Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? 50 Questions

Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? 50 Questions: questions and answers

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1. 5 machines make 5 toys in 5 minutes. 100 machines, 100 toys? 100 minutes · 5 minutes · 20 minutes

   5 minutes – Each machine makes one toy in 5 minutes, so 100 machines make 100 toys in the same 5 minutes!

2. What is 7 × 8? 54 · 56 · 64

   56

3. How many sides does an octagon have? 6 · 8 · 10

   8 – That's why stop signs are octagons: no other sign has that shape!

4. Which animal is an amphibian? Frog · Lizard · Snake

   Frog

5. What is half of 50? 20 · 25 · 30

   25

6. What is the plural of 'mouse'? Mouses · Mice · Meese

   Mice

7. How many minutes are in 3 hours? 180 · 300 · 120

   180

8. Which word is a noun? Run · Happy · Table

   Table

9. Which of these is a solid? Steam · Water · Ice

   Ice

10. What is the opposite of 'ancient'? Modern · Old · Broken

    Modern

11. Which line splits Earth into north and south? Prime meridian · Equator · Tropic

    Equator – It runs through 13 countries!

12. Which is the largest continent? Africa · Asia · Europe

    Asia

13. How many degrees are in a right angle? 180 · 45 · 90

    90

14. What do caterpillars turn into? Beetles · Butterflies · Bees

    Butterflies – Inside the cocoon, it turns almost completely into liquid first!

15. What is the capital of Egypt? Cairo · Giza · Luxor

    Cairo

16. Which shape has 4 equal sides and 4 right angles? Rectangle · Rhombus · Square

    Square

17. What is one quarter as a percent? 4% · 25% · 40%

    25%

18. Round 3.67 to the nearest whole number. 3 · 3.7 · 4

    4

19. A square has 5 cm sides. Its perimeter is... 10 cm · 20 cm · 25 cm

    20 cm

20. Which is spelled correctly? Neccessary · Necessary · Necesary

    Necessary

21. Which word is an adjective? Jump · Quickly · Blue

    Blue

22. A synonym for 'huge' is... Tiny · Enormous · Quiet

    Enormous

23. The center of an atom is called the... Nucleus · Shell · Core

    Nucleus – Atoms are mostly empty space!

24. Which state of matter has no fixed shape or size? Solid · Liquid · Gas

    Gas

25. Which part of a plant takes in water? Leaves · Roots · Petals

    Roots – Some tree roots grow deeper than a 10-story building!

26. What is 9 squared? 18 · 81 · 99

    81

27. Which Roman numeral means 50? L · C · X

    L

28. Who made the first powered airplane flight? The Wright brothers · Amelia Earhart · Thomas Edison

    The Wright brothers – The first flight in 1903 lasted just 12 seconds!

29. Animals that are active at night are called... Hibernating · Nocturnal · Diurnal

    Nocturnal

30. Which of these animals only eats plants? Lion · Cow · Shark

    Cow

31. The Great Barrier Reef is off the coast of... India · Brazil · Australia

    Australia – It's the biggest living structure on Earth, visible from space!

32. What is 20% of 150? 20 · 30 · 50

    30

33. A cube has 3 cm sides. What is its volume? 9 cm³ · 18 cm³ · 27 cm³

    27 cm³

34. Which layer of Earth do we live on? Crust · Mantle · Core

    Crust

35. Rock formed from cooled lava is called... Igneous · Sedimentary · Metamorphic

    Igneous – Granite on kitchen counters is igneous rock too!

36. What is 2 to the power of 5? 10 · 25 · 32

    32

37. How many sides does a dodecagon have? 10 · 12 · 20

    12

38. Which part of a plant makes seeds? The flower · The stem · The roots

    The flower

39. What is the past tense of 'swim'? Swimmed · Swam · Swum

    Swam

40. Which gas is the Sun mostly made of? Oxygen · Hydrogen · Helium

    Hydrogen – Helium was discovered on the Sun before it was found on Earth!

41. Fish breathe using their... Skin · Lungs · Gills

    Gills

42. What is 0.5 + 0.25? 0.30 · 0.75 · 0.525

    0.75

43. Words that sound alike but mean different things are... Synonyms · Homophones · Antonyms

    Homophones – Like 'sea' and 'see', or 'knight' and 'night'!

44. Kenya is on which continent? Asia · South America · Africa

    Africa

45. Whose expedition first sailed all the way around the world? Columbus · Magellan · Vasco da Gama

    Magellan – Magellan himself died on the way; his crew finished it!

46. Which word is NOT a verb? Jump · Think · Purple

    Purple

47. How many seconds are in one day? 8,640 · 86,400 · 864,000

    86,400 – Sixty times sixty times twenty-four!

48. What is a 10-sided shape called? Decagon · Nonagon · Octagon

    Decagon

49. Which word can you type using only a keyboard's top row? Typewriter · Keyboard · Computer

    Typewriter

50. About how fast does light travel? 300 km/s · 300,000 km/s · 3 billion km/s

    300,000 km/s – Light could circle the Earth about 7 times in one second!

51. Which number is neither prime nor composite? 0 · 1 · 2

    1

52. How many continents are entirely in the Southern Hemisphere? One · Two · Three

    Two