The People's History
The holiday that celebrates the abolition of slavery in Guyana.
What is Emancipation Day?
The fraction that represents half of something.
This has both a north and south pole and can attract magnetic objects.
What is a Magnet.
What is the capital of Guyana?
What is Georgetown?
This celebration of the day Guyana became a republic has an Amerindian name taken from a Amerindian spring festival.
What is Mashrimani?
During the French Revolution, France decided to invade the Low Countries of Europe, including the _______. In opposition to the French, the British seized the now-stranded overseas territories, including the Essequibo, East Demerara, and Berbice colonies, creating British Guyana
What is Holland/or the Dutch?
The area of a square that has a length of 2 and a width of 4.
What is 8?
The two categories of plants are based on whether the plant produces flowers.
What is Flowering Plants and Non-Flowering Plants?
What is the second-largest town in Guyana?
What is Linden?
This holiday sees children dress up in scary costumes and go door to door in the United States to receive candy and other treats.
What is Halloween?
The major village in Region 2 that was founded when newly freed African slaves bought three plantations away from their colonial masters.
What is Queenstown?
The average snack bill is this if Sir Perez pays $500, Miss Shazz pays $400, and Sir Thadeaus pays $600.
What is $500?
Sound cannot travel through _____ as there is no mater to compress or expand.
What is a vacuum?
What geographical feature seperates most villages in region 2.
What is a Canal/Trench.
This Catholic holiday celebrates the last days before the fasting season of Lent with large marches, parties, and food. It is most celebrated in Brazil, Trinidad, and other carribiean countries.
What is Carnival?
The first major protest in Guyana against indentured servitude and the unfair systems used to exploit them. The subsequent riot is immortalized in the monument as shown by Sir Thadeaus.
What is the 1872 Devonshire Castle Uprising?
Ten teachers go to Starlight Bar and Grill. They all ordered appetizers, entrees, drinks, and dessert. The final bill is $45,900. The average amount each teacher should evenly contribute to pay off the bill is this amount.
What is 4,590?
The flow of this produces electricity.
What are Electrons?
The mountain in eastern Guyana that borders both Venezuela and Brazil, which was pictured in the Disney movie "UP" for having a flat top. This characteristic flap top helps give it the nickname "Floating Island".
What is Mount Roraima?
This Mexican Holiday near Halloween sees families leave food out for their deceased loved ones to remember them and is idolized in such films as "the book of the dead' and "Coco".
What is the Day of the Dead?
In 1953, Guyana was invaded by the British on the order of Winston Churchill, who suspended the constitution less than a year after Guyana's independence. The British would then occupy Guyana for another seven years as a result of this.
What is the Election of the PPP/Chedi Jagan?
It is 8:25 am and school is about to start, but Sir Thadeaus has just left his home. He gets out onto the road and gets into a hired car at 8:30 am. Assuming no traffic, the car speeds at 60 kmph to get to Better Hope Primary, which is 20km away. This number of minutes is how late Sir Thadeaus will be.
The process by which species change over hundreds of generations in order to better adapt to their environment.
What is Evolution.
What is the name of the geographical block off the coast of Guyana that is the source of Oil in guyana and which is exploited by Exon Mobile.
What is Stabroek Block?
Maroons Day celebrates the continued existence of the maroons, the collective of former escaped slaves who found refuge among the Amerindians in this Caribbean country.
What is Suriname?