U.S. GEOGRAPHY
FIRST NAME'S THE SAME
NOVELS
BRIGHT IDEAS
TEENS IN HISTORY
200
'Of Hawaii's 8 main islands, this one receives the lion's share of the tourist dollars'
Oahu
200
'Cash,
Depp'
Johnny
200
'The 1719 1st edition told of him "having been cast on shore by shipwreck, wherein all... men perished but himself"'
Robinson Crusoe
200
'Edwin Budding adapted a rotary shearer used to remove excess fibers from carpets into this outdoor tool'
the lawnmower
200
'In 1468 this teen was recognized as heiress to the throne of Castile'
Queen Isabella
400
'When the Russians owned Alaska, they referred to this tall peak as Bolshaya Gora'
Mt. McKinley
400
'Bakula,
Wolf'
Scott
400
'Even the epilogue is lengthy in this 1869 Tolstoy epic; it comes out in 2 parts &, in our copy, is 105 pages long'
War and Peace
400
'In 1948 scientists at Bristol-Meyers "buffered" this medicine for the first time'
aspirin
400
'She was a teenage farm girl when she beat the famous marksman Frank Butler in an 1870s shooting match'
Annie Oakley
600
'This river begins in Colorado & empties into the Gulf of Mexico near Brownsville, Texas'
Rio Grande
600
'Carey,
Bledsoe'
Drew
600
'This 1939 Steinbeck novel helped publicize the plight of Dust Bowl refugees'
The Grapes of Wrath
600
'Lawrence Sperry used the gyroscope his dad developed in this device that keeps planes on course without human aid'
autopilot
600
'In the 1850s this future sculptor failed the Ecole des Beaux-Arts entrance exam 3 times (think about it)'
Rodin
800
'Florida's panhandle borders these 2 states'
Alabama and Georgia
800
'Lillard,
Modine'
Matthew
800
'Chapter 10 of this 1960 novel begins, "Atticus was feeble: he was nearly fifty"'
To Kill a Mockingbird
800
'In 1882 Schuyler Wheeler put a propellor on the shaft of an electric motor & created this--how cool!'
a fan
800
'Betrothed as a teen to her creepy cousin in 1744, she later became a "Great" empress of Russia'
Catherine the Great
1000
'This large lake on the New York-Vermont border is Vermont's lowest point'
Lake Champlain
1000
'Connelly,
Garner,
Holliday'
Jennifer
1000
'Published in 1949, this futuristic tale is set in Oceania, a few years before you were born'
1984
1000
'James Fergason invented this type of "display" that found an early use in calculators'
LCD (or Liquid Crystal Display)
1000
'Apprenticed to a British shipowner as a teen in the 1740s, he became one of the great explorers of the Pacific'
Captain Cook
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