Minute To Win It Questions

What are the first few words of the U.S.Constitution?  

What is North Carolina’s state gem?  

On what continent is the world’s largest desert?  

Round 58.12 to the nearest 10

What is the square root of 25?  

Why do sidewalks have cracks in them every 4 feet or so? 

Which U.S. President was known as “Honest Abe”? 

Who wrote Matilda, The BFG, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?  

Which is a characteristic of amphibians?  

Which U.S. President was married to Martha Dandridge Custis?  

What tense is the verb in the following sentence?  I will eat a sandwich for lunch today.    

Solve for x:   3x – x + 7 = x + 10 

What U.S. President was elected four times?  

What does the word “Renaissance” mean?  

Who painted the Mona Lisa? 

What Canadian-American invented basketball in 1891?  

In what person is the following sentence?  I love AIG.  

In which year did man first set foot upon the moon?  

What part of speech is used to modify verbs, adverbs, and adjectives?  

Vitamin A is found primarily in which foods?   

Solve (3.15 – 2.79) x 100

What popular poet wrote The Light in the Attic, Where the Sidewalk Ends, and The Giving Tree?  

What is the product of 4 and 14?  

The heart, arteries, and veins are part of which body system?  

If an isosceles triangle has interior angles of 98 and 41, what is the third angle?  

A girl saves a pig from being killed.  The pig becomes friends with a spider.  Name the book.  

Solve for x: 2x + 5 = 3x + 1 

How often does the U.S.take an official census?  

What goes at the end of an interrogative sentence?  

What is the largest state, in area, in the US?  

What are the three states of matter?  

Solve 9² – 8.  

What is 2/3 divided by 3/4?  

What is 7/8 – 2/3? 

How are sedimentary rocks formed?  

 What is the predicate in the following sentence?  Cedrick and Jaquala moved to Alaska.  

The Pilgrims sailed to the New World in 1620 in what ship?  

A haiku poem traditionally has how many syllables? 

Piglet and Christopher Robin are good friends with what bear who was created by A. A. Milne?   

Madeline L'Engle wrote what book with Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Which, Meg and Charles Wallace?  

Solve 1/3 of 288.  

What is a hypothesis?  

Which river is nicknamed “The Father of Waters”? 

Who is the Raleigh native who became the 17^th President?  

Name the ditch of water that typically surrounded a medieval castle. 

Why is the North Star important?  

Which war was fought in the U.S. from 1861 to 1865?  

How many U.S. Senators are there?  

What causes seasons?  

What is a rock called that has been altered by heat or pressure without melting?  

Which country is known as the “Land Down Under”?

What is the boiling point of water at sea level on the Fahrenheit scale? 

What type of figurative language is used in the following?  The story was pretty awful.  

Which American is remembered for saying, “I have a dream”?  

Theodore Geisel wrote under what pseudonym?  

The 2014 Winter Olympics took place in what country?  

Which river flows through the Grand Canyon? 

What kind of nouns begins with a capital letter?  

When you rub a balloon on your head, what type of electricity do you create?  

How many justices currently sit on the Supreme Court?  

How are light, sound, and the ocean alike,scientifically speaking? 

Who composed the Ride of the Valkyries?  

What is the largest organ of the body?  

Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?  

Who wrote The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe? 

Who said, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”? 

Solve 5 + 63 ÷ 7 x 2 

What country won the most medals in the 2014 Winter Olympic Games?  

What is the first two-digit prime number?  

When sunlight passes through a prism, a rainbow is formed.  Why?  

What is North Carolina’s highest geographical point?  

What are the factors of 12?  

What is the value of one dime, one quarter, three pennies, and three nickels?  

Solve the following expression.  3 + (5 – 2) + 2³ ÷ 4 – 1 x 8 +6.  

Solve 6² + 42 – 3 x 7

What do we call words like don’t or can’t? 

Which two US Presidents have been impeached?  

What process causes moisture to appear on the outside of the glass, i.e. "sweating"?  

What is the first even two-digit palindrome? 

What is the largest prime number less than 22?  

What is the area of a rectangle 2 cm wide by 47 cm long?  

The New England Patriots faced the Seattle Seahawks in this February’s Super Bowl.  Who won? 

Indira Gandhi was a leader of which country? 

Which Central American canal linking two oceans was completed in 1914?  

Name Judith Viorst's protagonist who has a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day?  

Who wrote the music for The Nutcracker?  

If two magnets repel each other, what can you infer about the magnets?  

What is the area of a rectangle that is 5 inches wide and 13 inches long?  

Name the three branches of government in the USA.  

Who was the first Vice President of the United States?

Who wrote the Harry Potter series?  

What is the world’s longest river?  

What occupation did Anna Pavlova, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Margot Fonteyn have in common?  

Which three states were named for queens?   

Canadian geese are often found in Fayetteville during the winter.  Why?  

Round 16.95 + 13.27 + 1.67 to the nearest whole number.  

Counting 5 as the first number, what is the tenth number in this pattern?  5,8, 6, 9, 7, 10

The stomach, liver, and gallbladder are part of which body system?  

“Just Give Me A Reason” was recorded by what American artist?    

Where did Lord Cornwallis surrender to George Washington on October 19, 1781?