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Sports
When walking to the principal’s
office my feet were lead.
What is a metaphor?
My love is like a red, red rose.
I’ve told you a million times not
to exaggerate!
What is hyperbole?
We heard clattering and clanging as he
washed the dishes.
What is onomatopoeia?
They gazed at the smiling moon and the next day the
jovial sun shone on them.
What is personification?
Don’t tell them gas prices will rise, let sleeping dogs lie.
What is an idiom?
A longer, more detailed comparison
of two ideas or situations.
A terrorist didn’t pay enough postage on a letter bomb. It
was returned, marked “return to sender”.
Forgetting it was the bomb, he opened it and was blown
to bits.
The hot July sun beat relentlessly down, casting an orange glare over
the farmhouse, fields and pond. Our sun-baked backs ached for relief. We quickly pulled off our sweaty
clothes and plunged into the pond, but the tepid water only stifled us
and we soon crawled onto the brown, dusty bank. Our parched throats
longed for something cool to drink.
In the story of Adam and Eve, its when Eve ate the apple - the apple
stood for sin.
What is symbolism?
By NFL rules these players must wear numbers 20 - 49
What are running backs?
He holds the record for pitching the
fastest fastball and was nicknamed the
“Strikout King”
Who is Nolan Ryan?
An “old school” term for a football
field?
What is grid iron?
After a crowd booed him, this pitcher sent all the players on the field
to the dugout and struck out 9 consecutive
batters in 1935
Who was Satchel Paige?
In 1910 football lost emphasis and was almost replaced by
this sport at KU
The leader of the Confederate Army
during the Civil War
Who was Robert E. Lee?
When was the attack on Pearl
Harbor?
In the 1920s this made making,
buying and selling of alcoholic
beverages illegal
What was Prohibition?
The name for the reform movements to abolish acts of
discrimination from 1955 - 1968
What was the Civil Rights Movement?
He was the president before
JFK that was from Abilene, Kansas.
Who was President Dwight D. “Ike”
Eisenhower?
A written account of a person’s life
What is a biography?
A list of resources arranged
alphabetically by author and title.
What is a bibliography?
A reference book that contains over a million facts and is NOT arranged
alphabetically.
Resources that provide original
research or documentation?
(such as the Declaration of Independence)
What is a primary source?
A database free to Kansas kids with
access to magazine articles, and online
encyclopedia, almanac, etc.
The last name of the librarian that devised the
classification system for library materials
Area of the library with aids for
finding information
(such as enclyclopedias, atlases and almanacs)
What is reference?
A law that protects a published work from
unauthorized use
What is copyright?
An acronym for interlibrary loan
Restricting access to materials deemed
objectionableMorally, politically or religiously
What is censorship, censoring or
banning
Final Answer: The 3 boolean operators
Final Question: What are -
and or not?