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Top 300+ Are you smarter than a 5th grader questions! [2023]

Natalie Baker

December 19, 2023

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Here are “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?” questions with answers:

What is the capital of France?
Answer: Paris
How many continents are there on Earth?
Answer: Seven
What is the largest planet in our solar system?
Answer: Jupiter
In a triangle, what is the term for a side opposite the right angle?
Answer: Hypotenuse
What is the process by which plants make their own food using sunlight?
Answer: Photosynthesis
Which planet is known as the “Red Planet”?
Answer: Mars
What is the largest ocean on Earth?
Answer: Pacific Ocean
Who wrote the play “Romeo and Juliet”?
Answer: William Shakespeare
What is the smallest prime number?
Answer: Two
In the human body, what is the main function of the lungs?
Answer: Respiration
What is the capital of Canada?
Answer: Ottawa
How many sides does a hexagon have?
Answer: Six
What is the largest mammal in the world?
Answer: Blue Whale
What is the chemical symbol for gold?
Answer: Au
What is the process by which water changes from a liquid to a gas at a temperature below its boiling point?
Answer: Evaporation
Who is known as the “Father of the United States”?
Answer: George Washington
What is the capital of Japan?
Answer: Tokyo
What is the largest bone in the human body?
Answer: Femur
What is the square root of 64?
Answer: 8
Which planet is known as the “Morning Star” or “Evening Star”?
Answer: Venus
How many degrees are in a right angle?
Answer: 90 degrees
What is the main function of the nucleus in a cell?
Answer: Control cell activities and contain genetic material
In which year did Christopher Columbus first reach the Americas?
Answer: 1492
What is the currency of Mexico?
Answer: Mexican Peso
What is the process by which plants release water vapor into the atmosphere?
Answer: Transpiration
What is the capital of Australia?
Answer: Canberra
How many sides does a pentagon have?
Answer: Five
What is the largest desert in the world?
Answer: Antarctic Desert
Who was the first President of the United States?
Answer: George Washington
What is the chemical symbol for water?
Answer: H2O
What is the smallest prime number greater than 10?
Answer: 11
What is the capital of China?
Answer: Beijing
How many seconds are in a minute?
Answer: 60
What is the process by which plants take in water through their roots?
Answer: Absorption
Who wrote “To Kill a Mockingbird”?
Answer: Harper Lee
What is the capital of Brazil?
Answer: Brasília
How many legs does a spider have?
Answer: Eight
What is the main function of the heart in the human body?
Answer: Pump blood
What is the largest island in the world?
Answer: Greenland
What is the sum of the angles in a triangle?
Answer: 180 degrees
In the human body, what is the main function of the liver?
Answer: Metabolism and detoxification
What is the capital of Russia?
Answer: Moscow
How many centimeters are in a meter?
Answer: 100
What is the process by which rocks are broken down into smaller particles by wind, water, or ice?
Answer: Weathering
Who was the 16th President of the United States?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln
What is the chemical symbol for oxygen?
Answer: O2
What is the capital of South Africa?
Answer: Pretoria
How many sides does an octagon have?
Answer: Eight
What is the largest moon in our solar system?
Answer: Ganymede (Jupiter’s moon)
What is the capital of Italy?
Answer: Rome
How many millimeters are in a centimeter?
Answer: 10
Who wrote “Pride and Prejudice”?
Answer: Jane Austen
What is the process by which water vapor turns into liquid water?
Answer: Condensation
What is the capital of Argentina?
Answer: Buenos Aires
How many chromosomes do humans typically have?
Answer: 46
What is the chemical symbol for carbon?
Answer: C
What is the main function of the small intestine in the digestive system?
Answer: Absorption of nutrients
In the Northern Hemisphere, in which month is the summer solstice?
Answer: June
What is the capital of Spain?
Answer: Madrid
How many planets in our solar system have rings?
Answer: Four (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune)
What is the process by which an organism develops from a fertilized egg?
Answer: Development
Who wrote “The Great Gatsby”?
Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald
What is the capital of South Korea?
Answer: Seoul
How many sides does a decagon have?
Answer: Ten
What is the smallest prime number greater than 20?
Answer: 23
What is the chemical symbol for sodium?
Answer: Na
What is the main function of the kidneys in the human body?
Answer: Filter blood and remove waste
What is the largest artery in the human body?
Answer: Aorta
What is the capital of Egypt?
Answer: Cairo
How many ounces are in a pound?
Answer: 16
What is the process by which rocks are formed from pre-existing rocks?
Answer: Metamorphism
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
Answer: Marie Curie
What is the capital of Turkey?
Answer: Ankara
How many bones are there in the adult human body?
Answer: 206
What is the chemical symbol for gold?
Answer: Au
What is the capital of India?
Answer: New Delhi
In the water cycle, what is the process by which water falls from the atmosphere to the Earth’s surface?
Answer: Precipitation
Who wrote “The Catcher in the Rye”?
Answer: J.D. Salinger
What is the capital of Nigeria?
Answer: Abuja
How many days are there in a leap year?
Answer: 366
What is the chemical symbol for iron?
Answer: Fe
What is the main function of the pancreas in the human body?
Answer: Produce digestive enzymes and regulate blood sugar
In which year did the United States declare its independence?
Answer: 1776
What is the capital of Thailand?
Answer: Bangkok
How many feet are in a mile?
Answer: 5,280
What is the process by which organisms produce offspring of the same kind?
Answer: Reproduction
Who was the first man to walk on the moon?
Answer: Neil Armstrong
What is the chemical symbol for helium?
Answer: He
What is the main function of the cerebellum in the human brain?
Answer: Coordination and motor control
What is the capital of Saudi Arabia?
Answer: Riyadh
How many sides does a dodecagon have?
Answer: Twelve
What is the smallest prime number greater than 30?
Answer: 31
What is the chemical symbol for silver?
Answer: Ag
What is the main function of the respiratory system in the human body?
Answer: Exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide
What is the capital of Mexico?
Answer: Mexico City
In the water cycle, what is the process by which water is absorbed by plants and released into the atmosphere?
Answer: Transpiration
Who painted the Mona Lisa?
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci
What is the capital of Germany?
Answer: Berlin
How many seconds are in an hour?
Answer: 3,600
What is the chemical symbol for nitrogen?
Answer: N
What is the largest ocean on Earth by surface area? Answer: Pacific Ocean
Who is the author of the Harry Potter book series? Answer: J.K. Rowling
In which year did World War II end? Answer: 1945
What is the capital of South Korea? Answer: Seoul
How many sides does a heptagon have? Answer: Seven
What is the chemical symbol for silver? Answer: Ag
Who is known as the “Queen of Pop”? Answer: Madonna
What is the largest city in the United States by population? Answer: New York City
In Greek mythology, who is the god of the sea? Answer: Poseidon
What is the capital of Argentina? Answer: Buenos Aires
How many players are there on a standard soccer (football) team? Answer: 11
Who wrote the play “Hamlet”? Answer: William Shakespeare
What is the capital of South Africa? Answer: Pretoria
How many bones are there in the human hand? Answer: 27
What is the chemical symbol for potassium? Answer: K
Who is the current President of France? Answer: Emmanuel Macron
What is the main function of the cerebrum in the human brain? Answer: Thought and voluntary movement
In which country did the Renaissance period originate? Answer: Italy
Who is the creator of the theory of relativity? Answer: Albert Einstein
What is the capital of Thailand? Answer: Bangkok
How many planets in our solar system have moons? Answer: Six
Who is the author of “The Hobbit”? Answer: J.R.R. Tolkien
What is the chemical symbol for copper? Answer: Cu
What is the main component of Earth’s atmosphere? Answer: Nitrogen
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in physics? Answer: Marie Curie
What is the capital of Turkey? Answer: Ankara
How many sides does a nonagon have? Answer: Nine
What is the chemical symbol for lead? Answer: Pb
Who painted “Starry Night”? Answer: Vincent van Gogh
What is the capital of Canada? Answer: Ottawa
How many chambers are there in the human heart? Answer: Four
Who wrote the novel “1984”? Answer: George Orwell
What is the chemical symbol for uranium? Answer: U
In Roman numerals, what does “C” represent? Answer: 100
What is the capital of Australia? Answer: Canberra
How many sides does a tetragon have? Answer: Four
Who is the Greek goddess of wisdom? Answer: Athena
What is the chemical symbol for neon? Answer: Ne
In which year did the Titanic sink? Answer: 1912
What is the capital of China? Answer: Beijing
How many strings does a standard guitar have? Answer: Six
Who wrote “The Odyssey”? Answer: Homer
What is the chemical symbol for magnesium? Answer: Mg
In which country is Mount Everest located? Answer: Nepal
Who is the author of “The Catcher in the Rye”? Answer: J.D. Salinger
What is the capital of Mexico? Answer: Mexico City
How many syllables are in the word “elephant”? Answer: Three
Who was the first person to step on the moon? Answer: Neil Armstrong
What is the chemical symbol for helium? Answer: He
In which year did the Berlin Wall fall? Answer: 1989
What is the capital of New Zealand? Answer: Wellington
Who is the author of “The Great Expectations”? Answer: Charles Dickens
How many bones are there in the adult human skull? Answer: 22
What is the chemical symbol for tin? Answer: Sn
In which year did the French Revolution begin? Answer: 1789
Who painted the famous portrait “Girl with a Pearl Earring”? Answer: Johannes Vermeer
What is the capital of Peru? Answer: Lima
How many sides does a rhombus have? Answer: Four
What is the chemical symbol for silver iodide? Answer: AgI
Who is the protagonist in “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy? Answer: Frodo Baggins
What is the capital of Norway? Answer: Oslo
In physics, what is the SI unit of force? Answer: Newton (N)
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in chemistry? Answer: Marie Curie
What is the chemical symbol for chromium? Answer: Cr
How many time zones are there in the world? Answer: 24
Who wrote “War and Peace”? Answer: Leo Tolstoy
What is the capital of Portugal? Answer: Lisbon
How many chambers are there in the human eye? Answer: Four
What is the chemical symbol for silicon? Answer: Si
In which year did the Cold War end? Answer: 1991
Who is the Greek god of war? Answer: Ares
What is the capital of Sweden? Answer: Stockholm
How many sides does a cube have? Answer: Six
What is the chemical symbol for nickel? Answer: Ni
Who wrote the play “Macbeth”? Answer: William Shakespeare
What is the capital of Colombia? Answer: Bogotá
In mathematics, what is the value of pi (π) to two decimal places? Answer: 3.14
What is the chemical symbol for mercury? Answer: Hg
Who is the author of “The Chronicles of Narnia” series? Answer: C.S. Lewis
What is the capital of Switzerland? Answer: Bern
How many players are there on a standard basketball team? Answer: Five
What is the chemical symbol for radium? Answer: Ra
In which year did World War I begin? Answer: 1914
Who painted “The Last Supper”? Answer: Leonardo da Vinci
What is the capital of South Sudan? Answer: Juba
How many elements are there in the periodic table? Answer: 118
What is the chemical symbol for platinum? Answer: Pt
Who is the author of “Brave New World”? Answer: Aldous Huxley
What is the capital of Nigeria? Answer: Abuja
How many sides does a parallelogram have? Answer: Four
What is the chemical symbol for cobalt? Answer: Co
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in literature? Answer: Selma Lagerlöf
What is the capital of Venezuela? Answer: Caracas
How many players are there on a standard baseball team? Answer: Nine
What is the chemical symbol for radon? Answer: Rn
In which year did the Renaissance period end? Answer: 1600
Who wrote “One Hundred Years of Solitude”? Answer: Gabriel García Márquez
What is the capital of Finland? Answer: Helsinki
How many continents have deserts? Answer: Four
What is the chemical symbol for barium? Answer: Ba
What is the capital of Malaysia? Answer: Kuala Lumpur
Who is the author of “The Scarlet Letter”? Answer: Nathaniel Hawthorne
How many protons are there in an atom of carbon-12? Answer: 6
What is the chemical symbol for uranium hexafluoride? Answer: UF6
In which year did the first manned moon landing take place? Answer: 1969
Who painted “The Persistence of Memory”? Answer: Salvador Dalí
What is the capital of the Philippines? Answer: Manila
How many sides does a trapezoid have? Answer: Four
What is the chemical symbol for zinc? Answer: Zn
Who is the protagonist in the novel “Jane Eyre”? Answer: Jane Eyre
What is the capital of Hungary? Answer: Budapest
In chemistry, what is Avogadro’s number? Answer: 6.022 x 10^23
Who wrote the poem “The Raven”? Answer: Edgar Allan Poe
What is the chemical symbol for tungsten? Answer: W
How many time zones does China have? Answer: One
Who is the author of “The Grapes of Wrath”? Answer: John Steinbeck
What is the capital of Iran? Answer: Tehran
How many bones are there in the human foot? Answer: 26
What is the chemical symbol for argon? Answer: Ar
In which year did the American Civil War end? Answer: 1865
Who is the Roman god of love and beauty? Answer: Venus (or Cupid)
What is the capital of Indonesia? Answer: Jakarta
How many sides does a nonagon have? Answer: Nine
What is the chemical symbol for manganese? Answer: Mn
Who wrote “The Canterbury Tales”? Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer
What is the capital of Ukraine? Answer: Kyiv
In physics, what does the acronym “DNA” stand for? Answer: Deoxyribonucleic Acid
What is the chemical symbol for cesium? Answer: Cs
Who is the author of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”? Answer: Douglas Adams
What is the capital of Saudi Arabia? Answer: Riyadh
How many sides does a heptagon have? Answer: Seven
What is the chemical symbol for beryllium? Answer: Be
In which year did the Russian Revolution take place? Answer: 1917
Who painted “American Gothic”? Answer: Grant Wood
What is the capital of Morocco? Answer: Rabat
How many players are there on a standard ice hockey team? Answer: Six
What is the chemical symbol for xenon? Answer: Xe
Who is the author of “The Stranger”? Answer: Albert Camus
What is the capital of Ecuador? Answer: Quito
How many sides does a hendecagon have? Answer: Eleven
What is the chemical symbol for radium? Answer: Ra
Who composed the musical composition “The Four Seasons”? Answer: Antonio Vivaldi
What is the capital of South Korea? Answer: Seoul
How many chromosomes do humans inherit from each parent? Answer: 23
What is the chemical symbol for krypton? Answer: Kr
Who wrote “The Tell-Tale Heart”? Answer: Edgar Allan Poe
What is the capital of Chile? Answer: Santiago
How many sides does a hendecagon have? Answer: Eleven
What is the chemical symbol for yttrium? Answer: Y
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in peace? Answer: Bertha von Suttner
What is the capital of Nigeria? Answer: Abuja
Who is the author of “The Old Man and the Sea”? Answer: Ernest Hemingway
How many players are there on a standard rugby union team? Answer: Fifteen
What is the chemical symbol for vanadium? Answer: V
In which year did the Battle of Gettysburg take place during the American Civil War? Answer: 1863
Who painted “The Birth of Venus”? Answer: Sandro Botticelli
What is the capital of Bangladesh? Answer: Dhaka
How many sides does a decagon have? Answer: Ten
What is the chemical symbol for palladium? Answer: Pd
Who is the main character in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel “Crime and Punishment”? Answer: Rodion Raskolnikov
What is the capital of Algeria? Answer: Algiers
In physics, what is the SI unit of electric current? Answer: Ampere (A)
Who wrote the play “Othello”? Answer: William Shakespeare
What is the chemical symbol for tin? Answer: Sn
How many time zones does the contiguous United States have? Answer: Four
What is the capital of Uzbekistan? Answer: Tashkent
How many bones are there in the adult human spine? Answer: 33
What is the chemical symbol for strontium? Answer: Sr
Who is the author of “The Iliad”? Answer: Homer
What is the capital of Myanmar (Burma)? Answer: Naypyidaw
How many sides does a icosagon have? Answer: Twenty
What is the chemical symbol for cesium? Answer: Cs
Who directed the film “The Shawshank Redemption”? Answer: Frank Darabont
What is the capital of Peru? Answer: Lima
How many protons are there in an atom of helium? Answer: 2
What is the chemical symbol for iodine? Answer: I
Who wrote “Wuthering Heights”? Answer: Emily Brontë
What is the capital of Afghanistan? Answer: Kabul
In chemistry, what is the pH of a neutral solution? Answer: 7
What is the chemical symbol for ytterbium? Answer: Yb
Who is the author of “One Hundred Years of Solitude”? Answer: Gabriel García Márquez
What is the capital of Cambodia? Answer: Phnom Penh
How many sides does a triacontagon have? Answer: Thirty
What is the chemical symbol for antimony? Answer: Sb
Who composed the music for the ballet “Swan Lake”? Answer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
What is the capital of Argentina? Answer: Buenos Aires
How many players are there on a standard field hockey team? Answer: Eleven
What is the chemical symbol for yttrium? Answer: Y
Who is the protagonist in George Orwell’s novel “Animal Farm”? Answer: Napoleon (the pig)
What is the capital of Ukraine? Answer: Kyiv
How many sides does a hendecagon have? Answer: Eleven
What is the chemical symbol for technetium? Answer: Tc
Who wrote “The Picture of Dorian Gray”? Answer: Oscar Wilde
What is the capital of Saudi Arabia? Answer: Riyadh
In physics, what is the SI unit of resistance? Answer: Ohm (Ω)
What is the chemical symbol for germanium? Answer: Ge
Who painted “The Starry Night”? Answer: Vincent van Gogh
What is the capital of Colombia? Answer: Bogotá
How many bones are there in the adult human hand? Answer: 27
What is the chemical symbol for neptunium? Answer: Np
What is the capital of Finland? Answer: Helsinki
Who is the author of “The Road”? Answer: Cormac McCarthy
How many planets in our solar system have rings? Answer: Four (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune)
What is the chemical symbol for lead? Answer: Pb
In which year did the Titanic sink? Answer: 1912
Who wrote “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”? Answer: Mark Twain
What is the capital of Greece? Answer: Athens
How many sides does a dodecagon have? Answer: Twelve
What is the chemical symbol for selenium? Answer: Se
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in physics? Answer: Marie Curie

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