Third Grade Knowledge–A-Thon Questions 2008

Literature

1) What was the name of the cat in “Alice in Wonderland?”     ANSWER: The Cheshire Cat

2) When the Queen in “Alice in Wonderland” didn’t know what to do, she always said...
          ANSWER: “Off with their heads!”

3) What literary hero shot an apple on his son’s head with an arrow? ANSWER: William Tell

4) What old-fashioned game was played in “Alice in Wonderland?”     ANSWER: Croquet

5) Who is the Norse god of thunder that carried a mighty hammer?     Answer: Thor

6)  In a famous Roman myth, what Roman slave is saved by a lion?  ANSWER:  Androcles

7) In “Wind in the Willows,” name the machine that Toad fell in love with that got him into trouble many times.     ANSWER: A motor car

8) Toad escaped from gaol (jail) disguised as a what?     ANSWER: A washerwoman

9) Who wrote “Alice in Wonderland?”     ANSWER: Lewis Carroll

10) Where did the final battle occur in “Wind in the Willows?”     ANSWER: Toad Hall
 

Language Arts (Writing, Grammar)

11) What are the five parts of a correct sentence?
          ANSWER: It has to make sense and have a subject, verb, capital letter, and end mark.

12) What is an imperative sentence?     ANSWER: a command

13) What is the understood subject pronoun?     ANSWER: you

14) What punctuation is used for possessive nouns?          ANSWER: an apostrophe (‘) or apostrophe s

15) What is the abbreviation used for a possessive noun?     ANSWER: PNA

16) What is the abbreviation used for a possessive pronoun?     ANSWER: PPA

17) What are the parts of a verb phrase?     ANSWER: A helping verb and a main verb

18) What are the eight be verbs?     ANSWER: am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been

19) What are the seven possessive pronouns?     ANSWER: my, our, his, her, its, their, your

20) What are the seven subject pronouns?     ANSWER: I, we, he, she, it, you, they
 

Science

21) Name two of the four gas planets.     ANSWER: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune (any two)

22) The study of what is out in space beyond the Earth’s atmosphere is called?     ANSWER: astronomy

23) Producers, consumers, and decomposers make up the...     ANSWER: ecosystem

24) What muscles respond automatically?        ANSWER: Involuntary

25) What is the control center of the body?     ANSWER: the brain

26) Breathing and your heartbeat are regulated by this part of the brain.     ANSWER: medulla

27) What is the colored part of the eye is called?     ANSWER: iris

28) The nerve that carries sound to the brain is called the      ANSWER: auditory nerve

29) People who are deaf often use their hands to communicate. This is called?     ANSWER: sign language

30) Animals are classified according to their spinal structure in two categories.  What are these categories?          ANSWER:  vertebrates and invertebrates
 

American & World Geography

31) What is a piece of land that extends into a body of water?     ANSWER: A peninsula

32) What is a narrow passage of water that connects two larger bodies of water?     ANSWER: A strait

33) Name two larger bodies of water, which the Strait of Gibraltar connects.      ANSWER: The Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea

34) What southern state is an example of a peninsula?     ANSWER: Florida

35) What does the shape of Italy remind you of?     ANSWER: a boot

36) The city of Rome is located in what country?     ANSWER: Italy

37) Name two of the four Scandinavian countries. ANSWER: Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark (Any two)

38) What is the longest river in the continental United States?     ANSWER: the Mississippi

39) What island did the Dutch buy from the Indians for $25 worth of trinkets?     ANSWER:  Long Island

40) Name four of the seven continents in the world.  ANSWER: Antarctica, North America, South America, Australia, Africa, Asia and Europe (Any four)

American and World History

41) Name the founder of the Quaker colony in the original thirteen colonies.     ANSWER: William Penn

42) What do the Latin words “anno domini” stand for and what do they mean?
          ANSWER: A.D. “in the year of our Lord”

43) Ponce de Leon was looking for the...       ANSWER: Fountain of Youth

44) In Roman times, what a person who was very wealthy would be called?     ANSWER: patrician

45) The building in Rome in which the chariot races were held was called the...       ANSWER: Circus (Keerkoose)

46) This man was the first Christian emperor of the Roman Empire.     ANSWER: Constantine

47) In Roman times, women and slaves were NOT...      ANSWER: citizens

48) The Puritans established this colony in 1630.     ANSWER: Massachusetts Bay Colony

49) What was the short cut to Asia that many explorers were looking for?
ANSWER: Northwest Passage

50) Name the product grown in the Southern Colonies that was used to make blue dye.     ANSWER: Indigo

Mathematics

51) The answer in addition is called…. ANSWER: the sum

52) The value of the 4 in 462 is… ANSWER: 400

53) What is the top number in a fraction called?      ANSWER: the Numerator

54) 72 divided by 8 equals:     ANSWER: 9

55) The units in area are always...     ANSWER: square units

56) There are how many pints in a quart?   ANSWER:  2

57) What is the answer in a multiplication problem called?  ANSWER: The product

58) The answer in division is called… ANSWER: The quotient

59) What do you call a fast method of adding 9+9+9+9+9?     ANSWER: Multiplication or to Multiply

60) One yard equals how many inches?     ANSWER: 36 inches

Spelling

61) What does CVC stand for?     ANSWER: Consonant-Vowel-Consonant

62) When is “Y” a vowel letter?   ANSWER: When it is at the end of a morphograph

63) What is a morphograph?     ANSWER: A part of a word

64) How many words are made up of morphographs?     ANSWER: all

65) What does the morphograph “pre” mean?     ANSWER: before

66) Spell “greenness.”     ANSWER: g-r-e-e-n-n-e-s-s

67) How many morphographs are in helplessness?     ANSWER: three (3)

68) What do you add to “bunch” to make it plural?
          ANSWER: “-es”

69) Divide the word “likable” into morphographs, spelling each one.     ANSWER: “like” & “able”

70) When do you drop the e in a word?     ANSWER: When the next morphograph begins with a vowel letter.
 

Spanish

71) doctor      ANSWER: médico

72) receptionist                 ANSWER: recepcionista

73) I’m sick.                     ANSWER: Estoy enferma/o.

74) My head aches or hurts.                      ANSWER: Me duele la cabeza.

75) My throat hurts or is sore.                    ANSWER: Me duele la garganta.

76) My leg is broken.                              ANSWER: Me fracture’ la pierna.

77) north, south, east, west                       ANSWER: norte, sur,  este, oeste

78) Hot and cold                 ANSWER: caliente y frío

79)Count from 10-100 by tens                 ANSWER: diez, veinte, treinta,
      In Spanish.                                                  cuarenta, cincuenta, sesenta,
                                                                          setenta, ochenta, noventa, cien.

80) Count from 100-1,000 by 100’s          ANSWER: cien, doscientos,
       In Spanish.                                     trescientos, cuatrocientos, quinientos,
                                                               seiscientos, setecientos, ochocientos,  novecientos, mil
 
 

Art

81) Name one element of design.     ANSWER: Line, color, light (value), shape, space, texture, form

82) A picture that has the same on one side as the other?  ANSWER: symmetrical

83) What is the third dimension? Answer: depth

If I take a shape that is two-dimensional and add the third dimension, I will get an object that has volume and is like a sculpture.

84) What is the three-dimensional version of a triangle called?     ANSWER: Cone

85) What is the three-dimensional version of a square called?   ANSWER: Cube

86) What is the three-dimensional version of a circle called?     ANSWER: Sphere or ball

87) A great woman artist who painted impressionistic pictures of mothers and their children was ______________________.  ANSWER: Mary Cassatt

88) Edvard Munch (Moonk) painted a picture of a man with an angry or frightened expression on a bridge.  The painting was called_____________________. ANSWER: The Scream

89) What quality does a pattern have that makes it a pattern? Answer: Repeating of shapes or repetition

90) What are the three names that an artist calls area on a canvas so he/she can create the illusion of depth? Answer: Background, middle ground, foreground

Music

 91) Who is known as “the March King?”     ANSWER: (John Philip) Sousa

92) What American composer wrote Fanfare for the Common Man, "Hoedown," from Rodeo, and Appalachian Spring?  ANSWER:  (Aaron) Copland

93) Who wrote The William Tell Overture?     ANSWER: Rossini

94) To which family of instruments does the trombone belong?
 ANSWER:  brass

95)  To which family of instruments does the oboe belong?
ANSWER:  woodwind

96) How many eighth notes equal one quarter note?     ANSWER:  Two

97) How should you sing music marked fortissimo (ff)?     ANSWER: very loudly
 
 

98) Sing or say the notes in a scale, starting with "Do, Re, Mi. . ." ANSWER:  Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, Do

99) What folk song is in Appalachian Spring?   ANSWER: Simple Gifts

100) Fill in the blank:  You’re a Grand Old…?
ANSWER:  Flag