"The Last Dog"
Alien Planets
Ellen Ochoa
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Potpourri
200

Word meaning no longer exists 

What is extinct?

200

The person who was interviewed about the project

Who is Mae Jemison?

200

The meaning of mission control

What is command center?

200

 The one meaning of enterprise in this sentence “Then, when the routines are set up, you cede that to private enterprise.” 

 What is enterprise meaning business?

200

The definition of threatening

What is dangerous?

400

The problems in a story that get figured out

What is resolution?

400

A large space company that worked on the 100 year starship project along with Defense Advanced Research Projects.

Who is NASA?

400

Being able to do something well

What is Aptitude?

400

A way to persuade someone why something is good or bad

What is an argument?

400

Present participle of did


What is doing?

600

The canine disease Brock searches up

What is rabies, heartworms, and distemper?

600

What kind of jobs does the 100 year old starship program include.

What is engineers, astrophysicists, artists, and science fiction writers?

600

Ellen Ochoa went down as the first __________

 What is Hispanic woman to fly in space?

600

The word choice in the sentence of great and grand “news story being great and grand and something that elevates society” 

 What gives the sentence more excitement?

600

The main things an most arguments need

 What are logical reasons and relevant evidence?

800

The reason Brock decides to escape with Brog 

Why does Brog make Brock feel joyful?

800

The meaning of the suffix -ary

What is belonging to or relating to?


800

Someone in the story said “Can boys be astronauts or just girls?” 

 Who is Ellen’s son?

800

STEM stands for

What is science, technology, engineering, and mathematics?

800

The length of Ellen’s first space flight? 

How long is 9 days?

1000

The internal conflict in this story

What is Brock was fearful that everyone was right and he was making the wrong choice?

1000

The reason we're not on the moon according to the author

What is Public commitment?

1000

The reason Ellen did calculus and the reason others did calculus

 What is she did calculus for fun and others did it for their major?

1000

Landing on Mars will be like

What is when we landed on the Moon

1000

The meaning of capitalistic

What is characteristic of an economic system that is privately owned?