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200

If you freeze water, what do you get?

What is ice?

200

What is the capital of the United States?

What is Washington D.C.

200

What is XL?

What is 40?

200

What has to be broken before you can use it?

What is an egg?

200
A word that means the opposite of another word is called this.

What is an antonym?

400

What has hands but cannot clap?

What is a clock?

400

This ocean is the largest on Earth.

What is the Pacific Ocean?


400

What number is XCIV?

What is 94? 

400

What runs but never walks, has a mouth but never talks?

What is a river?

400

A word that sounds the same but has a different meaning is called this. 

What is a homophone?

600

I'm tall when I'm young and short when I am old. 

What is a candle?

600

What continent is Brazil on?

What is South America?

600

What is the Roman Numeral for 59?

What is LIX?

600

What gets wetter the more it dries?

What is a towel?

600

A word that means the same as another word. 

What is a synonym?

800

What has a head and tail but no body?

What is a coin?

800

What imaginary line divides the Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres?

What is the Equator?

800

What Roman numeral represents 199?

What is CXCIX?

800

I have cities, but no houses; rivers, but no water. What am I?

What is a map?

800

This part of speech takes the place of a noun. 

What is a pronoun?

1000

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?

What are footsteps?

1000

What invisible line divides the Earth into Eastern and Western Hemispheres?

What is the Grand Meridian?

1000

What number does DCCLXXXIX represent?

What is 789?

1000

The more you take from me, the bigger I become. What am I?

What is a hole?

1000

This type of sentence gives a command. 

What is imperative?