4 Letter Words
Science
Literature
American History
Potpourri
100

This four-letter fish is often found in sushi.

What is tuna?

100

This scientist developed the laws of motion and gravity.

Who is Isaac Newton?

100

This author created the detective Sherlock Holmes and lived at 221B Baker Street in fiction.

Who is Arthur Conan Doyle?

100

This woman helped slaves escape via the Underground Railroad.

Who is Harriet Tubman?

100

This fruit shares its name with a tech company known for iPhones and MacBooks.

What is Apple?

200

Doe, a deer, another name for a male deer.

What is a buck?

200

This process allows plants to make their own food using sunlight.

What is photosynthesis?

200

This Shakespeare play features the line “Out, damned spot!”

What is Macbeth?

200

This term refers to journalists who exposed corruption and social injustices.

What are muckrakers?

200

The longest river in the world.

What is the Nile?

300

You better look before you take this four-letter word.

What is leap?

300

This scale measures the acidity or alkalinity of a substance.

What is the pH scale?

300

This Irish author wrote Ulysses.

Who is James Joyce?

300

This amendment gave women the right to vote.

What is the 19th Amendment?

300

Blueberry Muffin, Orange Blossom, Raspberry Torte and Ginger Snap - were all friends of this character - the Purple Pieman was not. 

Who is Strawberry Shortcake?

400

A four-letter word meaning to twist or distort.

What is warp?

400

This gas makes up about 78% of Earth’s atmosphere and is essential for plant growth.

What is nitrogen?

400

This epic poem begins with “Sing, Muse, of the rage of Achilles.”

What is The Iliad?

400

This land transaction doubled the size of the U.S. in 1803.

What is the Louisiana Purchase?

400

This composer wrote the Moonlight Sonata.

Who is Beethoven?

500

This 4-letter word is a synonym for courage or determination, often used in the phrase “show some ___.”

What is grit?

500

This part of the cell is known as the "powerhouse."

What is the mitochondrion?

500

This Brontë sister wrote Jane Eyre.

Who is Charlotte Brontë?

500

This Supreme Court case established judicial review.

What is Marbury v. Madison?

500

This Greek philosopher taught Alexander the Great.

Who is Aristotle?