Parts of Speech
Science
General Knowledge
Vocabulary
Olympics 2024
100

What part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea?

Noun

100

What is the study of life?

Biology

100

What is 10 x 10?

100

100

This word means being long-lasting and recurrent or characterized by long suffering. 

Chronic

100

This sport can only be performed where large waves are present. 

Surfing

200

This part of speech shows action. 

Verb

200

Frogs, salamanders, and toads are what type of species?

Amphibians

200

Complete the phrase:

Raining cats and _________. 

Dogs

200

This is something that everyone should hope to have, the ability to recover readily from adversity or change

Resilience

200

What rapper has become an unofficial mascot at the Olympics? 

Snoop Dogg

300

Bam!  Pow!  Bang!

These words are what part of speech?

Interjection

300

Paper is something we use in every class. What is it primarily made of?

Wood from trees

300

Name a search engine. 

Google, Yahoo, Siri, Bing, etc. 

300

This word means to take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property. 

Plagiarize

300

Flav-a-Flav sponsored this team for the Olympics. 

Women's water polo

400

These words are used to take the place of a noun. 

Pronoun

400

What happens when a liquid becomes a gas?

Evaporation

400

Where are the Olympics being held this year?

Paris, France

400

This word means to  marked by extreme care in treatment of details.

Meticulous

Synonym: Precise

400

This sport involves a team of swimmers competing simultaneously while doing the exact same thing. 

Synchronized swimming 

500

This part of speech modifies a noun or a pronoun. 

Adjective

500

What causes earthquakes?

Techtonic movement or volcanoes

500

Who invented the light bulb?

Thomas Edison

500

This word means an event resulting in great loss and misfortune

Calamity

synonyms: cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy

500

This woman has won the most Olympic medals in gymnastics for the United States.  

Simone Biles  (She is also tied for second place in overall medals in women's gymnastics.)