Can You Pass This 8th Grade Test From 1912?

Minnesota

Minneapolis is the "Twin City" with the capital of Minnesota, St. Paul. The city lies on both banks of the Mississippi River, and is one of the largest cities in the midwest.

Revolutionary War

The Battle of Fort Ticonderoga was the first American victory of the Revolutionary War, and gave the Continental Army much-needed artillery to be used in future battles.

Benjamin Franklin

Specifically, Franklin discovered that lightning is electricity by flying a kite during a thunderstorm. He tied a metal key to the string to conduct lightning down and got quite a shock in proving his ideas.

Brain

The hippocampus got its name for the Greek word for seahorse because of its resemblance to the animal; it is found towards the center of the brain. The thalamus is located just above the brain stem and relays motor and sensory signals to the cerebral cortex.

Spain

Spain is a proper noun because it refers to a specific place or thing; oranges, cathedral, and bullfighting do not.

Command the armed forces

The president is known as the Commander-in-Chief; it is Congress's responsibility to declare war and pass the budget. The president doesn't have to live in the White House if they don't want to, but it's a pretty nice place so everyone has since it was built.

Ferdinand Magellan

Magellan arrived at what he called the "peaceful sea." Europeans call it the "Pacific" because of this. Balboa led the first expedition to find the Ocean, but he saw it from Panama, while Magellan sailed on it around South America.

Lungs, heart and blood vessels

The circulatory system combines three systems: the heart (cardiovascular), lungs (pulmonary), and arteries and veins (systemic).

Bile

The gallbladder holds bile produced by the liver before it is released into the small intestine. It is located just beneath the liver.

Asia

The Himalayas span the Asian countries of India, Nepal, China, and Bhutan. It contains most of the Earth's highest mountains.

The ball was tossed by the boy.

To make the passive voice, take the object of the active sentence and make it the subject, and take the former subject and make it the agent by including "by". This retains the meaning of the sentence.

California Current

Cold ocean currents flow from the poles towards the equator on the east side of an ocean basin. The North Pacific California Current does just this.

Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, California

The Colorado River flows through five US states and two Mexican states. along its path are the cities of Grand Junction, Moab, and Yuma, as well as Lake Mead and the Grand Canyon.

Ball

Rudy is the subject, dog is the indirect object, and Rufus is an appositive of the indirect object. The ball is what Rudy threw, making it the direct object of the verb "threw".

New Hampshire and Maine

The White Mountains span New Hampshire and Maine. They are part of the northern Appalachian Mountains and also contain the Presidential Range which is a group of peaks named after US presidents.

20%

He lost 100 dollars, which is 20% of 500. That's a pretty big loss for the poor guy. It sounds like he got ripped off.

Liver and kidneys

The liver regulates cholesterol levels and metabolizes chemicals and drugs, while the kidneys remove water, potassium, and sodium from the blood.

Fort Sumter

The Civil War began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina.

Alaska

Alaska is a huge state and it is pretty much entirely on its own peninsula, so by essentially any measure it has the longest coastline. One estimate has it at 6,640 miles.

Cuba

Havana is the capital and largest city of Cuba. With more than 2.1 million inhabitants, it is the most populous city in the entire Caribbean.

Distance from the equator

The higher the latitude, the farther from the equator a place is. The equator is at 0 degrees, and the North Pole is at 90 degrees north.

40

5 dozen is 60, and she has 2/3 left after 1/3 breaks. Because 2/3 of 60 is 40, she has 40 eggs left. Sounds like Sally's going to be in trouble for breaking so many eggs.

Direction

The properties of a verb in English are person, number, tense, voice, mood. Person is the relationship to the subject, number is whether or not it is plural, tense is what kind of time it's talking about, voice is whether it is active or passive, and mood is whether it is a statement, condition, or command.

Africa

Timbuktu is in Mali, on the continent of Africa. It has just a little over 50,000 inhabitants and is famous for its historic sites from the Golden Age of the Mali Empire.

New York

Appalachia includes New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. It basically refers to the area around the Appalachian Mountains.

14.14 feet

Use the pythagorean theorem, in which 10 will be each leg of the triangle, and then calculate the hypotenuse. 10 squared plus 10 squared equals 200, which has a square root of roughly 14.14.

Inventions

Patent law protects inventions; other types of intellectual property are protected by other laws, including copyrights, trademarks, and registrations.