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Black History Month Trivia
100
Identify the abstract noun in this sentence: "The children filled the room with happiness."
A. children
B. filled
C. room
D. happiness
What is D. happiness?
100
How would you convert 2,613 to expanded form?
What is 2,000 + 600 + 10 + 3?
100
How do the webbed feet of the alligator help it survive in its habitat?
A. They help the alligator climb trees quickly.
B. They help the alligator swim and catch its food.
C. They help the alligator dig deep holes in the ground.
D. They help the alligator chew its food.
What is B. they help the alligator swim and catch its food?
100
Jewel wants to buy a skateboard and a bicycle. She only has enough money for one. Jewel buys the skateboard.
What is Jewel’s opportunity cost?
What is the bicycle?
100
This former president was the first African American president of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?
200
What word means "to wash something before you use it"?
A. rinse
B. prewash
C. soak
D. scrub
What is B. prewash?
200
Washington Farms made 43 baskets of strawberries to sell. Each basket had 58 strawberries. Using the area model, how many strawberries were for sale?
What is 2,494 strawberries?
200
If a student wanted to tell if a soil is mostly sand, what could they do to identify the soil and why?
A. Add water to the soil because water will pass through sand easily.
B. Press it into a tight ball because sand will stay packed together.
C. Smell the soil because sand has a strong odor.
D. Freeze the soil because sand becomes sticky when frozen.
What is A. they could add water because it will pass through sand easily?
200
What is the MAIN responsibility of the executive branch?
A. To make laws
B. To interpret laws
C. To enforce laws
D. To rewrite laws
What is C. to enforce laws?
200
This woman refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
Who is Rosa Parks?
300
A word that connects words, phrases, or clauses is called what?
A. adjective
B. pronoun
C. conjunction
D. adverb
What is C. conjunction?
300
Using regrouping, how would you solve
4,302 - 1,587?
What is 2,715?
300
Meesha wants to create a model using a ball and a light source to demonstrate night and day on Earth. How can Meesha use these objects to create an accurate model?
What is, Meesha can tilt the ball at an angle, spin the ball around itself, and move the ball around the light source?
300
What is the name given to the forced removal of the Cherokee from their lands in Georgia?
A. The Louisiana Purchase
B. The Trail of Tears
C. The Gold Rush
D. The Civil War
What is the B. The Trail of Tears?
300
This NASA mathematician helped send astronauts to space and was featured in the movie Hidden Figures.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
400
When we add the prefix post to the root word of season; the meaning of the word postseason is now what?
A. before the season
B. during the season
C. after the season
D. the first game of the season
What is C. after the season?
400
Shade each grid to represent four-tenths. Write the equivalent fraction under each model.
400
What is the role of the heron?
A. Producer
B. Pollinator
C. Decomposer
D. Consumer
What is, it is a D. consumer because it eats small fish?
400
Why does the U.S. federal government have checks and balances?
What is to make sure no one branch has too much power?
400
This athlete broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
500
Which of the following sentences uses an intensive pronoun correctly?
A) I taught myself how to play the guitar over the summer.
B) She hurt herself while running on the track.
C) The Mayor himself signed the commendation for the students.
D) They bought a new car for themselves.
What is, C) The Mayor himself signed the commendation for the students?
500
Four friends are going to share half of a pie equally. Draw a model to represent how much of the pie each friend will get.
What is one-eighth?
500
Nina is creating a model of a plant cell and an animal cell. She is drawing a diagram of both cells and labeling the structures. Which structure should Nina only add to the plant cell?
A. nucleus
B. chloroplast
C. cytoplasm
D. cell membrane
What is a B. chloroplast?
500
What was the goal of the New Deal programs?
A. To expand the country’s borders
B. To create new state governments
C. To start a war with other countries
D. To end the Great Depression
What is, D. to end the Great Depression?
500
In the 1800s, this popular snack food was created by George Crum in New York.
What are potato chips?
600
How do the parts of speech and meaning change when we add the suffix -sion to the root word discuss?
A. It changes from a noun to a verb and means “to talk.”
B. It changes from a verb to a noun and means “the act of talking about something.”
C. It changes from an adjective to a noun and means “describing something.”
D. It does not change the part of speech or meaning.
What is B. discuss becomes discussion and changes from a verb (meaning to talk or converse) to a noun (meaning the conversation)?
600
Which expression has a product greater than 7?
A. 7 × 3/4
B. 7 × 5/6
C. 7 × 9/8
D. 7 × 2/3
What is C. 7 × 9/8, because only 9/8 is greater than 1.
600
Weathering and erosion are processes that constantly change Earth's surface. How are weathering and erosion different?
What is, weathering breaks down materials and erosion moves materials?
600
What was the price incentive for cowboys to move cattle at the turn of the century?
What is, people in the East were willing to pay high prices for beef?
600
This group of African American fighter pilots served in World War II and were known for painting the tails of their planes red.
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
