Friday, December 30, 2016

Ropes of Revolution by J. Gunderson

Book: Ropes of Revolution
Author: J. Gunderson
ISBN: 978-1-4342-0433-7
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Questions

Chapter 1: The Secret Meeting

  1. Who are the characters in this chapter?
  2. Where was the meeting located?
  3. Why don’t the colonist want to be taxed?
  4. Who are the Sons of Liberty?
  5. What are the Sons of Liberty going to do with the tea?
  6. Why doesn’t Benjamin like Master Diggins?

Chapter 2: The Escape

  1. What did Master Diggins do to Benjamin?
  2. How does Benjamin escape?
  3. How does Benjamin get courage?
  4. Who was guarding Mr. Diggin’s house?
  5. After Benjamin climbs down, what happened?

Chapter 3: Salt Water Tea

  1. Who is Joseph?
  2. Where is Joseph waiting for Benjamin?
  3. How did Benjamin ditch the chasing guards?
  4. Who is Benjamin going to meet at the boat?
  5. Why were they going to meet at the boat?
  6. Why did Benjamin paint his face with charcoal?

Chapter 4: Overboard!

  1. What were the names of the ships at the harbor?
  2. What did Benjamin do on the ship?
  3. What happened to Master Diggins on the ship?
  4. Why were the Sons of Liberty singing?
  5. How many people were watching at the harbor?
  6. Who rescued Master Diggins from the water?

Chapter 5: The Man Behind the Disguise

  1. Who helped Benjamin save Master Diggins?
  2. Why were the Sons of Liberty throwing out tea?

Chapter 6: The Loyalist’s Fate

  1. Why did Master Diggins lie to the British?
  2. How did the people react to the tea taxes?
  3. In your opinion, was Master Diggins a spy?  If so, for whom?



The Gingerbread Man by Madge Tovey

Book: The Gingerbread Man
Author: Madge Tovey
ISBN: 0-201-32210-2
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Questions

  1. Where did the little old man and little old woman live?
  2. Who baked the gingerbread man?
  3. Describe the gingerbread man. 
  4. What do you think gave life to the gingerbread man while he was in the oven?
  5. Why do you think the gingerbread man says, “Run, run as fast as you can.  You can’t catch me, I’m the gingerbread man!”?
  6. Who demanded that the gingerbread stop running?
  7. Where do you think the gingerbread man was running to?
  8. If you were the old little woman, could you see a clue that the gingerbread man was going to come to life and run away?
  9. Why did the cream-colored cow change after the gingerbread man?
  10. Where was the gingerbread man running by when he ran into the cow?
  11. Where was the gingerbread man running by when he ran into the heavy old horse?
  12. In which location did the gingerbread man run into the furry-tailed fox?
  13. What did the furry-tailed fox say that made him different than the last four characters chasing the gingerbread man?
  14. What did the fox offer the gingerbread man?
  15. How did the furry-tailed fox trick the gingerbread man to hop onto his head?
  16. How did the furry-tailed fox eat the gingerbread man?
  17. What does the furry-tailed fox mean by, “Gingerbread man are made to be eaten”?




A Bumpy Road to Rio by Glenn Greenberg

Magazine: Time for Kids
Edition: 3-4, Vol. 6, No. 24
Date: May 6, 2016
Article: A Bumpy Road to Rio
Author: Glenn Greenberg
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Questions

  1. What were the 4 hurdles Rio de Janeiro faced before preparing to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games?
  2. What virus was Rio de Janeiro worried about?
  3. Who were removed from their homes to make room for the games?
  4. Did the government offer anything to these families for removing them?
  5. What political problem did Rio de Janeiro have before the Olympics?
  6. What was Rio’s Guanabara Bay problem?


Get Ready for the Games by Glenn Greenberg

Magazine: Time for Kids
Edition: 3-4, Vol. 6, No. 24
Date: May 6, 2016
Article: Get Ready for the Games
Author: Glenn Greenberg
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Questions

  1. Where are the olympic games taking place?
  2. How many athletes will participate in the olympics?
  3. When will the olympics be held?
  4. How many countries will send athletes?
  5. How many sports will athletes compete in?
  6. How many people are expected to watch the olympics?
  7. When will the Paralympics take place?
  8. How many athletes are expected to participate in Paralympics?
  9. How many countries will send athletes for the Paralympics?
  10. How many sports will paralympics have?
  11. Who founded the first modern olympics?
  12. When were the first modern olympics held?
  13. Where were the first modern olympics held?
  14. When did Rio de Janeiro win the bid?
  15. How many soldiers and police will provide security for the athletes and fans?
  16. How much will it cost Brazil to host these games?
  17. Which basketball team has won 4 consecutive NCAA tournament championships?
  18. Who was the number 1 pick in the WNBA draft?


Japan Gets a New 2020 Olympic Logo by Time for Kids

Magazine: Time for Kids
Edition: 3-4, Vol. 6, No. 24
Date: May 6, 2016
Article: Japan Gets a New 2020 Olympic Logo
Author: Time for Kids
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Questions

  1. When was the new logo revealed?
  2. When will the next olympics be held?
  3. Where will the next olympics be held?
  4. What is the new logo being called or what is the name of the new logo?
  5. How many shapes does the new logo have?
  6. What does the logo represent?
  7. Who designed the new logo?
  8. Who designed the old logo?
  9. Who is accusing Sano of plagiarism?


A Creative Memory Trick by Time for Kids

Magazine: Time for Kids
Edition: 3-4, Vol. 6, No. 24
Date: May 6, 2016
Article: A Creative Memory Trick
Author: Time for Kids
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Questions

  1. What is the brain?
  2. Is the brain an advanced computer?
  3. Does the brain have a good storage system?
  4. Is memory perfect?
  5. There are 3 things that memory depends on, what are they?
  6. What is the paper called that suggests an unusual plan of action for improving memory?
  7. What is the unusual plan of action for improving memory?
  8. Who ran the new study?
  9. Why do you think drawing helps you remember over writing things over and over?



Thursday, December 29, 2016

The Plot Chickens by Mary Jane and Herm Auch

Book: The Plot Chickens
Author: Mary Jane and Herm Auch
ISBN: 978-0-8234-2087-2
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Questions

1. Where did Henrietta go while she was in town?
2. How many books did the librarian give Henrietta?
3. To whom did Henrietta read?
4. After reading eggstasy books, which type of books did Henrietta start reading next?
5. Who was impressed with Henrietta's book choice?
6. What is the first rule in writing a book?
7. Who is the author of "Writing Rules!," the book Henrietta checked out from the library?
8. Who was chosen as the main character?
9. What did Henrietta use to write her story?
10. What is rule two in writing a book?
11. What is a plot?
12. What is rule three when you write a story?
13. What is rule 4 when you write a story?
14. What is the name of Henrietta's new character?
15. Henrietta wrote, "Maxine went walking alone in the woods, even though her mother told her it was dangerous."  What is your "what if?"
16. Why were the hens making Maxine the protagonist in their story?
17. What is rule 5 when you write a story?
18. What is rule 6 when you write a story?
19. What is rule 7 in writing a story?
20. What is rule 8 in writing a story?
21. What did Henrietta do after she wrote her story?
22. What is the name of the publishing company that rejected Henrietta's story?
23. What is the name of the editor of the publishing company?
24. What did the librarian suggest for Henrietta to do?
25. What did "The Corn Book" Magazine say in their review of Henrietta's book?
26. What is the name of the reviewer at "The Corn Book" Magazine?
27. Why do you think Henrietta got discourage to continue writing?
28. Why did Henrietta stop going to the library?
29. What happened when Henrietta went to the library?
30. What do you think the moral of the story is?
31. Why is perseverance important?


Aani and the Tree Huggers by Jeannine Atkins

Book: Aani and the Tree Huggers
Author: Jeannine Atkins
ISBN: 1-880000-24-5
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1. Who constantly complained in Aani's house that drowned out her own thinking?
2. Who constantly gossiped in Aani's house that drowned out her own thinking?
3. What is the name of the snow-capped mountains by her village?
4. Why do you think Aani crushed a red berry to make a red spot on her forehand like her mother's?
5. What was the loud roar?
6. Where were the men when Aani heard the loud noise?
7. Where was Aani's mother when Aani heard the loud roar?
8. How did Aani's mother describe the truck?
9. Who is Kalawati?
10. What did Kalawati say the men in the truck want?
11. Who ran towards the men in the truck?
12. What did the men in the truck do to the trees?
13. Who cried "Stop"?
14. What did Kalawati say to the men?
15. Who saw spirits?
16. Who tried to stop the man with the ax?
17. Who pressed and hugged a tree?
18. Who else started hugging trees?
19. How much money did one of the men offer them to stop hugging trees and for them to go away?
20. What can 1,000 rupees buy?
21. Why do you think the men left the villagers alone?

Author's Note

22. Where did this story take place?
23. When did this story take place?
24. What was the movement known as?
25. What is the Chipko Andolan known as?


Souperchicken by Mary Jane and Herm Auch

Book: Souperchicken
Author: Mary Jane and Herm Auch
ISBN: 0-8234-1704-2
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Questions

1. What was the name of the chicken?
2. Why did she start reading?
3. Which chicken complained that Henrietta hasn't laid eggs?
4. Who complained that Henrietta wastes time?
5. Who said egg production was down?
6. What do you think the farmer meant by "time to send these old hens on vacation"?
7. Who thought they were going to the beach on vacation?
8. Who said they rather play golf?
9. What do you think the farmer meant when he said, "Let's get you ladies packed for your vacation"?
10. Why did the truck driver chuckle?
11. Why didn't Henrietta get the farmer's and truck driver's jokes?
12. Why didn't the farmer let Henrietta go on vacation?
13. What did the driver give the farmer?
14. What name did the truck have?
15. How long was Henrietta able to hang on to the back of the truck?
16. What did Henrietta do after she was blown off the truck?
17. Who did Henrietta warn that they weren't going on vacation?
18. What was the name of the company the pig's truck?
19. What was the name of the truck the cows were traveling in?
20. Why didn't Henrietta tell her aunts about being soup when she saw them in the Holding Room?
21. Which aunt said that it was a terrible hotel?
22. Which aunt said that there's no beach?
23. Which aunt said that there's no golf course?
24. Who wanted their hammock?
25. What type of building were the hens in?
26. Whose house did the hens decide to live with?
27. What did the farmer tell Henrietta that she ate?
28. Why did the lady keep cows?
29. Why did the lady keep pigs?
30. Why did the lady keep chickens?
31. What did Henrietta tell the other chickens what their jobs were?
32. What type of job did Henrietta get?

Beauty And The Beaks, A Turkey's Cautionary Tale by Mary Jane and Herm Auch

Book: Beauty And The Beaks, A Turkey's Cautionary Tale
Author: Mary Jane and Herm Auch
ISBN-13: 978-0-8234-1990-6
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Questions

1. Where was the center of gossip?
2. What was Beauty the proprietor of?
3. What was the mission of the beauty shop?
4. What was Beauty's favorite eggercise?
5. Why did Beauty like to eggercise?
6. Who is Beauty's assistant?
7. What type of bird is Lance?
8. What were the names of the other birds that new about the feast?
9. Why is Lance bragging that he is the only bird invited to the feast?
10. What did Beauty decide to do to get to the bottom about this feast?
11. What did Beauty find out about the feast?
12. How did Beauty help Lance?
13. What were the two failed attempts to get Lance to safety?
14. What was Beauty's idea to save Lance?
15. What are the names of the farmers?
16. Which farmer wanted a plump hen for Thanksgiving dinner?
17. What did the farmers do instead of having chicken for Thanksgiving?
18. How did Lance enjoy life as a hen?
19. What were the two things Lance enjoyed as his new life as a hen?
20. Was Lance ever able to leave the farmer?  How do you know?



Monday, December 26, 2016

Chapter 50: Golden Rice, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

Book: Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History
Author: Bill Price
ISBN: 978-1-77085-427-7

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Chapter 50: Golden Rice

Questions

1. What color is beta-carotene in fruits and vegetables?
2. Who developed Golden Rice?
3. Where was the orange sweet potato developed?


Chapter 49: Powdered Milk, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

Book: Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History
Author: Bill Price
ISBN: 978-1-77085-427-7

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Chapter 49: Powdered Milk


Questions

1. When was The North American Free Trade Agreement signed?
2. How did NAFTA’s policy and powdered milk affect Mexico’s dairy farmers?
3. Commodity dumping occurs when developed countries that subsidize their agricultural sector, such as America and the countries of the European Union, sell agricultural goods such as powdered milk to less developed countries at below the price of production.  True or False
4. When did the Zapatista Army of National Liberation declare war on the Mexican State?
5. In which state did the Zapatista’s declare war?


Chapter 48: Starbucks Coffee, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

Book: Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History
Author: Bill Price
ISBN: 978-1-77085-427-7

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Chapter 48: Starbucks Coffee

Questions

1. Starbucks started out in what year?
2. What did Starbucks do at the beginning?
3. Where was Starbucks located in 1971?
4. Who took over and Starbucks then began to expand as a coffee house?
5. When did Starbucks open a coffee house in Tokyo?
6. When did Starbucks open a coffee house in London?
7. Who is the second largest coffee house in the world?


Chapter 47: Campbell's Soup, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

Book: Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History
Author: Bill Price
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Chapter 47: Campbell’s Soup


Questions

1. Where is the Campbell Soup Company located?
2. When was the Campbell Soup Company started?
3. When did the Campbell Soup Company win a gold medal at the Universal Exposition?
4. From where did the Campbell Soup Company get its idea for the red and white bands on its soup cans?
5. How many Campbell soup paintings did Andy Warhol make?
6. Where are these paintings today?



Chapter 46: Swanson TV Dinner, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

Book: Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History
Author: Bill Price
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Chapter 46: Swanson TV Dinner


Questions

1. How much did Swanson TV dinner cost in 1953?
2. How many American households owned a TV in 1953?
3. When did Swanson remove the TV label from the title of its dinners?


Chapter 45: Birds Eye Frozen Fish, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of HIstory by Bill Price

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Author: Bill Price
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Chapter 45: Birds Eye Frozen Fish

Questions

1. Where did Clarence Birdseye go fur trapping?
2. What skill did the Inuit fishermen teach Birdseye?
3. In what year did Birdseye move back to America?
4. When did Birdseye develop his “quick freezing” method?
5. What was the name of Birdseye’s company?
6. When did Birdseye start this company?
7. Where did Birdseye open his company?
8. Who tried Birdseye’s frozen fish in 1929?
9. Who did Birdseye sell his company and patent to?
10. How much did Birdseye sell his company for?
11. The General Seafood Corporation changed its name of _______________.
12. What are “fish sticks” known as in Britain?



Chapter 44: Anzac Biscuits, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Author: Bill Price
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Chapter 44: Anzac Biscuits


Questions

1. What are Anzac biscuits?
2. Where is the origin of the Anzac biscuits?
3. What does ANZAC mean?
4. How many British and French ships enter the Sea of Marmara on March 18th, 1915?
5. How many ships hit mines?
6. How many sunk?
7. Who commanded the Turkish Army in the Gallipoli Peninsula?
8. Who was in charge of the reserves in the Turkish Army in the Gallipoli Peninsula?
9. Who became president of Turkey?
10. Who was the Father of the Turks?
11. Who said, “I do not order you to fight, I order you to die”?
12. How many men died in the Battle of Lone Pine?
13. What was the army biscuit?
14. What was “the Anzac wafer”?


Chapter 43: Hamburger, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price



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Chapter 43: Hamburger


Questions

1. Which two cities are claiming to be “The Home of the Hamburger”?
2. In what year did the first White Tower restaurant open?
3. In what city did this restaurant open?
4. White Castle is also known as __________.
5. From which city are Dick and Mac McDonald from?
6. When did McDonald’s begin to franchise?
7. Who became a franchise agent for the McDonald’s chain?
8. When did the first McDonald’s open in France?
9. Why are the McDonald’s Golden Arches seen as globalization and American power?




Chapter 42: Coca-Cola, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 42: Coca-Cola


Questions

1. When was Coca-Cola developed?
2. Who invented Coca-Cola?
3. Where was Coca-Cola invented?
4. What medicines did Pharmacist John Pemberton create?
5. When did John Pemberton die?
6. Who bought out everybody who had a stake in Coca-Cola?
7. In line with the usual company practice of supplying Coke as syrup rather than bottles, Coca-Cola began to establish temporary bottling plants in large American military bases around the world and installed soda fountains where that was not practicable.  The Coca-Cola employees who accompanied the military wherever they went were given the status of Technical Observers and the work they did was considered vital to America’s war effort by many senior military commanders because of its impact on morale.  True or False
8. When did Coca-Cola introduce New Coke?



Chapter 41: American Buffalo, Fifty Foods that Changed The Course of History by Bill Price



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Chapter 41: American Buffalo


Questions

1. When did the Lakota people migrate to the Great Plains?
2. Which nation is the Lakota people part of?
3. When did the Lakota people rely on the buffalo when the neighboring Cheyenne introduced them to the horse?
4. When did Napoleon Bonaparte buy the Great Plains in the Louisiana Purchase?
5. What was the Treaty of Fort Laramie of 1851?
6. When was the Great Sioux War?
7. Who led the Great Sioux War of 1876?
8. When was the Battle of the Little Bighorn fought?
9. Who died in the Battle of the Little Bighorn?
10. When were native tribes moved from the Great Sioux Reservation?
11. Why were buffalo bones grounded down?
12. What other name did William Cody have?
13. Which president vetoed US Congress effort to save the buffalo?
14. Which generals advised the President against saving the buffalo?


Chapter 40: Jaffa Orange, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 40: Jaffa Orange


Questions

1. Where do oranges come from?
2. Where was the British Mandatory Palestine?
3. Southern Syria was part of which province?
4. Oranges were originally a bitter fruit, sweet oranges did not appear until about what century?
5. What was the name of the 1850s orange that Arab growers established it to be sweet?
6. What is Zionism?
7. When did Jaffa become part of the Ottoman Empire?
8. Who did the Ottomans side with during World War I?
9. What was Istanbul called ruing World War I?
10. When did Jerusalem fall from Ottoman control?
11. How did the British encourage Arab Revolt?
12. What was The Sykes-Picot Agreement?
13. Who was the Sykes-Picot Agreement named after?
14. What is one of the founding documents of the State of Israel?
15. What was the name of the peace settlement signed in 1920 between the Allies and the defeated Ottoman Empire?
16. What is the name of the port of Jaffa?
17. In what year was the civil war in Mandatory Palestine?
18. When was the new State of Israel declared?
19. How many Palestinians remained after the war in Jaffa?
20. How many Palestinians were in Jaffa before the war?



Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Chapter 39 Corned Beef, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 39: Corned Beef

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Questions

1. What is the name of a port on the Uruguay River?
2. What is the name of the company that opened a meat company in the port of the Uruguay River?
3. In what year did the meat-packing factory open?
4. Before refrigeration and canning were developed, what happened to the meat that wasn't used for hide?
5. Who created the industrial method to canned the meat extract?
6. In what year did the company installed a canning plant and began to produce corned beef?
7. What is the name of Fray Bentos' today?
8. Who purchased Justus von Liebig's company?
9. The Liebig's Extract of Meat Company changed name to ____________________.
10. William and Edmund Vestey were from which European city?
11. How did the William and Edmund Vestey Brothers make their fortune?
12. What was the name of the shipping company the Vestey Brothers owned?
13. What was the population of Britain in 1801?
14. What was the population of Britain in 1901?
15. What did the British Army call corned beef?
16. When was World War I declared?
17. Who was Franz von Papen?
18. Who was Horst von der Goltz?
19. Who was the Afrikaner agent working for the Germans in South America responsible for sinking 15 Allied Ships?
20. What was "The Zimmermann Telegram"?
21. When did the U.S. declare War on Germany?
22. When did Brazil declare was on Germany?


Chapter 38 Bananas, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 38: Bananas

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1. Who brought the banana to Boston from Jamaica in 1870?
2. Who were the owners of the Boston Fruit Company?
3. Who is credited in introducing the system of refrigerated transport in steamships and railway boxcars, together with cold-storage warehouse?
4. Who was the Boston Fruit Company's main competition?
5. Which business did Minor C. Keith own?
6. Where was Minor C. Keith working building a railroad?
7. Where did Minor C. Keith start banana plantations?
8. In 1899, Keith's bananas would come from ____________________ through ____________________.
9. Who merged the Boston Fruit Company and The Tropical Trading and Transport Company?
10. What was the name of the new company after the merger?
11. Which countries did this new company operate?
12. How much of the banana market did the United Fruit Company have?
13. What were "banana republics"?
14. Which country did the CIA intervene to help the United Fruit Company overthrow a democratically elected left-wing government?
15. How much land did the United Fruit Company owned in Guatemala before the coup d'etat against President Jacobo Arbenz?
16. What was the Panama disease?
17. What was President Arbenz land reform program?
18. When did the civil war begin in Guatemala?
19. When did the civil war end?
20. What is the brand name that the United Fruit Company sell its bananas?
21. Which are the top 4 most valuable cultivated crops?
22. Which banana plant was affected by the Panama disease?
23. Which banana plant was affected by the Black Sigatoka?


Chapter 37 Caviar, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 37: Caviar


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1. Who expanded Russia from the Caspian Sea in the north to the Volga delta?
2. When was the railway between Volga and the River Don completed?
3. What was the factor that introduced caviar to the Mediterranean?
4. In which city did caviar become a sensation?
5. Volga fishermen began to take sturgeon from the Caspian Sea as well as from the river, leading to a situation where Caspian sturgeon would have become extinct had it not been for the Russian Revolution in 1917 and the subsequent introduction of strict regulations by officials of the Soviet Union.  True or False
6. Where does Caviar come from today?
7. All three of the Caspian sturgeon are now considered to be critically endangered in the wild.  True or False


Chapter 36 Madeleines, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 36: Madeleines


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1. Who wrote "Remembrance of Things Past"?
2. What is "involuntary memory"?
3. The Madeleines look like which sponge cake?
4. What is the name of the fictional town in in Remembrance of Things Past?
5. Which French town is it suppose to be?



Chapter 35 American Whiskey, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 35: American Whiskey


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Questions

1. When did fighting stop in the American Revolution?
2. When was the Declaration of Independence signed?
3. How many years passed from the Declaration of Independence being signed to the British surrendering at Yorktown?
4. When did peace negotiations conclude in the American Revolution?
5. When did the British sign the peace agreement that formally recognized the United States of America as a country?
6. Originally, how long did a president serve?
7. How many terms could a president serve?
8. Did George Washington start a business venture distilling whiskey?
9. What was the first levied tax on American citizens?
10. Where is Braddock's Field?
11. How many protesters were at Braddock's Field?
12. How many men did Washington lead to combat the protest/rebellion at Braddock's Field?
13. What was this rebellion called?
14. What was the Temperance Movement?
15. How much did Al Capone make in 1925 from Prohibition (Volstead Act)?
16. Which Amendment had the Prohibition of Alcohol and the Volstead Act?
17. Which Amendment returned alcohol production?
18. How long did the Prohibition era last in America?
19. Which county that produces a famous whiskey is a dry country?
20. What is the name of the city in this county?
21. Who is the distillery?


Chapter 34 Apple Pie, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 34: Apple Pie


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1. Where does apple pie originate?
2. Who brought the apple pie to America?
3. Who founded the Province of Pennsylvania?
4. Where did the Pennsylvania Dutch come from?
5. Which was the largest city in the Thirteen Colonies?
6. Where was the First Continental Congress held?
7. When was the First Continental Congress held?
8. Which colony did not show up to the First Continental Congress?
9. Where was the Second Continental Congress held?
10. Which apple pie is associated with the Pennsylvania Dutch?
11. When was the declaration of independence signed?
12. When were the Articles of Confederation ratified?
13. What are the names of the two chambers of Congress?




Chapter 33 Vindaloo, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 33: Vindaloo

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1. What does "aloo" mean?
2. Who controlled Goa in 1510?
3. What is the name of the church the Portuguese built in Old Goa?
4. Who ruled the Kingdom of Mysore?
5. Who was the Tiger of Mysore?
6. Who immigrated to Brick Lane on the East End of London?
7. Who fought in the Bangladesh Liberation War?


Chapter 32 Gin, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 32: Gin


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1. Gin from the Netherlands is known as __________________.
2. Who invented Gin?
3. When did Gin arrive to England?
4. When was King Charles I deposed of his crown?
5. Where did Charles II live in exile?
6. Who executed King Charles I?
7. What is Genever known as?
8. How did James II come into power?
9. What was the Declaration of Indulgence?
10. Who were the Immortal Seven?
11. What was the Bill of Rights Act of 1689?
12. What is "mother's ruin"?
13. How many acts did the Gin Acts of 1729-1751 have?



Chapter 31 Hardtack, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 31: Hardtack


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1. What were the 3 staples of the British Royal Navy rations?
2. What is salted meat?
3. Who was appointed Clerk of the Acts on the Navy Board in 1660?
4. What is Lobscouse?
5. When was the Great Plague in London?
6. How many people died in the Great Plague in London?
7. When was the Great Fire in London?
8. How long was the Great Fire in London?
9. Who started the fire?
10. Where is the G.H. Bent Company, cookie factory located?
11. What is scurvy?
12. What was the simple solution to solving scurvy?
13. Who came up with the solution to solving to solving scurvy?
14. Who were the hardtack bakers in Reading, Berkshire in 1822?


Chapter 30 Tea, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 30: Tea


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1. Where is the origin of tea?
2. Who wrote the first account of tea in England?
3. Who married King Charles II?
4. In what year did King Charles II get marry?
5. Who is the daughter of King John IV of Portugal?
6. Who dumped the tea out of East India Company boats in the Boston Harbor?
7. When did the Boston Tea Party happen?
8. Why was the Earl Grey Tea blended for Charles Grey?
9. For whom was the Earl Grey named after?
10. Whose administration is responsible for the Reform Act of 1832, abolition of slavery in the British Empire and the removal of the East India Company?
11. The rise in tea drinking in Britain was in large part driven by women, who were at the time largely excluded from the all-male environment of the coffeehouse.  True or False
12. What was the trade in fine China in Britain?
13. Who started to improve pottery making in Britain to compete with China's?
14. Why didn't the Chinese government allow foreigners from entering mainland China in the 18th century?
15. Where was tea sold in China in the 18th century?
16. What was the name of Chinese merchant houses?
17. There was only one way the East India Company could pay the Chinese Government for tea, what way was that?
18. In that time period, did China have a demand for foreign goods?
19. Why did the British East India Company engage in a war with the French East India Company?
20. In what battle and year did Britain gain control of Bengal?
21. Who controlled the opium trade before 1757 in India?
22. When was opium smoking widespread in China?
23. At that time, was the import of opium into China legal?
24. Why was opium smoking widespread in China?
25. How did the opium trade work in 1750s?
26. Would you consider this current day drug trafficking and money laundering?
27. At the height in 1800, the British East India Company, how much was it contributing to the entire tax revenue of Britain?
28. Who won the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805?
29. When was the first Opium War fought?
30. What was the result of that first Opium War?
31. When was the second Opium War fought?
32. What was the result of the second Opium War?
33. When were the tea clipper ships built?
34. Why were these tea clippers ships built?
35. When was the Suez Canal built?
36. Where was research being conducted in 1787 to cultivate tea outside of China?
37. In 1833 they found tea trees growing wild in which valley?
38. What was the name of the first tea gardens?
39. What was another name for tea gardens?
40. At the end of the East India Company monopoly on the tea trade in the Assam Valley, which new region began to develop tea estates?
41. Why did the East India Company get into financial trouble?
42. When did the East India Company stop ruling in India?
43. What are tea sellers called in India?