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True - Ada's Violin
At 90 years, I returned to the gardens I used to visit as a boy, in Suzhou, China, to install a masterpiece of my own making, just like the rock farmers of my childhood who imagined perfect shapes for my grandchildren to see. Who am I?
Ioeh Ming Pei (I. M. Pei) - Mr. Pei's Perfect Shapes
"This is the hand, that has touched the hand, that has touched the hand, that shook the hand of Abraham Lincoln." In which book would you find this quote?
Pink and Say
In which book would you find a recipe for popovers and angel food cake?
The Fabulous Fannie Farmer
In Mexico, which holiday "is a unique and beautiful tradition...it's an opportunity to honor dead loved ones lives and remember them with joy?"
Dia de Muertos (the Day of the Dead) - Abuelita's Gift
Benjamin Hawkins was one of the first paleoartists, an artist who interprets fossils and helps us understand how extinct creatures may have appeared and behaved. True or false?
True - Iguanadon's Horn
I was born with what color thumb despite my parents being master gardeners with green thumbs. I loved cactuses, Venus flytraps, bat flower, fungi, poison ivy, and cobra lily. Who am I?
Prunella - Purple
In The Table, we learn about two families. In one family, the father works in the coal mines and in the other, the father works as a what?
Carpenter
Roberto Clemente experienced a lot of prejudices because he's black and Puerto Rican. Despite the injustices, he faced, he was a star baseball player on what team?
Pittsburgh Pirates
What do three mysterious guests who "make business...play sportsball...and wear hat" learn about humans that they'll never forget?
Human kindness and offer to help those in need - We Are Definitely Human
Josh gets suspended from his school basketball team for almost breaking his brother's nose on the court so badly that he has to go to the hospital. His mother gets upset and says that "boys with no discipline end up in prison." True or false?
True - The Crossover
I grew up listening to my grandmother's stories including tales of Briar Rabbit and King Arthur. "These stories taught...that where there's a will, there's a way." I accepted a job as a master storyteller at the University of SC. The city of Columbia honors me with a yearly festival called "A Baker's Dozen."
Augusta Baker - Go Forth and Tell
Mr. Kim refers to Kyung's house as "a gift that Sunhee and I will never forget." Why is it a gift?
Their home was a safe place for them when they had nowhere else to go - The House Before Falling Into the Sea
Setting foot on the ice of Antarctica "is like setting foot" where?
On the moon - My Antarctica
We had never heard the story of Jesus' birth. We were most interested in this king who killed Jesus.
Herdsman Children - King Herod - Best Christmas Pageant Ever
The Great Lakes, about 3,000 years old, connect and work together like a single stair-stepped river. They're the oldest major geological feature on the planet (millions of years older than the Appalachian Mountains, the Great Plains, and the Mississippi River). True or false?
False - youngest major geological feature
"I can flip upside down to feed and suck fish into my toothless mouth and swallow it whole like Greenland Halibut." Who am I?
Narwhal
In which picture book, through picture frames can you tell that the main character has lost his wife and has a broken heart?
Small Things Mended
What "very troublesome affair" involved capturing an animal with the help of "20 men, hauling a 7 foot animal for 14 days through deep snow and 20 miles of forest"
Capturing a moose to send to France - Thomas Jefferson's Battle for Science
What did the KGB agent want from Mac that's banned in Russia?
His faded blue jeans (that was the whole point of him stealing all that stuff - the spoon, the painting, the game boy - so that Mac would give him his jeans.
Chipmunks "can't climb down trees headfirst like a squirrel." A fisher will approach them from above while they try to retreat backwards. True or false?
False - Porcupine - Looking for Peppermint
"Moving like a silent, 22 foot long, food-seeking torpedo, I am a deep sea eating machine built for finding and gobbling things that fall to the seafloor. Despite being almost blind, I have excellent smelling skills and can smell chemicals from a whale fall that happened over a mile away. Who am I?
Sleeper Shark - Life After Whale
In which book does the author describe his book as "a love letter for Garnett, South Carolina, my hometown, where peanuts, corn, and watermelon grew." Which book is for those living in food apartheids, where access to fresh and affordable groceries is an ever-present struggle?
The Last Stand
What kind of animal from Australia dives underground for years and when it emerges from the soil, flies stick to its sticky skin? It then sheds the skin and swallows it whole with the insects.
Water holding frog - Haiku, Ew!
What is described here: "I was brown for almost 35 years and then turned green due to oxidation of which element?
Statue of Liberty - copper - Her Right Foot