8th Grade Trivia Question and Answers

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1.

What is the smallest country in the world by land area?

Answer: Vatican City
2.

Which famous scientist developed the theory of relativity?

Answer: Albert Einstein
3.

What is the chemical symbol for gold?

Answer: Au
4.

What is the name of the longest river in the world?

Answer: The Nile River
5.

Who wrote the famous play "Romeo and Juliet"?

Answer: William Shakespeare
6.

What type of animal is a platypus?

Answer: A mammal
7.

What is the capital of Australia?

Answer: Canberra
8.

What is the name of the largest ocean on Earth?

Answer: The Pacific Ocean
9.

What is the name of the highest mountain in the world?

Answer: Mount Everest
10.

What is the chemical formula for water?

Answer: H2O
11.

In what year did World War II begin?

Answer: 1939
12.

What is the name of the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?

Answer: Amelia Earhart
13.

What is the name of the largest desert in the world?

Answer: The Antarctic Polar Desert
14.

What is the name of the largest planet in our solar system?

Answer: Jupiter
15.

What is the name of the famous scientist who developed a theory of evolution?

Answer: Charles Darwin
16.

What is the name of the country with the largest population in the world?

Answer: China
17.

What is the name of the famous American author who wrote "The Great Gatsby"?

Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald
18.

What is the name of the country where the ancient city of Rome is located?

Answer: Italy
19.

What is the name of the first person to walk on the moon?

Answer: Neil Armstrong
20.

What is the name of the famous artist who painted the Mona Lisa?

Answer: Leonardo da Vinci
21.

What is the name of the building that houses the United States Congress?

Answer: The Capitol Building
22.

What is the currency used in Japan?

Answer: The Japanese yen
23.

What is the name of the famous composer who wrote the "Moonlight Sonata"?

Answer: Ludwig van Beethoven
24.

What is the name of the longest bone in the human body?

Answer: The femur
25.

What is the name of the famous scientist who developed the theory of gravity?

Answer: Isaac Newton
26.

What is the capital of Canada?

Answer: Ottawa
27.

What is the name of the famous scientist who discovered penicillin?

Answer: Alexander Fleming
28.

What is the name of the famous historical document written by Thomas Jefferson?

Answer: The Declaration of Independence
29.

What is the chemical symbol for iron?

Answer: Fe
30.

What is the name of the largest freshwater lake in the world?

Answer: Lake Superior
31.

What is the name of the famous scientist who developed the periodic table?

Answer: Dmitri Mendeleev
32.

What is the name of the famous American author who wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird"?

Answer: Harper Lee
33.

What is the name of the famous Egyptian pharaoh who built the Great Pyramid of Giza?

Answer: Khufu
34.

What is the name of the famous American inventor who developed the light bulb?

Answer: Thomas Edison
35.

What is the name of the country where the Taj Mahal is located?

Answer: India
36.

What is the name of the famous scientist who developed the theory of plate tectonics?

Answer: Alfred Wegener
37.

What is the name of the famous American civil rights leader who led the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Answer: Martin Luther King Jr.
38.

What is the name of the famous musician who wrote the song "Imagine"?

Answer: John Lennon
39.

What is the name of the country where the Great Barrier Reef is located?

Answer: Australia
40.

What is the name of the famous American author who wrote "The Catcher in the Rye"?

Answer: J.D. Salinger
41.

What is the name of the famous artist who painted "The Starry Night"?

Answer: Vincent van Gogh
42.

What is the name of the famous scientist who discovered the structure of DNA?

Answer: James Watson and Francis Crick
43.

What is the name of the famous American author who wrote "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"?

Answer: Mark Twain
44.

What is the name of the famous American president who issued the Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer: Abraham Lincoln
45.

What is the name of the famous American author who wrote "The Scarlet Letter"?

Answer: Nathaniel Hawthorne
46.

What is the name of the famous scientist who developed the theory of special relativity?

Answer: Albert Einstein
47.

What is the name of the famous American composer who wrote "West Side Story"?

Answer: Leonard Bernstein
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