Geography
This is the invisible line that marks 0° of longitude.
What is the prime meridian?
A miserable, young orphan escapes across the Atlantic Ocean in this fruit in a children's classic.
What is a peach?
There's a giant population of this in your gut.
What is bacteria?
The practice used by ancient Egyptians of drying of a dead body to prevent rotting
What is mummification?
The genre of music that accompanies a film.
What is a soundtrack?
A hot, humid country whose red flag features one yellow star in the center.
What is Vietnam?
This state is where the majority of Esperanza Rising is set.
What is California?
A magnificent, migratory mammal that encircles and traps krill using bubble curtains.
What is a humpback whale?
The satellite whose beeps helped lead to the first GPS.
What is Sputnik?
This monarch, the country's longest serving, passed away in September 2022.
Who is Queen Elizabeth II?
Perhaps Mrs. Connor's favorite country. She lived her for a year before moving to France.
He was the main character and narrator of The Outsiders.
Who is Ponyboy?
These are the type of clouds that "puffy" like cotton, heaped in a well-defined mound.
What are cumulus clouds?
This is the network of resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War
What is the Underground Railroad?
This idiom means 'to make me laugh'
What is 'crack me up'?
This mountain range runs down the northeastern/ Eastern side of the United States.
What are the Appalachians?
A literary device/technique used in books or films, such as Holes to jump from modern day to the past.
What's a flashback?
This is when someone eats too little, too much, or they don't get enough of the right food
What is malnutrition?
This historic event occured when American colonists threw the equivalent of $1.7 million of a uniquely British good into Boston Harbor because they were upset about both a tax and a monopoly.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This verb tense is used to describe a general life experience or an action that started in the past and continues through the present.
What is the present perfect?
This is the name for the landform that's a narrow piece of land projecting into the sea.
What is a cape?
Outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare, she is the best-selling novelist of all time. Known for her mysteries.
Who is Agatha Christie?
The next phase in the lunar cycle after the full moon.
What is a waning gibbous?
A brand that was wildly successful in the US until a carcinogen in a few bottles caused a massive recall.
What is Perrier?
An artist from Bristol who uses stencils and a pseudonym
Who is Banksy?