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RANDOM TRIVIA
100
The abbreviation for anno domini, meaning "year of our Lord" in Latin. It is used to describe the years after Jesus.
What is a A.D.?
100
An account of someone's life written by another person. For example, Ronald White wrote a book about Abraham Lincoln.
What is a biography?
100
People, places, things, or ideas.
What is a noun?
100
A distinctive shape; an important person.
What is a figure?
100
Which country has the biggest land area?
What is Russia?
200
The abbreviation for "common era," which is the more politically correct way to the years after Jesus.
What is C.E.?
200
An account of someone's life written by that person. For example, Donald Trump wrote a book about himself.
What is an autobiography?
200
A noun that you can see, taste, touch, hear, or smell. For example, a car.
What is a concrete noun?
200
The current vice president of the United States.
Who is Joe Biden?
200
The ocean where Hawaii is located.
What is the Pacific?
300
This word means a long period of time with a particular feature or characteristic. It is also found in the abbreviations B.C.E. and C.E.
What is an era?
300
Any source produces after the event, issue, or period has passed. The most common example is a textbook.
What is a secondary source?
300
A noun that you cannot see, touch, taste, hear, or smell. For example, hate.
What is an abstract noun?
300
Who is one assistant principal at this school?
Who is _______? (Depends on school)
300
Blood is filtered by this pair of organs.
What are the kidneys?
400
A term referring to something or someone that is very old.
What is ancient?
400
An original document created at the time being studied.
What is a primary source?
400
A category of literature. Examples: fantasy, science fiction, poetry.
What is genre?
400
This girl's diary was published after World War II. She was a Jewish child who has to hide from the Nazis.
Who was Anne Frank?
400
Natural disasters measured by the Richter Scale.
What are earthquakes?
500
The arrangement of dates or events in the order that they happened.
What is a chronology?
500
An example of an abstract noun that is in our vocabulary list.
What is era.
500
This U.S. president declared that all slaves were free in the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who was Abraham Lincoln.
500
The smallest U.S. State.
What is Rhode Island?