SKMT Jeopardy 2.5

ELA

100

The number of letters used in the English alphabet. 

What is 26? 

200

This is the term for an action word. 

What is verb? 

300

This is a famous figurative saying that means it's raining a lot. 

What is "It's raining cats and dogs"?

400

This is the term for a word that is meant to sound like a particular real-world sound when spoken aloud. 

What is onomatopoeia? 

500

This part of speech is a descriptive word that can be applied to nouns. 

What is an adjective? 

History

100

This is the location of the most famous pyramids in the world. 

What is Egypt?

200

This ship sank in the Atlantic Ocean in 1912 - a story which inspired one of the most popular movies in history. 

What is the RMS Titanic? 

300

This is the most famous civil rights activist, known for advocating for the rights of Black people in the 1950s and 60s. 

Who is Martin Luther King, Jr?

400

This is the deadliest war in human history, beginning in the late 1930s and ending in 1945. 

What is World War II?

500

This is one of the Native American Nations that live around what is today Reno, Nevada. 

What are the Shoshone, Washoe, or Northern Paiute peoples? 

Geography

100

Reno is a (1) _______ in the (2) __________ of Nevada. 

What are (1) city and (2) state? 

200

This is the name of the continent that contains Canada, the United States, and Mexico. 

What is North America? 

300

This state, which is directly west of Nevada, is also the largest state in the United States by population. 

What is California?

400

This is the term for an area of land surrounded by water on all but one side. 

What is a peninsula? 

500

This language, spoken by the biggest country in South America, originated in a country next to Spain. 

What is Portuguese? 

Math & Science

100

This is the number of sides on a triangle. 

What is 3?

200

From Earth, this is the brightest star in the sky. 

What is the Sun? 

300

This is the answer to a multiplication problem.

What is a product? 

400

This is the rough equivalent to miles in the metric system. 

What are kilometers? 

500

This name for a large collection of hundreds of millions or billions of stars shares its origin with milk. 

What is galaxy? 

Random

100

This is the price to sign up to borrow books from most public libraries. 

What is $0.00? 

200

These are the two colors that the American and Canadian flags share. 

What are white and red?

300

This is the place of worship for people of the Muslim faith. 

What is a mosque? 

400

This country is where the poetry form of haiku originated. 

What is Japan?

500

This is the term for people who are from the Netherlands. 

What is Dutch?