Knowledge bowl.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 covers our most recent issues: April 11, April 25, and May 9. 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 35 Points QUESTIONS WORLD 1. True or False? More than 90 percent of Senegal's people are Christian. (false; Muslim) 2. Most Australians live in which part of the country? (in cities along the east coast) 3. Senegalese prize their tradition of teranga, which is what? (hospitality) 4. Who is recognized as Queen of Australia? (Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain) 5. Before China's Communist Party seized power in 1949, how did most Chinese earn a living? (They were farmers.) 6. What is the name of the huge hydroelectric dam being built on China's Chang Jiang (Yangtze) River? (the Three Gorges Dam Three Gorges Dam, 607 ft (185 m) high and 7,575 ft (2,309 m) long, on the Chang (Yangtze) River, central Hubei prov., China, 30 mi (48 km) W of Yichang. The largest concrete structure in the world, the dam was constructed from 1994 to 2006. ) AMERICAN/WORLD HISTORY 1. True or False? Lyndon B. Johnson wanted to he remembered for programs designed to improve Americans' lives. (true) 2. The first Nazi concentration camps
Prior to and during World War II, Nazi Germany maintained concentration camps (Konzentrationslager, abbreviated KZ or KL) throughout the territories it controlled. were built in 1933, to imprison im·pris·on tr.v. im·pris·oned, im·pris·on·ing, im·pris·ons To put in or as if in prison; confine. [Middle English emprisonen, from Old French emprisoner : en- whose political enemies? (Adolf Hitler) 3. The first day of the disastrous stock market crash of October 1929 is known as what? (Black Thursday Black Thursday The name given to Thursday, October 24th, 1929, when the New York Stock Exchange plummeted, leading to the Great Depression of the 1930's. Notes: As a result of this day, the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 were formed in ) 4. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as U.S. President on November 22, 1963, after whose death? (President John F. Kennedy "John Kennedy" and "JFK" redirect here. For other uses, see John Kennedy (disambiguation) and JFK (disambiguation). John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917–November 22, 1963), was the thirty-fifth President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in ) 5. The 1929 stock market crash was one of the causes of a worldwide economic downturn known as what? (the Great Depression) 6. What notorious Nazi death camp was liberated by the Soviet Army in January 1945? (Auschwitz) USA/NEWS SPECIAL 1. True or False? Retirees are not the only people who receive Social Security benefits. (true) 2. Kids in higher-track classes are often "the worst offenders" in practicing what? (academic cheating) 3. What technical advance has made it easier for students to plagiarize pla·gia·rize v. pla·gia·rized, pla·gia·riz·ing, pla·gia·riz·es v.tr. 1. To use and pass off (the ideas or writings of another) as one's own. 2. the writings of others? (the Internet) 4. President George W. Bush has proposed changing Social Security by creating what? (private retirement accounts) 5. What service was Turnitin.com designed to give teachers? (help in identifying plagiarism Using ideas, plots, text and other intellectual property developed by someone else while claiming it is your original work. in students' work) 6. Who signed the Social Security Act into law? (President Franklin D. Roosevelt) GEOSKILLS/ASK MAPMAN 1. True or False? Since 1900, the Everglades ecosystem in Florida has been expanding. (false; has been shrinking) 2. What do geographers consider to be the world's second-longest river? (the Amazon, in South America) 3. What is the primary landing location for the space shuttle Discovery, after its upcoming mission? (Kennedy Space Center Kennedy Space Center (Cape Canaveral) U.S. launch site for manned space missions. [U.S. Hist.: WB, So:562] See : Astronautics , in Florida) 4. The Auschwitz concentration camp was located in what country? (Poland) 5. What body of water did the Western Allies cross in 1944, to stage the invasion of Normandy? (the English Channel) 6. Geographers measure the Nile River from its headstream head·stream n. A stream that is a source of a river. Noun 1. headstream - a stream that forms the source of a river stream, watercourse - a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth in what country, to its delta in Egypt, on the Mediterranean Sea? (Burundi) NEWS 1. True or False? In March, the U.S. Mint released a nickel that features a new portrait of Thomas Jefferson on the face side and an American bison American bison see bisonbison. on the flip side Flip side In the context of general equities, opposite side to a proposition or position (buy, if sell is the proposition and vice versa). . (true) 2. A new library and museum in Springfield, Illinois, honors which U.S. President? (Abraham Lincoln) 3. In its decision announced in March, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that people convicted of a crime committed under what age can no longer be given the death penalty? (18) 4. In April 1975, the last Americans were evacuated from what war-torn city? (Saigon, South Vietnam--now He Chi Minh City, Vietnam) 5. What is the name of the new Pope, elected in April? (Benedict XVI) 6. Volunteers for Operation Bay's Work raise money to do what (see News, May 9)? (help end child labor child labor, use of the young as workers in factories, farms, and mines. Child labor was first recognized as a social problem with the introduction of the factory system in late 18th-century Great Britain. by building schools in developing countries) GRAB BAG 1. True or False? Winners of the JS Hometown America contest wrote about Wichita, Kansas. (false; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) 2. Who directed the upcoming film version of War of the Worlds? (Steven Spielberg) 3. The low humps of land in Florida's Everglades are called what? (hammocks) 4. In March, the U.S. Supreme Court heard two cases involving public displays of what? (the Ten Commandments) 5. Where did Mapman go to this year? (Goteborg, Sweden) 6. As freshwater is drained from Florida's Everglades region, what has seeped farther inland? (seawater) |
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