History/Geography
Who invented the light bulb in 1879?
Thomas Edison
What is the term for a word that is similar in meaning to another word?
Synonym
a2 + b2 = c2 is known as the
Pythagorean Theorem
The north pole of the magnet and the north pole of another magnet will do what?
Repel each other
You peer through a window into a classroom and count 20 eyes. If each person has a normal number of eyes, how many people are in the room?
10
Which cities was an atomic bomb dropped on by the US during WW2?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What are the comparative and superlative forms of the word “big?”
Bigger and biggest
How many months in the calendar year have exactly 30 days?
4
What is the closest planet to the sun?
Mercury
The first day of the 20th century was
1 January 1901
What is the name for a body of land that is surrounded by water on three sides
Peninsula
Adding conjunctions such as “and” or “but” turns a simple sentence into what type of sentence
Compound sentence
Which of the Earth’s 4 layers is liquid
The outer core
The hardest naturally occurring mineral is
Diamond
If the first person takes 25% of the cake and the second person takes 20% of the remainder, how much of the original cake remains?
60%
How many kingdoms are part of the United Kingdom? and name them
4: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales
What type of word is “truthfully?”
Adverb
Found in carrots and sweet potatoes, beta-carotene breaks down into what vitamin?
Vitamin A (we'll also accept Retinol)
Which element composes the majority of the Earth's atmosphere?
Nitrogen
A farmer notices that every day for the past 10 days, the number of pigeons in his field has doubled. There are 1024 pigeons in the field today, and there were 2 pigeons there the first day. How many pigeons were there yesterday?
512
The modern day city of Istanbul was known by what name in the 13th century…
Constantinople
Who is the author of the 1960 novel about social and racial inequality To Kill a Mockingbird?
Harper Lee
In the 1950s, Dr. Jonas Salk discovered a vaccine that would protect people from what disease?
Polio
In the human body, the adrenal glands are located directly above what organ?
Kidneys
129,329 divided by 23 (show your work:)
5,623