive?
Answer: 3:50pm
Who invented the telephone?
Answer: Alexander Graham Bell
What would you call the central character of a story or plot?
Answer: Protagonist
What are the three different states of matter?
Answer: Solid, Liquid, and Gas
Which country is both an island and a continent?
Answer: Australia
What company did Bill Gates start?
Microsoft
Fill in the blank: It's raining ...... and dogs.
Answer: Cats
If I had eight dozen eggs, how many eggs would I have in total?
Answer: 96
This company created its revolutionary new smartphone on June 29, 2007.
Answer: Apple
How many verbs are present in this sentence: '"We slept while they danced and cooked us meals" ?
Answer: 3
What are animals without a backbone called?
Answer: Invertebrates
What are the Earth's five oceans.
Answer: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, and Southern (Antarctic) oceans
What is it called when a computer can understand and behave like a human?
Artificial Intelligence
Fill in the blank: Hold your ........
Answer: Horses
What is a "baker's dozen"?
13
According to Encyclopedia Britannica and Mental Floss, some bakers in 13th-century England were notorious for skimping on the size of their baked goods, while customers were still paying full price. This “cheating” provoked King Henry III to pass a strict law—selling bread below the standard weight and size and overcharging for it got you roughed up or tossed in a jail cell. Many bakers didn’t want to risk it, so to reduce any margin of error, they often included an additional loaf of bread in their normal dozen, just to be safe.
What is the greatest sport of all time?
Hockey! (obviously)
What are similar sounding words called?
Answer: Homonyms
What are the poles of a magnet called?
Answer: North and South
What is the widest river in the world?
The Amazon River
What does USB stand for?
Answer: Universal Serial Bus
Fill in the blank: By the ....... of your teeth.
Answer: Skin
What do we call the angle less than 90 degrees?
Answer: Acute angle
What is one of the most ancient languages in the world?
What is the first language? Sumerian can be considered the first language in the world, according to Mondly. The oldest proof of written Sumerian was found on the Kish tablet in today's Iraq, dating back to approximately 3500 BC
BUT any of: Greek, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Tamil, Egyptian, Persian, Aramaic, Tamil, Sumerian, Coptic, Hurrian, Iceland
What is one of the three Greek words that Aristotle used as the foundation of RHETORIC? (Hint: E..., P..., L...)
Ethos, Pathos, or Logos
What does NASA stand for?
Answer: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
What % of the world's fresh water is in Antarctica?
The Antarctic Ice Sheet covers an area of almost 14 million km² and contains 30 million km³ of ice. Around 60% of the world's total fresh water (90% of the world's surface fresh water) is held in the ice sheet, equivalent to a 70m rise in global sea level.
In which year was the first computer invented?
Answer: 1943
Fill in the blank: Cool as a ......................
Answer: Cucumber