High Honors
If you get good grades in school, you're on this
What is the Honor Roll? or in the National Honor Society?
The tallest mountain in North America (Hint: it's in Alaska)
What is "Mount McKinley" or "Denali"? (20,320 feet above sea level)
The average height of a man, in the U.S.
What is 5' 9" tall?
A city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts (northeastern MA) that is home to 111,306 people.
What is "LOWell, Massachusetts"? "Lowell, Massachusetts"?
The temperature your body has to be below, during this COVID season of our existence
What is 100 degrees Fahrenheit?
The highest honor given to a member of the military
What is the "Congressional Medal of Honor"?
Highest point in New England
What is Mount Washington? (6,288 feet above sea level)
The average height of a woman in the U.S.
What is 5' 4" tall?
The lowest point below sea level in the USA
What is Death Valley, CA? (282 feet below sea level)
A game you play where you have to go underneath a bar
What is "the Limbo"?
This medal is given to a military person who is injured in battle
What is the "Purple Heart"?
Highest point in Massachusetts
What is "Mount Greylock"? (3,491 feet above sea level)
Another name for a fortune teller or psychic
What is a "medium"?
A chain of home improvement stores (there's one in Abington, Pembroke & Weymouth)
What is LOWe's? (Lowe's)
A sport performed in track and field, where you have to jump over a bar
What is "the High Jump"? or "the Pole Vault"?
This award from Stockholm Sweden, is given for humanitarianism, science and literature (Hint: it's named in honor of the inventor of dynamite)
What is the Nobel Prize?
What is "K2"? (28,251 feet above sea level)
A normal (a "medium range") resting heart rate for adults (heart beats per minute)
What is between 60 and 100 beats per minute? (a well trained athlete might have a normal resting heart rate closer to 40 beats per minute... Boston Celtics great John Havlicek, had a resting heart rate of 42 beats per minute ... he was a master of "moving without the ball" ... the guy could seemingly run forever!)
T or F: Low blood pressure can cause dizziness or fainting because the brain isn't receiving enough blood.
What is "TRUE"?
When rivers rise and rains fall, we often go into this type of situation (HINT: HIGH WATER)
What is "flood"?
Before he became president, John F. Kennedy won this award for his book "Profiles in Courage"
What is the "Pulitzer Prize"?
Highest point in Maine
What is Mount Katahdin? (5,268 feet above sea level, located in Baxter State Park)
T or F: "Basketball great Wilt Chamberlain's record-setting average was 50.4 points per game, during the 1961-62 season"
What is "TRUE"? (He averaged 50.4 points each game he played, that season!! Michael Jordan's highest season average was 35 points per game in 1987-88)
The lowest point below sea level in the world
What is the Dead Sea? (1,358 feet below sea level)
When rivers dry up, and rains fail to fall, we go into this situation (Hint: LOW WATER; this often takes place in the summer)
What is "drought"?