Easy
If a car is traveling at 40 MPH, how long will it take to go 190 miles?
4hrs 45 minutes
Which continent is the least populated?
antartica
What ancient civilization built the Machu Picchu complex in Peru?
Incas
What is the approximate diameter of the Earth in miles?
7,9000 miles
What is the name of the largest lake in the world?
the Caspian sea
How many nouns are in the following sentence: "The rabbit ran to the cafeteria and ate a big salad."
three
Since the late 1930s, what calendar date has been designated for the inauguration of a united states president?
January 20th
What species can live on both water and land?
amphibians
What is the only word that is not in the predicate of the following sentence? “Lizzy threw her grammar book at the wall.”
Lizzy
Name the desert located in northern China and southern Mongolia.
the Gobi Desert
What unit of measurement is abbreviated "oz"?
ounces
In the initials of the federal agency known as NASA, what does the first "A" stand for?
aeronautics
A word, phrase or sequence that reads the same forward and backward is called what?
palindrome
How many consonants are in the word “acronym”
Four ("Y" is technically a "semivowel")
There are three basic types of muscle tissue in the human body. Smooth and skeletal are two of them. What’s the third?
Cardiac
True or false? The human shoulder is a ball-and-socket joint.
true
What revolutionary leader wrote the influential "Common Sense" in 1776?
Thomas Paine
What is the process of a caterpillar turning into a butterfly called?
metamorphosis
Which is the correct spelling of this animal? A.) Hipopotamas B.) Hippopotamus C.) Hippoponamas
B. Hippopotamus
In the book Mr. Popper’s Penguins, the name of the first penguin sent to Mr. Popper by Admiral Drake is named after what explorer?
Captain James Hook
Which one of these is a mammal: a seahorse, sea lion, or a sea urchin?
sea lion
What was the name of the first satellite pulled into orbit by the United States?
Explorer
Which general led US troops during the Vietnam War?
General William Westmoreland
Which U.S. city is known as the “City of Brotherly Love”?
Philadelphia
Three trailing dots used at the end of a sentence that indicates something has been omitted from quoted text, or that a speaker or writer has paused or trailed off in speech or thought is called what?
an ellipsis