Around New Mexico
You might visit this famous cave system in New Mexico. It is one of the oldest National Parks in the US.
What is Carlsbad Caverns?
This cheap and ubiquitous building material was used to construct buildings in colonial New Mexico.
What is adobe?
This line of latitude sits at 0 degrees.
What is the Equator?
This famous 19th century author wrote "The Tale Tell Heart."
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
Our school is named after this president.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
You might want to avoid the arroyo after sunset in many New Mexican villages. Otherwise you might run into this famous folk legend.
Who is la llarona?
This is the name given by Spanish conquistadors to northern frontier areas reputed to have cities of gold.
What is Cibola?
This is the most important river in the state of New Mexico, providing water to its large urban areas.
What is the Rio Grande?
He is the host of the student news program CNN10.
Who is Coy Wire?
They will be performing at this weekend's Super Bowl halftime show.
Who is Usher?
This was the largest village in Chaco Canyon.
What is Pueblo Bonito?
Meaning "head of a cow," this Spanish explorer was lost in the deserts of the southwest for 8 years.
Who is Cabeza de Vaca?
This is the capital city of New Mexico.
What is Santa Fe?
This singer created the middle school banger, "It's Friday."
Who is Rebecca Black?
"Stay gold Ponyboy, stay gold," is a line from this often-read middle school novel.
What is SE Hinton's "The Outsiders"?
During the Second World War, the first nuclear bomb was built secretly in this New Mexican town.
What is Los Alamos?
Statues commemorating this Spanish conquistador might sometimes be missing a foot.
Who is Juan de Onate?
This is an area of land in which all streams and rainfall are drained to a single point or outlet.
What is a watershed?
This smart-aleck cartoon character with a Brooklyn accent made his debut in the 1940 animated short, "A Wild Hare." He famously made a wrong turn in ABQ.
Who is Bugs Bunny?
"Then he waddled away, til the very next day." The grape-loving duck from "The Duck Song" first made an appearance in what year?
When is 2009?
This local Albuquerque High School was used as the school campus in the fictional town of Lenora Hills, California in the Netflix series "Stranger Things."
What is Eldorado High School?
This Aztec city was overtaken by Spanish Conquistadors and made into the new capital of the Spanish Empire in 1521.
What is Tenochtitlan?
This is the longest mountain range in North America.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
The prototype of the "Renaissance Man," he invented the parachute and came up with the idea for a helicopter. However, he is probably best known for his paintings.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
High Standards Every Day is one rule in Mr. L's class. Not following this rule will get you labelled this.
Who is "Bart Simpson?"