Music
This is the musical note with the longest value. It is worth four beats--twice as long as a half note. Give the name of this note with no stem and a hollow center.
WHOLE (NOTE)
Among this novel's characters are Helene the goat, Bertrand the seagull, Sonja the squirrel, and Angus the raccoon. At its conclusion, Johannes, a half-coyote and half-dog, leaves an island park to travel to the mainland. Identify this recent Newbery winner by Dave Eggers.
(THE) EYES AND THE IMPOSSIBLE
Melting ice or cutting a piece of paper are examples of these properties of matter. What properties of matter can be measured and observed without changing the chemical make-up of the matter?
PHYSICAL (PROPERTIES)
About half of the surface rocks in Kentucky are of this type. You know you've found this type of rock if it fizzes when you pour vinegar on it. What is this rock mineral?
LIMESTONE
In the 1850s, this activist joined the temperance and abolitionist movements. With Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she founded the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869. Who was this first woman to have her face on a U.S. coin?
(SUSAN B.) ANTHONY
This instrument sounds an octave higher than its notes are written. It also plays anoctave higher than a regular flute. Give the name of this smallest and highest-pitched orchestral woodwind.
PICCOLO
This book's title character meets shy Alice at a park in a large city. To reach her, he leaves the island of imaginary friends where he was born. This is the plot of what Caldecott- winning Dan Santat [SAN-tat] book?
(THE) ADVENTURES OF BEEKLE (: THE UNIMAGINARY FRIEND)
These rocks form from cooled, hardened molten rock. Examples of these rocks include basalt and obsidian. What type of rocks are formed around volcanoes?
IGNEOUS (ROCKS)
You can visit a state park bearing his name near Henderson, Kentucky. What self-trained naturalist and artist achieved fame with his color-plate book "The Birds of America"?
(JOHN JAMES) AUDUBON
When he was only fifteen, he saved the life of a toddler. He said, "Genius is 2 percent inspiration and 98 percent perspiration." What wizard of Menlo Park patented 1,093 inventions, including a motion picture projector?
(THOMAS) EDISON
This element of music consists of variously pitched notes played one after another. Give the word for this element, which is sometimes called the tune.
MELODY
This novel's sequels include The River, Brian's Winter, Brian's Return, and Brian's Hunt. After surviving a plane crash, its 13-year-old protagonist spends months alone in the Canadian wilderness. Give the title of this Gary Paulsen masterpiece.
HATCHET
Conservationists will sometimes plant foliage on hillsides to help control this process. In what geological process is earth worn away and transported by forces like wind or water?
EROSION
Kentuckians who have held this office include Louie Nunn, Martha Layne Collins, and Matt Bevin. What is the top elected office in Kentucky?
GOVERNOR
Despite being from San Francisco, this poet of "A Patch of Old Snow" often set his works in New England. He explored neighbors' relationship in "Mending Wall" and isolation in "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." Identify the poet of "The Road Not Taken."
(ROBERT) FROST
Single-word answer, please. This musical element is the reason two instruments canplay a note at the same pitch and loudness and still sound different. It might be mellow, brassy, or rich. Give the name of this element also called tone color.
TIMBRE [TAM-bur]
This novel begins on Earth in 2061 and ends on the planet Sagan in the year 2441. The title refers to Petra Peña, who fights the Collective and leads her rebel band to the First Arrivers' colony. Storytelling plays an important role in what Newbery winning book by Donna Barba Higuera [hee-GAIR-uh]?
(THE) LAST CUENTISTA [kweyn-TEE-stah]
Amphibians change from aquatic animals to land animals through this process.Butterflies also undergo this process as they change from caterpillars to adult butterflies. Whatis this process of changing to an adult from a larva?
METAMORPHOSIS
Legends say this geologic feature was discovered by John Houchins in the late 18thcentury when he chased a wounded bear into a cave. What is this Western Kentucky landform, now a national park, that contains the longest cave system on earth?
MAMMOTH CAVE (NATIONAL PARK)
He was a statesman, an inventor, and a public servant. Some of his letters were published under the pseudonym, Mrs. Silence Dogood. What American patriot invented bifocal lenses and his namesake stove?
(BENJAMIN) FRANKLIN
This percussion instrument comes in suspended, crash, and finger varieties. An Armenian man in Constantinople combined tin, copper, and silver in a way that Zildjian [ZIL-jee-un] still uses to make these instruments. Identify this instrument that resembles a large, flat, circular plate.
CYMBAL(S)
This picture book's author is the great-granddaughter of its human protagonist. Harry Colebourn is a World War One veterinarian who takes the title bear to the London Zoo, where she inspires author A. A. Milne. Identify this Lindsay Mattick Caldecott winner.
FINDING WINNIE (: THE TRUE STORY OF THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS BEAR)
Scientists use the information they gather from the scientific method to form these statements. They are broader than hypotheses. What are these statements that are used to explain how things work in nature?
(SCIENTIFIC) THEORIES
To see this phenomenon, you need a clear night, mist, and a particular phase of Earth's natural satellite. Popular at Cumberland Falls, what is this multi-colored sight?
MOONBOW (Accept LUNAR RAINBOW or MOON RAINBOW)
Born Mary Ludwig, this American patriot became famous for her heroism at the Battle of Monmouth during the Revolutionary War. According to legend, what was Mary's nickname, one she earned for carrying water to colonial soldiers?
MOLLY PITCHER