Social Studies
Name the British Captain who was in charge of the British soldiers when the "Boston Massacre" occurred?
Captain Preston
Summer is here and your parents have taken you to 5 Flags Amusement Park. (It's not quite as good as 6 Flags, but it beats sitting in your backyard with your baby brother.)
You are intrigued by the water slide. The sign says that it is 150 feet high. You pace out the horizontal distance that it goes as 450 feet. This sounds like a problem from math class that you remember how to do. What is the slope of the water slide?
1/3
What state contains the largest portion of Yellowstone National Park.
Wyoming
What is the format that we used for citations and papers?
MLA (Modern Language Association)
Reading: Who is the artist of the song "Strange Fruit?"
Billie Holiday
What does it mean to corroborate?
to cross check sources
After having climbed all those stairs to the aforementioned water slide and splashing down it, you wonder how long the actual slide was. Remember that its height is 150 feet and it goes for a horizontal distance of 450 feet. How long is the slide (rounded to the nearest foot)?
474 feet
Explain why energy does not cycle in an ecosystem.
Energy from animals is never returned back to plants and/or plants get their energy from the sun.
What was the three-word phrase that Johnny said to Ponyboy before he died?
"Stay Gold, Ponyboy"
Spanish:
What is one way to ask, "How are you?"
?Como estas? ?Como esta? ?Que tal? ?Que pasa? ?Como te va?
Who shot first at the Battle of Lexington?
no-one knows for sure
You are really, really thirsty after a day on all the rides at the amusement park. Extremely thirsty. You have two options to buy the largest size soda. Both cost $12. (This is an amusement park.)
You could buy a large soda that comes in a "traditional" looking cup that you estimate to be a cylinder with a diameter of 4 inches and a height of 6 inches.
Your other option is a "special edition" foot-and-a-half long cup that you estimate has a diameter of 2 inches.
Which would give you a greater volume of soda?
The "traditional" cup (4 inch diameter with height of 6 inches) gives about 33% more soda.
A common misconception of evolution is that humans evolved from monkeys. What is a better way to state the actual connection between humans and monkeys?
We share a common ancestor.
Finish the end of the sentence from a text we viewed:
"And he laughed as he drove In his car up the beach,
'They never will learn. No. You can’t Teach a .......'"
"Sneetch"
French: When was the construction of the Eiffel tower completed and why was it built for?
It was completed in 1889 and was built for the World's Fair.
Identify the themes of the seven articles in the U.S. Constitution
Legislative, Executive, Judicial, States, Amendment, General Provisions or the Constitution is the highest law in the land and Ratification
You love jellybeans! Really, really love them. There is one of those "Guess the Number of Jellybeans in the Jar" contests at the amusement park. You want those jellybeans!
There are yellow jellybeans and red jellybeans in the jar and in order to win them you have to guess how many of each color there are.
Doing a volume estimate, you think that there are about 2000 total jellybeans. A quick counting of the top layer indicates that there are about 3 times as many yellow ones as red ones.
How many jellybeans of each color are there?
There are 500 red and 1500 yellow jellybeans.
Many farmers prefer cattle without horns because it is safer for their herds. The allele for no horns (N) is dominant to the allele for the presence of horns (n). A farmer mates a male with horns to a heterozygous female without horns. What is the chance that the offspring will have horns?
50%
What are the four steps to analyzing a quote?
1. Who is the speaker?
2. Who are they speaking to?
3. What is the background/context?
4. What is the importance/significance to the text?
French: What is the name of the river that crosses Paris dividing it into the Left Bank and the Right Bank?
Rive Gauche et Rive Droite
Recite the Preamble
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Your parents force you to watch your baby brother as they ride "The Never-Ending Scream" roller coaster at 5 Flags Amusement Park. You stand there bored while your parents wait in the seemingly never-ending line. You see the 5 flags all of different colors in a line, waving in the breeze above the entryway and wonder...
How many different ways could those five flags (each a different colors) be ordered in that line?
5! = 120 different ways
You want to test a new drug that supposedly prevents sneezing in people allergic to grass. What is the dependent variable?
sneezing
The first short story we read in LA, about a love potion, was called...
The Chaser
Spanish: Translate this sentence to English - Corro en el parque con mis amigos.
I run in the park with my friends.