WORDS & LANGUAGE
EARLY AMERICAN REVOLUTION
WORLD WAR II
RANDOM FACTS
SCIENCE
100

This punctuation mark ends a question.

What is a question mark?

100

This famous midnight rider warned the colonists the British were coming.

Who is Paul Revere?

100

This attack in 1941 brought the United States into World War II.

What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?

100

Octopuses have this many hearts.

What is three?

100

This planet is known as the Red Planet.

What is Mars?

200

A word that sounds the same as another but has a different meaning and spelling.

What is a homophone?

200

This event in 1773 involved tea dumped into Boston Harbor.

What is the Boston Tea Party?

200

This Allied invasion of France occurred on June 6, 1944.

What is D-Day (the Normandy Invasion)?

200

This is the only mammal capable of true flight.

What is the bat?

200

This force keeps planets in orbit around the sun.

What is gravity?

300

This language has the most native speakers in the world.

What is Mandarin Chinese?

300

This document formally declared the colonies’ independence from Britain.

What is the Declaration of Independence?

300

This leader was the Prime Minister of Britain for most of the war.

Who is Winston Churchill?

300

This country is home to the Great Barrier Reef.

What is Australia?

300

This part of the atom carries a positive charge.

What is the proton?

400

A word that has the opposite meaning of another word.

What is an antonym?

400

This 1775 battle is often called the “shot heard ’round the world.”

What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?

400

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These four countries were called the Allies in WWII

Who are United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, and China?

400

This everyday object was originally invented to solve the problem of dripping ink. (Specific)

What is the ballpoint pen?

400

This scale is used to measure earthquakes.

What is the Richter scale?

500

This term describes a word that is spelled the same but has different meanings and origins.

What is a homonym?

500

This European country was the first to officially recognize the United States.

What is France?

500

This secret project developed the first atomic bomb.

What is the Manhattan Project?

500

This metal is liquid at room temperature.

What is mercury?

500

This process allows plants to convert sunlight into chemical energy.

What is photosynthesis?