Sports/PopCulture
The ear that Vincent Van Gogh cut off
Left
The name for this formula: a^2+b^2=c^2
The Pythagorean theorem
Built the pyramids of Giza
The Ancient Egyptians
Words like "and", "but", and "or" are examples of this part of speech
Conjunctions
True or False: Dad's birthday has fallen on Thanksgiving before.
False
The only sport that has been played on the moon
Golf
The name of the imaginary line around the center of the Earth that influences climate
Equator
The atomic bombs that ended WW2 landed in these two cities
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words
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a. phonetics
b. pragmatics
c. semantics
d. phonology
The year Roy Dodge Jr was born
1963
The term when you bowl 3 strikes in a row
Turkey
Created the World Wide Web
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A) Bill Gates
B) Tim Berners‑Lee
C) Steve Jobs
D) Alan Turing
America's large purchase of land from France in 1803
Louisiana Purchase
"She ran quickly to the store because she was late for school," which word is the adverb?
Quickly
Roy Dodge Jrs 3 favorite sports
Softball, Pickleball, Racquetball
#1 show on Netflix
Stranger Things
Value of pi to 4 decimal places
3.1415
The Ottoman Empire was dismantled after this major war
WWI
Wrote many famous books like East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath, and Of Mice and Men
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a. Charles Dickens
b. Lisa Reynolds
c. John Steinbeck
4. Leigh Rivers
Dad's favorite cut of steak
Ribeye
Dennis Rodman won a championship on this basketball team
Bulls
Wedge, pulley, and lever are examples of these basic mechanical devices
Simple machines
Famous slogan American colonists used to express opposition towards British taxes
A literary device and genre that uses humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize human flaws, social institutions, or political issues (ex. Animal Farm)
Satire
This cake flavor was made every year for Dad's birthday, it was thought to be his favorite
German chocolate cake