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100

The primary colors

What are red, blue, and yellow?

100

The temperature in Celsius of the boiling point of water

What is 100C?

100

The name of our galaxy

What is the Milky Way?

100

The capital of the US

What is Washington, D.C.?

100

World War II ended in this year

What is 1945?

100

A famous speech that begins with the words . . . four score and twenty years ago 

What is Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address?

100

There are 8 parts of speech; name them 

What are noun, verb, adjective, adverb, conjunction, preposition, and interjection?

200

The name of the supercontinent when all land masses were one big chunk

What is pangea?

200

A frog is this type of animal

What is an amphibian? 

200

This man discovered gravity when an apple fell on his head

Who is Isaac Newton?

200

The world's largest rainforest

What is the Amazon? 

200

The name of the artist that painted Starry Night

Who is Vincent Van Gogh

200

The first colony to become a state - i.e. the first state to join the United States

What is Delaware?

200

The author of Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Hamlet

Who is William Shakespeare?

300

The first president of the US?

Who was George Washington? 

300

When it rains, it pours

What is an idiom?

300

The tower of Pisa is in this country

What is Italy?

300

The largest planet in our solar system

What is Jupiter?

300

The 18th President of the United States

 

Who is Ulysses S. Grant?

300

A Shakespearean sonnet has three quatrains and a couplet totaling this many lines

14 (one quatrain has four lines, hence three quatrains = 12 lines; a couplet has two lines: 12 + 2 = 14)

300

The longest river in the United States

What is the Missouri River?

400

The tallest animal in the world

What is a giraffe? 

400

"The Tell Tale Heart" was written by this famous author of Gothic horror

Who is Edgar Allan Poe?

400

The human body's largest organ 

What is the skin? 

400

The hottest place on earth: 134.1 °F (56.7 °C)

What is Furnace Creek Ranch, in Death Valley, Eastern California, USA, recorded July 10, 1913?

400

The slope of a horizontal line is this number

What is zero? 

400

Which fabric was invented in ancient China?

Silk

400

What was the global recession that lasted from 2007 to 2009 called?

great Recession

500

The longest river in the world

What is the Nile River?

500

The process by which plants make their food using sunlight

What is Photosynthesis? 

500

The chemical symbols for water and iron 

What is H2O and Fe?

500

The process of cell division is called this

What is mitosis?

500

The capital of England

What is London?

500

Brexit refers to which country leaving the European Union?

United Kingdom

500

What year was Nelson Mandela freed from prison?

1990