Music Notation
February Facts
Famous Folks
Snow Stuff
Black History
100

In 4/4 time, this note value equals one beat.

What is a quarter note?

100
"Leap Day" lands on this day in February every four years. 

What is 2/29?

100

This basketball player had six championship wins with the Chicago Bulls in the 1990's

Who is Michael Jordan?

(91, 92, 93, 96, 97, 98)


100

This vehicle has treads and skis, which are more effective in deep snow than wheels are.

What is a snow mobile?

100

This man is the first African-American President of the United States of America.

Who is Barack Obama?

200

In 4/4 time, a half note is performed for this many beats.

What are two beats?

(half of a measure - half of 4 is 2)

200

This New Orleans singer sang the National Anthem at the SuperBowl on 2/9/25. 

Who is Jon Batiste?

200

This late actor played Black Panther, Jackie Robinson, and James Brown. 

Who is Chadwick Boseman? (RIP 😢)

200

These are single ice crystals or clusters of ice crystals that fall from a cloud.

What are snowflakes?

200

This woman led more than 300 slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad.

Who is Harriet Tubman?

300

This solfege syllable is a leap and a step above Do. 

(It is also the 4th step of the scale)

What is Fa?

(Do, Re, Mi, Fa)

300

Of the following 4 presidents, this man was NOT related to a preexisting president. 

(John Quincy Adams, Abraham Lincoln, FDR, George W. Bush)

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

(Born on February 12th, 1809, Abe had a difficult childhood in poverty, growing up in a log cabin in Kentucky. He had little formal education, but he taught himself to read and became a lawyer)


300

This man was the first African-American Major League Baseball player in the 20th century.

Who is Jackie Robinson?

(Number 42 for the Brooklyn Dodgers)

300

The National Weather Service defines this type of storm as large amounts of falling or blowing snow with winds more than 35 miles per hour.

What is a blizzard?

300

This famous speech took place at the March on Washington.

What is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech?

400

In 4/4 time, this note value is held for four beats. 

(the full length of a measure)

What is a whole note?

400

The national 'day of love' commemorates the beheading of this saint by the Romans in the year 270 A.D.?

Who is St. Valentine?

(Allegedly, Valentine was a priest who performed healing miracles and married couples in defiance of Emperor Claudius's ban)

400

This African American inventor popularized peanut butter, and invented hundreds of uses for peanuts, soybeans, pecans, and sweet potatoes.

(Almost sounds like a POTUS)

Who is George Washington Carver?



400

This U.S. state receives the most annual snowfall. 

What is Alaska?

(Average of 72.8 Inches per year)

400

This man was the first African-American Supreme Court Justice.

Who is Thurgood Marshall?

500

The bottom note (and top note) of a scale is known as this solfege syllable. 

What is "Do"?

500

In February of 1964, this popular British band made their first American television debut on the "Ed Sullivan Show."

Who are The Beatles?

500

This man was the first African American head coach to win a Super Bowl, who coached for the Indianapolis Colts.

Who is Tony Dungy? 

500

This type of tree stays green all year. It uses a valve that automatically seals off individual frozen cells to prevent a chain reaction of freezing. 



What are Evergreen Trees?

(Xmas trees)

500

She became the first black woman millionaire by inventing hair care products for black women.

Who is Madame C.J. Walker?

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