This activity began with only 45 boys playing on three teams.
What is Little League Baseball?
100
An American pioneer nurseryman who planted trees throughout the Midwest.
Who is John Chapman?
100
An individual's personality.
What is character?
100
This stands for also known as.
What is a.k.a
100
Used as a noun, a person who is looked after and supported by someone else. Used as a adjective, controlled by something or someone.
What is dependent?
200
In the early days of American education, teachers made their own for the classroom.
What is ink?
200
This is often called "America's pastime".
What is baseball?
200
The idiom which means having a shared interest in something.
What is "in common"?
200
An event, incidence, happening.
What is an occurrence?
200
A small, mini blackboard with a wooden frame used for work in early schools.
What is a slate?
300
Wooden planks invented by California surfers in 1950s because the waves were too flat for surfing.
What is skateboards?
300
This country donated the Statue of Liberty to the United States as a gift in 1884.
What is France?
300
A knowledgeable fan or enthusiast
What is aficionado?
300
Courage in pain or adversity
What is Fortitude?
300
An idiom that means a time or critical moment that changes a situation, for bad or good.
What is turning point?
400
A game, using small animal bones and pebbles, that many children in the USA play that was also played in the ancient world more than 2,00 years ago.
What is Jacks?
400
A tall, four-sided pillar that gradually tapers and has a pyramid-shaped top.
What is Obelisk?
400
The City of Brotherly Love which was the nation's capital in 1787 and where the Constitutional Convention met.
What is Philadelphia?
400
Choosing a type of work that helps others; making the commitment to making a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.
What is career of humanity?
400
The ability of an object or a substance to spring back into shape; elasticity.
What is Resilience?
500
Originally designed by Harvey Bell in 1963 which grew in popularity and we now see variations everywhere.
What is the yellow smiley face emoticon?
500
This founding father of our country was an excellent writer and a successful inventor but was not very good at Math.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
500
Words that describe a word that is made from other words, or two meanings packed up into one word.
What is a portmanteau?
500
An idiom described by poet e.e.cummings: "To be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing its best, ______________, to make you like everybody else."
What is What is Night and Day?
500
Words or expressions used by a particular profession or group that may be hard for outsiders to understand.