High Point Aesthetic
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Musicals
May I...?
Important Questions in Other Languages
Important Questions in Other Languages
May Day! May Day!
Historical Emergencies
Historical Emergencies
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Though recently sold in April 2026, the world's largest version of this is in High Point.
What is the World's Largest Chest of Drawers? 
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No need to grab your toothbrush! To pass along stories that were not written down is known as this tradition/this history.
What is oral history?
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This Lin Manuel Miranda musical brought lots of press to the "ten dolla founding father without a father."
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
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Dónde está la biblioteca? is spanish for asking where this important community institution may be.
What is the Library?
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This 2024 Hurricane was the costliest in North Carolina history. Over 106 people lost their lives in North Carolina alone and over 2,000 landslides occurred in the Appalachian Mountains, destroying over 125,000 homes.
What is Hurricane Helene?
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DAILY DOUBLE: Connection, collaboration, and this term make up the city motto. Hint: it has to do with the arts and inventive thinking!
What is creativity?
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In the title of this Disney show, the characters come from a heritage of villains.
Who are Descendants?
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Hakuna Matata, it means no worries! With over 11,000 performances and over $2 billion in profits, this is the highest grossing broadway show of all time.
What is the Lion King?
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Tu fais quoi? [too-feh-kwah] in this language is an informal way of asking what someone is up to/what they want/etc.
What is French?
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Dec. 7th 1941- "A Day Which Will Live in Infamy"-their declaration of war having not arrived yet, Japan bombed this naval base in Hawaii killing 2,403 Americans which led to America’s involvement with World War 2.
What is Pearl Harbor?
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The High Point city flag consists of these 2 colors.
What are blue & white?
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This term is someone you are related to from many years back in the family tree. The movie Mulan has songs speaking of honoring these family members.
Who are ancestors?
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The Cat in the Hat is a narrator guide through many of his author's tales like that of Horton the Elephant and the Whos in this musical.
What is Seussical?
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Ciao, come stai? means "Hello, how are you?" in this language.
What is Italian?
300
Mayday! being used as a distress signal comes from the French word m'aider! which means this.
What is Help me!
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Though the city was established in 1859, High Point gets its name for being the highest point of the 1856 North Carolina this.
What is the Railroad?
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Naturalization: the legal process in which a non-citizen of a country becomes a citizen of that country.
Many immigrants to America in the 1900s came through and went through the naturalization process at this island in New York.
What is Ellis Island?
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Anne Hathaway played Fantine in the film adaptation of this Victor Hugo-inspired Broadway show set in the 1832 June Rebellion in France.
What is Les Mis? / Les Miserables?
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This is a word that means "descended or borrowed from the same earlier form". The following are examples of this term:
English---The Baby
German---Das Baby
English-Banana
Italian-Banana
What is a cognate?
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This city in California experienced the deadliest earthquake in US history. While the earthquake itself lasted only one minute, the resulting fires burned for 4 days. The event began in the early morning of April 18, 1906, killed 3,400 people and destroyed roughly 80% of this city.
What is San Francisco?
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This city artwork, as seen on the road by the High Point Stadium, features many elements brought together in a modernist style of this art form. Classically, this art form would use many tile pieces that together make up a much larger picture. 
What are mosaics? / What is a mosaic?
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Your great aunt or uncle's grandchild is your THIS cousin.
What is 2nd?
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This classic Leonard Bernstein Broadway musical re-envisioned Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" in the world of white and Puerto Rican gangs fighting in New York City.
What is West Side Story?
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This is how you ask please in Japanese.
What is kudasai?
or
What is onegaishimasu?
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In 1889, after record setting rainfall and the subsequent catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam, a massive flash flood killed over 2,000 people in Johnstown of this state.
What is Pennsylvania?