Chicago Neighborhoods
Catholic Saints' Hinge Profiles
Parts of Speech in Christmas Songs
5th Grade Math
The Nutcracker
100

This central business district took its name from a circuit of the Chicago "L" system. Around and around we go!

What is the Loop?

100

All I ask is that you: Ignore my limp! My right leg was fractured by a cannonball 30 years before I formed the Society of Jesus.

Who is Ignatius of Loyola?

100

Adjetivos: Feliz y próspero.

What is "Feliz Naividad"?

100

This term refers to the combination of a whole with a fraction.

What is a mixed number?

100

In the Land of Sweets, a celebration of delicacies from around the world is produced, including candy canes from Russia, chocolate from Spain, and tea from this Eastern nation.

What is China?
200

Hey, Chicago, what do you say? The Cubs play their home games in this neighborhood!

What is Wrigleyville?

200

Unusual skills: Preaching to flocks of birds, taming the Wolf of Gubbio, and becoming the patron saint of animal rights.

Who is Francis of Assisi?

200

Noun phrases: a corncob pipe, that old silk hat, the traffic cop.

What is "Frosty the Snowman"?

200

Keep it down! I'm trying to explain that length x width x height can calculate this for any rectangular prism.

What is volume?

200

As his name might suggest, this brother of Clara accidentally breaks the titular toy in Act 1.

Who is Fritz?

300

It was tough to swallow Kevin's moving from this predominantly Mexican-American, Lower West Side neighborhood to Miami earlier this year. 

What is Pilsen?

300

Biggest risk I've taken: Volunteering to take the place of a man condemned to die at Auschwitz death camp. 

Who is Maximilian Kolbe?

300

Adjectives: Nauseous, seasick, unwashed, foul.

What is "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch"?

300

Not shareholder earnings, but the number in a division expression that is being split up.

What is a dividend?

300

Nutcracker dolls are commonly built to resemble toy soldiers in this country of origin. They were popularized in America after World War II. 

What is Germany?

400

Considerably flatter than its Californian counterpart, this neighborhood is one of the few predominantly White areas of Chicago's South Side.

What is Beverly?

400

We're the same type of weird if: You also wear men's clothing in order to serve as a French military commander during the Hundred Years' War.

Who is Joan of Arc?

400

Verbs: Roasting, nipping, offering.

What is "The Christmas Song"?

400

Our place-value system is organized in base-this number, meaning that we need to make groups of this many before moving to the next biggest place.

What is 10?

400
Selections of The Nutcracker Suite were used in this very real 1940 Disney animated film.

What is "Fantasia"?

500

This Southside neighborhood has produced athletic stars like Kenny Golladay, Anthony Davis, and Derrick Rose.

What is Englewood?

500

How to pronounce my name: Karol Józef Wojtyła (or KAH-rol YOH-zef VOY-tywa).

Who is Pope John Paul II?

500

Proper nouns: Broadway, NYPD, Galway Bay.

What is "The Fairytale of New York"?

500

This geometric classification is given to an equilateral  quadrilateral with two sets of parallel sides.

What is a rhombus?

500
Clara and her Nutcracker perform this ballet dance duet together in Act II, literally French for "step of two".

What is pas de deux?

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