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BF Trivia
Vermont History Trivia
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Songs from when your teachers were in 8th grade
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100
This is the source for BF water.
What is Miners Pond?
100
This famous ice cream company began in a gas station in Burlington, Vermont.
What is Ben and Jerry's?
100
Ticks are known to carry this disease.
What is Lyme disease?
100
play song - Mr. Oakes
What is Candle in the Wind? by Elton John?
100
This should be found at the end of an introductory paragraph.
What is a thesis statement?
200
This person was known as the "Witch of Wallstreet."
Who is Hetty Green?
200
This man, often called the Father of Vermont, was the leader of Vermont’s revolutionary war militia the Green Mountain Boys.
Who is Ethan allen?
200
This is Vermont’s state tree, whose scientific name Acer Saccharum includes the latin word for sugar.
What is the Sugar Maple?
200
play song Mr. Desmarais
What is "Believe" by Cher?
200
This type of information comes from a source that witnessed the event firsthand.
What is a primary source?
300
Bellows Falls was originally part of this state, not Vermont.
What is New Hampshire or New York?
300
Vermont had more veterans per capita from this major American war than any other state.
What is the Civil War?
300
The shortest day of the year is called this.
What is winter solstice?
300
play song Ms. Read
What is "Faith" by George Michael?
300
This is the name for a one-party state, such as with Mussolini, where a dictator has total control over its citizens.
What is fascism?
400
What other town could attend BF high school up to the 1960's.
What is North Walpole?
400
With the Vermont Constitution in 1793, the Republic of Vermont became the first government in North America to explicitly ban this practice.
What is slavery?
400
This is the world's largest primate.
What is the gorilla?
400
play song Ms Bizaoui
What is "Walk like an Egyptian" by the Bangles?
400
The Pythgorean theorem is used to find missing side lengths for this type of triangle.
What is a right triangle?
500
This is the year that the original arch bridge was blown up.
What is 1982?
500
On December 29, 1981 this incident claimed the lives of two Bellows Falls Firefighters: Firefighter Dana Fuller and Firefighter Terry Brown.
What is a fire at the Star Hotel?
500
The Northeast's bat population was almost driven to extinction by this illness.
What is the white nose syndrome?
500
play song Mr Aquadro
What is "Let's get Physical" by Olivia Newton John?
500
When elephant toothpaste was made in science class, this was the chemical that decomposed.
What is Hydrogen Peroxide?