Bugs & Insects
Famous Landmarks
Music Makers
Plants and Nature
Riddles
100

This insect makes honey and lives in a hive.

What is a bee?

100

This famous bridge in California is painted orange-red and spans the entrance to San Francisco Bay.

What is the Golden Gate Bridge?

100

You hit this instrument with sticks or your hands to keep the beat.

What is a drum?

100

These underground parts of a plant absorb water and nutrients from the soil.

What are roots?

100

I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?

I am A bank

200

This bug starts life as a caterpillar before growing wings.

What is a butterfly?

200

This massive waterfall on the border of the U.S. and Canada is one of the most powerful in North America.

What is Niagara Falls?

200

This keyboard instrument has black and white keys and is used in almost every kind of music.

What is a piano?

200

This is the green substance in leaves that helps plants absorb sunlight.

What is chlorophyll?

200

What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?

An echo

300

This is the only insect that can fly both forward and backward.

What is a dragonfly?

300

This memorial in Washington, D.C. honors the 16th U.S. president and has a giant seated statue of him inside.

What is the Lincoln Memorial?

300

This woodwind instrument is held sideways and played by blowing across a hole.

What is a flute?

300

This is the process by which plants release water vapor into the air through their leaves.

What is transpiration?

300

The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?

The Darkness

400

This insect can lift objects many times its own body weight and is one of the strongest animals relative to its size.

What is an ant?

400

This tall iron tower in Paris was built for a world’s fair and is one of the most visited landmarks in the world.

What is the Eiffel Tower?

400

This string instrument is smaller than a cello and is often played with a bow in orchestras.

What is a violin?

400

This sugary substance is produced by plants during photosynthesis and is used as food for the plant (and often stored in fruits, roots, or stems).

What is glucose (or sugar)?

400

I follow you all the time and copy your every move, but you can’t touch me or catch me. What am I?

I am your shadow

500

This insect lights up at night using a chemical reaction in its body.

What is a firefly (or lightning bug)?

500

This famous white marble building in India was built by an emperor as a tomb for his wife.

What is the Taj Mahal?

500

This brass instrument has a slide that the player moves to change notes.

What is a trombone?

500

This layer of a plant’s stem or root is responsible for transporting water and minerals upward from the roots to the rest of the plant.

What is the xylem?

500

It belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do. What is it?

It is your name