Math
The amount of face cards in a regular deck of playing cards
What is 12?
This is the largest internal organ in the human body
What is the Liver?
These type of words should always be capitalized
What are Proper Nouns?
This is a perfect recess game since it engages all students at once. It is fun yet easy to understand—go on green, but don’t get caught still moving on red!
What is Red Light, Green Light?
This federally assisted meal program was signed by President Harry Truman in 1946. It provides nutritionally balanced, low-cost or free lunches to children each school day to public and nonprofit private schools and residential child care institutions.
What is The National School Lunch Program?
This type of triangle has 3 unequal sides
What is a Scalene Triangle?
These 3 ingredients are used to create an erupting volcano
What are baking soda, vinegar and red dye (food coloring)?
This American novel by JD Salinger follows the main character Holden Caulfield after he has been expelled from prep school.
What is The Catcher in the Rye?
This variation of baseball was created in 1953 designed to play in a confined space. The name was derived from a slang word meaning to strike out.
What is Wiffle Ball?
50% of consumers prefer to twist these iconic cookies before eating (or dunking) them.
What are Oreos?
This hand operated calculating tool consists of multiple columns of slideable beads, also called a counting frame.
What is an abacus?
This is the hardest naturally occurring mineral
What is a Diamond?
The author of James and the Giant Peach
Who is Ronald Dahl?
Think of this game as reverse hide-and-seek. Whoever is “it” hides while the other players count. Unlike hide-and-seek, the other players then try to find (and join) the person who is it. Finally, the last player outside the hiding spot is the new it.
What is Sardines?
This fried favorite originates from Belgium
What are French Fries?
The interior angles of a triangle always add up to this many degrees
What is 180 degrees?
This metal salt is typically mixed to create the yellow colors in fireworks
What is calcium chloride?
The central character of a story or plot
What is the Protagonist?
Similar to the classic game kickball but there’s no kicking. All you need is four large numbered squares and any rules you can come up with. Break a rule and you’re out, and the next player in line is in.
What is Four Square?
The name of this Mexican food favorite is Spanish for 'little donkey'
What is a Burrito?
This shape has 6 sides
What is a hexagon?
This species can live both in water and on land
What are Amphibians?
This poem's opening line "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore" features a talking bird's famous line "Nevermore"
What is The Raven?
This version of "tag" makes the players stop in their tracks
What is freeze tag?
A movie was recently made about this red snack
What are Flamin Hot Cheetos?