ELA
What does ELA stand for?
English Language Arts
Which is the hardest natural substance on earth?
Diamond
What operation is the opposite of multiplication?
Division
How many original colonies were there in America?
(Warning: DON'T name them)
13
What are the 3 "primary" colors?
Red, Yellow, Blue
Name 3 punctuation marks that can be found at the end of a sentence.
period
exclamation point
question mark
The pivot around which a lever turns
(in your own words is fine)
What is the next number in the following sequence:
1, 4, 16, ____
64
1X4=4
4X4=16
16X4=64
On which continent did our species originate?
Africa
200,000 years ago
What is the longest venomous snake in the world?
King Cobra
Name at least 3 genres of books
fiction
non-fiction
science fiction
biography
memoir
Improves cognitive skills
improves social skills
Improves critical thinking skills
creativity, focus, problem solving......
What is the mean average of 2, 7, 8 and 11
Answer: 7
2+7+8+11=28
28 divided by 4=7
Name a Native American tribe who originally lived in the (currently named) Vermont, New York, NH region
Abenaki, MicMac, Pequot, Mohegan...
What is the longest bone in the human body?
Femur
What series was written by author J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter
How do cell phones affect your sleep at night?
Blue light emitted reduces your Melatonin level, which disrupts your sleep cycle
What is the REMAINDER in math?
the value or remaining part after division
"The claims of witchcraft have been thoroughly DEBUNKED"
What does "debunked" mean as used in the sentence above?
proved false
What is the largest island in the world?
Greenland
August Wilson
Granite is an ________ rock, composed of mostly two minerals.
Igneous
The acronym PEMDAS refers to order of operations in math.
What does PEMDAS stand for?
(I'll give you the first one: Parentheses)
exponents
Multiplication
Division
addition
subtraction
Name the 13 Colonies from Colonial America:
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
What does a Camel store in its hump?
Fat