Arts and Humanities
These bands use everyday household items as instruments. These Appalachian bands blend blues, ragtime, and early jazz. What bands use washboards, kazoos, and jugs for instruments?
JUG BANDS
Subject complements are words that follow a linking verb to either rename or describe the subject. An example of a subject complement is found in the following sentence: The yellow flowers in the wooden flower box smelled sweet. What is the predicate adjective in the preceding sentence?
SWEET
This question requires multiple answers. Samantha counts her toy cars by fives: 5, 10, 15 and so on. What are the next three numbers in her pattern?
20, 25, 30 (TWENTY, TWENTY-FIVE, THIRTY)
This question requires multiple responses. These senses are connected to the nervous system. What are the five basic senses?
SIGHT, SMELL, TASTE, HEARING, TOUCH (ACCEPT: IN ANY ORDER and ACCEPT WORD VARIATIONS
This natural landform's counterparts include Daisy, Riverside, Grand, and Castle. Its name comes from the regularity with which it erupts. What is this most famous of Yellowstone's geysers?
OLD FAITHFUL
This is found in musical notation. A curly design at the left of this musical notation is a clef. What are the lines and space where music notes are written?
Staff
These clauses may begin a sentence, be in the middle of a sentence, or end a sentence. They begin with words like "if," "because," "although." What type of clause begins with a subordinate conjunction and frequently answers the questions, why, where, or when?
ADVERB (CLAUS) (ACCEPT: ADVERBIAL)
This property of real numbers combines two mathematical operations. What property of real numbers uses both multiplication and addition, and can be used to simplify 5 times the quantity, 8 plus 4, close quantity?
DISTRIBUTIVE PROPERTY
These are important to collect data in the scientific method. They have an independent variable and a dependent variable. What is a test for a hypothesis?
EXPERIMENT(S)
Each May this site hosts a sporting event known by such nicknames as “The Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports” and “The Run for the Roses”. What horse track, known for its recognizable twin spires, annually hosts the Kentucky Derby?
CHURCHILL DOWNS
This period of music is the longest period of music. It includes Gregorian chants. What style of music lasted from 500 to 1400 AD?
MEDIEVAL (MUSIC)
First and last name required: This character is a twelve-year-old African American boy. He loves to draw cartoons and wants to go to an arts-focused high school. What is the name of the protagonist and narrator of the book New Kid?
JORDAN BANKS
The number of students in each class and test scores are examples of this type of data. The number of books a student reads in a month is another example of this data. What is data that can be measured and expressed in numbers?
QUANTITATIVE (DATA)
This is the most abundant state of matter in the universe. It is a very highly energized type of gas that loses its electrons. What is this fourth state of matter?
PLASMA
Fought on August 19, 1782, this battle took place in present-day Kentucky, long after the signing of the peace treaty that concluded the American Revolution. What short battle in Kentucky is regarded as one of the final battles of the American Revolutionary War?
(BATTLE OF) BLUE LICKS
Music can be used for this purpose. When music is used for this purpose, people can understand each other even if they don't speak the same language. For what purpose is music used when it is used as a universal language
COMMUNICATION
This book demonstrates the protective role of indigenous people toward caring for the earth. It is narrated by an Ojibwe girl recalling a life lesson from her grandmother. Name this book that won the 2021 Caldecott.
We Are Water Protectors
Pencil and paper ready. A car travels at a constant speed of 50 miles per hour. How far will the car travel in 30 minutes?
25 (MILES)
Transparent substances cannot produce this. This happens when light bounces off an opaque object. What can we see in a mirror?
REFLECTION
This part of a map might say "1 inch equals 1 mile." Identify this tool for showing how a map's distances are related to real-life distances.
(MAP) SCALE
This instrument is similar to a psaltery (SOL-te-ry). It is played by striking the strings with handheld hammers. What is this trapezoidal shaped string instrument?
DULCIMER
Matsuo Basho wrote a lot of these poems. They originated in Japan and follow a strict formula. What type of poem has 17 syllables, consists of 3 lines, and usually is about nature?
HAIKU
There were 65 rolls of ribbon in the box. Each roll had 25 feet of ribbon. How many feet of ribbon was in the box?
1,625 (ONE THOUSAND, SIX HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE FEET)
These instruments help scientists study earthquakes. They record how strong and how long earthquake waves are. What instruments measure the shaking of the Earth during earthquakes?
SEISMOGRAPH(S)
Varieties of this two-word practice include box-cut, cross-ridge, area, and steep slope. Its steps include clearing, blasting, digging, dumping waste, processing, and reclaiming. Give the term for this type of surface coal mining.
MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL