What is the part of a word that is added to the end of a root word called?
Ex: wish + ful = wishful
What is a suffix
100
What is the type of animal called that hunts and eats other animals?
What is a predator.
100
The capital of the United States is Washington D.C. What does the "D.C." stand for?
What is District of Columbia.
100
How many months of the year have 31 days?
What is 7 months (January, March, May, July, August, October, December)
200
What is the pattern here?
8, 7, 9, 8, 10, 9
What is subtract 1, add 2
200
Which of the following words is NOT a synonym of the word absurd?
ridiculous, old-fashioned, ludicrous, out-landish
What is old-fashioned.
200
How many planets orbit our sun? Not including Pluto!
What is 8.
200
What brave African American woman refused to give up her bus seat that was in a section reserved for white people only?
Who is Rosa Parks.
200
What does it mean to be left "high and dry?"
What is left alone and helpless.
300
Round 634,716 to the nearest ten thousand
What is 630,000
300
How many syllables are there in the word tonsillectomy?
What is 5.
ton - sil - lec - to - my
300
About how many bones are there in the adult human skeleton?
Team who gets the closest number gets the points.
What is 206.
300
What mountain chain begins in Alaska and extends all the way down to New Mexico?
What is the Rocky Mountains.
300
True or False? The temperature in the desert remains hot all day and night.
What is False. The temperature in the desert drops at night.
400
How many different three digit numbers can you write using only the digits 1, 2, and 3
Hint: make a list!!!
What is 6 different numbers.
123, 132, 213, 231, 312, 321
400
What are homophones? Write a definition and give an example
What is two or more words that are pronounced alike but have different meanings. Ex: there, they're, their
400
What do you call animals that live partly in water and partly on land?
What are amphibians.
400
What city in the Midwest is known as the "Motor City" because of its car production?
What is Detroit, Michigan.
400
What do we call scientists that dig up artifacts and study ancient civilizations?
What is archaeologists.
500
Give an example of the Distributive Property of Multiplication using an equation.
What is
Ex: 10x5 = (5x5) + (5x5)
500
What is an idiom? Give an example
What is an expression that has a figurative meaning, sometimes differing culture to culture. Basically, the words have a different meaning than what they say literally.
Ex: That test was a piece of cake. Piece of cake is an idiom that means easy in this case.
500
How can you tell the age of a tree?
What is the number of rings in its trunk. One ring = one year.
500
Which president is on the $5 bill?
Who is Abe Lincoln.
500
What are the names of Miss Curro's brother and sister?