Science
Geography
POTUS
Food for Thought
Riddles
100

Most adult humans have this many bones.

What is 206?

100

This is presently the largest continent on Earth.

What is Asia?

100

He was the first POTUS to live in the White House.

Who is John Adams?

100

I've got layers and I can make you cry.

What is an onion?

100

The more there is, the less you see.

What is darkness?

200

This scientist sailed on the HMS Beagle, explored the Galapagos Islands, and wrote The Origin of Species which explained how natural selection works.

Who is Charles Darwin?

200

This is the country to visit to see the great Incan city of Machu Picchu.

What is Peru?

200

Name the four POTUS assassinated while in office.

Who are Abraham Lincoln (1865), James Garfield (1881), William McKinley (1901), and JFK (1963)?

200

It is a myth that George took a hatchet to my tree. I am often drowning at the bottom of a glass.

What is a cherry?

200

It can fill a room but takes up no space.

What is light?

300

Name the colors of the rainbow.

What are ROYGBIV (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet)? 

300

This country has the most coastline.

What is Canada?

300

Name the two POTUS who have been impeached by the US House of Representatives.

Who are Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton?

300

I supposedly landed hard on a human's head and now the masses are attracted to each other.

What is an apple?

300

Light as a feather, there is nothing in it; the strongest man can't hold it for much more than a minute.

What is breath?

400

This is the equation for Newton's Second Law of Motion. Don't make me force it out of you!

What is F=MA? (Force=Mass X Acceleration)?

400

This is the deepest spot in the oceans.

What is the Mariana Trench?

400

Name two POTUS who died of natural causes while in office. There are four.

Who are William Henry Harrison (1841), Zachary Taylor (1850), Warren Harding (1923), Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR 1945)? 

400

I am "crazy" for this country that is "crazy" about soccer.

What are Brazil nuts?

400

It has to be broken before it can be used. 

What is an egg?

500

Write the formula for density three different ways.

What is D=M/V, M=DV, V=M/D?

500

Name three countries completely surrounded by one other country. 500 points per correct answer!

What are Lesotho, Vatican City, and San Marino?

500

Name the four POTUS born in Massachusetts.

Who are John Adams, John Quincy Adams, John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK), and George Herbert Walker Bush?

500

I got a plum of a job cutting dead branches.

What is a prune?

500

This kind of coat can be put on only when wet. 

What is paint?