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100
Which planet is closest to the Sun?
Answer: Mercury
100
Question: Who wrote Wonder?
What's the call number of this book? (bonus 200)
Answer: R. J. Palacio
F Pal or J F Pal
100
Books about a person's life written by someone else are called what?
Biographies
100
Guess the U.S. City
A Hartford
B Boston
C Montpelier
D Jersey City
B Boston
100
Aided by his 6-foot-4-inch height, which U.S. president won an estimated 300 wrestling matches?
A Abraham Lincoln
B John F. Kennedy
C Gerald Ford
D Franklin D. Roosevelt
A Abraham Lincoln
100
How many hearts does an octopus have?
3
100
Sweden
Norway
Jamaica
Chile
Sweden
200
Question: Which part of your body helps you breathe?
A. Heart
B. Lungs
C. Stomach
D. Liver
Answer: B. Lungs
200
Question: What kind of animal is Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia?
Answer: A lion
200
Question: Where would you look in a nonfiction book to find the meaning of a special or unfamiliar word used in the book?
A. Index
B. Glossary
C. Cover
D. Bibliography
Answer: B. Glossary
200
A Las Vegas
B Salt Lake City
C Cheyenne
D Denver
B Salt Lake City
200
Which scientist was known for eating exotic animals whenever he could, including giant tortoises of the Galapagos Islands?
A Louis Pasteur
B Charles Darwin
C Galileo
D Isaac Newton
B Charles Darwin
200
What is the only letter that does NOT appear in the name of any U.S. state?
Q
200
New Zealand
Cuba
Portugal
Jordan
Cuba
300
You are outside during a thunderstorm. You see lightning before you hear thunder. Why?
A. Lightning happens first
B. Light travels faster than sound
C. Thunder only happens after lightning disappears
D. Your eyes react faster than your ears
B. Light travels faster than sound
300
Question: What type of figurative language is this?
“She is as busy as a bee.”
Simile
300
What is the purpose of a bibliography at the end of a book or research project?
A. To tell you the ending
B. To list the sources that were used
C. To define difficult words
D. To introduce the author
B
300
Which of these places was once called New Amsterdam?
A San Francisco
B New York City
C London
D Jakarta
B New York City
300
What Very Big Thing Happened on December 7, 1941?
A Allies invade Normandy.
B Germany invades Poland.
C Japan surrenders World War II.
D Japan attacks Pearl Harbor.
D Japan attacks Pearl Harbor.
300
Which is larger?
A. One million seconds
B. One week
A. One million seconds — it's about 11.6 days
300
Ethiopia
Denmark
United Arab Emirates
Venezuela
Ethiopia
400
Question: Why does your shadow change length during the day?
A. You change height during the day
B. The Sun appears at different positions in the sky
C. Earth gets closer to the Sun
D. The wind moves your shadow
Answer: B. The Sun appears at different positions in the sky.
400
A book tells the story of a girl living during the American Revolution. The girl is fictional, but many of the events and historical details are real.
What genre is the book?
Answer: Historical fiction
400
A book has the call number 551.5. Which genre is it?
Nonfiction
400
Which state do Massachusetts and Pennsylvania both touch?
A New Jersey
B Connecticut
C New York
D Vermont
C New York
400
What very big thing happened on this day?
July 20, 1969
A The final U.S. soldiers leave Vietnam.
B First humans walk on the Moon.
C John F. Kennedy is assassinated.
D Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated.
B First humans walk on the Moon.
400
Question: What number comes next?
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, ___
13
400
Morocco
Singapore
Saudi Arabia
Ivory Coast
Saudi Arabia
500
Question: Which planet has the shortest year because it travels around the Sun the fastest?
Answer: C. Mercury
500
What was the name of the Darling’s daughter in Peter Pan?
Wendy
500
Two books contain different facts about the same topic. One was published in 1995 and one in 2025. Should you automatically assume the newer book is correct?
Answer: No. Publication date matters, but you should also consider the author, evidence, sources, publisher, and topic.
500
What country do Italy, Spain, and Belgium all touch?
A Switzerland
B France
C Netherlands
D Germany
B France
500
Question: Machu Picchu is located in which modern-day country?
A. Mexico
B. Peru
C. Brazil
D. Spain
Answer: B. Peru
500
If you write all the numbers from 1 to 100, how many times will you write the digit 9?
A. 10
B. 19
C. 20
D. 21
C 20
There are 10 times in the ones place:
9, 19, 29, 39, 49, 59, 69, 79, 89, 99
There are also 10 times in the tens place:
90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99
500
Brunei
Sudan
Peru
Cambodia
Cambodia
500
There are chickens and rabbits on a farm.
There are 10 animals total.
Together, they have 28 legs.
How many chickens and how many rabbits are there?
6 chickens and 4 rabbits.
6 chickens × 2 legs = 12
4 rabbits × 4 legs = 16
12 + 16 = 28
600
If you weighed 60 pounds on Earth, would you weigh more or less on the Moon? Why？
Answer: Less. The Moon has weaker gravity than Earth.
600
Read these two sentences:
“The snow was a white blanket covering the town.”
“The snow was like a white blanket covering the town.”
Which sentence is a metaphor, and which is a simile?
Answer:
First sentence = Metaphor
Second sentence = Simile
600
You want to find information about volcanoes, but the book you're using is 300 pages long. Which part can help you quickly find the pages where “volcanoes” are discussed?
Answer: The index
600
What country has land borders with Finland and North Korea?
A Kazakhstan
B Sweden
C Russia
D Mongolia
C Russia
600
Constantinople is the former name of which present-day city?
Istanbul
600
You have a 3-gallon container and a 5-gallon container. How can you measure exactly 4 gallons?
Fill 5 → pour into 3 → empty 3 → pour remaining 2 into 3 → refill 5 → pour 1 into 3, leaving 4
600
North Korea
Bolivia
Russia
Egypt
Egypt