Posts

Lemony Snicket Characters Hangman New! Lemony Snicket Biography—Do you dare know who he is? What’s on Lemony Snicket’s iPod? New! Lemony Snicket Polls: Who is your favorite Lemony Snicket character?What do you think happened to the Baudelaire parents? Lemony Snicket Quizzes: Unfortunate Events, Book the Thirteenth Quiz New!Unfortunate Events, Book the Twelth QuizUnfortunate Events, Book the Eleventh QuizUnfortunate Events, Book the Tenth QuizUnfortunate Events, Book the Eighth QuizUnfortunate Events, Book the Seventh QuizUnfortunate Events, Book the Fourth QuizUnfortunate Events, Book the Third QuizUnfortunate Events, Book the Second QuizUnfortunate Events, Book the First Quiz

Losing Team Argentina Austria Belgium Brazil Bulgaria Cameroon Chile Colombia Croatia Denmark England France Germany Iran Italy Jamaica Japan Mexico Morocco The Netherlands Nigeria Norway Paraguay Romania Saudi Arabia Scotland South Africa South Korea Spain Tunisia United States Yugoslavia Final Score (Winner-Loser): Please enter your name: and your email address:

Tornado: 1. Hans Peter Steinacher & Roman Hagara, AUT (16 pts); 2. John Forbes & Darren Bundock, AUS (25); 3. Roland Gaebler & Rene Schwall, GER (38). Star: 1. Mark Reynolds & Magnus Liljedahl, USA (34 pts); 2. Mark Covell & Ian Walker, GBR (35); 3. Torben Grael & Marcelo Ferreira, BRA (39). Soling: 1. Denmark (Jesper Bank, Henrik Blakskjaer, Thomas Jacobsen) def. 2. Germany (Gunnar Bahr, Ingo Borkowski, Jochen Schuemann), 4-3; 3....

At the Torino Winter Games the biathlon will be contested in four events each for men and women. The rifles that are used are .22 caliber, and each weighs a minimum of 7.7 lb (3.5 kg). In each discipline there are shooting stops placed along the course: two stops for the sprint and relay; four stops for the pursuit and individual events. Half of the shooting stops are standing and half are prone....

Invented by Norwegians and long dominated by Scandinavian countries, the Nordic combined has been contested at every Olympic Winter Games since 1924. A new scoring system, introduced at the 1988 Winter Games in Calgary, made the event more fan-friendly. The Gunderson Method, named for its inventor, is a system that judges use to award the first starting position in the cross-country race. The rest of the athletes’ ski jumping scores are then converted into staggered start times....

By placing first, Akshay earned a $25,000 scholarship and a lifetime membership in the National Geographic Society. Holding his oversized check, 11-year-old Rajagopal said of the questions, “Some of them were hard but others were OK. I think I was just lucky.” But luck had nothing to do with knowing what South American country has the third-largest city named Cochabamba (Bolivia) and the country where Makossa is a popular type of music (Cameroon)....

We know little about the details of timekeeping in prehistoric eras, but wherever we turn up records and artifacts, we usually discover that in every culture, some people were preoccupied with measuring and recording the passage of time. Ice-age hunters in Europe over 20,000 years ago scratched lines and gouged holes in sticks and bones, possibly counting the days between phases of the moon. Five thousand years ago, Sumerians in the Tigris-Euphrates valley in today’s Iraq had a calendar that divided the year into 30-day months, divided the day into 12 periods (each corresponding to 2 of our hours), and divided these periods into 30 parts (each like 4 of our minutes)....

Liu Pang, founder of the Han dynasty (206–195 B.C.)Wu-ti, posthumous temple name of the fifth emperor (140–87 B.C.) of the Han dynastyWang Mang, Chinese Han dynasty regent (45 B.C.–A.D. 23)Sui, dynasty of China that ruled from 581 to 618Hsüan-tsung, Chinese emperor (712–56), ninth of the T’ang dynastySung, dynasty of China that ruled 960–1279Chao K’uang-yin, founder of the Sung dynasty (960–79)Hui-tsung, Chinese emperor of the Northern Sung dynasty, painter, and a great patron of art (1082–1135)Kublai Khan, Mongol emperor, founder of the Yüan dynasty of China (1215–94)Ming, dynasty of China that ruled from 1368 to 1644Yung-lo, reign title of the third emperor (1403–24) of the Chinese Ming dynastyNurhaci, Manchu national founder (1559–1626)Manchu, people who lived in Manchuria for many centuries and who ruled China from 1644 until 1912K’ang-hsi, second emperor of the Ch’ing dynasty of China (1661–1722)Ch’ien-lung, reign title of the fourth emperor (1735–96) of the Ch’ing dynastyTz’u Hsi, Tsu Hsi, dowager empress of China (1861–1908) and regent (1861–73, 1874–89, 1898–1908)Kuang-hsu, emperor of China (1875–1908)Henry Pu Yi, last emperor (1908–12) of ChinaYüan Shih-kai, president of China (1912–16)Li Yüan-hung, president of China (1916–17, 1922–23)Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese Nationalist leader (1928–48)Lin Sen, president of China (1932–43)Mao Zedong, founder of the People’s Republic of China (1943–76)Deng Xiaoping, Chinese revolutionary and government leader (1945–89)Li Peng, Chinese premier (1987–98) Wen Jiabao, Chinese premier (2003–2013) Li Keqiang, Chinese premier (2013–) Jiang Zemin, president of China (1993–2003)Hu Jintao, president of China (2003–2012 ) Xi Jinping, president of China (2012–)

According to the generally accepted plate-tectonics theory, scientists believe that Earth’s surface is broken into a number of shifting slabs or plates, which average about 50 miles in thickness. These plates move relative to one another above a hotter, deeper, more mobile zone at average rates as great as a few inches per year. Most of the world’s active volcanoes are located along or near the boundaries between shifting plates and are called plate-boundary volcanoes....

Illusion is a noun that means a misconception: “The policy is designed to give an illusion of reform.” Alternatively is an adverb that means on the other hand; one or the other: “You can choose a large bookcase or, alternatively, you can buy two small ones.” An amusement park, a noun, is a place where people go to have fun. It has games, food, rides, and shows for entertainment. A theme park, a noun, is an amusement park with a theme, a subject that everything in the park has in common....

The F-16 grew out of the lessons of Vietnam, where America’s hulking twin-engine F-4 Phantom fighters were badly outmaneuvered by lighter, more agile Russian-built MiG-21s. The prototype YF-16 first flew in 1974, and won a fly-off with the Northrop YF-17 to be the Air Force’s new air-combat fighter. The F-16 joined the USAF in 1979, and is still this country’s front-line fighter plane, with more than 1,500 operational today. The Air Force took delivery of its last F-16 in 2005....

Are math games your thing? Our Math Flashcards game is by far our most popular educational game. Practice your math facts using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division flashcards, from basic math facts to 3-digit problems. There are seven levels for kids to choose from in each area of practice. This allows them to start with the math problems appropriate for their grade level and move on to more advanced problem solving when ready....