Think You Are Smarter Than a 5th Grader? Prove It!

Oxygen is a colorless, odorless, and tasteless gas essential to all living organisms. When taken in by humans, it converts it to carbon dioxide.

Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun. It is more than 30 times away from the Sun and not visible to the naked eye. Also, Neptune is cold and dark and has diamond rains and supersonic winds.

Although many people are credited with the invention of television, Scottish engineer John Logie Baird created the first actual television in 1927. He formed the Baird Television Development Company, which had its first transatlantic transmission in 1928.

The United States of America has 50 states, with Washington, D.C., as its capital. The last two states to join the country were Alaska (at number 49) and Hawaii (50) in 1959.

Matter is anything that has mass and occupies space. It has three states gas, solid, and liquid, each with unique properties. Also, the properties are explained by looking at the arrangement of their particles.

By land area, Canada is the largest country in North America, followed by the United States in second place. Greenland is third, and Mexico is fourth. Canada’s land mass is 9.985 million square kilometers.

An invertebrate animal does not have a spinal column or backbone like a vertebrate. Over 90% of all animal species on Earth are invertebrates. Examples are jellyfish, insects, spiders, worms, snails, etc.

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of the world’s ocean basins, and all the continents in the world could fit into it. It covers approximately 63 million square miles and contains more than half of the free water on Earth.

The Great Pyramid of Giza is the most famous Egyptian pyramid and the tomb of the Fourth Dynasty Pharaoh Khufu. It was built in the early 26th century BC and is the last remaining original of the world’s seven wonders.

The United States Apollo 11 landed on the Moon on July 20, 1969, with 24 astronauts. Between 1969 and 1972, the United States recorded six crewed landings.

The English alphabet has 26 letters, with five vowels, a, e, i, o, u. A vowel is a sound made when you allow the breath to flow out of the mouth without closing the throat or any part of the mouth.

The RMS Titanic was a luxury steamship that sank on April 15, 1912. The incident happened off the coast of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic after sideswiping an iceberg on its maiden voyage.

The American Civil War started on April 12, 1861, at 4:30 a.m. after the Confederate troops fired on Fort Summer in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor. It continued until April 9, 1865, when Robert E. Lee surrendered.

Christopher Columbus was among the last explorers to land in the Americas in 1492; hence he is credited with discovering it. However, he is not the first. Five hundred years before Columbus, Viking Leif Erikson arrived in America and settled there.

An action verb is a verb that expresses an action that a person, animal, or a process in nature can do. Examples of action verbs are dance, play, replace, lie, jump, exit, laugh, etc.

Baseball is played with a ball, bat, and gloves and is one of the most-watched games in the US. It involves two teams of nine players on a field with four white basics laid out in a diamond.

An insulator is a substance that does not readily allow the passage of heat or sound. Examples of insulators are plastic, wood, rubber, and glass.

A right angle measures 90 degrees, which is the corner of a square formed by dividing a circle into quarters. Also, right angles are formed when two straight lines intersect each other at 90 degrees or are perpendicular to each other at the intersection.

A toe is any of the five digits at the end of the human foot. The foot is the lower extremity of the leg below the ankle, on which a person stands or walks, consisting of the forefoot, the midfoot, and the hindfoot.

On November 22, 1963, shortly before noon, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald killed him.