8th Grade Trivia Question and Answers
1.
What is the smallest country in the world by land area?
Answer:
Vatican City
2.
Which famous scientist developed the theory of relativity?
Answer:
Albert Einstein
3.
What is the chemical symbol for gold?
Answer:
Au
4.
What is the name of the longest river in the world?
Answer:
The Nile River
5.
Who wrote the famous play "Romeo and Juliet"?
Answer:
William Shakespeare
6.
What type of animal is a platypus?
Answer:
A mammal
7.
What is the capital of Australia?
Answer:
Canberra
8.
What is the name of the largest ocean on Earth?
Answer:
The Pacific Ocean
9.
What is the name of the highest mountain in the world?
Answer:
Mount Everest
10.
What is the chemical formula for water?
Answer:
H2O
11.
In what year did World War II begin?
Answer:
1939
12.
What is the name of the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?
Answer:
Amelia Earhart
13.
What is the name of the largest desert in the world?
Answer:
The Antarctic Polar Desert
14.
What is the name of the largest planet in our solar system?
Answer:
Jupiter
15.
What is the name of the famous scientist who developed a theory of evolution?
Answer:
Charles Darwin
16.
What is the name of the country with the largest population in the world?
Answer:
China
17.
What is the name of the famous American author who wrote "The Great Gatsby"?
Answer:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
18.
What is the name of the country where the ancient city of Rome is located?
Answer:
Italy
19.
What is the name of the first person to walk on the moon?
Answer:
Neil Armstrong
20.
What is the name of the famous artist who painted the Mona Lisa?
Answer:
Leonardo da Vinci
21.
What is the name of the building that houses the United States Congress?
Answer:
The Capitol Building
22.
What is the currency used in Japan?
Answer:
The Japanese yen
23.
What is the name of the famous composer who wrote the "Moonlight Sonata"?
Answer:
Ludwig van Beethoven
24.
What is the name of the longest bone in the human body?
Answer:
The femur
25.
What is the name of the famous scientist who developed the theory of gravity?
Answer:
Isaac Newton
26.
What is the capital of Canada?
Answer:
Ottawa
27.
What is the name of the famous scientist who discovered penicillin?
Answer:
Alexander Fleming
28.
What is the name of the famous historical document written by Thomas Jefferson?
Answer:
The Declaration of Independence
29.
What is the chemical symbol for iron?
Answer:
Fe
30.
What is the name of the largest freshwater lake in the world?
Answer:
Lake Superior
31.
What is the name of the famous scientist who developed the periodic table?
Answer:
Dmitri Mendeleev
32.
What is the name of the famous American author who wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird"?
Answer:
Harper Lee
33.
What is the name of the famous Egyptian pharaoh who built the Great Pyramid of Giza?
Answer:
Khufu
34.
What is the name of the famous American inventor who developed the light bulb?
Answer:
Thomas Edison
35.
What is the name of the country where the Taj Mahal is located?
Answer:
India
36.
What is the name of the famous scientist who developed the theory of plate tectonics?
Answer:
Alfred Wegener
37.
What is the name of the famous American civil rights leader who led the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Answer:
Martin Luther King Jr.
38.
What is the name of the famous musician who wrote the song "Imagine"?
Answer:
John Lennon
39.
What is the name of the country where the Great Barrier Reef is located?
Answer:
Australia
40.
What is the name of the famous American author who wrote "The Catcher in the Rye"?
Answer:
J.D. Salinger
41.
What is the name of the famous artist who painted "The Starry Night"?
Answer:
Vincent van Gogh
42.
What is the name of the famous scientist who discovered the structure of DNA?
Answer:
James Watson and Francis Crick
43.
What is the name of the famous American author who wrote "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"?
Answer:
Mark Twain
44.
What is the name of the famous American president who issued the Emancipation Proclamation?
Answer:
Abraham Lincoln
45.
What is the name of the famous American author who wrote "The Scarlet Letter"?
Answer:
Nathaniel Hawthorne
46.
What is the name of the famous scientist who developed the theory of special relativity?
Answer:
Albert Einstein
47.
What is the name of the famous American composer who wrote "West Side Story"?
Answer:
Leonard Bernstein
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