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Sports
The cat’s eyes were jewels
gleaming out of the darkness.
What is a metaphor?
Like a writhing snake, the broken
electric wires hissed and twitched in the
grass.
I had to wait an eternity for the
file to download.
What is hyperbole?
The burning wood crackled and
hissed.
What is onomatopoeia?
The wind whispered to them
as they ran through the woods.
What is personification?
Take your umbrella,
it’s raining cats and dogs
What is an idiom?
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.
A longer, more detailed comparison of two ideas
or situations.
They sat for a full minute chewing gum slowly and watching each other, then Jimmy released the
emergency brake and they rolled slowly along the drying sand road and down past the huge cleansing dawn coming, and the pine forests
growing tall in the rising mists, and the quickly quiet waters of eternal
spring.
Flowing water suggesting time and eternity or a voyage
suggesting life…
What is symbolism?
By NFL rules these players must wear numbers 20 - 49
What are quarterbacks?
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?
USFL formed in the 1980s and only
lasted a couple of seasons
What is the
United States Football League?
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 collection of data (such as articles)
accessible by computer
What is a database?
Resources that provide original
research or documentation?
(such as the Declaration of Independence)
What is a primary source?
Organized body of past publications
preserved for record keeping and research purposes
What are archives?
Librarian that devised the classification
system for library materials
Who was Melvil Dewey?
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?
What are acronyms?
Interlibrary Loan
International Standardized Book Number or
Uniform Resource Locator
Restricting access to materials deemed
objectionableMorally, politically or religiously
What is a censorship?
Final Answer:
3 boolean operators
Final Question:
What are
AND OR NOT?