Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?

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    • 1. What man is on the front of the U.S. twenty dollar bill?
    • 2. Which color absorbs the most light?
    • 3. A heptagon is a shape with how many sides?
    • 4. Inca civilizations were concentrated on what continent?
    • 5. If you add equal amounts of red and blue paint, what color paint do you get?
    • 6. True or false: The Earth's Moon gives off its own light?
    • 7. How many adjectives are in the following sentence? "My teacher was a lovely woman."
    • 8. Which is longer, one kilometer or one mile?
    • 9. Emma has 2 yardsticks. She also has a 12-inch ruler. She places them end-to-end in a line. How many feet long is the line?
    • 10. True or false: In geometry, parallel lines never meet.
    • 11. Of a drum, violin or saxophone, which is a woodwind instrument?
    • 12. A chimpanzee's natural habitat is on what continent?
    • 13. What is the largest and heaviest organ in the human body?
    • 14. How many millimeters are in a centimeter?
    • 15. True or false: A turtle is an amphibian.
    • 16. The cerebrum is the biggest part of what organ in your body?
    • 17. In the Northern Hemisphere, in what month is the autumnal equinox?
    • 18. What is the official name for the North Star?
    • 19. The Tropic of Cancer lies entirely in which hemisphere?
    • 20. How many articles are in the following sentence? "I went to the store and bought a loaf of bread and an onion."
    • 21. In the equation 6 divided by 2 equals 3, which number represents the dividend?
    • 22. What is the lowest prime number?
    • 23. How long is one regular term for a U.S. Representative?
    • 24. In square inches, what is the surface area of a cube with 5 inch sides?
    • 25. What is the greatest common factor of 2 and 3?
    • 26. What is the world's second-largest country in terms of land area?
    • 27. What is the compound word in this sentence? "The bus driver took an alternative route to the airport."
    • 28. True or false: "Carefully," "easily" and "barely" are examples of adjectives.
    • 29. True or False: An icicle-shaped mineral deposit hanging from the roof of a cavern is a stalagmite.
    • 30. If you have a gross of pencils, how many pencils do you have?

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