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Healing Haiti
Justice is Served
Writing up a Storm
All in a Day's Work
Words for the Wise
100
The largest earthquake ever recorded (9.5) was located here. (country, continent)
What is Chile, South America?
100
The type of protests that spread throughout the South in the early 1960s.
What are peaceful protests.
100
The Greek god Zeus lives here.
What is Mount Olumpus?
100
The month where the achievements of African Americans is celebrated.
What is February?
100
The name of the other country on the same island as Haiti?
What is the Dominican Republic?
200
Relief.
What is another word for aid.
200
The law that said businesses had to serve all people, regardless of race, color, religion, or nationality.
What is The Civil Rights Act of 1964?
200
The author of the Percy Jackson series.
Who is Rick Riordan?
200
A document quaranteeing the sole right to create, use, or sell an invention for a set number of years.
What is a patent?
200
A group of huge waves caused by an earthquake.
What is a tsunami?
300
The earthquake magnitude in Haiti.
What is 7.0.
300
The name of the store, city, and state that became famous after it would not serve four African American students in 1960.
What is Woolowrth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina?
300
The name of the book about mishaps from Mount Olympus, which has been made into a movie.
What is The Lightning Thief?
300
An African American lady who created a laser device that made eye surgery safer and faster.
Who is Patricia Bath?
300
Another name for emergency.
What is a crisis.
400
Date of the Haiti earthquake.
What is January 12, 2010.
400
A protest in which people refuse to leave a place until their demands have been met.
What is a sit-in?
400
Another word for rules supreme.
What is reigns?
400
An African American who mixed up more than 300 products from peanuts.
Who is George Washington Carver?
400
All writers get these when a publisher doesn't want to publish their writing.
What are rejection slips?
500
The capital of Haiti and the center of the earthquake.
What is Port-au-Prince?
500
It means separated by race.
What is segrated?
500
Advice the author has to young readers.
What are to read, to learn what good writing looks like, and to write because you can only get better by practice.
500
African American who figured a way to preserve blood and had the idea for blood banks.
Who is Charles Drew?
500
Another word for size, especially describing earthquakes.
What is magnitude?