Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? (300+ questions to ask someone)

Are you looking for some ways to brush up on your elementary school knowledge? Would you be interested in hosting a family or friends get-together or game night? Then why don’t you play ‘Are you smarter than a 5^th grader’?

This is a popular quiz program that is liked by children and adults. The trivia questions are based on elementary school subjects and test your know-how on a variety of fun facts and formal topics.

In today’s world, kids are smarter and they know much more than an adult. Sometimes their logical reasoning and level of understanding are unmatchable.

Here, we bring you brainstorming quiz questions that will test how much you remember the basics of elementary school learning and whether you can challenge the smart kids of today’s generation.

So gear up and start playing with some best pal around and enjoy the togetherness to treasure forever.

Are you smarter than a 5^th grader?

The concept of ‘Are you smarter than a 5th grader’ has been taken from the all-time favorite and popular  American TV show with the same title that gathered great popularity around the globe.

This popular game show has been a super hit concept and was originally aired on the FOX channel. The game is to be played by a single contestant and the content is taken from school-level subjects such as English, elementary math, science, and social studies.

The show was hosted by Jeff Foxworthy and John Cena and produced by Mark Burnett. It was indeed a popular game show being liked by kids and adults equally.

The correct answer will score points for you. The questions are based on the fourth and fifth-grade school curriculum. The questions are either multiple choices or direct questioning without any answer hints.

The game becomes fun-loving and engaging when played with friends and family. It can be played either at home parties, game nights, or during road trips to faraway destinations.

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Are you smarter than a 5^th grader quiz? (Multiple choice questions)

The game show is usually meant for adult contestants who are to answer the questions by choosing the correct answers from the options given. 

The basic idea is to test your general awareness and memory of what you have learned in school. Do you think you can do these elementary math problems easily?

1. 96 – 53 + 21?

• 65
• 66
• 64
• 68

Answer: 64

2. What are longitudes also called?

• Parallels
• Meridians 
• Great circle
• Long imaginary lines

Answer: Meridians 

3. What are the animals without backbones known as?

• Vertebrates
• Invertebrates
• Omnivores 
•  Carnivores

Answer: Invertebrates 

4. How many sides does a nonagon have?

• 9 sides
• 6 sides
• 7 sides
• 8 sides

Answer: 9 sides

5. Can you name the island which is considered both as an island and a continent?

• Monaco
• Africa
• Australia 
• Vatican city

Answer: Australia

6. Name the most famous English playwright?

• Anton Checkhov
• Arthur Miller 
• Sophocles
• William Shakespeare

Answer: William Shakespeare

7. (63 – 37) + 4 x 9 x (45 – 8) =?

• 1,365
• 1,356
• 1,358
• 1,367

Answer: 1,358

8. What are a, an, the in English grammar?

• Articles 
• Conjunctions
• Nouns 
• Prepositions

Answer: Articles

9. Which is the thinnest layer of the Earth?

• Inner core 
• Mantle 
• Crust 
• Outer core

Answer: Crust 

10. How many sides does a hexagon have?

• 10 sides
• 8 sides
• 7 sides
• 6 sides

Answer: 6 sides

11. Name the only continent in which spiders don’t exist?

• Europe
• North America
• Arctic circle
• Antarctica

Answer: Antarctica

12. In Australia, which animal is found most?

• Duck – Billed platypus
• Koala 
• Kookaburra 
• Kangaroo 

Answer: Kangaroo

13. 37 x 39 =?

• 1,444
• 1,446
• 1,443
• 1,445

Answer: 1,443

14. What is the superlative of ‘good’?

• Better
• More good
• Most good 
• Best 

Answer: Best

15. What do we call the words which describe a noun?

• Adjectives
• Prepositions
• Adverbs 
• Conjunctions 

Answer: Adjectives

16. Who was the first human to visit the moon?

• Pete Conrad
• Neil Armstrong
• Alan Shepherd
• David Scott

Answer: Neil Armstrong

17. Can you count the number of stars present in the official flag of the USA?

• 25
• 55
• 50
• 40

Answer: 50

18. The ‘Machu Picchu’ is located in which country of South America?

• Colombia 
• Argentina 
• Venezuela 
• Peru

Answer: Peru

19. 14 – (97 – 89) + 6 + 47 =?

• 58
• 55
• 59
• 52

Answer: 59

20. Do you know the name of the language that most people speak in South America?

• English 
• Spanish
• German
• French 

Answer: Spanish

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Are you smarter than a 5^th grader math questions

Do you think you can easily solve the math questions that are meant for fourth grade and 5th-grade kids? Let’s check out.

21. Name the geometrical shape which has no vertices?

Answer: A sphere

22. Which number will this roman symbol represent: XXXVI?

Answer: 36

23. Which fraction is greater: 6/15 or 6/17?

Answer: 6/15 > 6/17

24. (61 – 54) + (72 – 47) =?

Answer: 32

25. Do you know how many seconds makes 2.5 hours?

Answer: 9,000 seconds

26. What is the full form of BODMAS?

Answer: Bracket of Division Multiplication Addition Subtraction

27. Which number will this roman symbol represent: XXIV?

Answer: 24

28. How many sides will a quadrilateral have?

Answer: 4 sides

29. If I read ¼ of a book and my friend read ¾ of the same book, how much of the book did we read in all?

Answer: We read the whole book.

30. What do we call the angle less than 90 degrees?

Answer: Acute angle

31. Define a quarter?

Answer: 1 part out of 4 equal parts.

32. What is the roman symbol for 1000?

Answer: M

33. AM stands for what?

Answer: Antemeridian

34. PM stands for what?

Answer: Post meridian

35. If a train was supposed to arrive at the railway station at 04:15 but arrived after 35 minutes, at what time did the train arrive at the railway station?

Answer: 04:50

36. 45 + (65-49) – 23 x 2 =?

Answer: 15

37. 38/68 + 26/68 =?

Answer: 64/68

38. If I bought 7 dozen mangoes, how many mangoes would I have?

Answer: 84 mangoes

39. Do you know the number of  days in the month of October?

Answer: 31 days

40. Can you name the mathematician who is known as the ‘Father of Trigonometry’?

Answer: Hipparchus of Nicaea

41. 111 x 111 =?

Answer: 12,321

42. What is an angle more than 90 degrees known as?

Answer: Obtuse angle

43. Do you know the sum of the interior angles of a triangle?

Answer: 180 degrees

44. How many minutes make 7 hours?

Answer: 420 minutes

45. What is the next number in the sequence 7, 14, 21, 28…….?

Answer: 35

46. Can you find the product of this without using a calculator? 456*124?

Answer: 56,544

47. What is 8/100?

Answer: .08

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Are you smarter than a 5^th grader history questions

Do you remember the ancient facts that have been taught by your fifth-grade and sixth-grade history teacher? Try out a few history trivia questions and check out your knowledge base of the subject.

48. In which group of people were the first ones to celebrate Thanksgiving?

Answer: Pilgrims (who were native to America)

49. In which year did Thomas Edison invent the light bulb?

Answer: In 1879 

50. Name a famous emperor of the Roman Empire?

Answer: Julius Caesar

51. In which country was the first fireworks invented?

Answer: China

52. Name the person who is known to have written the national anthem of the USA?

Answer: Francis Scott Key

53. Which American singer had released the album ‘Born in the USA’ in 1984?

Answer: Bruce Springsteen

54. Can you name the world’s oldest writing system?

Answer: cuneiform script, used in Mesopotamia

55. Which community of people had invented the world’s first writing system?

Answer: The ancient Sumerians

56. What is a ‘drunkard’s cloak’?

Answer: A form of punishment has been given to people known to consume alcohol

57. What is the nickname of Edward Teach?

Answer: Blackbeard

58. Do you know the first British colony in the Americas?

Answer: Jamestown

59. Name the country where Napoleon Bonaparte was born?

Answer: The Mediterranean island of Corsica

60. Name the famous fascist leader of Italy?

Answer: Benito Mussolini

61. Can you name the US mail service that used horses and riders to dispatch letters and parcels?

Answer: Pony express, ran between Missouri and California and was started in1860

62. Who invented the cotton gin in 1793?

Answer: Eli Whitney

63. During World War 11, gas was used inside the trenches. Can you name the gas?

Answer: Mustard gas

64. What is the original name of the civil rights activist popularly known as Malcolm X?

Answer: Malcolm Little

65. What was published after Anne Frank’s death?

Answer: Diary

66. When did Fidel Castro die?

Answer: 2016

67. How many members constitute the US Electoral College?

Answer: 538

68. Who was the founder of the religion known as ‘Mormonism’?

Answer: Joseph Smith

69. Name the month the attack on Pearl Harbor took place?

Answer: December

70. Which Hollywood actor became the governor of California in2003?

Answer: Arnold Schwarzenegger

71. Which color was originally associated with St. Patrick’s Day?

Answer: blue

72. Name the city that was built on seven hills?

Answer: Rome

73. In which year was the US civil war?

Answer: 1861 to 1865

74. Who won the battle of the Roses?

Answer: Henry Tudor

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Are you smarter than a 5^th grader trick questions

Can you answer these tricky school grade questions and prove yourself smarter than a fifth grader?

75. Will you be able to count the stars in the circle representing the European Union?

Answer: 12 stars

76. If 1/10 is 10%, then what is the value of 1/4?

Answer: 25%

77. How many electrons are present in an atom of Carbon?

Answer: 6

78. Name one instrument of the woodwind family?

Answer: Saxophone

79. Who is the author of the fairy tale ‘The Princess and the Pea’?

Answer: Hans Christian Andersen

80. Name the green pigment found in the plants that is used while photosynthesis?

Answer: Chlorophyll

81. Which party did President John Adams belong to at the time of his election?

Answer: Federalist

82. Where is Acadia National park located?

Answer: Maine

83. Do you know the name of the planet where one year equals to 88 days on Earth?

Answer: Mercury

84. Name the fundamental positive particle found in all nuclei?

Answer: proton

85. Which is the fastest bird that can run with great speed?

Answer: The greater roadrunner

86. Can you name the fastest swimming bird?

Answer: Gentoo Penguin

87. Name the states that belong to the Four Corners?

Answers: Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado

88. Who is the author of the poetry collection ‘Falling Up’?

Answer: Shel Silverstein

89. Name the only continent where you will never see a spider?

Answer: Antarctica

90. Do you know the number of states in the USA? 

Answer: 50

91. Can you tell me about the four great inventions made in ancient China?

Answer: Papermaking, printing, compass, and gunpowder

92. Name the largest country in the world?

Answer: Russia

93. Which is the most populous city in the USA?

Answer: New York

94. Can you name the three most populous nations of Europe?

Answer: France, Spain, and Germany

95. Name the sixth largest nation of the world?

Answer: Australia

96. Which three countries make up the continent of North America?

Answer: United States, Canada, and Mexico

97. Do you know the smallest and the densely populated state in the U.S?

Answer: Rhode Island

98. What is the other name for the ancient Egyptian writing system?

Answer: Hieroglyphics

99. Who walked on the moon along with Neil Armstrong?

Answer: Buzz Aldrin

100. What is a fable?

Answer: A story with a moral lesson

101. What are the vowels in English grammar?

Answer: a, e, i, o, u

102. Name the ocean between New York and London?

Answer: The Atlantic Ocean

103. Name the river that separates the United States from its neighboring country Mexico?

Answer: The Rio Grande

104. In which country is Quebec located?

Answer: Canada

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Are you smarter than a 5^th grader miscellaneous questions

105. Which clouds are also referred as ‘Fair weather’ clouds?

Answer: Cumulus

106. In which country the War of the Roses took place?

Answer: England

107. If Barbara is facing north and turns 90 degrees to her left, what direction is she facing now?

Answer: west

108. Which is the capital city of Hungary?

Answer: Budapest

109. Name the capital of Egypt?

Answer: Cairo

110. Where is Valley Forge located?

Answer: Pennsylvania

111. How many congruent bases are present in a solid Prism?

Answer: 2

112. Name the capital city of Oklahoma?

Answer: Oklahoma City

113. What is the capital of Utah?

Answer: Salt Lake City

114. Which huge waterfalls separate the United States and Canada?

Answer: Niagara Falls

115. Which is the homophone for the word ‘one’?

Answer: won

116. Round the number 2650 to the nearest thousand?

Answer: 3000

117. Where do we see the Yukon River?

Answer: Canada

118. Do you know the month named after the Roman God of Wars?

Answer: March

119. What is the answer for 77*10*0?

Answer: 0

120. What is the comparative of many?

Answer: more

121. Can you say the tense of this sentence “We ate a large pizza yesterday?

Answer: Past tense

122. What are the three articles commonly used in the English language?

Answer: a, an, the

123. How many consonants are there in the English alphabet?

Answer: 21

124. Who wrote the play Othello?

Answer: William Shakespeare

125. What sentence ends with a question mark?

Answer: Interrogative sentence

126. What is the  group of bees usually referred to ?

Answer: A swarm of bees

127. What is a group of puppies known as?

Answer: Litter

128. Who discovered America in 1492?

Answer: Christopher Columbus

129. Name the biggest star in the Universe?

Answer: Sun

130. Name the animal to visit space?

Answer: Dog

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Are you smarter than a 5^th grader music questions

How well are you with facts about music? Do you think you can crack a few queries on music and challenge a fifth grader?

131. Who is the singer of the famous song ‘All Star’?

Answer: Smash Mouth

132. Do you know the real name of Freddie Mercury?

Answer: Farrokh Bulsara

133. Can you name the musician who was deported from Japan with charges of possession of marijuana in 1980?

Answer: Paul McCartney

134. Who is the lyricist of the song ‘They gave me the key to the sky?

Answer: Mac Miller

135. Can you say the name of the lead singer of Smash Mouth?

Answer: Steven Harwell

136. Which music band was originally known as Warsaw?

Answer:  Joy Division

137. Name the female lead singer of the band ‘Berlin’?

Answer: Terri Nunn

138. Who published an autobiography titled as “Secrets of a sparrow “in 1994?

Answer: Diana Ross

139. Which Beatles member suffered from a learning disability known as dyslexia?

Answer: John Lennon

140. Can you name pop singer Rihanna’s real name?

Answer: Robyn Fenty

141. To which rock band does Ace Frehley belong to?

Answer: kiss

142. Who is known as the king of pop?

Michael Jackson

143. Name the musician who played 27 instruments in his debut concert album “for you?

Answer: Prince

144. In which year did spice girls release their first music album?

Answer: 1996

145. Do you know Elvis Presley’s middle name?

Answer: Aaron

146. Can you name the pop band that released its hit song “Ruby Tuesday” in 1967?

Answer: The Rolling stones

147. What is Stacie Ann Fergusson commonly known as?

Answer: Fergie

148. Name the musician who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2016?

Answer: Bob Dylan

149. Which famous contemporary singer has a tattoo of Jesus Christ on one of his calves?

Answer: Justin Bieber

150. Who sang the famous romantic cover “Bye Bye love”?

Answer: The Everly Brothers

151. To which nation is Shakira originally from?

Answer: Columbia

152. Who is known as the queen of pop?

Answer: Madonna

153. To which country does Elton John belong?

Answer: United Kingdom

154. Which is the famous song of Celine Dion that was highly acclaimed in the “Titanic” movie?

Answer: My Heart will go on

155. Which iconic singer has spent the early years of her life in a Christmas tree farm owned by her father?

Answer: Taylor Swift

156. Which music composer was awarded the Grammy awards for best Opera recording in 2019?

Answer: Mason Bates

157. What is William Bailey’s stage name?

Answer: Axl Rose

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Are you smarter than a 5^th grader geography questions

Let’s test your knowledge about countries and continents, capital cities, and geographical locations. Here we go….

158. Name the two major inland seas of the world?

Answer: Baltic Sea and Hudson Bay

159. Which African country has Addis Ababa as the capital city?

Answer: Ethiopia

160. On which sea is the city of Venice located?

Answer: Adriatic Sea

161. Through which country does the prime meridian pass?

Answer: Greenwich, England

162. Name the capital of Cuba?

Answer: Havana

163. Where is Lake Newfoundland located?

Answer: New Hampshire, United States

164. Name the capital of Nevada?

Answer: Carson City

165. What is the name of the nation where  the city of Troy is located?

Answer: Greece

166. Which Nation can take pride in linguistic diversity in the world?

Answer: Papua New Guinea

167. What is the other name of Hwang Ho River?

Answer: Yellow river

168. Name the country with four letters and last one in n?

Answer: Iran

169. Where are the beautiful islands of Seychelles located?

Answer: Indian Ocean

170. Where is Harvard University located?

Answer: Massachusetts

171. Which is the longest natural beach on  Earth?

Answer: Cox Bazar beach in Bangladesh

172. Name Europe’s largest port?

Answer: Port Rotterdam

173. Can you name the river that flows through Paris?

Answer: Seine

174. Do you know the name of the country that shares its coastline on both the Red sea and Persian Gulf?

Answer: Saudi Arabia

175. Do you know the South American country that shares its international land borders with ten other countries?

Answer: Brazil

176. Name the country situated on two continents?

Answer: Turkey

177. Which country is known as the land of midnight sun?

Answer: Norway

178. What is the capital of Bulgaria?

Answer: Sofia

179. Name the river that flows through Glasgow?

Answer: Clyde

180. What is the color of the spot in the middle of a Japanese flag?

Answer: red

181. Which is the largest strait of the world?

Answer: Strait of Malacca

182. Name the sea that separates Europe and Africa?

Answer: Mediterranean Sea

183. In which European country would you find an area called ‘Flanders’?

Answer: Belgium

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Are you smarter than a 5^th grader general trivia questions

Are you well equipped with general knowledge? Find out here…

184. Name the largest country by population in the world?

Answer: China

185. Which is the hottest chili pepper in the world?

Answer: Carolina Reaper

186. Which is the longest bone in our body?

Answer: Femur

187. Name the fastest flying insect?

Answer: dragonfly

188. What is the chemical name of salt?

Answer: Sodium chloride

189. How many bones does a human body have?

Answer: 206 bones

190. Which is the most common name in the world?

Answer: Maria

191. Name the largest country in the world?

Answer: Russia

192. Do you know the longest word in English without a vowel?

Answer: Twyndyllyngs

193. Name the fastest human sense?

Answer: Hearing

194. A decade equals how many years?

Answer: 10 years

195. Which is the 19^th letter of the English Alphabet?

Answer: The letter S

196. In which city is the White house located?

Answer: Washington D.C

197. Out of these fractions, which one is the greatest? 3/20, 3/9, or 3/5?

Answer: 3/5

198. What will be the value of 340*75?

Answer: 25500

199. Name the famous African American baseball player?

Answer: Jackie Robinson

200. Give two examples of transitional words.

Answer: Also, Thus

201. Who wrote ‘Gulliver’s Travels’?

Answer: Jonathan Swift

202. Who is the creator of ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer’?

Answer: Mark Twain

203. Name the motor city of North America?

Answer: Detroit

204. Which state in the USA is also known as the cheese state?

Answer: Wisconsin

205. Can you name the largest rice producing nation of the world?

Answer:

206. Who is the inventor of the World Wide Web?

Answer: Tim Berners-Lee

207. How are ocean tides caused?

Answer: by the phases of the moon

208. What is the number above the vinculum in a fraction known as?

Answer: Numerator

209. How many sides does a rhombus have?

Answer: 4

210. Which river flows through Germany?

Answer: river Rhine

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Are you smarter than a 5^th grader social studies questions

211. Can you name the national dog breed of France?

• Poodle
• Dalmatian
• Pomeranian
• Cocker Spaniel
• Brussels Griffon

Answer: Poodle

212. Which branch of the US government does the President represent?

• Legislative
• Judicial
• Executive
• Martial
• Bureaucratic

Answer: Executive

213. Which of these languages is not spoken in South Africa?

• French
• English
• Zulu
• Afrikaans
• Xhosa

Answer: French

214. Name the country that has Unicorn as its national animal?

• Bolivia
• Venezuela
• Chile
• Scotland 
• Ireland

Answer: Scotland

215. Presidents day is celebrated between the birthdays of which two US Presidents?

• Abraham Lincoln and Bill Clinton
• John Adams and Benjamin Franklin
• John. F Kennedy and Thomas Jefferson
• Abraham Lincoln and George Washington
• Bill Clinton and Donald Trump

Answer: Abraham Lincoln and George Washington

216. Name the official language of Chile?

• Italian
• Spanish
• Greek
• Portuguese
• Argentinese

Answer: Spanish

217. Which is the ‘state bird’ for most of the states in the USA?

• Cardinal
• Hummingbird
• Robin
• Bald eagle
• Penguin

Answer: Cardinal

218. Can you tell me the name of the largest city in the world?

• New York
• Paris
• Tokyo
• Los Angeles
• Washington D.C

Answer: Tokyo, Japan

219. When was the Great Wall of China built?

• 220 B.C.E
• 225 B.C.E
• 189 B.C.E
• 229 B.C.E
• 300 B.C.E

Answer: 220 B.C.E

220. Which is the capital city of Colombia?

• Bogota
• Santiago
• São Paulo
• Brasilia
• Costa Rica

Answer: Bogota

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Are you smarter than a 5^th grader science questions

Are you ready to test your knowledge and interest in a variety of scientific facts? If yes, we have a perfect blend of questions for you to evaluate the same.

221. Which force keeps us from floating while on Earth?

Answer: Gravitational force

222. Which state of matter cannot change shape?

Answer: Solid

223. Name the most abundant element in the universe?

Answer: Hydrogen

224. What do you call the poles of a magnet?

Answer: North and South

225. Before hearing thunder, why do you often see lightning first?

Answer: Because light travels faster than sound

226. Name the rarest blood type?

Answer: AB Negative

227. Which state of matter takes the shape of its container?

Answer: Liquid

228. Name the inventor of www (World Wide Web)?

Answer: Tim Berners – Lee 

229. What do we call our food pipe?

Answer: Oesophagus

230. What does NASA stand for?

Answer: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

231. Name the galaxy where Earth is located?

Answer: The Milky Way galaxy

232. Who is the inventor of television?

Answer: John Logie Baird

233. What is used to measure intensity of earthquakes?

Answer: Seismograph

234. What are the tissues called which connect bones to muscles?

Answer: Tendons

235. How many bones does a baby have?

Answer: 300 bones

236. Name the hardest known material on Earth?

Answer: Diamond

237. Which animal was the first animal to go to space?

Answer: A dog

238. Name the processes which are involved in cloud formation?

Answer: Condensation and Deposition

239. Can you name the person who discovered penicillin?

Answer: Alexander Fleming

240. What is the boiling point of water?

Answer: 100 degrees Celsius

241. In what state of matter are the molecules packed closely?

Answer: solids

242. Which organ of the body helps in cleansing blood and removing toxins from the body?

Answer: kidneys

243. What joints are found in the elbows?

Answer: synovial joint

244. What joints are found in the knees?

Answer: hinge type synovial joint

245. Name two units for measuring temperature?

Answer: Celsius and Fahrenheit

246. What is the scientist who studies the soil known as?

Answer: Pedologist

247. What gives the blood its red color?

Answer: hemoglobin

248. Can you tell me the number of pairs of chromosomes that human beings have?

Answer: 23

249. How much time does the Earth take to revolve around the sun?

Answer: 365 and1/4^th days, the process is known as revolution

250. Who is a marine biologist?

Answer: A person who specializes in the scientific study of marine life

251. Name the process when substance changes from liquid to gaseous state?

Answer: evaporation

252. How many joints are there in the human body?

Answer: 360 joints

253. Who is a geologist?

Answer: A person who studies the processes, physical nature, products, and the nature of the Earth’s crust

254. What is the chemical symbol of gold?

Answer: Au

255. What is the use of a Beaufort scale?

Answer: the force and speed of winds

256. Which is the basic unit of all life forms on this planet?

Answer: Cell

257. Which organ in the human body stores bile?

Answer: Gallbladder

258. What is the function of lungs?

Answer: breathing and exchange of gases

259. What is the scientific study of birds known as?

Answer: Ornithology

260. Name the sense organ that helps in maintaining body balance?

Answer: Ears

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Are you smarter than a 5^th grader computer questions

Would you like to know your knowledge and expertise in computers? Do you think you can crack the elementary school questions with ease? Let’s see whether you can make it and prove yourself smarter than a 5^th grader?

261. Name the person who is known as the father of computers?

Answer: Charles Babbage

262. In which year was the first computer invented?

Answer: 1943

263. What name was given to the first computer?

Answer: ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)

264. Name the computer system that used color display for the first time?

Answer: Apple 1

265. In which year the first 1 GB disc drive came to the market?

Answer: 1980

266. Who is considered the first computer programmer in the world?

Answer: Ada Lovelace

267. Which company designed the first CPU?

Answer: Intel

268. What is the full form of CD-ROM?

Answer: Compact Disc Read Only Memory

269. Name the computer hardware that helps to click, select, drag and drop functions?

Answer: Mouse

270. What is the main circuit board of the computer known as?

Answer: Motherboard

271. What helps to store short term running programs and data in a computer system?

Answer: RAM (Random Access Memory)

272. Name an input device?

Answer: Keyboard

273. Name an output device?

Answer: Printer

274. Do you know the full form of ROM?

Answer: Read Only Memory

275. Can you say the full form of the CPU?

Answer: Central Processing Unit

276. What is the output device monitor also known as?

Answer: Visual display unit

277. Name the founders of HP?

Answer: William Hewlett and David Packard

278. Which company invented the first floppy disc?

Answer: IBM

279. Who is the CEO of Microsoft Corporation?

Answer: Satya Nadella

280. Who invented the first USB port?

Answer: Ajay Bhatt, Intel Corporation

281. What type of computer software is Chrome and Firefox?

Answer: Web browsers

282. What is the file extension used in MS-excel?

Answer: ‘xls’

283. What is the general term used to explain all kinds of harmful programs in a computer?

Answer: Malware

284. What is the full form of USB?

Answer: Universal Serial Bus

285. Which output device has a platen?

Answer: Scanner

286. What is the ACRONYM used for Common Business oriented Language?

Answer: COBOL

287. What is used in a computer device to reduce the heat generated due to running the machine?

Answer: fan

288. What is the full form of GUI?

Answer: Graphic User Interface

289. Name the woman who is considered as the world’s first computer programmer?

Answer: Ada Lovelace

290. What happens when the power supply sends a signal to the system unit?

Answer: booting

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Are you smarter than a 5^th grader literature questions (Multiple choice questions)

Here you have some multiple-choice questions on English literature to test your know-how about stories, novels, poetry, and sonnet. Are you ready to start the quiz?

291. Who wrote ‘Paradise lost’ and ‘Paradise regained?

• John Milton
• Rudyard Kipling
• William Shakespeare

Answer: John Milton

292. To which school of poetry does John Donne belong to?

• Metaphysical 
• Jacobean
• Romanticism

Answer: Metaphysical

293. Mark Twain’s created characters belonged to which state?

• Alabama
• Tennessee
• Missouri

Answer: Missouri

294. Who is the author of Oliver twist?

• Robert Louis Stevenson
• George Bernard Shaw
• Charles Dickens

Answer: Charles Dickens

295. Which two lovers’ love is portrayed in Emily Bronte’s classic creation ‘Wuthering Heights’?

• Catherine and Heathcliff
• Isabelle and Hadley
• Anne and Gordon

Answer: Catherine and Heathcliff

296. Name the protagonist in James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’?

• Leopold Bloom
• Ulysses Bloom
• Leopold Ulysses

Answer: Leopold Bloom

297. In which language was ‘The Girl with the Dragoon Tattoo’ originally published?

• Swedish
• Danish
• English

Answer: Swedish

298. Who is the author of the thriller ‘Gone Girl?

• E.L James
• Gillian Flynn
• J.K Rowling

Answer: Gillian Flynn

299. Name the author of the novel ‘The Goldfinch?

• Elizabeth Strout
• Donna Tartt
• Anne Patchett

Answer: Donna Tartt

300. Which is the first novel in the ‘Sherlock Holmes’ series?

• The sign of the four
• The valley of fear
• A study in Scarlet

Answer: A Study in Scarlet

301. Name the first detective fiction of Agatha Christie?

• The murder on the links
• The mysterious affair at styles
• The mystery of the blue train

Answer: The mysterious affair at styles

302. Who is the author of the noir classic ‘The Maltese Falcon’?

• James Ellory
• James M. Cain
• Dashiell Hammett

Answer: Dashiell Hammett

303. Name the poet of the collection of ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’?

• Audre Lord
• Maya Angelou
• Gwendolyn Brooks

Answer: Maya Angelou

304. Who was the author of ‘The Jungle Book’?

• John Milton
• Rudyard Kipling
• William Shakespeare

Answer: Rudyard Kipling

305. Name the author of the classic book characters ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’?

• Mark Twain
• Robert Louis Stevenson
• J.K. Rowling

Answer: Mark Twain

306. Name the author of the novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ which was about social and racial inequality?

• James M. Cain
• George Bernard Shaw
• Harper Lee

Answer: Harper Lee

307. Who wrote ‘Pride and Prejudice’?

• Jane Austin
• Rudyard Kipling
• R.L Stevenson

Answer: Jane Austin

308. Name the first Chinese writer to win the Nobel Prize for literature?

• Ba Jin
• Mo Yan
• Zhang Ailing

Answer: Mo Yan

309. Which is the second book in the ‘Harry Potter’ series?

• Harry Potter and the half-blood Prince
• Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s stone

Answer: Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets

310. Who wrote the poem ‘If’?

• Rudyard Kipling
• Charles Dickens
• John Milton

Answer: Rudyard Kipling

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Parting words from ‘The Pleasant Conversation’

If you’re ready to prove yourself smarter than a 5^th grader, you should take the quiz and try to answer as many questions as you can.

The game is designed according to school grade levels and it is both interesting and knowledgeable. You will remember the old facts that are trivial, yet interesting and exciting.

It allows you to remember facts that you may have forgotten over these years due to lack of practice.

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Over to you….

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