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STELLAR_Trivia
STELLAR Grade 5 Trivial Pursuit
Question | Answer |
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What is the temperature in Mammoth Cave? | 54 degrees F |
Who named the White House? | Theodore Roosevelt |
What is “hardtack”? | Ship’s biscuit |
What is “Davy Jones’ locker”? | The bottom of the sea |
What is the birthstone for April? | diamond |
What two countries border Spain? | Portugal, France |
What caused the Titanic to sink? | an iceberg |
How did Mercury serve the Roman gods? | as a messenger |
What is the tallest waterfall in North America? | Ribbon Falls, California |
Where is the tallest waterfall in the world? | Angel Falls, Venezuela |
What is the distance of the Kentucky Derby Race? | 1 ¼ miles |
What four presidents are pictured on Mount Rushmore? | Roosevelt, Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington |
What is Mauna Loa? | volcano |
Where is Mauna Loa? | Hawaii |
Under what river does the Lincoln Tunnel run? | Hudson River |
Where is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier? | Arlington, VA |
Who burned the White House in 1814? | the British |
What was Houdini’s special kind of magic? | escape |
What are the first seven words of the Constitution? | We, the people of the United States… |
What race horse won the Triple Crown in 1973? | Secretariat |
What was Francis Scott Key’s occupation? | a lawyer |
How many people died in the United States in the blizzard of 1888? | 400 people |
Where did paper get its name? | papyrus, a reed used by Egyptians |
What are the beginning words to the Gettysburg Address? | Four score and seven years ago… |
Who gave the Gettysburg Address? | Abraham Lincoln |
What was a “piece of eight”? | a Spanish coin |
What is the world’s largest whale? | blue whale |
What was the Hindenburg? | an airship; a blimp |
What is the Blue Grotto and where is it? | a cave on the Italian island of Capri, in Italy |
Name three places to find quicksand? | sand bars, bottoms of streams, sand flats along seacoasts |