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100What is American Idol?
This is the most popular reality show on television.
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100Who are the New Orleans Saints?
This team won the 2010 Super Bowl.
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100What is Shawnee Mission North
This Shawnee Mission high school is the oldest in the district.
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100What is The Westrdige Way.
The Westridge PBS motto recently changed from PAWS to this catchy 3-word phrase.
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100What is Juneau
This city is the state capital of Alaska?
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200What is JAWS?
This 1975 blockbuster sees Roy Scheider utter: "We need a bigger boat"?
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200Who are the T-Bones?
The Royals are one of 2 major league baseball teams in the Kansas City metropolitan area. This is the name of the other team.
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200What is 8:10-3:10
This time range represents the schedule that a Shawnee Mission elementary school is in session on a regular school day?
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200What is Hillcrest Junior High?
Before becoming Westridge Middle School, this building had a completely different name.
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200What is Hydrogen?
The letter H in ‘H-bomb’ stands for this.
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300Who is Bruce Willis
This actor plays Det. John McClane in the Die Hard movie series.
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300What is a face-off?
In Basketball it’s called a Tip Off, in Football a Kick off this is what it's called in Ice Hockey.
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300What are the Cougars, Indians, Lancers, Raiders, Vikings
These are the 5 mascots of the 5 Shawnee Mission high schools...in alphabetical order.
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300What is 1962?
We know that Westridge was Hillcrest Junior High before becoming a middle school. This is the year that Hillcrest opened its doors.
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300What is The Decaration of Independence?
This famous document begins: "When in the course of human events..."
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400What is CSI (Crime Scene Investigation)?
This popular TV show has spin-offs that are set in Miami and NY.
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400What is Cooperstown?
If you wanted to visit the baseball hall of fame you would go to this city.
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400Who is Howard McEachen?
The district's administration buiding is named after this former superintedent.
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400What is 12?
This is the number of basketball goals in the gyms at Westridge.
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400Who is Chaucer?
This person wrote The Canterbury Tales
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500Who are Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Julie Louise-Dreyfuss, Michael Richards?
These are the names of the four actors who starred in the sitcom Seinfeld.
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500Who are the Florida Gators?
Gatorade was invented to curb dehydration for this college sports team.
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500What is 49? (35 Elem, 7 Middle Schools, 5 High Schools)
Including Broadmoor Technical Center and Horizons High School, this is the number of schools in the Shawnee Mission School District.
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500What is 23?
This is the number of regular busses that transport Westridge students on a daily basis.
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500What is Las Vegas
This city imploded five of its landmark hotels in the 1990s, to the delight of cheering tourists.
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