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Putnam Potpourri
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Famous Inventors
100
This species of animal met with death at the Cincinnati Zoo.
What is a gorilla?
100
He is to Putnam as Charlie Baker is to Massachusetts?
Who is Mr. George Johnson?
100
It's a news story that runs about one minute and thirty seconds and includes narration, SOTS, and b-roll.
What is a package?
100
He's the CNN Student News medical guru?
Who is Dr. Sanjay Gupta?
100
He failed 1,000 times before turning the light on.
What was Thomas Edison?
200
The body of water into which EgyptianAir flight MS804 crashed.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
200
If you don't have enough credits to graduate at the end of your senior year, this program can help you out.
What is Credit Recovery?
200
It's the word used to describe the opening sentence of a news story that gets viewers' attention and is a word also used by fishermen.
What is the "hook?"
200
Neil Armstrong was the first person there.
What is the moon?
200
He was the first to send a message through the air from Point A to Point B.
What was Marconi?
300
It's the biggest party in the United States.
What is the Democratic?
300
This company provides the food you eat at Putnam for breakfast and lunch?
What is Sodexo?
300
An editing technique in which the editor cuts from one shot to another view that matches the previous shot.
What is matching action?
300
British citizens will soon vote on whether they want to leave this group of friends.
What is the European Union?
300
The blackboard diagram made by this schoolboy with a funny first name earned him a patent for a device that added moving pictures to sound.
What was Philo T. Farnsworth
400
It's $10 in Massachusetts but only $5.15 in Georgia.
What is the minimum wage?
400
It's acronym is MCAS.
What is the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System?
400
The categories Shot, Video and Audio are important when you are preparing to perform this activity in the video production process.
What is scriptwriting?
400
Thousands of people have died trying to reach this top of the world?
What is Mt. Everest?
400
His brainchild quickly became the most popular app in social media and made him an instant billionaire?
Who is Mark Zuckerberg?
500
The Muslim word for what ISIS is trying to establish in Iraq and Syria.
What is a caliphate?
500
It was known by this name before it was called Putnam?
What is the Trade School?
500
The letters "SD" stand for these words on an SD card.
What is San Disk?
500
You need a microscope to see them but these little pests can make you sick and are immune to antibiotics.
What are superbugs?
500
He's into electric cars and space capsules that will send ordinary citizens into speace
Who is Elon Musk?
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