Are You Smarter Than... (Math)
What makes a square a square?
Four Equal Sides Also: Four right angles
Who invented the lightbulb?
Thomas A. Edison
Who wrote the play Romeo and Juliet?
Shakespeare
What are the three different states of matter?
Solid, Liquid, and Gas
What continent is Egypt in?
Africa
What is the sum of the following numbers: 15, 47,30, 8
100
Which U.S. President was the 8th president.
Martin Vanburen
How many English credits do high school students need to graduate from high school?
24
The concept of gravity was discovered by which famous physicist?
Sir Isaac Newton
What is the largest state in the US?
Alaska
What is 11 squared?
121
What date is the Independence of the USA?
4th of July
When do you use its vs. it's?
It's is a contraction and should be used where a sentence would normally read "it is" or "it has." The apostrophe indicates that part of a word has been removed. Its with no apostrophe is the possessive word, like "his" and "her," for nouns without gender.
What is DNA?
Deoxyribonucleic Acid (dee-OK-see-ri-bo-new-klee-ik) a strand that decodes everything about you.
Name three of Earth's five oceans.
Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, and Southern (Antarctic) oceans
What is the Pythagoras theorem and what does each represent? Draw or describe.
The formula for Pythagoras' theorem is a² + b² = c². In this equation, “C” represents the longest side of a right triangle, called the hypotenuse. “A” and “B” represent the other two sides of the triangle.
This company created its revolutionary new smartphone on June 29, 2007.
Apple
Parts of speech - What are describing words called?
Adjectives
Put these in order in a food web with 5 levels.
mountain lion, grasshopper, fox, mouse, corn
Name the 7 continents.
Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America
How many seconds make 1 hour
3600 Find the minutes in 1 hours (60) 60 x 60 (seconds in a minute) = 3600
Name the 1st three US presidents.
George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson
What is Haiku? Describe # of lines and # of syllables.
The haiku is a Japanese poetic form that consists of three lines, with five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third.
What is the temperature of freezing? Describe in Fahrenheit.
32 degrees fahrenheit
at 32 degrees water will freeze
Who discovered the traffic light and the gas mask?
Garret A. Morgan