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Fact or
Opinion
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Primary
and
Secondary
Sources
Timelines
Charts and
Graphs
Grab
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Primary/ Secondary
Sources for 1
Question: What is a
source called that is first
hand information about
people or events?
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Primary/ Secondary
Sources for 1
Answer: Primary
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Primary/ Secondary
Sources for 2
Question: What type of
source is not first hand
and is information written
by someone not at the
event?
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Primary/ Secondary
Sources for 2
Answer: Secondary
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Primary/ Secondary
Sources for 3
Question: The following
are examples of what
types of sources:
editorials, biographies,
research reports?
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Primary/ Secondary
Sources for 3
Answer: Secondary
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Primary/ Secondary
Sources for 4
Question: Would the
following be a primary or
secondary source? Letter
home from a soldier
describing the events of
war.
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Primary/ Secondary
Sources for 4
Answer:Primary
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Primary/ Secondary
Sources for 5
Question:
Which of the following
account of the “Boston Massacre” would
be a primary source?
A)testimony of Captain Thomas Preston,
commanding officer of the British Soldiers
at the Boston Massacre or B) Editorial in
the Boston Globe about the “Boston
Massacre”
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Primary/ Secondary
Sources for 5
Answer: Testimony of
Captain Thomas Preston
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Math for 1
Question: Solve for x:
3x + 2 = 17
Check Your Answer
Math for 1
Answer: x = 5
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Math for 2
Question: In the following
number, which numeral is
the denominator?
3/
7 8
Check Your Answer
Math for 2
Answer: 8
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Math for 3
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Question:
known as
“pi” is used in
combination with the
radius to determine what?
Check Your Answer
Math for 3
Answer: perimeter or
circumference of a circle
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Math for 4
Question: What is the
highest prime number less
than 25?
Check Your Answer
Math for 4
Answer: 23
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Math for 5
Question:
a(b+c) = ab + ac
What mathematical
property does this
illustrate?
Check Your Answer
Math for 5
Answer: Distributive
property of addition
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Science for 1
Question: In three dimensional
geometry, it is a straight line about
which an object may rotate; there's
one running from the North Pole to
the South Pole. What is it?
Check Your Answer
Science for 1
Answer: an axis
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Science for 2
Question: Technically, it's any
substance which produces positive
ions in solution, also it’s anything
with a pH less than 7 and is the
opposite of a base. What is it?
Check Your Answer
Science for 2
Answer: an acid
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Science for 3
Question: What name is given to
materials, such as glass, diamonds or
quartz, in which the atoms are
arranged in a rigid
geometrical structure marked by
symmetry?
Check Your Answer
Science for 3
Answer: crystals
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Science for 4
Question: What is the name for
radiation with wavelengths just
longer than that of visible light?
Check Your Answer
Science for 4
Answer: infrared
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Science for 5
Question: What do we call the
disturbance that occurs when two
waves come together at a single
point in space?
Check Your Answer
Science for 5
Answer: interference
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Language & Literature for 1
Question: According to the
Edward Lear poem, who "went to
sea in a pea green boat?"
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Language & Literature for 1
Answer:
The Owl & the Pussycat
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Language & Literature for 2
Question: What collection of
periodicals by Ben Franklin
contained the line; "Early to
bed, early to rise, make a man
healthy, wealthy and wise?"
Check Your Answer
Language & Literature for 2
Answer:
Poor Richard's Almanac
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Language & Literature for 3
Question: What African
American author and leader of the
Harlem Renaissance wondered,
"What happens to a dream
deferred? / Does it dry up like a
raisin in the sun?"
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Language & Literature for 3
Answer: Langston Hughes
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Language & Literature for 4
Question: In “The Celebrated
Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”
by Mark Twain, miner Jim Smiley
bets that his frog, named this, could
outjump any other.
Check Your Answer
Language & Literature for 4
Answer: Dan'l Webster
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Language & Literature for 5
Question: If you count the
mention of his death in Henry V, he
has been involved in more plays
than any other Shakespearean
character, four in all.
Check Your Answer
Language & Literature for 5
Answer: Falstaff
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Grab Bag for 1
Question: “I have found it” is
what “Eureka” means in English
and thus is what this scientist
screamed when he figured out
liquid displacement in a bathtub.
Name him.
Check Your Answer
Grab Bag for 1
Answer: Archimedes
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Grab Bag for 2
Question: From the French,
translate one of the Seven Sayings
of Christ upon the Cross:
“Aujourd'hui-meme, tu seras avec
moi dans le Paradis.”
Check Your Answer
Grab Bag for 2
Answer: "Today, you will be
with me in Paradise."
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Grab Bag for 3
Question: Complete this line
taken from Martin Luther King's
tombstone:
“Thank God Almighty …”
Check Your Answer
Grab Bag for 3
Answer: I'm free at last.
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Grab Bag for 4
Question: While the prefix "mega"
means "million," this question is worth only
four points. Identify the following "mega"
word:
A pathological state in which a
person vastly overstates his or her own
importance.
Check Your Answer
Grab Bag for 4
Answer: Megalomania
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Grab Bag for 5
Question: You will hit Polaris,
the North Star, if you draw a line
through the two "front" stars of
what constellation?
Check Your Answer
Grab Bag for 5
Answer: the Big Dipper, also
known as Ursa Major
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