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College T or F
Poverty Facts T or F
100
365 days
What is the number of days in the year?
100
Isaac Newton
Who is the creator of the law of gravity?
100
The last column of elements on the periodic table.
What are Noble Gases?
100
True or False: The last time we had a football team was in 1997.
False: The last time Chico State had a football team was in the early nineties.
100
True or False: About 20 percent of children living in poverty aren't prepared for primary schooling.
What is False: About 40 percent of children living in poverty aren't prepared for primary schooling.
200
Hearing, sight, touch, smell, taste
What are the five senses?
200
Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior
What are the five great lakes?
200
The author of "To Kill a Mockingbird."
Who is Harper Lee?
200
True or False: Chico State originally started as a normal school (teacher’s college).
What is True?
200
True or False: Children that live below the poverty line are .5 times more likely to have developmental delays or learning disabilities than those who don't live in poverty.
What is False: Children that live below the poverty line are 1.3 times more likely to have developmental delays or learning disabilities than those who don't live in poverty. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-m-gentile/lets-focus-on-improving-education-reform_b_5084872.html
300
The numbers 1, 3, 5, 7, 9…
What are odd numbers?
300
X= -2a(+/-)sqrt(b^2-4ac)/2a
What is the quadratic formula?
300
Little Rock, Salem, Sacramento, and Harrisburg are the Capitals of these states.
What are Arkansas's, Oregon's, California's, and Pennsylvania's Capitals?
300
True or False: The Meriam Library has always been 4 floors tall.
What is False: The 4th floor used to be the roof and then was converted into the fourth floor.
300
True or False: Children living in poverty have a lower number of absenteeism.
What is False: They have a higher absenteeism or even leave school altogether because they are more likely to have to work or care for family members. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-m-gentile/lets-focus-on-improving-education-reform_b_5084872.html
400
The Letters A, E, I, O, U
What are Vowels
400
Thomas Jefferson
Who is the main author of the Declaration of Independence?
400
The last time America has declared war.
What is WWII?
400
True or False: The Chico State acceptance rate is approximately 70%.
What is True: The Chico State acceptance rate is 67.2%.
400
True or False: Dropout rates of 16 to 24-year-old students from low-income families are seven times greater than for students from families with higher incomes.
What is True? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-m-gentile/lets-focus-on-improving-education-reform_b_5084872.html
500
Group or cluster of stars that form a pattern
What is a constellation?
500
Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection
What is Charles Darwin's discovery?
500
The program by Marcus Garvey in the 1920's encouraged those of African descent to return to the African homelands of their ancestors.
What is Back-to-Africa?
500
True or False: Warner Street (located behind Whitney dorms) is named after the Warner Brothers Film Studio.
What is True: The Adventures of Robin Hood was filmed in Bidwell Park and the city renamed the northern part of Ivy Street in their honor.
500
True or False: Less than 30 percent of students in the bottom quarter of incomes enroll in a college. Among that group, less than half graduate.
What is True? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-m-gentile/lets-focus-on-improving-education-reform_b_5084872.html
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