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DARK SECRETS: 36 school questions part 3 | Rare Historical Photos

Get ready to prove your smarts with this school test.🗄️

Covering (almost) everything from geography and math to science and physics, these 36 school questions are designed to challenge your brain… Whether you’re a history enthusiast, a math whiz, or just love discovering interesting facts, this quiz will stretch your skills – and maybe even teach you something new! 👩‍🏫

Each question has four possible answer options. Can you score at least 25 out of 36? Think carefully, choose wisely, and let’s see if you will graduate in 2025! 🤓

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Trivia•36 School Questions: Part 3

Solar system planets aligned with the largest planet prominently shown among other smaller planets and the bright sun.

Zelch Csaba

1.Pick the largest planet in our solar system:

Rectangle with sides 5 cm and 8 cm illustrating the perimeter calculation in a math school question.

Bored Panda

2.In math, what is the perimeter of a rectangle with sides 5 cm and 8 cm?

Jonathunder

3.Name the first woman to win a Nobel Prize:

Young woman wearing a large hat reading a book outdoors, focusing on literature questions about who wrote The Odyssey.

Mental Health America (MHA)

4.In literature, who wrote The Odyssey?

Person walking past a painted brick wall featuring the flag of Brazil with bright green, yellow, and blue colors.

Bia Santana

5.Pick the capital city of Brazil:

Colored geometric shapes on black background, illustrating polygon shapes including a hexagon with six sides concept.

Magda Ehlers

6.Fill in the blank: "A hexagon is a polygon with _ sides."

Emancipation Proclamation handwritten document issued by a U.S. president with vintage cursive text on aged paper.

National Archives Catalog

7.Which U.S. president issued the Emancipation Proclamation?

8.What is the hardest natural substance on Earth?

Portrait of Shakespeare on the left, close-up of hand writing with a fountain pen on the right representing Shakespeare play characters.

National Portrait Gallery & John-Mark Smith

9.Which Shakespeare play features the characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?

Union Jack flags hanging from a historic British building under cloudy skies, symbolizing the British prime minister during WWII.

Lina Kivaka

10.Select the British prime minister during most of World War II:

Hand tossing a small globe highlighting geography and the largest desert on Earth by area in front of mountains.

Valentin Antonucci

11.In geography, what is the largest desert on Earth by area?

Older man exercising on track using a stretched resistance band demonstrating stored elastic potential energy concept.

Anna Shvets

12.What type of energy is stored in a stretched rubber band?

Speech bubble with the word bonjour in orange text on a pale yellow background related to school questions meaning.

FeatherpenCS / Canva

13.What does the French word “bonjour” mean in English?

Map of U.S. states color-coded and labeled, focusing on picking the U.S. state that has the most people.

Wikipedia

14.Pick the U.S. state that has the most people:

Fresco painting on a ceiling depicting multiple human figures in classical style and architectural frames.

Wikipedia

15.In art, what is this type of painting called?

Two people discussing school questions about the spoken language in Brazil in a casual study setting.

fauxels

16.Fill in the blank: "The spoken language in Brazil is _____."

17.Fill in the blank: "The Egyptians built the _____"

Person with red nail polish reading George Orwell's dystopian book 1984 surrounded by other literature on wooden floor.

Edward Eyer

18.What is the main character called in the dystopian book 1984?

Smiling young woman outdoors enjoying sunlight, illustrating the comparative form of the adjective happy in grammar.

Diana Jefimova

19.In grammar, what is the comparative form of the adjective “happy”?

Earth placed on a grid representing the theory of relativity demonstrating the curvature of spacetime with gravity effects.

Waddie96

20.The theory of relativity proved that...

Night street scene in Seoul South Korea with bright neon signs and people walking through a busy commercial area

Pixabay

21.What is the capital of South Korea?

Globe showing the northern polar region with country borders and names, focusing on continents and countries.

NastyaSensei

22.The continent with the most countries is...

Woman standing near misty plants in a forest, illustrating the process by which plants release water vapor into the air.

Nấm Mèo

23.What is the process by which plants release water vapor into the air called?

Text showing the school question asking to find the square of 15 with a dark gray background and the question mark in orange.

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24.Find the square of 15:

Two small boats on a world map highlighting the ocean between Africa and Australia for school questions.

Lara Jameson

25.What ocean lies between Africa and Australia?

Barnes & Noble

26.The author of Pride and Prejudice is...

Water being poured into a glass with water droplets on the surface, representing pH value considered neutral in chemistry.

Pixabay

27.In chemistry, what pH value is considered neutral?

Close-up of the United States flag beside a large orange question mark on a dark gray background about the national bird.

Sharefaith

28.The national bird of the United States is...

Man in white shirt sitting on orange couch using laptop, focused on online education content in a bright room.

Mikhail Nilov

29.How many syllables are in the word “education”?

Flag of Argentina waving on a pole under a clear sky, representing the capital of Argentina in school questions.

maximiliano sartre

30.What is the capital of Argentina?

Math question in bold white text on dark background asking what is 15 percent of 400 with orange question mark.

Bored Panda

31.In math, what is 15% of 400?

Olympic rings sculpture with chipped paint under clear blue sky representing first modern Olympic Games host country.

Hert Niks

32.Which country hosted the first modern Olympic Games in 1896?

Bird flying near the bright sun during a golden sunset with dramatic clouds in the sky, Greek mythology concept.

Bradley Hook

33.In Greek mythology, who flew too close to the sun?

Person viewing detailed human body organ diagrams on a tablet, focusing on the organ that produces insulin.

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34.What organ in the human body produces insulin?

Surreal painting showing melting clocks draped over objects in a barren landscape, symbolizing time’s fluidity.

MoMA

35.Who painted The Persistence of Memory with the melting clocks?

Aerial view of Auckland city skyline with iconic Sky Tower and lush green hills under blue sky, capital of New Zealand.

Mickoh Ramos

36.The capital of New Zealand is...

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