Ohio, baby!
Ohio joined the U.S. as this numbered state.
What is 17th?
This is the process when leaves on trees use sunlight for energy.
What is photosynthesis?
These 3 men were thrown into a furnace to be burned alive, until a 4th figure intervened.
Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego
What does Juneteenth celebrate?
a) the end of the Civil War
b) the signing of the Declaration of Independence
c) the enslaved people of Texas learning of their emancipation
What is C) the enslaved people of Texas learning of their emancipation
What is considered the country's second Independence Day?
Double Jeopardy
What is is Juneteenth
The number of presidents born in Ohio.
What is 7?
The largest land mammal alive today.
What is an elephant?
This is the last book of the Old Testament.
Malachi
What year was slavery officially abolished in the United States by executive proclamation?
Double Jeopardy
What is 1863?
What is the official name of the announcement (a famous executive order) that abolished slavery?
What is The Emancipation Proclamation?
This legenadary and "bright" inventor was born in Milan, Ohio.
Who is Thomas Edison?
The branch of science that studies space.
What is Astronomy?
This man was taken straight into heaven in a whirlwind.
Elijah
What is June 17, 2021?
Which Constitutional Amendment officially abolished chattel slavery in the United States?
What is the 13th Amendment?
This multi-billion dollar organization that shows it's product on Sundays, Monday night, and now Thursday nights, actually started in Columbus.
What is the NFL?
The fifth planet from the sun.
What is Jupiter?
This was the very first plague to be sent against Pharaoh of Egypt.
What is water turned to blood?
This state was the first to recognize Juneteenth as a state holiday?
Double points: In what year?
What is Texas?
What is 1980?
When was the Constitutional Amendment ratified in the United States that officially abolished chattel slavery?
What is December 6th, 1865?
The first capital.
What is Chillicothe?
This type of material allows electricity or heat to pass through it easily.
What is a conductor?
He was the oldest living man recorded in the Bible, living to be 969 years old.
Who is Methuselah?
Who is known as the "Grandmother of Juneteenth?"
Triple Points: How did she earn that title?
Who is Opal Lee
She walked from Texas to Washington, DC, to fight for Juneteenth to become a holiday.
Approximately how many Black individuals were still enslaved when the proclamation arrived in Texas?
What is 250,000?