Trivia Questions for 5th Grade – 10- or 11-year-olds:
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1 What is the name of the famous Scottish inventor who is credited with inventing the telephone?
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Isaac Newton
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Alexander Graham Bell
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Charles Darwin
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2 What is the name of the famous rock formation in Australia that is shaped like a giant red monolith?
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Uluru
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Rocks
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Australia Rock Austain
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3 What is the name of the famous American author who wrote “To Kill a Mockingbird”?
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John Milton
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Harper Lee
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William Shakespeare
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4 What is the name of the famous ancient city in Greece that was home to the Acropolis?
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Sparta
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Athens
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Corinth
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5 What is the name of the famous mountain in Africa that is also the highest point on the continent?
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Mount Kilimanjaro
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Mount Kilimanjaro
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Table Mountain
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6 What is the name of the famous ancient city in Italy that was destroyed by a volcanic eruption in AD 79?
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Herculaneum
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Rome
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Pompeii
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7 What is the name of the famous American astronaut who was the first person to walk on the moon?
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Buzz Aldrin
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Michael Collins
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Neil Armstrong
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8 What is the name of the famous American poet who wrote “The Road Not Taken” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”?
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Robert Frost
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Walt Whitman
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Emily Dickinson
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9 What is the name of the famous American general who led the Allied forces in World War II?
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George Patton
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Douglas MacArthur
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10 What is the name of the famous American astronaut who piloted the first American spaceflight in 1961?
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John Glenn
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Gus Grissom
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Alan Shepard
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