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What's Yer Angle, Bub?
That's Revolution, By George
Holes in My Westing Game
Rocks In Your Head
100
In math these lines are always "right" with each other.
What are perpendicular lines?
100
Under his guidance, Britain won the French and Indian War but lost the Revolutionary War.
Who is King George III?
100
This piece of rock saved Stanley Yelnats' great-great grandfather from certain death.
What is "God's Thumb?"
100
This is a natural, non-living, solid crystal that makes up rocks.
What is a mineral?
200
This shape has four equal sides and four 90 degree angles.
What is a square.
200
This surveyor first fought for the British during the French and Indian war, was later named President of the Constitutional Convention, and the commander of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
200
At 62, he is a bit old to be a delivery boy.
Who is Otis Ambler
200
This is the name for the property of minerals that describes how the light is reflected.
What is luster?
300
This shape has three congruent sides and each angle has the same number of degrees.
What is an equilateral triangle?
300
He is the only person to sign the four key documents of American history: The Declaration of Independence, The Treaty of Alliance with France, The Treaty of Peace with Great Britain, and The Constitution of the United States. He also flew a pretty good kite.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
300
This exclusive apartment complex was simply "made for" the 6 individuals picked by Sam Westing as part of his "game".
What is Sunset Towers?
300
This tells me how easily a mineral can be scratched.
What is Hardness?
400
You could say that my sides just don't agree with each other, even though my angles add up to 180 degrees.
What is a scalene triangle?
400
On March 5, 1770 British soldiers fired their muskets on this crowd of Bostonians, killing three - including Crispus Attucks.
What is the Boston Massacre?
400
Although he is "mom" to these boys he is not the most maternal of men.
Who is Mr. Pendanski?
400
This is what we call the color of the powder that a mineral leaves when it is scratched across a special plate.
What is a streak?
500
I am made with four sides and two pairs of parallel lines.
What is a parallelogram?
500
This "act" caused some Bostonians to throw a rather unusual "party".
What is The Tea Act?
500
His nickname is pig-latin for Rex.
Who is X-Ray?
500
This type of rock comes from molten rock.
What is igneous?