Literature
What is Of Mice and Men?
Which planet is closest to the Sun?
What is Mercury?
The charter for the land that became Pennsylvania was granted to this man by King Charles II.
Who is William Penn?
This is the term for the perimeter of a circle.
What is circumference?
This is the smallest US state (by land area).
What is Rhode Island?
This famous tragedy set in "fair Verona" follows the love affair of 2 doomed teens.
What is Romeo & Juliet?
Liquid, solid, and gas are known as this.
What are the 3 states of matter?
Hershey, PA was founded by this man, who established it as a base for his growing candy company.
Who is Milton Hershey?
These are the order of operations.
What is PEMDAS (parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction)?
The Battle of Bull Run was a key battle in this US war.
What was the US Civil War?
This form of poem is 14 lines with a rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.
What is a Sonnet?
This molecule is the basis for heredity.
What is DNA?
This PA city sits at the confluence of three rivers: the Ohio, the Monongahela, and the Allegheny Rivers.
What is Pittsburgh?
This triangle has equal sides and angles.
What is an equilateral triangle?
Mt. Rushmore is located in this US state.
What is South Dakota?
This teen classic immortalized the often mis-quoted line, "Stay Gold, Pony Boy. Stay Gold."
What is The Outsiders?
There are this many bones in the human ear.
What is 3?
The name Pennsylvania means this in Latin.
What is "Penn's Woods"?
This mathematical constant is often celebrated on March 14th.
What is Pi (3.14159)?
This US federal holiday is celebrated annually on November 11th.
What is Veteran's Day?
Publishers of this famous writer's Gothic Horror books often include ravens on the covers.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
These 2 mammals lay eggs.
What are the platypus and the echidna?
This four-legged mammal resented by many drivers is the state animal.
What is the White-tailed deer?
2, 19, 47, and 71 are all examples of this kind of number.
What is a prime number?
The arrest of this woman ignited Civil Rights protests in the American South.
Who is Rosa Parks?