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Brain Teasers

100

The more of them you take, the more you leave behind.

Footsteps

200

I have keys but open no locks, I have space but no room. You can enter, but you can't go outside.

Keyboard

300

What is full of holes but still holds water?

a sponge

400

This belongs to you, but everyone else uses it more than you do.

Your name

500

I am light as a feather, yet the strongest person cannot hold me for much more than five minutes.

Breath

Weather

100

This is the term for water falling from clouds in the form of rain, snow, sleet or hail.

Precipiation

200

This violent, rotating column of air extends from a thunderstorm to the ground and is often shaped like a funnel.

Tornado

300

This instrument is used by meteorologists to measure air temperature

Thermometer

400

This is the blanket of gases that surrounds the Earth and protects us from the sun's radiation

Atmosphere

500

This is the calm, low pressure center of a hurricane, which is typically free of clouds and strong winds.

The eye 

Geography

100

This imaginary line wraps around the exact middle of the Earth, dividing it into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

Equator

200

This is the capital city of the United States

Washington, D.C.

300

This is the largest ocean on Earth, covering more area than all of Earth's landmass combined

Pacific Ocean

400

This mountain range in Asia contains the highest peak in the world, Mount Everest

Himalayas

500

This South American river is not the longest in the world but it carries more water than the next seven largest rivers combined, making it the largest river by volume. 

Amazon River

Sports/Staying Active

100

In this sport, players use a stick to hit a puck into a net on a sheet of ice.

Hockey

200

This is the maximum number of times a volleyball team can hit the ball on their side of the net before sending it over.

3

300

These are the red blood cells' main job: to carry this crucial element from your lungs to the rest of your body.

Oxygen

400

In baseball, if the bases are loaded and a batter hits a home run, it is called this.

 A Grand Slam

500

In professional soccer, this is the name of the white dot located 12 yards away from the goal line where a player takes a free shot against only the goalkeeper after a major foul.

Penalty spot

Tech&Inventions

100

This is the global network that connects millions of computers worldwide, allowing you to browse websites

Internet

200

These American brothers are credited with inventing and building the world's first successful motor-operated airplane in 1903.

Wright Brothers

300

This is the most popular internet search engine in the world, a company whose name has actually become a verb meaning "to look up something online."

Google

400

Alexander Graham Bell is most famous for inventing this communication device in 1876

Telephone

500

Long before modern computers, this ancient, manual calculating tool used sliding beads on wires or rods to do math.

Abacus