First Grade Knowledge –A-Thon Questions 2008

Literature

1) What is the Golden Rule?     ANSWER: Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you.

2) How do many fairy tales begin?     ANSWER: With Once upon a time.

3) How do many fairy tales end?
          ANSWER: They lived happily ever after.

4) In the poem, Wynken, Blynken, and Nod, Wynken, Blynken and Nod are really what?
          ANSWER: 2 eyes and a head

5) In whose garden did Peter Rabbit get into trouble?     ANSWER: Mr. McGregor’s

6) What is a magic number in a fairy tale?     ANSWER: 3 or 7

7) Name the thing that Jack took from the giant in Jack and the Beanstalk?     ANSWER: Bag of Gold, hen, golden harp

8) Finish this saying:  “If at first you don’t succeed__________________?     ANSWER: try and try again

9) What did the prince climb on to reach Rapunzel at the top of the tower?     ANSWER: Her hair

10) What is the setting in a story?     ANSWER: Where the story takes place

Language Arts (Writing, Grammar)

11) What does every sentence have to begin with?     ANSWER: A capital letter

12) When writing a story, name the three parts you should have?     ANSWER: Beginning, middle, and end

13) A person’s name should begin with what?     ANSWER: A capital letter

14) What is the dot at the end of most sentences called?     ANSWER: A period

15) What punctuation mark goes at the end of the sentence:  What is your name.  ANSWER:  Question mark

16) Are left and right synonyms or antonyms?     ANSWER: antonyms

17) What does singular mean?     ANSWER: Only one

18) What does plural mean?     ANSWER: More than 1

19) What do you put at the end of many words to change them from singular to plural?     ANSWER: An s

20) Is pencil a common noun or a proper noun?          ANSWER: common

Science

21) Is a penny a conductor or insulator of electricity?     ANSWER: A conductor

22) Which layer of earth comes between the crust and core?     ANSWER: The mantle

23) Which object in our solar system is called a dwarf planet?   ANSWER: Pluto

24) What is the sun?     ANSWER: A star

25) What type of matter is an ice cube?     ANSWER: A solid

26) What do we call the different shapes of the moon?     ANSWER: phases

27) Who invented the light bulb?     ANSWER: Thomas Edison

28) What kind or rock forms from volcanoes?     ANSWER: igneous

29) What gives our body its shape?     ANSWER: skeleton

30) What do herbivores eat?     ANSWER: plants

American & World Geography

31) Name the continent that is an island.     ANSWER: Australia

32) Name two oceans:  ANSWER: Two of the following:  Pacific, Arctic, Indian, Atlantic and Southern

33) What continent do we live on?     ANSWER: North America

34) What country is south of the United States?     ANSWER: Mexico

35) What is a place ruled by people living in another country?     ANSWER: A colony

36) What is a piece of land surrounded by water on three sides?  ANSWER:  A peninsula

37) What two continents did the land bridge connect during the ice age?
          ANSWER: North America and Asia

38) Name the three largest countries in North America.     ANSWER: Canada, United States, and Mexico

39) What continent did the Inca civilization live on?     ANSWER: South America

40) What mountain range did Daniel Boone blaze a trail through?     ANSWER: Appalachian Mountains

American & World History

41) How many original colonies were there?     ANSWER: 13

42) Who created the first U.S. flag?     ANSWER: Betsy Ross

43) Who did the colonists fight for independence?     ANSWER: England

44) What were the British soldiers called?     ANSWER: Redcoats

45) What Indian civilization did Hernando Cortez conquer?     ANSWER: The Aztecs

46) What was the name of the first successful English settlement in the New World?
          ANSWER: Jamestown

47) Why did the pilgrims and puritans come to America?     ANSWER: for religious freedom

48) What did President Jefferson buy from France that doubled the size of the United States?
          ANSWER:  The Louisiana Purchase

49) What event happened because the colonists were angry at King George about the tax on tea?  ANSWER: The Boston Tea Party

50) Who were sent by President Jefferson to explore the west to the Pacific?    ANSWER: Lewis and Clark

Mathematics

51) What unit would you use to measure your new pencil?     ANSWER: inches

52) In the number 257 what digit is in the tens place?     ANSWER: 5

53) What number comes after 49?     ANSWER: 50

54) What does 9+3=?     ANSWER:  12

55) Count by fives to fifty.
          ANSWER: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50

56) What does 14 -7=?     ANSWER: 7

57) Count backwards by 10 starting at 100.  ANSWER: 100, 90, 80, 70, 60, 50, 40, 30, 20, 10, 0

58) How much is 1 dime and 3 pennies?    ANSWER: 13 cents

59) Count by 2s to 20.  ANSWER: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20

60) Solve this problem: Sam had 4 pairs of shoes.  How many shoes are there altogether?     ANSWER: 8
 

Spelling

61) Spell friends

62) Spell save

63) Spell come

 64) Spell they

 65) Spell friend

66) What does g-a-v-e spell?    ANSWER: gave

67) What does w-i-l-l spell?   ANSWER: will

68) What does s-h-a-r-p spell?   ANSWER: sharp

69) What does g-o-i-n-g spell?  ANSWER: going

70) What does l-i-v-e spell?  ANSWER:  live

Spanish

71) What is cheese in Spanish?     ANSWER: queso

72) What is bread in Spanish?   ANSWER: pan

73) What is lettuce in Spanish?  ANSWER: lechuga

74) What is tomato in Spanish?     ANSWER: tomate

75) What is horse in Spanish?     ANSWER: caballo

76) What is cow in Spanish?     ANSWER: vaca

77) What are pants in Spanish?     ANSWER: pantalones

78) What are shoes in Spanish?     ANSWER: zapatos

79) What are socks in Spanish?     ANSWER: calcetines

80) Count from 10 to 100 by tens in Spanish:
          ANSWER: diez, veinte, treinta, cuarenta, cincuenta, sesenta, setenta, ochenta, noventa, cien

Art

81) Where did the people from long ago often paint pictures?     ANSWER: Caves

82) What did the people from long ago make paintings of?  ANSWER: [any two of the following] Bison, people, animals, symbols, weapons, etc.

83) Name a primary color? Answer: Red, yellow, or blue

84) Orange is a secondary color made by combining red and _________?     ANSWER: Yellow

85) Name a color that cannot be made from any other color? ANSWER :  The primary colors:  red, yellow, or blue [any one answer]

86) Paul Cézanne painted a still life called _________________.         ANSWER: Apples and Oranges

87) Name a painting that Leonardo da Vinci painted.  ANSWER:  Mona Lisa, The Last Supper
 
88) What is the name of the kind of painting Diego rivera painted on a wall?  ANSWER:  Mural

89) If I paint a picture of a vase and flowers sitting on a shelf, what kind of painting is that called?  ANSWER:  Still-life

90) Name a geometric shape.  ANSWER:  [Any one of the following of other acceptable answer] Circle, square, rectangle, triangle, octagon, oval.
 

Music

91) What do we call someone who writes music?     ANSWER: A composer

92) Who put Hansel in a cage? ANSWER:  the witch

93) What do we call a play where all the words are sung?     ANSWER: An opera

94) What opera did Engelbert Humperdink compose?     ANSWER:  Hansel and Gretel

95) What do we call a fancy solo in an opera?  ANSWER:  an aria

96) Who composed The Nutcracker Suite?     ANSWER: (Peter) Tchaikovsky

97) What type of music did Louis Armstrong play?     ANSWER: Jazz

98) We watched Peter and the…?     ANSWER: Wolf

99) What comes after Do, Re, Mi?     ANSWER: Fa

100) Trumpets belong to what family of instruments?     ANSWER:  brass