Colorful
The stuff that makes a pigment stick permanently to fabric.
What is a mordant?
This is a rectangle that happens to have all four sides of the same length.
What is a square?
This word means: of or relating to frogs.
What is “Ranine”?
This is the document that gives Americans 10 of their most coveted freedoms.
What is The Bill of Rights?
This is caused by the force of gravity on a mass
What is weight?
These railroad cars carried third class passengers, mostly recent immigrants, and settlers heading west.
What are Emigrant Cars?
When you don’t look at your paper while drawing something.
What is blind contour drawing?
These mathematical operators were based on the symbolism of the cross in Christianity.
What are the addition and multiplication signs?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
Old Major (the “middle white boar”) represents a combination of these two historical figures who are considered the fathers of communism and the Soviet Union (full points for one, double points for two. If you guess 2, but only get one correct, you neither lose nor win points. If you only guess one, and it is correct, you win the points).
This was the deadliest war in American History, and what it was fought over.
What were The Civil War and Slavery?
This “fictional” force looks pretty real when you are in the rotating frame of reference
What is centrifugal force?
These were African American men who worked in luxury railroad cars, often enduring severe racism from wealthy, white customers in the 1960s.
What were Pullman Porters?
The overall design of a piece of 2D artwork.
What is composition?
This is the ratio between the diameter and circumference of a circle.
What is pi?
In Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown, Hades (rhetorically) asks why we build this thing. To which the chorus responds that we build it to keep us free, and to keep out the enemy, which is poverty.
What is the wall?
This was why Reconstruction (the positive changes for freed slaves) was so successful. Hint: It is the same reason why it failed.
What is because of Northern military troops who were stationed in the South?
This force opposes the motion of an object through a fluid and slows it down.
What is drag force?
This group of immigrants and migrant workers helped build the western side of the Transcontinental Railroad through the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
What are Chinese Railway Workers?
Mix together Pigment and a binder (like maple syrup) and you get this.
What is watercolor paint?
This is the term for multiplying a value by itself three times.
What is cubing, or raising to the 3rd power?
G. Yamazawa wrote a poem about how he “became a bully because we all want to feel like” this “sometimes”
What is “America”?
These are the North and South’s economic specialties, respectively.
What are Manufacturing/Industry and Slavery/Farming? Extra 200 points if southern answer includes “cotton.”
This is how fast Grunumptuous would be moving toward the earth after one second if, at the same moment that all of the Earth’s atmosphere disappeared, he jumped out of the top of a tall pine tree he was climbing (to the nearest 0.1 m/s).
What is 9.8 m/s?
This is what “TANSTAAFL” stands for.
What is “There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch”?
Mix together Pigment, egg yolk, and water and you get this.
What is Tempura paint?
This exponent is the same thing as taking a square root.
What is raising to the power of ½ ?
In G. Yamazawa’s poem (referenced in the 800 point clue), he says “See, this is before poetry became my world. I noticed that words have” this force that causes mass to have weight at the Earth’s surface
What is gravity?
These were what investigative journalists in the late 1800’s were called. Hint: It sounds a bit filthy.
What were Muckrakers?
Because of its lower surface-area-to-volume ratio, a larger object tends to lose heat when placed out in the cold at this kind of rate compared to a smaller object.
What is more slowly?
According to Wendell Berry in the last line of “Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front” we should practice this.
What is resurrection?
Category: Let It Burn
Write your bet down, along with your team name on a piece of paper. Fold it in half and hand to Ethan (you can bet up to your current score).
On a separate piece of paper, write you answer to the question when it is revealed.
Though we have not had success with cattail fluff for this, it has a lot of aspects of the type of material you need to put the spark or coal in to get your initial flame when starting a fire (lots of surface area; very small, flammable bits; and air space). This is the general term for this kind of material that should be part of your fire making kit. hint: it is different than the small sticks and other flammable material that you will put on the flame once you get it started with this