Bible
After initially running away from it, Jonah convinced this city to repent.
What is Nineveh?
The disease that Peg Kehret suffered from.
What is polio?
A pregnancy typically lasts this many weeks.
What is 40?
The spark that ignited World War I.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary?
Instead of a bibliography, the name for the sources page in an MLA-style research paper.
What is a works cited page?
Wild Card: Other than this week's verse. Say any verse we learned this year. Any team can get points for this, anyone on the team can say it, but once one verse is taken, you have to choose another verse.
Answers will vary.
This book told the story of the United States rowing team, which claimed the gold medal at the 1936 Olympics.
What is Boys in the Boat?
The two main forces at work on a downhill skier.
What are gravity and friction?
This caused the United States to officially enter World War II.
What was the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
Two main purposes of an introduction in a debate, five-paragraph essay, persuasive essay, and research paper.
What are to get the reader's/audience's attention and to introduce the topic (set the stage)?
Three boy kings of Judah studied earlier this year.
Who were Joash, Josiah, and Manasseh?
Pam Munoz Ryan based her book The Dreamer on the life of this famous poet.
Who is Pablo Neruda?
The difference between weather and climate.
What is that weather describes current conditions and climate describes a weather pattern over a period of time?
Andrew Carnegie made this pledge that dramatically improved education in America.
What is to build a public library in any city that would pay to run it?
Three rhetorical devices we covered when we studied debate.
What are ethos, pathos, and logos?
John the Baptist's three part message.
What is choose it (repent), commit to it (be baptized), live it (produce fruit)?
The two books we read that featured red soda pop as things that the title characters love to drink.
What are Rascal and Bud, Not Buddy?
Five levels of the atmosphere, listed from farthest away from Earth to closest to Earth.
What are the Exosphere, Thermosphere, Mesosphere, Stratosphere, and the Troposphere?
What were the stock market crash, failure of the banks, drought, tariff war, and less purchasing of goods?
The difference between alliteration, assonance, and consonance.
What are the repetition of beginning consonant sounds (alliteration), the repetition of vowel sounds (assonance), and the repetition of ending consonant sounds (consonance)?
The 12 original disciples of Jesus as listed in the Bible.
Who were Andrew, Simon Peter, James, John, Philip, Nathanael (aka Bartholomew), Thaddeus (Judas the Greater), Simon the Zealot, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Judas Iscariot, Levi Matthew?
The books we read this year that featured female protagonists.
What were Small Steps, A Night Divided, and Orphan Train?
The 7 main taxonomy ranks used to classify animals and plants, listed in order from most general to most specific.
What are domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species?
Two laws that caused Black Americans to be disenfranchised (not allowed to vote) during Reconstruction.
What were a poll tax, literacy test, and the grandfather clause?
What are headline, byline, placeline, 5Ws/H, quotations, and conclusion?