Second Grade – Who Wants to be a Millionaire PowerPoint Game
Question Sheet
Topics
Symbols
$100
2-224
What colors are in
the American
flag?
Geography
What is a map?
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Communities
What is a
community?
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New York History
$500
Government
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Economics
$2000
United States
Landmarks
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How many
boroughs are in
New York City?
Who is the leader
of a state?
Which of these is
a need?
How many rooms
are in the White
House?
(picture of white
house)
2-220 & 2-B2
The Pledge of
Allegiance is
made to what
symbol?
What does a
compass rose
show?
What types of jobs
are found in a
rural area?
A form of
transportation
found in New York
City is
Which of these
names the rules in
a community?
Whose face is on
a $1 bill?
2-209
How many red
stripes are on the
American flag?
2-222
What do the stars
on the U.S. flag
stand for?
What is a globe?
What are the four
main directions?
This is an
example of what
type of
community?
Who is the leader
of a city?
A community
close to a city is
called a
How is a leader
chosen?
What is a person
born in the United
States called?
What picture
shows a want?
Where do most
farmers plant
corn?
What room in the
Which monument
White House has
was created to
the same name as remember
an Asian country? Thomas
Jefferson?
A nickname for
New York City is
What does this
symbol mean for
the people of the
United States?
Created By: Renée Cowart-Jenkins, Social Studies Teacher & Erynn Moorehead, Technology Teacher, CS 150
June 2010
United States
History
$8000
Famous People
$16,000
Explorers
$32,000
NYS History
$64,000
Our Nation
$125,000
Presidents
$250,000
Who celebrated
the first
Thanksgiving with
the Pilgrims?
Who refused to
give up her seat
on the bus?
Who is the leader
of a country?
What civil rights
leader is known
for his “I Have a
Dream” speech?
Who sailed across Who was the first
the Atlantic Ocean woman to fly solo
and landed in the across the Atlantic
“New World” in
Ocean?
1492?
What does the
What animal is
eagle on the New considered the
York State flag
state symbol for
symbolize?
New York?
What giant statue Which of the
is a famous sight
following is a
for immigrants
nickname for the
coming into New
American flag?
York City’s
harbor?
Who was the
How many years
sixteenth
is a president’s
president of the
term?
United States?
What is the capital Why is July Fourth
of the United
a special holiday?
States?
Who planted
apple orchards all
over the United
States?
Who was the first
woman to go into
space?
Who wrote “The
Star-Spangled
Banner”?
What does the
motto, “Excelsior”
mean?
What is the capital
of New York
State?
Which national
holiday honors
those soldiers
who passed away
while defending
our country?
Which presidents’
faces are carved
into Mount
Rushmore?
Which document
is the basic law for
our country?
Who was the first
pioneer to live in
the present day
city of Chicago?
Which president
was born in the
state of Hawaii?
Created By: Renée Cowart-Jenkins, Social Studies Teacher & Erynn Moorehead, Technology Teacher, CS 150
June 2010
Washington, D.C.
$500,000
Around the World
$1,000,000
Which is a picture
of the Great Seal
of the United
States?
What continent is
this country
located on?
Name this
building. (Capitol
Building)
How many
continents are
there?
Washington, D.C.
was built on land
donated by which
two states?
Which ocean lies
between Asia and
North and
America?
The United States
has how many
branches of
government?
Which continent’s
climate is the
coldest?
Created By: Renée Cowart-Jenkins, Social Studies Teacher & Erynn Moorehead, Technology Teacher, CS 150
June 2010
Second Grade – Who Wants to be a Millionaire PowerPoint Game – Answer Sheet
Topics
Symbols
2-224
B – red, white and
blue
A – a picture or
drawing of a place
2-220 & 2-B2
C – the U.S. flag
2-209
D - seven
2-222
A – the fifty states
B - directions
B – a model of the
earth
C – north, south,
east, and west
C – a place where
people live, work,
and play together
D - five
A - farming
A - urban
D - suburban
B – the subway
C - mayor
A – the Big Apple
C - governor
B - laws
D – a citizen
Economics
B - house
United States
Landmarks
United States
History
Famous People
D - 132
D – George
Washington
C – China Room
A – all the people
vote
D – on flat land
Explorers
B – Christopher
Columbus
D – Jefferson
Memorial (picture)
B – Washington,
D.C.
A – Johnny
Appleseed
C – Sally Ride
C – that we are
free
B – It is the United
States birthday
A – Francis Scott
Key
D – Jean du Sable
Geography
Communities
New York City
History
Government
A – Native
Americans
C – Rosa Parks
A - the president
C – Martin Luther
King, Jr.
D – Amelia Earhart
Created By: Renée Cowart-Jenkins, Social Studies Teacher & Erynn Moorehead, Technology Teacher, CS 150
B – (picture)
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NYS History
B – Strength,
independence,
and freedom
B - beaver
B – “ever upward”
Our Nation
D – Statue of
Liberty
A – Abraham
Lincoln
A - Old Glory
D – Memorial Day
D - 4 years
A - George
Washington,
Thomas Jefferson,
Abraham Lincoln,
and Theodore
Roosevelt
C – Maryland and
Virginia
A – Pacific Ocean
Presidents
Washington, D.C.
Around the World
C–
C - US Capitol
Building
D – North America C - seven
Created By: Renée Cowart-Jenkins, Social Studies Teacher & Erynn Moorehead, Technology Teacher, CS 150
C – Albany
Savannah
New Paltz
Trenton
B – The
Constitution
A - Barack Obama
D – three
B – Antarctica
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