OATs Definitions
Names
Examples of OATs
Farming
MCU
City life
Potpourri
CT Trivia
McGee Potpourri
100
Prolonged fighting or disharmony between people or groups, their ideas or their interests.
What is Conflict?
100
The Greek word that means "land between two rivers".
What is Mesopotamia?
100
Turning the light off when you're not in the room.
What is an example of sustainability?
100
Man-made (human-made) waterways.
What is a canal?
100
He appears in most MCU movies.
Who was Stan Lee?
100
Having to do with a city.
What is urban?
100
An early system of written communication where symbols represented concrete and specific objects.
What are pictographs?
100
The state insect.
What is a praying mantis?
100
This rarely seen teacher plays trombone.
Who is Mr. Urso?
200
What it is like to be there.
What is Place?
200
The science of building.
What is architecture?
200
A food fight in the cafeteria.
What is an example of conflict?
200
A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks deposited by flood waters.
What is silt?
200
The Asgardian name for Earth.
What is Midgard?
200
When workers specialize in a particular task.
What is Division of Labor?
200
Belief in more than one god.
What is polytheism?
200
The state animal.
What is a sperm whale?
200
This adult is a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism and once brought a trebuchet to school.
Who is Mr. Rosa?
300
The freedoms or liberties of each person to pursue their life's goals without unnecessary interference from others or from the government.
What is Rights of Individuals?
300
A pyramid-shaped temple
What is a ziggurat?
300
Using Zoom to go to school. Discovering a cure for a major illness.
What is innovation?
300
The name used to describe the arc of farmland on which the first civilizations developed.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
300
Peter Parker's high school.
What is Midtown High School?
300
Specialized workers who serve as religious leaders.
What is a priest?
300
Having more than is required.
What is surplus?
300
A state recreation area and river in East Hampton, CT.
What is Salmon River?
300
The year in which the 8th grade wing and the library-media center were built.
What is 1996?
400
Changes in culture and development of new technology or knowledge and how these change society, often impacting our lives.
What is Innovation?
400
The first people known to have developed a civilization.
Who were the Sumerians?
400
A unique geographic feature or a unique man-made structure.
What is place?
400
A tool used to break through sod to prepare soil for planting.
What is a plow?
400
The events of which film are referenced when Red Skull discovers the Tesseract in the church?
What is Raiders of the Lost Ark?
400
Several countries under one ruler (king or queen).
What is an empire?
400
A long poem that tells the story of a hero.
What is an epic?
400
Two Connecticut residents who helped to start the Civil War.
Who were John Brown
and Harriet Beecher Stowe?
400
This adult has represented the United States in international running competitions and is a member of the Central Connecticut State University Athletic Hall of Fame.
Who is Mr. Keefe?
500
Elements of society designed to protect and / or conserve natural resources to maintain a healthy ecosystem.
What is Sustainability?
500
The first known system of writing words.
What is cuneiform?
500
What is Rights of Individuals?
500
They destroyed livestock, killed crops, washed away homes, but they also left behind material that improved the soil.
What are floods?
500
Which elective class did Thor take on Asgard?
What is Learning Groot?
500
The thing that determined your social class in ancient Mesopotamia.
What is wealth and job?
500
A specialized worker who's job is to write down what others say.
What is a scribe?
500
The two capitol cities of Connecticut, when it had two capitols.
What are Hartford and New Haven?
500
This McGee staff member has worked both as an EMT and as a cowboy.
Who is Mr. Dix?
600
Where something is.
What is location?
600
The rivers in Mesopotamia.
What are Tigris and Euphrates?
600
What is Rights of Individuals?
600
The advance in farming that allowed farming to become more efficient, so that fewer people were required to farm, because of which, new occupations developed.
What is irrigation?
600
In which movie did Stan Lee make his last cameo?
What is Avengers: Endgame?
600
A country at the western end of the Fertile Crescent, occupying much of what is now modern-day Lebanon. This culture was known for its trading, specifically its cedar wood. Their biggest gift to the world was their alphabet.
What is Phoenicia?
600
People settled here because crops would grow.
What is near rivers?
600
The official airplane of Connecticut.
What is the Vought F4U Corsair?
600
The McGee teacher who's running records from his time in PE here at McGee stood until just a few years ago.
Who is Mr. Pelletier?
700
An early name for the Town of Berlin.
What is Worthington?
or
What is PAGONCHAWNISCHAGE?
or
What is the Great Swamp Society?
700
What is Rights of Individuals?
or
What is Conflict?
(Because someone pretends to object to the use of this picture for which he posed.)
700
Having to do with the countryside.
What is rural?
700
The MCU character who often breaks the fourth wall.
Who is Deadpool?
700
A system where workers specialize in one particular task.
What is division of labor?
700
A system of symbols that can be combined to make sounds and form words; the most important contribution of the Phoenicians to world culture.
What is alphabet?
700
The manito thought to live in or near Moodus, CT.
Who is Hobomoko?
700
The correct name for the main stairwell.
What is Stairwell F?