Knowledge Bowl #3.Playing this Knowledge Bowl game is a fun and easy way for students to review key facts and ideas from Junior Scholastic this year. This game (the third of six this school year) covers our most recent issues: November 13, November 27, and December 11. To play, assign students to the following roles: * Quizmaster: Reads each question. * Players: Two, three, or four teams of similar size. * Scorekeeper score·keep·er n. An official who records the score throughout a game or competition. score  keep .PLAYING RULES * Players select a category and question number. If they answer correctly, they earn points for their team (see chart at right). If they answer incorrectly, the next team tries the same question (unless it is a True or False item). * Teams should take turns, in order, answering the questions. Players also take turns within their teams. * The game lasts until all the questions have been answered. HOW TO SCORE In each category, award the following points for each correct answer: Question #1 5 Points Question #2 10 Points Question #3 15 Points Question #4 20 Points Question #5 25 Points Question #6 30 Points QUESTIONS WORLD/SPECIAL 1. True or False? The Janjaweed attack farmers living in Khartoum, Sudan. (false; in Darfur, Sudan) 2. Madrasa students observe which faith? (Islam) 3. What are IDPs? (internally displaced persons, as in Darfur) 4. What is the holy book of Muslims? (the Koran) 5. What does Esghaghlleqamken mean? ("Goodbye! I'll see you" in Yupik) 6. Name the only two villages on St. Lawrence Island St. Lawrence Island is located west of mainland Alaska in the Bering Sea, just south of the Bering Strait, at about 64° North 170° 28' West. It is part of Alaska, but closer to Russia than to the Alaskan mainland. St. . (Gambell and Savoonga) TOP NEWS OF 2006 1. True or False? The Iraq Study Group The Iraq Study group (ISG), also known as the Baker-Hamilton Commission,[1] was a ten-person bipartisan panel appointed on March 15, 2006, by the United States Congress, that was charged with assessing the situation in Iraq and the US-led Iraq War and making is a bipartisan panel. (true) 2. Which nation won last summer's World Cup competition? (Italy) 3. How many planets are now in our solar system solar system, the sun and the surrounding planets, natural satellites, dwarf planets, asteroids, meteoroids, and comets that are bound by its gravity. The sun is by far the most massive part of the solar system, containing almost 99.9% of the system's total mass. ? (eight) 4. Which Asian country Noun 1. Asian country - any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent Asian nation country, land, state - the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries" tested a nuclear weapon in October? (North Korea) 5. Protesters marched against a proposed bill that would make what a felony? (living in the U.S. illegally) 6. Last summer, a brief-but-deadly war involved Israel and militants in which country? (Lebanon) NEWS SPECIAL 1. True or False? Democrats won control of the U.S. Senate by a narrow margin. (true) 2. Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, 549 U.S. ___ (2007),[1] is a U.S. Supreme Court case decided 5-4 on April 2, 2007 in which twelve states and several cities of the United States brought suit against the United States Environmental Protection involved what kind of gases? (greenhouse) 3. Who is the newest Supreme Court Justice? (Samuel A. Alito Jr.) 4. Who will become the first woman to lead the House of Representatives? (Rep. Nancy Pelosi) 5. Who is Robert Gates? (nominated to be the next U.S. Secretary of Defense) 6. Who is the only person to serve as both U.S. President and Chief Justice? (William Howard Taft) AMERICAN HISTORY 1. True or False? The mountaintop moun·tain·top n. The summit of a mountain. named for Zebulon Pike Zebulon Montgomery Pike Jr. (January 5, 1779 – April 27, 1813) was an American soldier and explorer for whom Pikes Peak in Colorado is named. His Pike expedition, often compared to the Lewis and Clark Expedition, mapped much of the southern portion of the Louisiana Purchase. is in Arizona. (false, in Colorado) 2. The Trail of Tears Trail of Tears Forced migration of the Cherokee Indians in 1838–39. In 1835, when gold was discovered on Cherokee land in Georgia, a small minority of Cherokee ceded all tribal land east of the Mississippi for $5 million. The U.S. occurred under which U.S. President? (Andrew Jackson) 3. In which state was the Cherokee capital, New Echota New Echota is one of state parks and historic sites in the State of Georgia, USA and part of a much larger area that was once the Cherokee nation. New Echota is 3.68 miles north of Calhoun, Georgia and south of Resaca, Georgia ? (Georgia) 4. Josiah Hanson was sold three times before escaping where with his family? (to Canada) 5. Which waterway did Pike think was the Red River? (Rio Grande Rio Grande, city, Brazil Rio Grande (rē`  grän`dĭ), city (1991 pop. )6. For slaves in the South, what was January 17 ("hiring-day," when slave owners chose new slaves) GEOSKILLS 1. True or False? The Cherokee Trail of Tears was a single route. (false; several) 2. Most escaped slaves in Texas fled where? (to Mexico) 3. What is the capital of Sudan? (Khartoum) 4. True or False? All slave states seceded from the Union. (false) 5. Darfur is a region in which part of Sudan? (western Sudan) 6. The Cherokee were moved to territory in which present-day state? (Oklahoma) GRAB BAG 1. True or False? Cursive writing is an article using bad language. (false; flowing script) 2. Which pro sport has changed to a new ball? (basketball) 3. Which bird is turned pink by the food it eats? (pink flamingo) 4. Hometown America's Medford Lakes is in which state? (New Jersey) 5. What was the major concern of teens voting in the JS Midterm Election Poll? (the environment) 6. Actor James Francis Kelly III was adopted by which Native American tribe? (Crow Nation) |
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