True or Rumor???
SCCA Gym Games***
Capital Cities and Their Countries
Kids in Science
Is it Disney or Not???
100
Music News: Taylor Swift is quitting music officially after she gets married to Travis Kelce! True or just an ugly rumor?
Just a rumor!!! TSwift has gone on the record as saying that she is definitely NOT quitting the music scene anytime soon, regardless of when she gets married...NEXT!
100
This dodgeball game features an area marked by cones, where players who are hit must go to the opposite side of their team, or an enemy "jail". They must stay there until someone inside of the area catches a ball or they do. One time per game for each side, a teacher can call out this word, the name of the game, which sets all captured players free!
Jailbreak!!!
100
The District of Columbia, or known more widely as Washington D.C.
The United States (duh) lol
100
At the age of 14, Hannah Herbst invented a machine that could convert the natural currents of the _ _ _ _ _ into energy, creating a renewable source of energy!!!
Ocean currents! Hannah was originally inspired by her desire to help her 9-year-old pen pal in Ethiopia who wrote of having no lights or a steady flow of fresh water!
100
Bolt (2008)
Disney!
200
NBA: The Los Angeles Clippers head coach Tyronn Lue is in trouble with the law for the same reason as Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups. Lue is also possibly involved in an illegal gambling ring, is this true or just a rumor?
True!!! Ask your favorite sports-loving adult
200
Which classic SCCA gym game features two sides, two chairs, two emperors, and sometimes a soundtrack of "Duel of the Fates"?
Star Wars, of course!!!
Fun fact: Composer John Williams, who scored "Duel of the Fates" for The Phantom Menace in 1999, also composed many other film scores, including the original Superman (1978), Jaws, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, Jurassic Park, Home Alone, and many, MANY others!
200
Ottawa
Canada
200
In 1963, Robert Patch invented a convertible toy truck that could be converted into three different vehicles, a van, a dump truck, or a pickup, and he was granted a U.S. patent for his invention the following year, becoming the youngest person to ever receive a patent. How old was he when he got the patent???
Six years old!!! He was five when he invented the truck!!!
200
Shrek (2001)
Not Disney! Dreamworks!
300
Evan pays his girlfriend Jodi to be with him!?
True. According to Evan, "I pay her in gourmet food, trips to exotic places, and silly antics."-definitely a direct quote
300
Which SCCA gym game features different powers for differently-colored balls (for example the orange ball is traditionally the 'poison ball'), and is named after a popular mid-2010s video game?
Angry Birds!
300
Athens
Greece
300
In 2018, Jackson Oswalt achieved _ _ _ _ _ _ _ fusion in the playroom of his home in Memphis, Tennessee, at the age of 12. Expert fusion researcher Richard Hull confirmed Oswalt's achievement and it has been entered into the Guinness Book of World Records!
Nuclear!!!
300
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Disney bought the rights to this Studio Ghibli classic...so, technically Disney
400
World News: Singer Katy Perry, who recently made the entire world cringe when she was part of Blue Origin's NS-31 mission on April 14, 2025, was recently spotted holding hands with former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who is 12 years older than her! True or rumor?
True!!! Sooooo many thoughts
400
According to a poll conducted during homeroom on Monday at the school, which SCCA gym game is the most popular???
Pin Down Robbers????
400
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
400
For blind people, the Braille system of reading and writing has made it much easier to understand the world around them and live their daily lives. Louis Braille was just how old when he invented this system of writing in 1824?
(Closest guess)
15 years old!
400
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
Not Disney!!! Sony Pictures!
500
World News: President Donald Trump has decided that instead of a new ballroom, he will build a "Room of Glory" that will showcase all of the statues, paintings, and articles made of him in the spot where the White House's East Wing used to be after it got torn down recently. The Room of Glory will be where he will go when he is stressed out by the pressures of his job. He said that it is "about time the White House had something to show its presidentialness," True or rumor???
Rumor, but...who knows???
500
Speaking of Star Wars, if your emperor has been hit and is out, how can you save your team and get everyone back in???
Make a basket, while still sitting, in the opposing team's hoops!
500
Seoul
South Korea
500
While following coverage of the Ebola scare of 2014, nine year old Mark Leschinsky of Mahwah, New Jersey, felt that he wanted to help. He saw a problem in the way hazmat suits were designed, realizing that “900 healthcare workers got infected despite wearing conventional suits.” He wound up inventing self-disinfecting HazMat suits! How old was he when he invented these?
(Closest guess)
11!!!
(Looks like Henry Bodamer without glasses, tbh)
500
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Disney!
