Vocabulary Words
Dates
Names
Money and Numbers
Miscellaneous
100
vividly expressive
What is ELOQUENT?
100
when designs had to be submitted
What is March 31, 1981?
100
The name of the person who won the design competition for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Who is Maya Ying Lin?
100
Prize money for the competition
What is $20,000?
100
Where Maya Ying Lin worked during the summers
What is McDonald's?
200
without an indication of the author's or creator's name
What is ANONYMOUSLY?
200
When the competition was announced
What is October 1980?
200
Contributed $160,000 to hold the competition
Who is H. Ross Perot?
200
The number of inquiries received about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial competition
What is 5,000?
200
What university Maya Ying Lin was attending when she entered the competition
What is Yale?
300
officially approved
What is AUTHORIZED?
300
How long if took for Lin to put her design on paper
What is 6 weeks?
300
Maya Ying Lin's parents' names
Who are Henry Huan Lin and Julia C. Lin?
300
The amount of money contributed by H. Ross Perot?
What is $160,000?
300
The person who answered the phone when Washington first called?
Who is Lin's roommate?
400
combined in a pleasing arrangement
What is HARMONIOUS?
400
The year that Congress authorized the building of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC
What is 1980?
400
The name of Lin's professor who encouraged her to enter the competition
Who is Professor Andrus Burr?
400
The number of individuals and teams registered for the competition?
What is 2,573?
400
The reason that Vietnam veterans were not honored as veterans of other wars had been
What is because many people opposed the war?
500
in complete agreement
What is UNANIMOUS?
500
The amount of time that was allowed for individuals and teams to prepare their designs
What is three months?
500
Insisted that the name of every man and woman killed or missing in the war would be on the memorial
Who is Jan Scruggs, a Vietnam veteran?
500
The number of registered individuals and teams that actually submitted designs
What is 1,421?
500
The purpose of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
What is to help bring closer together a nation still bitterly divided by the Vietnam War?
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