School Subjects
This subject is the study of the past.
What is History?
Jacob's favorite subject
Numerals, Typescript, and even "novel" in Russian.
What is Roman?
Birthday twins with Uncle Danna, this bamboo eater recently became a father again.
Who is Tian Tian, or the mature male panda at the Smithsonian National Zoo in DC?
It's the fifth color in the rainbow spectrum acronym.
What is blue?
It is also Dad, Roman, and Grandma Barbara's favorite color.
Petra was a purple tiger playing this sport, which in other parts of the world shares the same name as Pa’s favorite sport.
What is soccer?
This school subject involves studying testable explanations and predictions of the natural world.
What is Science?
Dad and Roman said it is their favorite subject
This name is found in both Celtic and Scandinavian mythology, but it could also be of English origin meaning "from Denmark."
What is Dana?
A litter of these mammals was born on Petra's birthday in 2019. They live underground and are the only true eusocial mammals, spending their lives in large colonies with a single breeding female.
What are naked mole rats?
It is a classic US comfort food that often starts with cooking pasta and making a béchamel sauce.
What is macaroni and cheese?
Petra and Jacob both chose this as their favorite food, though Jacob of the vegan variety.
One of Petra’s eponyms plays this soprano stringed instrument in a band called The Rentals.
What is a violin?
The former name of Texas A&M--Commerce.
What is East Texas State University?
That is where Dad received his degree in Music Education with Instrumental Emphasis.
UNESCO World Heritage Site
What is Petra?
One of Jacob's birthday twins, this stock market genius and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway was nicknamed The Oracle of Omaha. He was considered the 20th century's most successful investor.
Who is Warren Buffett?
It is the state named after King Charles I's wife that was originally meant to be a safe haven for Catholics persecuted in England.
What is Maryland?
It is also the state where Petra and Roman were born.
This mascot of Petra's elementary school is a large raptor known as a fish hawk that is a top fish-eating predator in the Chesapeake Bay.
What is an osprey?
The very simple way linguists refer to sequences of phonemes that carry specific meanings.
What are words?
Petra said her favorite thing to learn about is words.
"Supplanter" in Hebrew, also Esau's brother
What is Jacob?
This aviation pioneer shares a birthday with Roman; his name is alphabetically earlier than his brother's.
Who is Orville Wright?
Wikipedia says it is an "epic space opera"; the original film won 6 Oscars in 1978.
What is Star Wars?
Jacob and Dad said it's their favorite movie.
Petra has ancestors on both her mom's and dad's family tree that crossed the Atlantic Ocean in this famous vessel that carried humans (sometimes called pilgrims) as cargo.
What is the Mayflower?
Grandma Barbara received a degree in this major from the University of Utah, which was a significant accomplishment at the time; she earned the degree in 2 years and was a member of a sorority. Grandma's good sense with money makes cents.
What is business?
Feminine form of the Greek word that means "strange" or "foreign."
What is Barbara?
Inspiring fear, one of Grandma's birthday twins is this formidable Russian tsar born August 25, 1530.
Who is Ivan the Terrible?
Located in southwest Colorado at the foot of the San Juan mountains, this small city is the county seat of La Plata County.
What is Durango, Colorado?
This is where both Dad and Grandma Barbara were born.
Petra's warm-hued, shiny favorite color implies being made of the material with the chemical element symbol Au.
What is golden?