General Red Cross Facts
Red Cross Lines of Service
LDC Facts
All about your Americorps!
Riddles
100
The founder of the American Red Cross

What is Clara Barton?

100

The number of lives one pint of blood can save (blood services)

What is 3?

100

This year's LDC theme

What is Greek Mythology?

100

County(s) that either Gaby or Emily serve in

What is Sonoma, Marin, Napa, Solano, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Merced, and Santa Clara?

100

There’s a one story house in which everything is yellow. What color are the stairs?

What is there are no stairs--it’s a one story house.

200

The year the Red Cross was founded in

What is 1881?

200

Approximate number of disaster victims the Red Cross helps each year (disaster services)

What is 70,000?

200

What LDC stands for

What is Leadership Development Center?

200

Gaby’s favorite genre to read in her free time

What is fantasy or historical fiction?

200

Full of holes but still holds water

What is a sponge?

300

The number of time the Red Cross has won a Nobel Peace Prize

What is 4?

300

The first war the American Red Cross aided (service to the armed forces)

What is the Spanish-American War?

300

The number of squads at LDC this year

What is 12?

300

The number of pets Emily owns

4 pets (2 dogs and 2 cats)

300

Can fill a room but take up no space

What is light?

400

The number of fundamental principles the Red Cross is led by

What is 7?

400

Three things the Red Cross can send to aid an area after a disaster (international services)

What is people, goods, and money?

400

The number of delegates (not including staff) at LDC this year

What is 226?

400

Gaby’s horoscope

What is Rising-Gemini, Sun-Capricorn, Moon-Sagittarius?

400

I have lakes with no water, mountains with no stone, and cities with no buildings. What am I?

What is a map?

500

The battle that sparked the idea for Red Cross

What is the Battle of Solferino?

500

Name of the process of donating specific blood components (ex. red cells, plasma, platelets, etc.)

What is apheresis?

500

Names of all the squads at LDC

What is Hades Cabin, Pink Plutos, Apollo, Pegasus, White Dove, Gold Phoenixes, Green Dragons, Dionysus Cabin, Poseidon Posse, Minotaurs, Sea Serpents, Hestia's Haven?

500

The Youth Executive Boards that both Gaby and Emily worked in

What is Silicon Valley (Gaby) and East Bay (Emily)?

500

I have branches, but no fruit, trunk, or leaves. What am I?

What is a bank?

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