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100

Ms Delasantos just discovered a cool website that focuses on good news. What is the name of the website?

100

finish this phrase....Once a Panther.....

Once a Panther, always a Panther


100

What is the life expectancy of a California ground squirrel? 

The average lifespan for the California ground squirrel is 3 to 4 years in the wild, but they can live as long as 6 years. In captivity, the recorded lifespan for the ground squirrel is 10 years.

https://www.trutechinc.com/squirrel-lifespan/#:~:text=Ground%20Squirrel%20Life%20Expectancy,ground%20squirrel%20is%2010%20years.


100

What is a comma splice? Give an example

Comma splices occur when two independent clauses are incorrectly joined with a comma.

Answers will vary

The clouds were dark, we thought it would rain.

https://www.iup.edu/writingcenter/writing-resources/punctuation/comma-splices.html#:~:text=Comma%20splices%20occur%20when%20two,to%20create%20two%20separate%20sentences.


100
Pick someone from the other group and without words you have to figure out a way to find out 4 of their teacher's names. 

answers will vary.

200

On May 31st, Ms D talked about a fire man who saved a baby from a burning home in Ohio as she was looking through her newly discovered happy news network. Two parts: Find the article. What was unique about those babies?

200

What is the mission of Santa Rosa High School? It's on our website. Read it out loud (clearly)

The mission of the Santa Rosa High School is to produce students who are educated, productive citizens of our society prepared to enter post-secondary education and employment opportunities. They will be critical thinkers and consumers aware of the social and political consequences of their choices.

https://www.santarosahighschool.net/index.php/vision


200

What 24 year old male Instagram star is from Santa Rosa?


Celebrities born in SR

200

Create a phrase no more than 5 words for the other team to try to figure out through a game of hangman.

answers will vary.

300

On May 29th I told you guys about a teacher from Tennessee, Alex Campbell, who had his students solve a 25 year old cold case of 6 murder mysteries. There was a 'nickname' for this case. What was it?

300

One team at a time: Find the Santa Rosa High School Fight Song on a social media platform and play it for the class. You have to find the song and have it played in less than 3 minutes.

300

According to Trip Advisor what's the best breakfast place in Santa Rosa?

300

Fix these bad grammar mistakes

1. Anna and Mike is going skiing.

2. Matt like fish.

3. We enjoys horror movies.

1. "Anna and Mike are going skiing."

2. "Matt likes fish."

3. "We enjoy horror movies."

https://www.yourdictionary.com/articles/bad-grammar-examples


300

Tape paper from wall to wall in this classroom. First team to successfully tape the wall and have the paper/tape hold up without help wins. 

Winner challenge.

400

On May 24th I told you about President Ebrahim Raisi's helicopter crashing. Tell me the following:

1. What country was he from?

2. What were the names of the other crash victims?

3. What was perculiar about the crash?

1. He was from Iran

2. a)Hossein Amirabdollahian, Iran’s foreign minister

b) Malik Rahmati, governor of Iran’s East Azerbaijan Province

c) Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Al-Hashem, representative of the Iranian supreme leader to East Azerbaijan

d) Sardar Seyed Mehdi Mousavi, head of Raisi’s guard team

e) The helicopter’s pilot Colonel Seyed Taher Mostafavi

f) co-pilot Colonel Mohsen Daryanush

g) A flight technician Major Behrouz Ghadimi

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/20/who-died-alongside-irans-president-raisi-in-the-helicopter-crash

3. War in Gaza, Iran recently bombed Israel, 2 other choppers landed but the Prez's chopper didn't

400

On Santa Rosa's history page you can see a box office hit filmed at SRHS by director Francis Ford Coppola. What film was it and what year was it filmed here?

Play the trailer


400

Who is Gaye LeBaron and why is she important to Sonoma County?

Gaye LeBaron joined The Press Democrat as a reporter in 1957 and has written much of our towns history (over 8,000 publications)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaye_LeBaron

400

Use a colon correctly in a sentence and with the words cake, creamy, and rich.

You will need to bring three things to the party: some food, something to drink, and a small gift for the hostess.

https://continuingstudies.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/colons/#:~:text=The%20colon,-A%20colon%20consists&text=For%20example%3A,here%20are%20the%20three%20things%22.

400

Use ChatGPT to create a love song for Santa Rosa High School that has a sarcastic edge, is funny but also nostalgic. No more than 280 words.

answers will vary. 

500

Both teams: Find the article about the teacher who solved the 35 year old cold case with his students from Tennessee. Find Alex Campbell's email and write him an email telling him how cool that assignment was. List 3 reasons. 

You have 8 minutes

500

On SRHS wiki page, you will see the director of the movie Scream mentioned. Find his son's IMDB mini bio or Left Edge Theater Bio and list 3 accomplishments.

500

Who was Thomas Geary and what is his connection to Santa Rosa? What was he famous for doing?

He was a congressman that extended the Chinese Exclusion Act banning Chinese from America. He was a local lawyer who lived off of McDonald Ave in Santa Rosa


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Geary

500

What are the five most common punctuation mistakes?

500

Stand in line from oldest to youngest for each group. Whoever does this faster, wins.

answers will vary

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