Pulitzer Prize Winners
Children's Books
Civil War
Science
Idioms
100

Author of To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

100

Goodnight _____.

(by Margaret Wise Brown)

Goodnight Moon

“Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.” ~Margaret Wise Brown

100

Who was the president of the U.S. during the Civil War?

Abraham Lincoln

100

Science is divided into various fields of study except

A. Biology

B. Literature

C. Physics

D. Chemistry

B. Literature

100

Better late than ______

never

200

Author of The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

200

Charlotte's _____

(by E. B. White)

Charlotte's Web

200

What did the southern states do when they seceded from the Union?

(hint: they formed the ______________)

Formed the Confederate States of America

200

How long does it take for the earth to go around the sun?

1 year

200

A blessing in _______.

A blessing in disguise

(a good thing that seemed bad at first)

300

Author of The Grapes of Wrath: 

John Steinbeck


300

Harold and the _____________.

(by Crockett Johnson.)

Purple Crayon

300

What was the secret escape route used by slaves to escape to the north called?


the Underground Railroad

300

True or False: The Center of the Earth is very hot

True

300

Give someone the benefit ____________.

of the doubt

400

Author of The Color Purple

Alice Walker

400

The Hundred ______

(by Eleanor Estes)

The Hundred Dresses

400

Who accepted the command of the Confederate Army?

Robert E. Lee

400

What part of a bone builds new blood cells?

A. Bone Marrow

B. Spongy Bone

C. Compact Bone

D. Joints

Bone Marrow

400

We'll cross that bridge ____________.

We'll cross that bridge when we come to it

(Let's not talk about that problem right now)

500

He won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction not once, but twice, for two relatively unknown works, A Fable and The Reivers.  He is also the author of The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, and, "A Rose for Emily"


William Faulkner

500

My Father's _______

(by Ruth Stiles Gannett)


My Father's Dragon

500

Where did R. E. Lee surrender to Grant on April 9, 1865?

a. Appomattox Court House

b. Jackson's Mill

c. Valley Forge

a. Appomattox Court House

500

How many bones does an adult human have?

A. 103

B. 167

C. 206

D. 291

C. 206

500

Go back to the ___________.

Go back to the drawing board.

(start over)