Who invented the light bulb in 1879?
Thomas Edison
You peer through a window into a classroom and count 20 eyes. If each person has a normal number of eyes, how many people are in the room?
10
What is the force that causes objects to fall to the ground?
Gravity
How many letters are in the English alphabet?
26
How many continents are there?
What are the first ten amendments to the Constitution called?
The Bill of Rights
On a class field trip, there are 4 buses taking 36 students to the zoo. Each bus has the same number of student. How many students are on each bus?
9 Students on each bus
Earth is located in what galaxy?
The Milky Way
Is “red” an adjective or a noun?
Both
What three countries are located in North America?
Canada, the United States, and Mexico
The first fireworks were invented in the 7th century in what country?
China
If a shopping cart contains 1 apple, 2 bananas, 3 oranges, 4 hot dogs, what percent of the cart’s total contents is fruit?
60%
What phenomenon might be felt on the surface when two tectonic plates rub against each other?
Earthquakes
Adding conjunctions such as “and” or “but” turns a simple sentence into what type of sentence?
Compound sentence
What is the name for a body of land that is completely surrounded by water?
An Island
The ancient Egyptian writing system was called what?
Hieroglyphics
You have 20 pairs of shoes, but there is only room in your closet for 8 shoes. How many shoes do you have to get rid of?
32 shoes or 16 pairs
How many planets are in our solar system?
8
What is the main character in a story called?
A Protagonist
What is the southernmost continent called?
Antarctica
The what was the name of the last Queen of France?
Marie Antoinette
If a football field is 100 yards long, how many feet long is the football field?
300 feet
What are the three states of matter?
Solid, liquid, and gas
Who is the creator of the classic book characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn?
Mark Twain
What is the imaginary line drawn around the earth that divides the earth into northern and southern hemispheres called?
The Equator