Holidays
This is the biggest annual holiday in China and many Chinese around the world?
What is the Chinese New Year?
This Baptist minister and social activist led the civil rights movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968. Also the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
+200 pts: When is this holiday celebrated?
Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
+200 pts: The 3rd Monday in January
"Mirror, mirror, on the wall/Who now is the fairest one of all?" said by what character from what movie?
Who is the Evil Queen from the movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?
Land surrounded by water on all sides.
What is an island?
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal" began what speech?
What is The Gettysburg Address (by Abraham Lincoln)?
It was believed these explosives were used to scare away evil spirits, who might otherwise bring bad luck.
What are fire crackers (or fireworks)?
Born in a log cabin in Kentucky, this lawyer and statesman became President during the American Civil War, known as the Great Emancipator, he also ended slavery in the United States. He was assassinated in 1865.
Bonus 100 pts.: His birthday: _______.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
+100 pts: What is February 12th (1809)
How many days are there in June?
What is 30?
This landform is lower in height than mountains, but they are higher than the surrounding areas. A number together form a ‘range’. They are usually covered with grass.
What are hills?
These famous words were created in 1776: "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness..."
What is of the Declaration of Independence?
(first line of 2nd paragraph)
This holiday is associated with Cupid and hearts, is a feast day honoring a saint and later folk traditions. It has become a significant cultural, religious, and commercial celebration of romance and love in many regions of the world.
Bonus: 100 pts.: The date this is celebrated.
What is Valentine's Day?
Bonus: 100 pts. What is February 14th?
An American political leader, military general, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States of America birthday was __________.
What is February 22nd (1732)
The capitol of New York State?
What is Albany?
When rivers flow down the mountainsides and hillsides, it wears off the rocks and soil. Over a period of time, the water carves out v- shaped grooves. These grooves get deeper and wider, finally forming low land areas called _____________.
What are valleys?
‘Stars and Stripes’ is the nickname of the flag of which country?
What is the United States of America?
This popular observance in many parts of the United States predicts if the official Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow there will be six more weeks of winter. This also the day we are half way through winter.
Bonus: Date of this holiday.
What is Groundhog Day?
Bonus: +100 pts. or take 100 pts from another team. What is February 2nd
These holidays are celebrated in commemoration and remembrance of important religious events and many schools are closed during this week in March or April for _________.
What is Spring Recess? (Also Passover and Easter holidays)
What is the rectangular field on which a game of soccer is played called?
What is a pitch?
Areas of flat land.
What are plains?
How many years are there in a score?
What is 20 years?
With the Vernal equinox, we in the northern hemisphere enjoy the increasing sunlight hours, with earlier dawns and later sunsets. The word equinox means the length of day and night is nearly equal in all parts of the world
Bonus: This word means equal night or nearly equal length of day and night.
What is the first day of spring?
Bonus +250pts or take 250 pts from other team. What is equinox?
This is a global celebration of Irish culture that takes place annually on March 17, the anniversary of the patron saint of Ireland's death in the fifth century. NYC has their famous parade; people wear green; shamrocks and leprechaun and a pot of gold that it hides are popular that day.
What is St. Patrick's Day?
Which was the country that first made the use of paper money?
What is China?
These areas receive little or no rainfall or precipitation and are very dry. We usually think of them as hot and sandy areas but some are very cold areas with little precipitation.
What is a desert?
Written in 1787; ratified in 1788: "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this..."
What is the United States Constitution?
Bonus: +200 pt. for Preamble to the United States Constitution