United States
General Knowledge
Geography
History
Science
Math
100

Who is Marco Rubio?

the current Secretary of State
100

What is the smallest country in Africa?

The Gambia

100

Which country is in red?

Indonesia

100

What did Ponce De Leon first discover?

Florida

100

List the blood types

A, B, AB, O both positive and negative

100

   8,765

+ 7,476

16,241

200

Who is the current Chief Justice of the USA?

John Roberts

200

Which large country has only one time zone?

Either answer who instituted that or why?

China

Mao Zedong instituted that to promote national unity

200

List 2 countries that are neighbors with Argentina

Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia

200

Which war happened in 1973?

The Yom Kippur War

200

What are the 2 LOWER leg bones called? (below the knee)

tibia and fibula

200

   4,005

-  2,878

1,127

300

How many amendments does the constitution have?

What are the first ten called?

27

The Bill of Rights

300

Give an example of something an ostentatious person would own (something that shows he is ostentatious)

anything that is very showy or flashy

300

Which country of United Kingdom is blue, yellow, red, and green?

300

What was the Soviet Union?

What year did it collapse?

What did it collapse into?

It was a big country run by a communist government. It collapsed in 1991 and is now 15 different countries such as Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, etc.

300

Match the following sciences to what they are. Which is physics, chemistry, and biology?

1- The study of what things are made of and how they change

2- The study of energy, motion, light, sound and electricity

3- the study of all living things

1= chemistry

2= physics

3= biology

300

What is a prime number? Give me two examples of prime numbers

a prime number is a number that cannot be divided by any other number other than itself


for example, 2,3,5,7

400

What are the 3 branches of the US government called?

Executive, Judicial, Legislative

400

A person from Finland is ______________

A person from the Netherlands is _______________

A person from Norway is _______________

A person from Sweden is ________________

Finnish

Dutch

Norwegian

Swedish

400

Where are the 5 Great Lakes located?

List at least 2 of them

Between Canada and the US

HOMES- Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior

400

Who established the Nobel Prize?

Where was he from?

What else is he known for?

Alfred Nobel, a Swedish inventor who invented dynamite

400

What are the symbols for these chemical elements?

1. iron           2. potassium

3. magnesium     4. gold

1. iron- FE       2. potassium- K

3. magnesium- Mg         4. gold- au

400

What's 10% of 120,000

12,000

500

Where is Mt. Rushmore located?

Which 4 presidents are carved into the mountain?

South Dakota

Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt 

500

Which 3 Israeli prime ministers have received the Nobel Peach Prize?

Begin, Rabin, Peres

500

Which country's flags are these?

A.

b.

c.

d.

e.


A. France

B. Switzerland

C. Poland

D. Portugal

E. Canada

500

Who were the Allies and Axis leaders during WW2?

List the 6 main ones we learned

Allies:

FDR-- USA    Churchill- UK        Stalin- Russia

Axis:

Japan- Hirohito         France- Mussolini

Germany- Hitler

500

Blood is composed of what 4 parts and explain each one

Plasma- the liquid

Red blood cells- carry oxygen around the body

White blood cells- fights infection

Platelets- helps our blood clot

500

What's 5% of 8,600

430

600

What is the tallest building in the United States? List 2 names for the building

How tall is it?

What year was it completed?

World Trade Center or Freedom Tower

1776

2014

600

Who is La Guardia airport named after?

What year did it open?

What happened that made him start the project of building the airport?

Fiorello La Guardia, mayor of NYC 

It opened in 1939

Newark because his ticket said New York! 

600

Name the capitals of these countries:

1. Nepal

2. Pakistan

3. Indonesia

4. Syria

5. Thailand

1.Nepal- Kathmandu

2. Pakistan- Islamabad

3. Indonesia- Jakarta

4. Syria- Damascus

5. Thailand- Bangkok

600

Which war started in 1861?

Name the president at the time

Name one of the generals of the war

The Civil War

Abraham Lincoln was president

Ulysses S. Grant was general of the Union army

600

What are #9, #3, #4, #11, and #5? You can get one wrong and still get the credit 

9= liver          3= stomach

4= pancreas   11= large intenstine

5= small intestine

600

What's 3% of 800?

24