Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?
If a train was supposed to arrive at 3:15 pm and arrived 35 minutes late, it arrived at... ?
What is 3:50pm?
How many centimeters are in a meter?
100
What is 26 X 5
130
What year did BC join confederation?
1871
The figurative language in the following sentence is called what? “She was as sweet as sugar.”
Simile
What is alliteration?
Repeating the first sound of a word
What is 10:16 pm in 24 hour time?
22:16
What months have 30 days only?
September, November, April, June
Name the capital city of British Columbia
Victoria
What is the name of the railway that was built across Canada?
Canadian Pacific Railway
Name the simple machines we learned about this year
level, inclined plane, wedge, pulley, wheel and axle, screw,
What is the past tense for “swim”?
Swam
What is the area of a rectangle with a length of 24 cm and a width of 8cm?
192 cm2
Name 3 EAs at our school
Miss Vicki, Miss Sara, Miss Barb, Miss Vicky, Miss Alex, Miss Merrite,
Which is the correct spelling?
A.) Delinquent
B.) Dellinquint
C.) Delinquint
D.) Delinquinte
A
Delinquent
What is the formula for Area?
A= LxW
Who was the first premier of BC?
James Douglas
What word in the following sentence needs a punctuation mark in order to make it grammatically correct? “Its going to be sad if our team loses the football game tonight.”
its
The number of hours in 3 days
72
Name the four major oceans
Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Artic
True or False: There are 360 degrees in a circle.
True.
How many continents are there?
7
Fireworks were invented in what country during the seventh century?
China
Who was the first prime minister of Canada?
Sir John A. MacDonald
How many seconds are in 5 minutes
300
What city is the capital of Canada?
Ottawa
Name three events that brought a population boom to BC?
fur trade, gold rush, Canadian Pacific Railway
What’s the main character in a story called?
Protagonist
What is the name of the character that the main character in a story is against called?
antagonist
What is Mrs. Horsthuis' favourite drink?