Who discovered first that there were actually 365 1/4 days in a solar year?
Julius Caesar
Lent is a period of 40 days that come before what holiday?
Easter
What year did Leonardo DeCaprio win his first Oscar Award for best actor?
2016
What years was George Washington president?
1789-1797
Who became president after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated?
Andrew Johnson
Thimphu, Bhutan, is the only world capital without a single what?
Traffic signal
Brazil’s capital city, Brasilia, was designed to look like what on a map?
An airplane
The first hit rap song was released in 1979. Was it sung by Sugarhill Gang or Chubby Checker?
Sugar Hill Gang
Who wrote the poems in A Light in the Attic and Where the Sidewalk Ends?
Shel Silverstein
A major tennis stadium in New York is named after which African American tennis player?
Arthur Ashe
What mighty river carved the Grand Canyon?
The Colorado River
Only one of our states was ruled by kings and queens in its past. Name the state.
Hawaii
The Great Lakes form part of our border with Canada. Name all five of them.
Huron, Ontario, Michigan Erie and Superior
In the early 1900’s, his amazing feats of magic made him an international celebrity. Who was he?
Harry Houdini (One of America’s greatest magicians, he began his career as a trapeze performer.)
What did President Jefferson want his explorers to find?
A way to the Pacific Ocean
What was the starting point of Lewis and Clark’s trip?
St. Louis, Missouri (Gateway Arch)
What country ruled the colonies before the American Revolution?
England
What is the oldest European community in the United States?
St. Augustine
What is the capital of Uruguay?
Montevideo
The Hero Two Doors Down is a book by Sharon Robinson about this baseball hero (number 42)
Jackie Robinson
What is the capital of Russia?
Moscow
What publishing company published books such as Magic Bunny and Harry Potter?
Scholastic
What is the capital of Peru?
Lima
What is the capital of Paraguay?
Asuncion
What is a group of dolphins called?
a pod
What city is known as the movie capital of the world?
Hollywood, California
Where can you find the largest/tallest living things on earth?
Sequoia National Park or Muir Woods National Park or any park in California with Redwood trees
What natural disaster caused the Pinnacles National Park landform?
Volcano eruption
What is the major fault in California?
San Andreas
What does a seismometer measure?
earthquakes
What state comes alphabetically after Georgia?
Hawaii
The inventor of the first window wipers for a car was….
Mary Anderson
Mary Anderson invented these in 1903 to wipe off snow or rain.
windshield wipers
A Scandinavian first name for the last name Rockne (football coach)
Knute
Knute Rockne lost just 12, but won one for the Gipper and 104 more at this school.
Notre Dame
“Rudy” and “Knute Rockne, All American” are both films that focus on the football team nicknamed this.
The Fighting Irish
Girls in this country display valuable dolls that are family heirlooms on Hina-Matsuri.
Japan
Hina-Matsuri (Japanese Peach Festival) is on this day.
March 3
Where were the 1988 Olympics held?
Seoul, South Korea
Who won the 1984 and 1988 Men’s Platform Diving at the olympics?
Greg Louganis
What were the first words Alexander Graham Bell said to his assistant on his telephone?
Watson, come here. I want you.
Lent is a time of prayer and fasting for what religion?
Christian
What state will you find the Watts Towers?
California
What is the sticky nickname for someone from Fayetteville or Charlotte, North Carolina?
Tar Heel
(Animals in Kid’s Books)Charlotte, who lives in the rafters above Wilbur’s pen, is one of these
a Spider
(Mashed-Up Book Titles) Charlotte’s Little
Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little
A young girl named Fern saves a pig from certain death in this E.B. White novel
Charlotte’s Web
A real trumpet is used by E.B. White’s title fowl in the story called “The Trumpet of” this bird
the swan
This “Stuart Little” author also co-wrote the handbook “The Elements of Style”
E.B. White
What famous person is Joanne Kathleen?
JK Rowling
What famous author is lesser known by Elwyn Brooks?
E.B. White
Which President is pictured on the 1 dollar bill?
George Washington
If you get an email from someone you don’t know what’s the best thing to do?
ignore it or delete it
What fruit can you dry to make prunes?
plums
In the Aesop’s fable The Hare and the Tortoise,who wins the race?
the tortoise
In a virtual world, you interact with a place online.True or False?
true
“Honest” adopted name of abolitionist Isabella Baumfree
Sojourner Truth
Born a slave around 1797, she became famous as a preacher, abolitionist and women’s rights activist.
Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth died in her house on College Street in the “cereal” city
Battle Creek, Michigan
This monument in St. Louis gets its name from the city’s role as one “to the West”
The Gateway Arch
What state quarter coin has Lewis and Clark paddling in a canoe with the Gateway Arch in the background?
Missouri
What movie does a kid find a egg that turns into a sea monster
water horse
Who made more 3 pointers in their career? Curry or Lebron
Steph Curry
On March 12th, 1912 Juliette Gordon Low held the first one of these.
Girl Scout troop meeting.
What state was the first Girl Scout meeting held?
Georgia
What is the slogan of the Girl Scouts?
Do a good turn daily.
The Girl Guides in Canada are similar to what group in America?
Girl Scouts
What is the capital city of Arkansas?
Little Rock
What month is National Wildlife Week celebrated?
March
in 1970 what country held the FIFA world cup?
Mexico
1060 W. Addison is the address of this landmark of the United States and sporting venue.
Wrigley’s field
This monument in St. Louis gets its name from the city’s role as one “to the west”
The Gateway Arch
What baseball player won the home run derby in 2014?
Yoenis Cespedes
What does NASA stand for?
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
What actor stars in Akeelah and the Bee as a spelling coach for Akeelah?
Lawrence Fishbourne
Who held the first Girl Scout troop meeting on March 12, 1912.
Juliette Gordon Low
The only major city on Route 66 in Texas’ upper panhandle; its attractions include Taylor’s Texaco station.
Amarillo
This Texas port was named for a Roman Catholic feast day celebrating the body of the Savior
Corpus Christi
Texans celebrate San Jacinto Day on April 21 to honor this general’s defeat of Santa Anna in 1836.
Sam Houston
Aleut is spoken in Alaska and also on this country’s Bering Island.
Russia
The coldest recorded winter temperature in the U.S. was the Jan. 1971 temp of -80 at Prospect Creek Camp in this state.
Alaska
Susan Butcher is the only woman to have won this Alaskan sled-dog race 4 times.
Iditarod
Purim celebrates her rescue of her people from a massacre.
Esther
Around what year was the Coliseum in Rome built?
70 AD
What country is landlocked? Paraguay or Uruguay?
Paraguay
This bear is named for a train station and arrives in England as a stowaway from South America.
Paddington
“If you Give a” child this 1985 Laura Numeroff book, he’s liable to ask for another
If you Give a Mouse a Cookie
A Swedish award for adolescent and children’s literature is named for this “Pippi Longstocking” author
Astrid Lindgren
Sally and her brother were looking out the window on a rainy day when they saw him standing on a doormat
the Cat in the Hat
“Mowgli’s Brothers” is the first story in this 1894 collection
The Jungle Book
A classic book by George Selden tells of this noisy insect “in Times Square”
The Cricket
A young rabbit gets ready for bed in this classic by Margaret Wise Brown
Goodnight Moon
In this Hans Christian Andersen story, a child observes, “He has got nothing on at all!”
The Emperor’s New Clothes
Dororthy’s pal in “The Wizard of Oz” who wiped his eyes with his tail so often that “it became quite wet”
Cowardly Lion
The first character Alice meets in Wonderland, he wears a waistcoat and a pocket watch.
The White Rabbit
Jim Hawkins, the Hispaniola’s cabin boy, narrates this Robert Louis Stevenson tale
Treasure Island
Audrey Wood and David Shannon’s new book about this great big logger introduces his wife and kids.
Paul Bunyon
Stan & Jan Berenstain have written a seris of books about a family of these title animals
The Berenstain Bears
Cavatica is the last name of the title character of this 1952 E.B. White novel
Charlotte’s Web
In Charlotte’s Web, Templeton is this kind of animal
rat
She didn’t start writing her “Little House” novels until she was in her 60’s
Laura Ingalls Wilder
He wrote 14 books about Oz, and some short stories too
L. Frank Baum
Willie Wonka owned the world’s most famous one
Chocolate Factory
Title character who turned out to be a ventriloquist from Omaha
The Wizard of Oz
South of the Great Pyramid of Giza is this limestone sculpture, part man, part lion
the Sphinx
It’s obstructing the flow of the Colorado River, creating Lake Mead
the Hoover Dam
In April 1990 about a million people gathered in Central Park to celebrate the 20th anniversary of this observance
Earth Day
The annual Earth Day celebration takes place during this season
Spring
What is the Grand Canyon State?
Arizona
What state is the Beaver State?
Oregon
What state is the Centennial State?
Colorado
What state is the Yellowhammer State?
Alabama
What state is the Prairie State?
Illinois
What state is the Tar Heel State?
North Carolina
What state is the Pine Tree State?
Maine
What state is nicknamed the Quaker State?
Pennsylvania
What state is known as the Hawkeye State?
Iowa
What state is known as the Goober state?
Georgia
What state is known as the Land of 10,000 Lakes?
Minnesota
What state is known as the Old Line State?
Maryland
During Passover, the Jewish people eat this bread.
matzo (pronounced: maht-zuh)
Unleavened bread means that there is no this and so the bread does not rise.
yeast
According to Jewish tradition, Passover remembers the time the Pharaoh of Egypt would not free these people.
Jews
On the first evening of Passover, a special meal called this is prepared.
seder (pronounced say-der)
Shavu’ot, or Feast of Weeks, is a Jewish holiday celebrated 7 weeks after this festival.
Passover
Which U.S. President first spoke of a “government of the people, by the people, for the people”?
Abraham Lincoln (in his Gettysburg Address of 1863)
In Longfellow’s famous poem, who lived by the shining Big-Sea-Water?
Hiawatha (a legendary Native American chief who promoted peace between his people and the settlers from Europe)
Name the valley where George Washington’s army spent the long, hard winter of 1777-78.
Valley Forge (in Pennsylvania)
Who wrote the classic American folk song “This Land is Your Land”?
Woody Guthrie (widely considered to be America’s troubadour)
Which music genre originated in the U.S. reggae, jazz or ballads?
jazz (It originated in the early 20th century in southern African American communities.)
The first hit rap song was released in 1979. Who was it sung by?
Sugarhill Gang
What do we call the religious songs that were composed and sung by African American slaves?
spirituals
Oklahoma’s state flying mammal, the Mexican free-tailed bat, bites this Oregon State and Oregon State University animal.
Beaver
The largest living organism is said to be a a variety of this fungus that covers 2,200 acres in an Oregon forest
a mushroom
What is the deepest lake in Oregon?
Crater Lake (1,943 feet deep)
Nike was founded by University of Oregon track coach Bill Bowermand and this runner of his
Phil Knight
On April 1, 1996 newspaper readers were surprised to learn that Taco Bell had bought this historic bell; April Fool’s!
Liberty Bell
One knows that Easter falls on this date in 2018, so you might have to watch out for rotten eggs left as a joke.
April 1/April Fool’s Day
The “core” of this computer company goes back to its founding, April 1, 1976.
Apple Computer
SLANG:
An “explosive” way to jump into a picture right before it’s taken
photobomb
What is the official language of Brazil?
Portuguese
What is the official language of Bolivia?
Spanish
Whats the official language of Kuwait?
Arabic
What is the official langauge of Haiti?
French
What is the official language of Liberia?
English
LeBron James led this team to back to back NBA titles in 2012 and 2013.
the Miami Heat
“David Copperfield” is one of this British author’s classic novels.
Charles Dickens
In a Victor Hugo novel, Quasimodo is the hunchback bell ringer at this Paris cathedral.
Notre Dame
This villain from “Sleeping Beauty” got her own movie in 2014, with Angelina Jolie in the title role
Maleficent
The latest movie about these mutants is “Days of Future Past”; what does that even mean?
X-Men
Air racer Dusty joins a helicopter named Blade Ranger in this animated movie subtitled “Fire and Rescue”
Planes
“Million Dollar Arm” tells the true story of an agent who goes to this country to recruit cricket bowlers to play baseball.
India
This 800-mile-long fracture in earth’s crust runs close to San Jose and Palm Springs and is totally our fault.
San Andreas
Who is the author of Bad Kitty Goes to the Vet?
Nick Bruel
Who wrote the Judy Moody series books and the Stink series books?
Megan McDonald
Barthelemy Thimmonier, an early maker of these machines, saw them smashed by a mob of angry tailors.
Sweing Machines
Elias Howe and Isaac Singer made these type of new machines in the 1800’s.
Sewing machines
Rainy Songs - She sang, “Now that it’s raining more than ever… you can stand under my umbrella… ella, ella, eh eh eh”
Rihanna
The British call this a brolly. It’s one of these-don’t leave home without it on a rainy day!
umbrella
On April 10, 1866 the ASPCA was founded. What does it stand for? Go pet your dog and give a snack!
American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Edwin Perkins made this drink in 1927.
Kool-Aid
There was a candy 2,000 years ago that was made in Egypt. What type of candy was it?
marshmallow
Fruit Smack was sold in little glass bottles for people to drink. What is it called today?
Kool-Aid
How many players at once can be on the ice during a game of ice hockey?
6 (the goalie, the center, two defense players, and two forwards.
In what sport can you find the Islanders, Blues and the Black Hawks professional teams playing?
Ice Hockey
What children’s author wrote Ramona the Pest?
Beverly Cleary
The Mouse and the Motorcycle is a famous book written by this author.
Beverly Cleary
The first Arbor Day was held in Nebraska in this month in 1872.
April
At first, Anna M. Jarvis encouraged the idea of this day in the United States in May of 1905.
Mother’s Day
In old England, this day, is on the fourth Sunday in Lent. Don’t forget to call!
Mothering Sunday (Mother’s Day)
In 1914 President Wilson proclaimed the first national this in May.
Mother’s Day
Over 1,000 feet long, the USS Harry S. Truman is one of these vessels like the USS Hornet.
An aircraft carrier
In 1911 Eugene Ely made the first airplane landing on one of these, the USS Pennsylvania
A ship
The transporter: An aircraft carrier is named for this North Carolina town where history was made in 1903.
Kittyhawk
These kinds of ships include Kitty Hawk, Enterprise, Nimitz and the USS Hornet
aircraft carriers
Aircraft carriers named for stinging insects include the USS Wasp and this one, now a museum
The Hornet
Among sites celebrating the 30th anniversary of this in 1999 was the USS Hornet, the recovery ship.
the Apollo 11 mission
Ships: On July 24, 1969 the USS Hornet was in the Pacific waiting for these men
The crew of Apollo 11 (Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins)
In 1592 he left Pisa to become a professor of mathematics at Padua. “G”whiz!
Galileo
On the runway in Pisa at night, look at the stars as you leave the airport named for this 17th c. Italian astronomer.
Galileo
This Italian who gave us the law of falling bodies was put on trial in 1633 for supporting the heliocentric model of the universe.
Galileo
Born in this city, Galileo is said to have dropped objects of various weights from atop its famed landmark.
Pisa
Leonardo da Vinci painted this fresco in the church of the Santa Maria Delle Grazie in Milan.
The Last Supper
Truly the ultimate Renaissance man, he died in France on May 2, 1519 after a few artworks, inventions and stuff.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci was born in 1452 near this tiny town in Toscana. Don’t think too hard!
Vinci
Leonardo’s “The Last Supper” is painted on the wall of a monastery in this northern Italian city.
Milan
This Renaissance man’s invention of the maritime lock allowed Milan to link with the Po River via a canal system.
Da Vinci
Disney Sidekick: In “Mulan”, Mushu is one of these legendary creatures.
A dragon
Cartoon Voice: Before his Donkey days, this funny guy voiced Mushu the dragon in “Mulan”
Eddie Murphy
At 17, this ex-Mousketeer sang “Reflection” on the soundtrack for “Mulan”.
Christina Aguilera
Disney Film Character” She joins the Chinese army to protect her father and ends up a hero.
Mulan
The Cubists were influenced by this great Post-Impressionist, whose water colors landscapes were made famous.
Paul Cezanne
In 1872 this Frenchman became a dad, later the father of modern art.
Paul Cezanne
(Painters and Paintings) - In the late 1800’s this Frenchman painted a feast of still life’s: “White Plate of Cherries”, “With Aplles” and “With Onions”
Paul Cezanne
(Art) Cezanne used this style in the 1870’s but found it mushy: he wanted to make it “solid and durable”
Impressionism
He’s the French Postimpressionist who painted “Mont Sainte-Victoire” and “The Card Players”
Paul Cezanne
Paul Cezanne was noted for this type of painting which often depicts a bowl or basket of fruit.
Still life
“V” This 10-letter word is the part you look through on your camera
Viewfinder