Story of the World
This is the country that Ghandi, the leader known for peaceful protests, was originally from.
What is India?
These are currents that happen on the surface of the ocean.
What are surface currents?
This is the city where Norman Rockwell was born.
What is New York City?
What is The Magician's Nephew?
This is the number of feet that Fred is tall.
What is three?
This began to crash on October 24, 1929 in the United States.
What is the stock market?
This beautiful celestial orb causes the Earth's tides.
What is the moon?
Peter Tchaikovsky was born in this country.
What is Russia?
These are the names of the two main characters in The Magician's Nephew and are also the protagonists, or the character the story revolves around.
Who are Digory and Polly?
What is Sluice?
The Peace Treaty of Versailles was made by the three leading powers after World War I; the United States, France, and Great Britain. They said that this country was responsible for "The Great War" or World War I.
What is Germany?
What is the Indian, Pacific, Atlantic, and Arctic Ocean?
This is a popular ballet many people go to see over the Christmas holiday that was written by Tchaikovsky.
What is the Nutcracker Suite?
This is the number of people around a table is there were 6 seated on one side and 6 seated on the other.
What is 12 people?
Communism took over Russia when the White Army lost to the Red Army. The Red Army was originally lead by Lenin but when he died, this man took his place and won. He became the leader of the new communist empire known as the USSR. This stood for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, sometimes called the Soviet Union.
Joseph Stallin
These are the two types of whales or cetaceans.
What is baleen and toothed?
Tchaikovsky loved new instruments and sounds. He smuggled a celesta out of France and used it in The Dance of of the Sugar Plum Fairies. These were two other interesting "instruments" he experimented with.
What are church bells and cannons?
This is the setting of the story which usually describe the place or places in which the story take place.
What is England and Narnia? And possibly Charn?
I am having a Christmas party and would like to serve my guest hot chocolate. My recipe for hot cocoa calls for 8 pints of milk. How many gallons do I need to buy?
What is 8 pints?
This was the name we now call Hitler's "Final Solution" during World War II. It was his plan to rid the world of those peoples he viewed as inferior.
The Holocaust
These are three types of pinnipeds, meaning "fin-footed" that we've talked about.
What are seals, sea lions, and walruses?
Norman was very nervous to interview for the position at this magazine. It was his life long dream to be an illustrator for them.
What is the Post?
What is a lion?
There were 248 pears in my bag I picked at Grandpa and Grans. I had to throw away 59 of them because they'd gone bad. This is the amount of pears I will need to cook and preserve.
What is 189 pears?