Are You Smarter Than an 8th-Grader?

Test your knowledge of middle-school subjects

Barbranda Lumpkins Walls

En español

Published August 24, 2016

10 Questions

Are You Smarter Than an 8th-Grader?

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  "question" : "Who wrote the poems “Annabel Lee” and “The Raven”?",
  "answers" : [ {
    "answer" : "Ralph Waldo Emerson",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "Nathaniel Hawthorne",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "Edgar Allan Poe",
    "correctAnswer" : true
  }, {
    "answer" : "Robert Frost",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  } ],
  "multiSelect" : false,
  "explanation" : "Answer: c. Edgar Allan Poe",
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}, {
  "question" : "Which literary term means a story illustrating a moral lesson?",
  "answers" : [ {
    "answer" : "parable",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "allegory",
    "correctAnswer" : true
  }, {
    "answer" : "myth",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "anecdote",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  } ],
  "multiSelect" : false,
  "explanation" : "Answer: b. allegory",
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}, {
  "question" : "Which of the following is not an example of onomatopoeia?",
  "answers" : [ {
    "answer" : "boom",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "sizzle",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "meow",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "cents",
    "correctAnswer" : true
  } ],
  "multiSelect" : false,
  "explanation" : "Answer: d. cents",
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}, {
  "question" : "Where was the First Continental Congress held?",
  "answers" : [ {
    "answer" : "Washington, D.C.",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "Boston",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "Philadelphia",
    "correctAnswer" : true
  }, {
    "answer" : "Richmond, Va.",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  } ],
  "multiSelect" : false,
  "explanation" : "Answer: c. Philadelphia",
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}, {
  "question" : "Who was the third president of the United States?",
  "answers" : [ {
    "answer" : "James Monroe",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "Thomas Jefferson",
    "correctAnswer" : true
  }, {
    "answer" : "John Adams",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "James Madison",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  } ],
  "multiSelect" : false,
  "explanation" : "Answer: b. Thomas Jefferson",
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}, {
  "question" : "What American woman aided wounded soldiers on the battlefield during the Civil War?",
  "answers" : [ {
    "answer" : "Clara Barton",
    "correctAnswer" : true
  }, {
    "answer" : "Dolley Madison",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "Betsy Ross",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "Florence Nightingale",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  } ],
  "multiSelect" : false,
  "explanation" : "Answer: a. Clara Barton",
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}, {
  "question" : "Gwen wants to rent a truck for one day. She contacted two companies. Scott’s Truck Rentals charges a flat $20 plus $2 per mile. Big Haul Truck Rentals charges $3 per mile. After how many miles will the total cost for both companies be the same?",
  "answers" : [ {
    "answer" : "10",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "15",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "20",
    "correctAnswer" : true
  }, {
    "answer" : "25",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  } ],
  "multiSelect" : false,
  "explanation" : "Answer: c. 20",
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}, {
  "question" : "The Earth’s water cycle is powered by:",
  "answers" : [ {
    "answer" : "wind ",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "sun",
    "correctAnswer" : true
  }, {
    "answer" : "radioactive decay",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "energy of the Earth’s rotation",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  } ],
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  "explanation" : "Answer: b. sun",
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}, {
  "question" : "How do you calculate the area of a triangle?",
  "answers" : [ {
    "answer" : "base times height ",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "pi times radius squared",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "base times height divided by 2",
    "correctAnswer" : true
  }, {
    "answer" : "base times height divided by 3",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  } ],
  "multiSelect" : false,
  "explanation" : "Answer: c. base times height divided by 2",
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}, {
  "question" : "What do you call the distance around a circle?",
  "answers" : [ {
    "answer" : "circumference",
    "correctAnswer" : true
  }, {
    "answer" : "radius",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "perimeter",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "boundary",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  } ],
  "multiSelect" : false,
  "explanation" : "Answer: a. circumference",
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} ]

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