Middle School Trivia Question and Answers
1.
What is the capital of France?
Answer:
Paris
2.
How many continents are there?
Answer:
Seven
3.
What is the largest planet in our solar system?
Answer:
Jupiter
4.
Who wrote the Harry Potter books?
Answer:
J.K. Rowling
5.
What is the chemical symbol for gold?
Answer:
Au
6.
What is the smallest country in the world?
Answer:
Vatican City
7.
Who painted the Mona Lisa?
Answer:
Leonardo da Vinci
8.
What is the name of the highest mountain in the world?
Answer:
Mount Everest
9.
What is the longest river in the world?
Answer:
The Amazon River
10.
What is the largest ocean on Earth?
Answer:
Pacific Ocean
11.
Who invented the telephone?
Answer:
Alexander Graham Bell
12.
Who wrote "Hamlet"?
Answer:
William Shakespeare
13.
What is the name of the first book in the Bible?
Answer:
Genesis
14.
What is the capital of Japan?
Answer:
Tokyo
15.
Who was the first president of the United States?
Answer:
George Washington
16.
What is the name of the largest desert in the world?
Answer:
Sahara Desert
17.
What is the chemical symbol for water?
Answer:
HO
18.
What is the name of the closest star to Earth?
Answer:
The Sun
19.
What is the formula for the area of a circle?
Answer:
A = πr² (where r is the radius)
20.
What is the Pythagorean theorem?
Answer:
A² + b² = c² (where a and b are the legs of a right triangle, and c is the hypotenuse)
21.
What is the name of the force that pulls objects towards the center of the Earth?
Answer:
Gravity
22.
What is the name of the largest land animal?
Answer:
African elephant
23.
What is the name of the process by which plants convert sunlight into energy?
Answer:
Photosynthesis
24.
What is the name of the smallest particle of an element that can exist?
Answer:
Atom
25.
What is the name of the layer of gases that surrounds the Earth?
Answer:
Atmosphere
26.
What is the name of the largest organ in the human body?
Answer:
Skin
27.
What is the name of the chemical element with the symbol O?
Answer:
Oxygen
28.
What is the name of the planet that is known as the "Red Planet"?
Answer:
Mars
29.
What is the name of the natural satellite that orbits the Earth?
Answer:
The Moon
30.
What is the name of the study of living organisms?
Answer:
Biology
31.
What is a synonym for "happy"?
Answer:
Joyful, cheerful, merry
32.
What is an antonym for "hot"?
Answer:
Cold
33.
What is the past tense of the verb "eat"?
Answer:
Ate
34.
What is the plural of "child"?
Answer:
Children
35.
What is the name of a story with animals as characters that teaches a moral lesson?
Answer:
Fable
36.
What is the name of a word that imitates the sound it represents (e.g., "buzz")?
Answer:
Onomatopoeia
37.
What is the name of the part of speech that describes a noun or pronoun?
Answer:
Adjective
38.
What is the name of the part of speech that expresses action or a state of being?
Answer:
Verb
39.
What is the name of a sentence that makes a statement?
Answer:
Declarative sentence
40.
Who was the first person to walk on the moon?
Answer:
Neil Armstrong
41.
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Answer:
Thomas Jefferson
42.
What ancient civilization built the pyramids?
Answer:
Egyptians
43.
Who was the leader of the Civil Rights Movement?
Answer:
Martin Luther King Jr.
44.
What country did Christopher Columbus sail for?
Answer:
Spain
45.
Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?
Answer:
Amelia Earhart
46.
Who was the th president of the United States?
Answer:
Abraham Lincoln
47.
What event marked the beginning of World War II?
Answer:
Germany's invasion of Poland
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