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100

This stadium is home to Montedio Yamagata

What is ND Soft Stadium?

100

Sakegawa is famous for having a tree that looks like this Ghibli character

What is Tottoro?

100

The name of Yamagata's Shinkansen

What is Tsubasa?

100

An online quiz game that uses music, timers, pictures, and a scoring system to engage learners in the classroom

What is Kahoot?

100

~had been plus the present participle 

is the way in which you form this tense

What is the Past Perfect Tense?

200

The name of Sagae's Michi no Eki

What is Cherryland?

200

The only UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage event in Yamagata

What is Shinjo Matsuri?

200

The Japanese name of Zao’s Snow Monsters

What are Juhyou?

200

Conducting meetings and establishing a purpose and goal with the JTE

What is Lesson Planning? (打合せ)

200

Geese, Papayas, Moose

These three words all have this in common

What is their plurality?

300

The only one of it’s kind in Japan, the shrine in Asahi Machi is dedicated to this

What is Air?

300

The birthplace of the Hanagasa Dance was actually this town

What is Obanazawa?

300

The only Tohoku ramen shop recognized in the Yokohama Ramen Museum

What is Ryushanghai?

300

A classic warm up game that challenges students to answer questions in order to choose a direction to sit or stand

What is Criss-Cross?

300

A verb form that also functions as a noun

What is a Gerund?

400

You can do this to Kasedori to pray for household safety and business prosperity

What is throw water on them?

400

The largest producer of watermelons in Japan in summer is this town

What is Obanazawa?

400

She is the governor of Yamagata Prefecture

Who is Yoshimura Mieko?

400

The ALT's role often includes modeling this for students during lessons

What is Pronunciation?

400

Murder, School, Kindle and Pride are all examples of this

What are Collective Nouns?

500

This is the number of high schools in Yamagata City

What is 14? (North, South, West, East, Central, Technical, Commercial, Kajo, Yamagata Gakuin, Yamamoto Gakuin/Seizan, Tokai, Johoku, Nichidai, Meisei)

500

This World Grand Prix is hosted to celebrate Higashine's establishment as a city

What is the Cherry Pit Spitting World Grand Prix?

500

This is the number of stops within Yamagata prefecture for the Yamagata Shinkansen

What is 10? (Shinjo, Ooishida, Murayama, Sakurambo Higashine, Tendo, Yamagata, Kaminoyama Onsen, Akayu, Takahata, Yonezawa)

500

A teaching technique that encourages students to respond using gestures and movement

What is Total Physical Response? (TPR)

500

The process of repeating only vowel sounds occurring in any part of a word

What is Assonance?