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Elementary School Math & Numbers
- Question: What is the only even prime number?
Answer: 2 - Question: How many sides does a hexagon have?
Answer: 6 - Question: What do you call the answer to an addition problem?
Answer: The sum - Question: What is 3 quarters of a dollar in cents?
Answer: 75 - Question: How many inches are in a foot?
Answer: 12 - Question: What is 10 squared?
Answer: 100 - Question: What shape has four equal sides and four right angles?
Answer: Square - Question: Which tool is used to draw perfect circles?
Answer: Compass - Question: What is half of 1,000?
Answer: 500 - Question: How many minutes are in three hours?
Answer: 180 - Question: If you have a dozen eggs, how many do you have?
Answer: 12 - Question: What is the Roman numeral for five?
Answer: V - Question: How many zeros are in one million?
Answer: 6 - Question: What property says 4 + 5 = 5 + 4?
Answer: The commutative property of addition - Question: How many faces does a cube have?
Answer: 6 - Question: What is the next number in the pattern: 2, 4, 8, 16, ___?
Answer: 32 - Question: What is ¼ written as a decimal?
Answer: 0.25 - Question: How many degrees are in a right angle?
Answer: 90 - Question: What is the top number of a fraction called?
Answer: Numerator - Question: How many sides does a decagon have?
Answer: 10 - Question: What do we call a polygon with three sides?
Answer: Triangle - Question: What is the product of 9 and 8?
Answer: 72 - Question: How many cents are in a quarter and a dime together?
Answer: 35 - Question: What is 7 × 0?
Answer: 0 - Question: What is the place value of the 5 in 5,432?
Answer: Thousands place
Science & Nature
- Question: What gas do plants breathe in that humans breathe out?
Answer: Carbon dioxide - Question: What force pulls objects toward Earth's center?
Answer: Gravity - Question: What planet is known as the Red Planet?
Answer: Mars - Question: Which organ pumps blood through your body?
Answer: Heart - Question: What is H₂O better known as?
Answer: Water - Question: What part of a plant makes food using sunlight?
Answer: Leaf - Question: What type of animal is a frog before it grows legs?
Answer: Tadpole - Question: What do we call a scientist who studies rocks?
Answer: Geologist - Question: About how many bones are in the adult human body?
Answer: 206 - Question: What star is closest to Earth?
Answer: The Sun - Question: What gas do humans need to breathe to survive?
Answer: Oxygen - Question: What natural resource covers about 70 % of Earth’s surface?
Answer: Water - Question: What tool do scientists use to look at tiny objects?
Answer: Microscope - Question: What is a young butterfly called before it becomes a butterfly?
Answer: Caterpillar - Question: What two poles does a magnet have?
Answer: North and south - Question: What do bees collect from flowers to make honey?
Answer: Nectar - Question: What layer protects Earth from the sun's harmful rays?
Answer: Ozone layer - Question: What is the process of water changing from liquid to gas?
Answer: Evaporation - Question: What’s the largest planet in our solar system?
Answer: Jupiter - Question: What is the main gas found in the air we breathe?
Answer: Nitrogen - Question: What scale is used to measure temperature?
Answer: Celsius or Fahrenheit - Question: What part of the eye controls the amount of light that enters?
Answer: Pupil - Question: What do you call animals that eat only plants?
Answer: Herbivores - Question: What energy do we get from the sun?
Answer: Solar energy - Question: How many legs does an insect have?
Answer: Six - Question: What type of scientist studies weather?
Answer: Meteorologist - Question: What is the solid form of water called?
Answer: Ice - Question: What unit do we use to measure electric current?
Answer: Ampere - Question: Which planet has rings made of ice and rock?
Answer: Saturn - Question: What phenomenon produces a flash of light in thunderstorms?
Answer: Lightning - Question: What part of the plant absorbs water from soil?
Answer: Roots - Question: What do you call the change of a caterpillar into a butterfly?
Answer: Metamorphosis - Question: What tiny particles make up all matter?
Answer: Atoms - Question: What is the boiling point of water at sea level in °C?
Answer: 100 degrees - Question: What tool do you use to measure weight?
Answer: Scale
Animals
- Question: What is the fastest land animal?
Answer: Cheetah - Question: What do you call a baby goat?
Answer: Kid - Question: What mammal lays eggs?
Answer: Platypus - Question: What is a group of lions called?
Answer: Pride - Question: How many arms does an octopus have?
Answer: Eight - Question: Which bird is known for its beautiful fan of feathers?
Answer: Peacock - Question: What animal is the largest living mammal?
Answer: Blue whale - Question: What color are pandas’ main fur patches?
Answer: Black and white - Question: What animal changes color to blend in with surroundings?
Answer: Chameleon - Question: What do you call an animal that eats both plants and meat?
Answer: Omnivore - Question: What bird can fly backward?
Answer: Hummingbird - Question: What is the tallest animal?
Answer: Giraffe - Question: What do koalas mostly eat?
Answer: Eucalyptus leaves - Question: What big cat cannot roar but can purr?
Answer: Cheetah - Question: What reptile has a shell and can pull its head inside?
Answer: Turtle - Question: What farm animal says “baa”?
Answer: Sheep - Question: What is a baby kangaroo called?
Answer: Joey - Question: What sea creature has eight long tentacles and squirts ink?
Answer: Octopus - Question: Which dog breed is known for its sense of smell and used by police?
Answer: German Shepherd - Question: What insect glows at night?
Answer: Firefly - Question: What is the slowest land mammal?
Answer: Three-toed sloth - Question: Which fish has a sword-like bill?
Answer: Swordfish - Question: What Arctic animal has thick white fur and lives on sea ice?
Answer: Polar bear - Question: What bird is a universal symbol of peace?
Answer: Dove - Question: What farm bird cannot fly and loves to gobble?
Answer: Turkey
Geography
- Question: What is the largest ocean on Earth?
Answer: Pacific Ocean - Question: Which country is home to the Great Pyramid of Giza?
Answer: Egypt - Question: What is the capital of France?
Answer: Paris - Question: What is the longest river in the world?
Answer: Nile River - Question: Which continent is also a country?
Answer: Australia - Question: What line divides Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
Answer: The Equator - Question: What mountain is the highest above sea level?
Answer: Mount Everest - Question: Which U.S. state is famous for its Grand Canyon?
Answer: Arizona - Question: What ocean lies on the East Coast of the United States?
Answer: Atlantic Ocean - Question: What is the smallest continent?
Answer: Australia - Question: What desert covers most of northern Africa?
Answer: Sahara Desert - Question: Which country has a maple leaf on its flag?
Answer: Canada - Question: Which two continents are entirely in the Southern Hemisphere?
Answer: Australia and Antarctica - Question: What country is shaped like a boot?
Answer: Italy - Question: Which mythical creature appears on the flag of Wales?
Answer: A red dragon - Question: What is the capital city of Japan?
Answer: Tokyo - Question: What language is mainly spoken in Brazil?
Answer: Portuguese - Question: Which two countries share the longest international border?
Answer: Canada and the United States - Question: What do we call a piece of land surrounded by water on three sides?
Answer: Peninsula - Question: Where is the Great Barrier Reef located?
Answer: Off the coast of Australia - Question: In which ocean is Hawaii located?
Answer: Pacific Ocean - Question: Which continent has the most countries?
Answer: Africa - Question: What river flows through London?
Answer: The Thames - Question: What U.S. state is known as the “Sunshine State”?
Answer: Florida - Question: Which country gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States?
Answer: France
History & Civics
- Question: Who was the first President of the United States?
Answer: George Washington - Question: What ship carried the Pilgrims to America in 1620?
Answer: The Mayflower - Question: Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Answer: Thomas Jefferson - Question: What famous speech begins with “Four score and seven years ago”?
Answer: The Gettysburg Address - Question: Which document outlines the supreme law of the U.S.?
Answer: The Constitution - Question: Who was known as the “Maid of Orléans”?
Answer: Joan of Arc - Question: What wall divided a German city from 1961 to 1989?
Answer: The Berlin Wall - Question: Who was the civil rights leader famous for the “I Have a Dream” speech?
Answer: Martin Luther King Jr. - Question: Which American holiday celebrates freedom from British rule?
Answer: Independence Day - Question: Who popularized the light bulb?
Answer: Thomas Edison - Question: What ancient civilization built pyramids and had pharaohs?
Answer: Ancient Egypt - Question: Who was the first man to walk on the moon?
Answer: Neil Armstrong - Question: What is the name of the ship that sank in 1912 on its maiden voyage?
Answer: Titanic - Question: Which U.S. President abolished slavery?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln - Question: What era is known for knights and castles?
Answer: The Middle Ages - Question: Who was the famous female pilot who disappeared over the Pacific?
Answer: Amelia Earhart - Question: What great invention did Johannes Gutenberg create?
Answer: The printing press - Question: Which empire was ruled by Julius Caesar?
Answer: The Roman Empire - Question: Who founded Microsoft?
Answer: Bill Gates (with Paul Allen) - Question: What famous document begins with “We the People”?
Answer: The U.S. Constitution - Question: Which continent was Christopher Columbus trying to reach when he found the Americas?
Answer: Asia - Question: Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
Answer: Marie Curie - Question: What war was fought between the North and South regions of the U.S.?
Answer: The Civil War - Question: What U.S. landmark was a gift from France?
Answer: The Statue of Liberty - Question: Who invented the telephone?
Answer: Alexander Graham Bell
Literature & Language Arts
- Question: Who is the author of the “Harry Potter” series?
Answer: J.K. Rowling - Question: What do we call words that sound the same but have different meanings?
Answer: Homonyms - Question: What is the opposite of a synonym?
Answer: Antonym - Question: Who wrote “Green Eggs and Ham”?
Answer: Dr. Seuss - Question: What punctuation mark ends a question?
Answer: Question mark - Question: What is the plural of “mouse”?
Answer: Mice - Question: Which fairy-tale girl meets a wolf on the way to Grandma’s?
Answer: Little Red Riding Hood - Question: What type of word is “quickly” in grammar?
Answer: Adverb - Question: Who is the boy who never grows up?
Answer: Peter Pan - Question: What do we call the main character of a story?
Answer: Protagonist - Question: Which monster did Hercules fight in Greek myths with nine heads?
Answer: The Hydra - Question: What is the tiniest unit of a poem called?
Answer: A syllable - Question: Which vowel comes after E in the alphabet?
Answer: I - Question: What do you call a group of lines in a poem?
Answer: Stanza - Question: Who wrote “Charlotte’s Web”?
Answer: E.B. White - Question: What is the term for words that imitate sounds, like “buzz”?
Answer: Onomatopoeia - Question: What punctuation mark shows possession?
Answer: Apostrophe - Question: Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
Answer: SpongeBob SquarePants - Question: What is the plural of “cactus”?
Answer: Cacti - Question: What is the first book of the “Chronicles of Narnia” series?
Answer: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - Question: What do we call a comparison using “like” or “as”?
Answer: Simile - Question: Which author wrote “Matilda” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”?
Answer: Roald Dahl - Question: What is the past tense of “run”?
Answer: Ran - Question: In which book would you find the characters Piglet and Tigger?
Answer: Winnie-the-Pooh - Question: What is the name of Sherlock Holmes’ loyal friend?
Answer: Dr. Watson
Art & Music
- Question: Which primary colors mix to make purple?
Answer: Red and blue - Question: What do we call a painting made on wet plaster?
Answer: Fresco - Question: How many strings does a standard violin have?
Answer: Four - Question: Who painted the “Mona Lisa”?
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci - Question: What instrument has black and white keys?
Answer: Piano - Question: Which artist cut off part of his ear?
Answer: Vincent van Gogh - Question: What is the musical term for loud?
Answer: Forte - Question: What metal instrument curves around and has valves?
Answer: French horn - Question: Which Disney movie features the song “Let It Go”?
Answer: Frozen - Question: What is clay that has been fired in a kiln called?
Answer: Ceramic - Question: What part of the theater has actors perform?
Answer: Stage - Question: What symbol tells musicians to play softly?
Answer: A “p” for piano - Question: What do we call a picture made by sticking different materials on a surface?
Answer: Collage - Question: Which family of instruments does the flute belong to?
Answer: Woodwind - Question: Who composed the famous piece “Für Elise”?
Answer: Ludwig van Beethoven - Question: What color do you get when you mix all primary colors of light?
Answer: White - Question: Which painter is famous for splatter techniques like those in “Number 31”?
Answer: Jackson Pollock - Question: What do we call the highness or lowness of a musical note?
Answer: Pitch - Question: What eraser is kneadable and can be shaped?
Answer: Kneaded eraser - Question: Which artist sculpted “David”?
Answer: Michelangelo - Question: How many notes are in a standard musical scale in Western music?
Answer: Eight - Question: What is a person who writes music called?
Answer: Composer - Question: What style of dance involves shoes with metal plates on the soles?
Answer: Tap dance - Question: Which TV painter encouraged viewers to paint “happy trees”?
Answer: Bob Ross - Question: What is the term for a repeated design in fabric or paper?
Answer: Pattern
Sports & Games
- Question: How many bases are on a baseball field?
Answer: Four - Question: What sport uses a puck on ice?
Answer: Ice hockey - Question: In soccer, what is another name for the referee’s assistant with flags?
Answer: Linesman - Question: What chess piece moves in an L-shape?
Answer: Knight - Question: What color flag begins a NASCAR race?
Answer: Green - Question: How many points is a touchdown worth in American football?
Answer: Six - Question: What Olympic event combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting?
Answer: Biathlon - Question: In basketball, how many players per team are on the court?
Answer: Five - Question: What is the maximum score in one frame of bowling?
Answer: 30 - Question: What sport uses the terms “love” and “deuce”?
Answer: Tennis - Question: In which sport would you perform a slam dunk?
Answer: Basketball - Question: What board game features Colonel Mustard and a candlestick?
Answer: Clue - Question: What color are the squares on a standard checkerboard besides black?
Answer: Red - Question: What do you call the wooden stick used in pool?
Answer: Cue - Question: What video game character tries to eat dots while avoiding ghosts?
Answer: Pac-Man - Question: How long is an Olympic swimming pool?
Answer: 50 meters - Question: In golf, what is one stroke under par on a hole called?
Answer: Birdie - Question: What sport is known as “the king of sports”?
Answer: Soccer - Question: Which team sport is played on a diamond-shaped field?
Answer: Baseball - Question: In which sport would you find a pommel horse?
Answer: Gymnastics - Question: What handheld game console did Nintendo release in 1989?
Answer: Game Boy - Question: How many players form a baseball battery?
Answer: Two - Question: What chess piece moves only diagonally?
Answer: Bishop - Question: What card game goal is to reach exactly 21 points?
Answer: Blackjack - Question: What sport features sticks curved at the end called “blades”?
Answer: Field hockey
Technology & Inventions
- Question: Who is credited with inventing the World Wide Web?
Answer: Tim Berners-Lee - Question: What handheld device did Alexander Graham Bell invent?
Answer: Telephone - Question: What is the name of the first man-made satellite to orbit Earth?
Answer: Sputnik - Question: What does “CPU” stand for in computers?
Answer: Central Processing Unit - Question: Which company created the iPad?
Answer: Apple - Question: What do we call a robot programmed to vacuum floors?
Answer: Roomba - Question: What gaming system uses the motion-sensing Wii Remote?
Answer: Nintendo Wii - Question: What kind of energy does a solar panel capture?
Answer: Solar energy - Question: What invention allows people to see bones inside the body?
Answer: X-ray - Question: What simple table-tennis-style video game became a smash hit in 1972?
Answer: Pong - Question: What device stores digital photographs?
Answer: Memory card - Question: What flying invention did the Wright brothers create?
Answer: Airplane - Question: What tool helps sailors know direction using Earth’s magnetic field?
Answer: Compass - Question: What coding language is known for its coffee cup logo?
Answer: Java - Question: Which inventor developed the alternating current electricity system?
Answer: Nikola Tesla - Question: What do we call a 3-D printer’s melted plastic material?
Answer: Filament - Question: What technology connects devices without wires over short distances?
Answer: Bluetooth - Question: What do the letters “USB” stand for?
Answer: Universal Serial Bus - Question: What simple machine consists of a bar that pivots on a fulcrum?
Answer: Lever - Question: What device do gamers wear to experience virtual reality?
Answer: VR headset - Question: What part of a computer keeps data even when power is off?
Answer: Hard drive - Question: What invention lets people talk face-to-face from far away online?
Answer: Video call - Question: What do you call a rechargeable battery-powered car?
Answer: Electric car - Question: What is the name of NASA’s rover that explored Mars from 2004-2018?
Answer: Opportunity - Question: What is the common term for malicious software that can harm computers?
Answer: Virus
Pop Culture & Entertainment
- Question: What magical school does Harry Potter attend?
Answer: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry - Question: Which superhero can climb walls and shoot webs?
Answer: Spider-Man - Question: What movie features a snowman named Olaf?
Answer: Frozen - Question: Which video game plumber wears red overalls and a mustache?
Answer: Mario - Question: What animated movie features toys that come to life when humans leave the room?
Answer: Toy Story - Question: What tiny yellow helpers love bananas and work for Gru?
Answer: Minions - Question: What is the name of the cowboy doll in “Toy Story”?
Answer: Woody - Question: Which wizarding sport is played on broomsticks?
Answer: Quidditch - Question: Which Disney princess has a pet tiger named Rajah?
Answer: Jasmine - Question: What song about a shark family went viral for kids in 2016?
Answer: Baby Shark - Question: Who is the starfish best friend of SpongeBob SquarePants?
Answer: Patrick - Question: What race car is numbered 95 in Pixar’s “Cars”?
Answer: Lightning McQueen - Question: What is the name of the snow princess with ice powers in “Frozen”?
Answer: Elsa - Question: What popular building bricks snap together and can make anything?
Answer: LEGO - Question: In “Pokémon,” what electric yellow creature is Ash’s partner?
Answer: Pikachu - Question: What is the name of the green ogre voiced by Mike Myers?
Answer: Shrek - Question: What blue speedy video game character collects rings?
Answer: Sonic the Hedgehog - Question: What is the monkey’s name in “Aladdin”?
Answer: Abu - Question: Which superhero team includes Wonder Woman and Batman?
Answer: Justice League - Question: What song does everyone sing on their birthday?
Answer: Happy Birthday - Question: What tiny fairy friend helps Peter Pan fly?
Answer: Tinker Bell - Question: Which friendly ghost has a name that starts with “C”?
Answer: Casper - Question: What is the name of the movie about a clownfish searching for his son?
Answer: Finding Nemo - Question: What animal is Pumbaa in “The Lion King”?
Answer: Warthog - Question: Which lasagna-loving orange cat hates Mondays?
Answer: Garfield
Health & The Human Body
- Question: How many senses do humans traditionally have?
Answer: Five - Question: Which organ helps you think and remember?
Answer: Brain - Question: What substance makes your teeth hard and white?
Answer: Enamel - Question: What muscle pumps blood throughout your body?
Answer: Heart - Question: Which part of your body lets you taste food?
Answer: Tongue - Question: What bones protect your chest and heart?
Answer: Ribs - Question: What is the colored part of your eye called?
Answer: Iris - Question: How many fingers do most humans have in total?
Answer: Ten - Question: What gas do your lungs absorb from the air?
Answer: Oxygen - Question: What is the body’s biggest organ?
Answer: Skin - Question: What joint connects your hand to your arm?
Answer: Wrist - Question: What nutrient in milk helps build strong bones?
Answer: Calcium - Question: What do you call the doctor who takes care of teeth?
Answer: Dentist - Question: Which organ helps you breathe?
Answer: Lungs - Question: What type of blood cell helps fight germs?
Answer: White blood cells - Question: What is the flexible tissue connecting muscles to bones?
Answer: Tendon - Question: Which body system breaks down food into energy?
Answer: Digestive system - Question: How many legs does a human baby usually have?
Answer: Two - Question: What signal tells you your body is dehydrated?
Answer: Thirst - Question: What is the process called when your body sweats to cool down?
Answer: Perspiration - Question: Which sense organ helps you balance?
Answer: Inner ear - Question: What is the name of the bone in the upper arm?
Answer: Humerus - Question: What are the strings of DNA that carry genes called?
Answer: Chromosomes - Question: What hormone makes you feel sleepy when it’s dark?
Answer: Melatonin - Question: What is it called when you bend your arm and show off your biceps?
Answer: Flexing
Random Fun Facts
- Question: What is the most widely spoken language in the world?
Answer: Mandarin Chinese - Question: Which month has an extra day during leap year?
Answer: February - Question: What toy brand makes Barbie dolls?
Answer: Mattel - Question: What do caterpillars turn into?
Answer: Butterflies - Question: What food is known for making your breath smell strong?
Answer: Garlic - Question: Which holiday involves hiding eggs and rabbits?
Answer: Easter - Question: What shape are stop signs?
Answer: Octagon - Question: What superhero’s weakness is Kryptonite?
Answer: Superman - Question: What animal is known as “man’s best friend”?
Answer: Dog - Question: What fruit keeps the doctor away if eaten every day?
Answer: Apple - Question: What is the hottest season of the year?
Answer: Summer - Question: What cartoon mouse wears red shorts and yellow shoes?
Answer: Mickey Mouse - Question: What do you call frozen water that falls as soft white flakes?
Answer: Snow - Question: Which game uses the phrases “Go to Jail” and “Pass Go”?
Answer: Monopoly - Question: What sweet treat is made by bees?
Answer: Honey - Question: What color do you get by mixing red and white paint?
Answer: Pink - Question: Which planet is famous for its rings?
Answer: Saturn - Question: What do you call a baby cat?
Answer: Kitten - Question: What famous tall structure stands in Paris?
Answer: Eiffel Tower - Question: What tool tells time on your wrist?
Answer: Watch - Question: What famous wizard has a lightning bolt scar?
Answer: Harry Potter - Question: What animal says “moo”?
Answer: Cow - Question: What pet purrs when happy?
Answer: Cat - Question: What is the name of the fish who forgets things in “Finding Nemo”?
Answer: Dory - Question: What number do you dial for emergency services in the United States?
Answer: 911 - Question: What do you see when you look at yourself in water or a mirror?
Answer: Reflection - Question: What instrument is often played in marching bands and starts with “T”?
Answer: Trumpet - Question: What do you get when water vapor cools in the sky?
Answer: Clouds - Question: What flavor of ice cream is typically green and has chocolate chips?
Answer: Mint chocolate chip - Question: What simple machine is a ramp?
Answer: Inclined plane
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