Science
→ What is the nucleus?
You have $20. You buy a drink for $3 and two snacks for $4 each.
How much money do you have left?
→ What is $9?
What is the capital of California?
→ What is Sacramento?
→ Who is George Washington?
A word that describes a noun
→ What is an adjective?
💡 Example: “The big dog ran fast” (big = adjective)
→ What is 60?
A boy and his father are in a car accident. The father dies. The boy is rushed to the hospital. The surgeon says,
“I can’t operate on him—he’s my son.”
How is this possible?
→ Who is the mother?
💡 Answer: The surgeon is his mom.
→ What is chemical energy?
You have 144 candies and want to share them equally among 12 friends.
How many candies does each friend get?
→ What is 12?
What country borders the U.S. to the north?
→ What is Canada?
What year did the Titanic sink?
→ What is 1912?
→ What is a pronoun?
How many continents are there?
→ What is 7?
You have 3 apples. You take away 2.
How many apples do you have?
→ What is 2?
💡 Answer: You took 2—you have those.
What is the pH of pure water?
→ What is 7?
A hoodie costs $200. It is on sale for 15% off.
How much is the discount?
→ What is $30?
→ What is Antarctica? 😏
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
→ Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Words that have opposite meanings
→ What are antonyms?
💡 Example: Hot ↔ Cold
What is the only country that is also a continent?
→ What is Australia?
A plane crashes on the border between the U.S. and Canada.
Where do they bury the survivors?
→ What is nowhere?
💡 Answer: Survivors aren’t buried.
→ What is friction?
You buy 16 packs of gum. Each pack costs $25.
How much do you spend total?
→ What is $400?
What river runs through Egypt?
→ What is the Nile River?
→ What is the Civil War?
What is the main idea of a story called?
→ What is the theme?
💡 Example: “Be kind to others” or “Hard work pays off”
What is the name of the longest bone in the human body?
→ What is the femur?
I speak without a mouth and hear without ears.
I have no body, but I come alive with wind.
What am I?
→ What is an echo?
What gas do humans exhale that plants use?
→ What is carbon dioxide?
A square has sides of 9 units and 4 units.
What is the total area of both squares combined?
9² + 4²
→ What is 97?
💡 (9² = 81 and 4² = 16 → 81 + 16 = 97)
What continent is Brazil in?
→ What is South America?
Who was known for the “I Have a Dream” speech?
→ Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
A comparison using “like” or “as”
→ What is a simile?
💡 Example: “He runs like the wind”
→ What is water?
A girl has as many brothers as sisters.
Each brother has twice as many sisters as brothers.
How many brothers and sisters are there?
→ What is 4 sisters and 3 brothers?
What is the name of the process where liquid turns into gas?
→ What is evaporation?
A number is 5. You multiply it by 3, then square the result.
What is the final answer?
→ What is 225?
💡 (3 × 5 = 15 → 15² = 225)
→ What are the Andes?
What empire was ruled by Julius Caesar?
→ What is the Roman Empire?
→ What is a homophone?
💡 Example: “Their / There / They’re”
→ What is 0°C?
You are in a race and pass the person in 2nd place.
What place are you in now?
→ What is 2nd place?
What part of the brain controls balance and coordination?
→ What is the cerebellum?
You have 2³ groups of items. Each group has 5² items.
How many items do you have total?
→ What is 200?
💡 (2³ = 8 and 5² = 25 → 8 × 25 = 200)
→ What is the Equator?
What was the name of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to America?
→ What is the Mayflower?
What is the perspective a story is told from called?
→ What is point of view?
💡 Example:
What is the square root of 144?
→ What is 12?
A man leaves home, takes three left turns, and returns home.
He is wearing a mask.
Who is he?
→ What is a baseball player?