Geography
Can you name the island which is considered both as an island and a continent?
Australia
Which is the thinnest layer of the Earth?
The Crust
What do we call the words which describe a noun?
Adjectives
What was the name of the first British colony in the Americas?
Jamestown
How many sides does a hexagon have?
6 Sides
‘Machu Picchu’ is located in which country of South America?
Peru
What do you call molten rock?
Lava
What is the term for a word that is similar in meaning to another word?
Synonym
Name two of Columbus’ three ships
Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria
37 x 39 =?
1,443
What is the largest ocean on Earth?
The Pacific
What are the droplets of water (rain, snow, sleet, or hail) that form in the atmosphere and fall back to the Earth called?
Precipitation
In the story about the boy who cried wolf, what is the lesson?
Always tell the truth and be honest
Italy, Japan, and Germany’s alliance was called what during WWII?
The Axis of Evil or the Axis powers
If I bought 7 dozen mangoes, how many mangoes would I have?
84 mangoes
What is the imaginary line that divides Earth into the Western Hemisphere and the Eastern Hemisphere?
Prime Meridian
What does the Richter scale measure?
The magnitude of an earthquake
What type of literature features magical creatures, such as giants, gnomes, and goblins?
Fairy tales.
What are the three branches of the United States government?
Legislative, judicial, and executive.
How many inches is a foot?
12
What is the tallest mountain in the world?
Mount Everest
Why do things fall when you drop them?
Gravitational forces
The person in a novel who tells the story from a third-person perspective is called a what?
narrator
___________ is where you go vote
polling place
111 x 111 =?
12,321
Which sea separates Europe and Africa?
The Mediterranean Sea
Which amphibian never sleeps?
Bullfrog
What do you call the part of the story with all the action or the big twist?
The Climax.
The Statue of Liberty was a gift from where?
France
How many minutes make 7 hours?
420 minutes
Name the five Great Lakes
Lake Erie
Lake Superior
Lake Michigan
Lake Huron
Lake Ontario
Name 3 mammals that can’t jump.
Elephant, sloth, hippo, rhino
What is the main character in a story called?
A protagonist.
Which war was fought between the north and south regions in the United States?
The Civil War
Answer: 35
What continent is Egypt part of?
Africa
What species can live on both water and land?
Amphibians.
Often seen at the end of a sentence, the three trailing dots that indicate the omission from speech or writing of a word (or words) that is superfluous or able to be understood from contextual clues are known as…?
An ellipsis.
What was the most widely grown crop in the middle colonies?
Wheat
Can you find the product of this without using a calculator? 456*124?
56,544
What is the longest river in the world?
Amazon.
What do you call a scientist who studies rocks?
Geologist
In the sentence “Sally is a very good drummer,” what part of speech is the word “very”?
Adverb
The first atomic bomb attack was on which city?
Hiroshima.
What do we call the angle less than 90 degrees?
Acute angle
an ______________ is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands
Archipelago
the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water.
Photosynthesis
Adding conjunctions such as "and" or "but" turns a simple sentence into what type of sentence?
Compound sentence
What was the ancient Egyptian writing system called?
Hieroglyphics
You have 20 pairs of shoes, but there is only room in your closet for 8 shoes. How many shoes do you have to get rid of?
32 shoes (or 16 pairs)