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Ancient Egypt
Literature
Planets
Constitution
Stars
100
On which continent is Egypt?
What is Africa
100
Comparing two things using “like” or “as”
What is a simile?
100
Currently the farthest planet(well, almost a planet) from the sun
What is Pluto?
100
Protects freedom of press, speech and religion
What is the 1st Amendment ?
100
A hot, glowing sphere of gas that produces energy by fusion
What is a star?
200
This is the longest river in the world?
What is the Nile
200
The main idea or message in a story
What is a theme?
200
One and a half times larger than all other planets combined
What is Jupiter?
200
Saying something that is meant to damage another person’s reputation
What is slander?
200
The two factors that determine how bright a star appears
What are distance and actual brightness?
300
Which king’s treasure was found in tact?
Who is King Tut.
300
Person or thing in conflict with the main character
What is an antagonist?
300
The four gaseous giant planets
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune?
300
Requires a search warrant for police to enter a home.
What is the 4th Amendment?
300
The chemical reaction that takes place inside a star to cause the release of energy
Hydrogen fusion
400
What do we call Egyptian writing?
What is Hieroglyphics
400
A difference between how something appears to be and how it really is.
What is irony?
400
The most spectacular storm on Jupiter
What is the Great Red Spot?
400
No on can be put on trial for a serious crime unless a grand jury agrees the evidence justifies it.
What is the 5th Amendment ?
400
The large cloud of dust and gas from which a star is formed
What is a Nebula?
500
Who was the Egyptian sun god?
Who is Ra or Amon Re
500
Giving an inanimate object human characteristics
What is personification?
500
The collective name for Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars
What are the Terrestrial Planets?
500
Power of the government to take private property for public use
What is eminent domain?
500
The temperature at which fusion takes place inside a nebula to form a star
What is 10,000,000º Celcius