Newberry Winners
Despite being mortal, this novel's protagonist learns to haunt people's dreams and make himself invisible. The Owenes raise Bod, who defeat the man Jack with Sleer's help. A cemetery is the setting of which Neil Gaiman Novel?
The Graveyard Book
This music element is a group of notes of different pitches played one after another. Identify this element that makes up a song's tune.
Melody
Kentucky's Knobs region roughly forms a horseshoe around this larger region, which includes the cities of Louisville and Lexington with in. Identify this region whose name references Kentucky's state nickname.
Bluegrass (Region)
This poet won his first of four Pulitzer Prizes for a volume he set in New Hampshire. He wrote of rural life in "The Death of the Hired Man" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." Identify this poet of "The Road Not Taken."
Robert Frost
This type of character usually fights against the antagonist. However, a character in this role doesn't have to be a so called "good guy. What is this Greek-rooted name for a work's main character?
Protagonist
Among this picture book's characters are a heavily tattooed man and a guitar player on a city bus. After church one Sunday, CJ and Nana take that bus to volunteer at a local soup kitchen. What is this Newbery-winning book by Matt de la Pena?
Last stop on Market Street
This secular music style developed from enslaved people's praise songs, chants and spirituals. The so called Delta ones originated near the mouth of the Mississippi River. B.B. King performed what kind of music with repeating structures and sad lyrics?
The Blues
In 2020, this sporting event was held in September, the first time since WWII that has not been held on the first Saturday in May. What sporting event, known as the "Run for the Roses," is held yearly at Churchill Downs?
Kentucky Derby
This author named Sophie from the BFG after his granddaughter. He also wrote Fantastic Mr. Fox and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. Who was the author of James and the giant Peach?
Roald Dahl
Rarely, this punctuation mark can form the plurals of certain abbreviations, letters, or words. It can come before or after an S when forming a possessive. Identify this punctuation found in contractions.
Apostrophe
In this novel, the protagonists grandmother is bitten by a water moccasin, and dies after suffering a stroke. A girl travels with her grandparent from Euclid, Ohio, to Idaho in time for her mother's birthday. that girl is Salamanca Tree Middle. Name the book.
Walk Two Moons
This musical concept is closely related to register. Give the full spectrum of notes a voice or instrument can produce, from lowest to highest.
Range
The university's of Brescia and Kentucky Wesleyan are located in this city, Kentucky's fourth-largest by population. Identify this Kentucky city bordering Indiana which was the birthplace and childhood home of actor Johnny Depp.
Owensboro
Author of A summer to Die, Gooney Bird Green, Number the Stars and the Giver.
Lois Lowry
Identify the following sentence's indirect object.
Bobby baked Benjamin a pan of brownies.
Benjamin
(Bobby baked for whom?)
In this novel, Marty Preston learns there's a right and a wrong way to do the right thing. He saves an abused dog from Judd Travers, but must work for Judd to earn the money to buy that beagle. Name the book by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.
Shiloh
This musical element is influenced by how many instruments are playing and how many different vocal or instrumental parts are in a piece. It might be described as thick or thin and shares its name with an element of art. Name this element concerned with the relationships between a musical piece's layers.
texture
One of the most important political figures in Kentucky history, he served as both Speaker of the House and Secretary of State. He was also an influential US Senator, multi time candidate for president and a leading member of the Whig party. Who was this political figure ofter referred to as the "Great Compromiser"?
Henry Clay
Wrote Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great, Tales of the fourth Grade Nothing, Superfudge, Freckle Juice
Judy Blume
Identify the sentences direct object:
Mary gave Bill two tomatoes.
Tomatoes
(What was given)
This Novel, which is set during the Great Depression, was based on a real accident in which a woman mistook kerosene for water. Billie Jo Kelby learns to play the piano with badly scarred hands and helps her father heal from his wife's death.
Out of the Dust
In both World Wars, this instrument accompanied the Highland Regiment into battle. Is has a drone and a chanter attached to a sack that, in earlier centuries, was made of animal skin. Name this traditional Scottish wind instrument.
Bagpipes
A major road within Lexington, KY is named for this legendary racehorse who won 20 of the 21 races run during his career. Fittingly, this thoroughbred's only loss came to a horse named Upset. Give the name of this animal widely often considered the horse racing's all time greatest champion.
Man O'War
Who wrote "Teddy Bear", "Rice Pudding" and "Winnie the Pooh"?
A.A. Milne
assonance