Tri-Cities
World History
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Ray Reynolds
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100

This river runs directly through the Tri-Cities. It begins in Canada and goes all the way to the Pacific Ocean.

What is the Columbia River?

100

This empire built the Colosseum and aqueducts.

What is the Roman Empire?

100

Who was the first President of the United States?

Who is George Washington.

100

Who is the principal of Rey Reynolds Middle School?

Who is Mrs. Lockard?

100

What is the only mammal that can truly fly?

What is a bat?

200

Richland was a key site for the Manhattan Project, producing plutonium at this facility.

What is the Hanford site?

200

This empire built the great pyramids thousands of years ago.

What is the Egyptian Empire?

200

This river divides the United States into two - east and west. It starts in Minnesota and goes all the way to Louisiana. 

What is the Mississippi River?

200

This is the mascot of Rey Reynolds.

What is a Grizzly Bear? (Ray Rey).

200

This planet is the hottest in our solar system. Even hotter than Mercury!

What is Venus?

300

Which two counties are the Tri-Cities in?

What are Benton and Franklin Counties?

300

This famous Greek leader conquered land all the way from Europe to India.

Who is Alexander the Great?

300

This war started in 1861 between the Northern states and the Southern states over the issue of slavery. It pit "brother against brother."

What is the Civil War?

300

Our motto is "G.R.O.W.L" - what does the "W" mean?

Wise.

300

The only letter that does not appear in any U.S. state name.

What is "Q"?

400

In 1805, the Lewis and Clark Expedition camped at this State Park in Pasco. It is at the confluence of the Columbia and Snake Rivers. 

What is Sacagawea State Park? 

400

This empire lived in what is now Mexico City. Their leader was the famous Montezuma who fought against Spanish Conquistadors.

What is the Aztec Empire?

400

Who were the two famous explorers who mapped the interior of the United States. They were the first Americans to make it to the Pacific Ocean by going over land.

Who were Lewis and Clark?

400

What year did Rey Reynolds Middle School first open?

What is 2020?

400

This board game holds the record for being the best-selling board game of all time.

What is Monopoly?

500

Visible from the Tri-Cities, this is the tallest, treeless mountain in the United States.

What is Rattlesnake Mountain?

500

This trade route connected China with Europe, spreading goods, culture, and ideas for centuries.

What is the Silk Road?

500

The U.S. Constitution was signed in this city in 1787.

What is Philadelphia?

500

About how many students go to school at Ray Reynolds?

About 1,400.

500

This fruit has more genes than a human.

What is a Tomato?