Word Play
Back In My Day
Literature
This Doesn't Add Up
Miscellaneous
100

This punctuation mark is often used to separate words or items in a list.

What is a comma?

100
In 1951, this object could finally broadcast in color.

What is the television/TV?

100

This seven book series features a group of friends commonly called the "Golden Trio".

What is Harry Potter?

100

Simplify the fraction: 6/8

What is 3/4?

100

Luke Skywalker begins his Jedi Training with Yoda on this planet.

A) Dagobah B) Tatooine C) Hoth

What is A) Dagobah?

200

This word is the opposite of quiet or silent.

What is loud?

200

Portable device used in the 1980s to listen to music. 

Hint: Star Lord had one of these in Guardians of the Galaxy

What is a Walkman?

200

The title of the third book in Rick Riordan's "Heroes of Olympus" series.

What is "The Mark of Athena"?

200

0.6 x 3.5 = ?

What is 2.10 or 2.1?

200

The fifth planet from the sun.

What is Jupiter?

300

This literary device compares two objects using the words 'like' or 'as'.

What is a simile?

300
This invention from the early 20th century replaced horse drawn carriages.

What are cars?

300

This author wrote "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass".

Who is/was Lewis Carroll?

300

The perimeter of a hexagon if every side is 7 inches long.

What is 42 inches?

300

This popular Marvel character and member of the X-Men is Canadian. 

Who is Wolverine?

400

This word for 'to learn' comes from the Latin root meaning 'to take' or 'to receive'.

Choices: A) Study B) Educate C) Teach 

What is B) Educate?

The Latin root "capere" means "to take" or "to receive". In the word "educate", the prefix "ed-" comes from this root, indicating the idea of receiving or taking in knowledge.

400

This 1893 invention allowed people to communicate with each other over long distances, revolutionizing the way people stayed in touch.


What is the telephone?

400

This Brothers Grimm fairy tale is about a princess who is cursed into an eternal slumber.

What is Sleeping Beauty?

400

The volume of a cube if the edge length is 5 centimeters long.

What is 125 cm?

400

He was the only U.S. president to serve four consecutive terms.

Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?

500

Spelling game played with lettered tiles.

What is Scrabble?

500

This 1620 innovation by English inventor Sir Francis Bacon allowed for the exploration of underwater environments.

What is the submarine?

500

It is unlucky to say the name of this Shakespeare play backstage before and during a play.

What is Macbeth?

500

Find X:

5x + 7 = 42

What is X = 7?

500

Approximately 60.1 million square miles, it is often referred to as the "World's Ocean". 

What is the Pacific Ocean?