Are you Smarter than a 5th Grader-A fun Quiz

Grade 1
1. What man is on the front of the U.S. twenty dollar bill? _________________
2. A heptagon is a shape with how many sides?_________________
3. If you add equal amounts of red and blue paint, what color paint do you get?_______________
4. True or false: The Earth's Moon gives off its own light. _________________
5. How many adjectives are in the following sentence? "My teacher was a lovely woman."________
Grade 2
6. Which color absorbs the most light? _________________
7. Inca civilizations were concentrated on what continent? _________________
8. Which is longer, one kilometer or one mile? _________________
9. Emma has 2 yardsticks. She also has a 12-inch ruler. She places them end-to-end in a line.
How many feet long is the line? _________________
10. True or false: In geometry, parallel lines never meet. _________________
11. Of a drum, violin or saxophone, which is a woodwind instrument? _________________
12. A chimpanzee's natural habitat is on what continent? _________________
13. What is the largest and heaviest organ in the human body? _________________
14. How many millimeters are in a centimeter? _________________
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Grade 3
15. True or false: A turtle is an amphibian. _________________
16. The cerebrum is the biggest part of what organ in your body? _________________
17. In the Northern Hemisphere, in what month is the autumnal equinox?_________________
18. What is the official name for the North Star? _________________
19. The Tropic of Cancer lies entirely in which hemisphere? _________________
Grade 4
20. How many articles are in the following sentence? "I went to the store and bought a loaf of
bread and an onion." _________________
21. In the equation 6 divided by 2 equals 3, which number represents the dividend?____________
22. What is the lowest prime number? _________________
23. How long is one regular term for a U.S. Representative? _________________
24. In square inches, what is the surface area of a cube with 5 inch sides?_________________
Grade 5
25. What is the greatest common factor of 2 and 3? _________________
26. What is the world's second-largest country in terms of land area? _________________
27. What is the compound word in this sentence? The bus driver took an alternate route
to the airport. _________________
28. True or false: "Carefully," "easily" and "barely" are examples of adjectives. _________________
29. True or False: An icicle-shaped mineral deposit hanging from the roof of a cavern is a
stalagmite. _________________
30. If you have a gross of pencils, how many pencils do you have? _________________



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1. Andrew Jackson 2. Seven 3. Purple4.False (It reflects light from the sun) 5. One (Lovely) 6. Black 7. South America 8.
One Mile9. Seven Feet 10. True 11. Saxophone 12. Africa13. Liver 14. Ten 15. False 16. Brain17. September 18.
Polaris 19. Northern (23 degress north of the equator) 20. Three (the, a, an)21. Six 22. Two23. 2 years 24.
150 square inches 25. One26.Canada27. Airport 28. False (adverbs) 29. False (it’s stalactite) 30. 144 pencils