PowerPoint "Jeopardy" game created for Summer Reading 2012. We did a fall program in addition. This used the "Teens Own the Night" theme. However, I don't think the linking works here on Slideshare.

2. Teens Own
Fall Winter Holidays Potpourri
the Night!
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3. Where do you go “back to”
in the fall?

4. School!

5. What major sport is played
mostly in the fall?

6. Football

7. What changes in the fall?
“Spring forward, fall back!”

8. The Time

9. What happens to some trees
in the fall?
(Though not many in
the Desert.)

10. The leaves change color

11. The Autumnal Equinox happens
in the fall.
What is special about that day
and night?

12. They are almost
exactly the
same length

13. How many sides do
snowflakes have?

14. Six

15. People with “chionophobia”
are afraid of what?

16. Snow

17. What modern word
comes from an old
Germanic word meaning,
“time of water?”

18. Winter

19. What mythical character
brings on winter, snow,
cold, ice, etc.?

20. Jack Frost

21. The Winter Solstice
happens in December.
What is special about
that particular DAY?

22. It is the shortest day of the year

23. What is likely the most
popular winter holiday
celebrated in the
United States?

24. Christmas

25. What is one of the most
popular Jewish holidays
celebrated in the
United States?

26. Hanukkah

27. What holiday, celebrated in late
December is observed mostly by
African-Americans?

28. Kwanzaa

29. What is the more
common name for
“All Hallow’s Eve?”

30. Halloween – it is the eve of
All Hallow’s Day, Nov 1st,
also called All Saints’ Day or
All Hallows or Hallowmas.

31. Pagans from long ago
had a tradition of bringing
a tree bough,
or wreath into
their homes in winter.
What has that tradition
transformed into today?

32. Christmas trees!

33. What supernatural
creatures are on the
hunt only at night
& fear sunlight?

34. Vampires!

35. We all know what a full
moon looks like.
What is it called when
you can’t see the moon
at all at night?

36. New Moon

37. What book created the
modern, handsome vampire
that we are
familiar with today?
(…it’s NOT Twilight!)

38. Dracula,
by Bram Stoker

39. In the book, what character
created the monster now
commonly referred to as
Frankenstein?

40. Dr. Victor Frankenstein

41. Who wrote the book,
Frankenstein, or, The
Modern Prometheus
(that’s the full title)

42. Mary Shelley

43. Who wrote the
novels about
Daniel-X ?
?

44. James Patterson

45. What is the first name
of the
President of the United
States?

46. Barack

47. Lincoln is a movie
in theaters now.
What war did this
President oversee?

48. The United States
Civil War

49. Before the word Anime
became popular, what
was Anime called?

50. Japanimation

51. What is this constellation?
It is only visible
in the winter
night sky.

52. Orion, the Hunter

53. Thank you
for
playing!