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Trivia Bank Answer Key for The Trumpet of the Swan, by E.B. White (1970)
Library Qs: Week One
1) Montana
2) Canada
3) Four
4) Billings, Montana
5) Elwyn Brooks
Library Qs: Week Two
6) Mrs. Hammerbotham
7) Ontario, Canada
8) Reveille; Mess Call; Taps
9) Applegate Skinner
10) Upper Red Rock Lake, Montana
Library Qs: Week Three
11) In the bathtub
12) the zoo
13) by taxi
14) a Wood Duck
15) Canada, Montana, Boston, Philadelphia
Library Qs: Week Four: Really Hard Ones
36) Cygnus Buccinator
37) wallaroo = a large kangaroo;
- kinkajou = a Central American mammal that lives in trees (also known as a honey bear)
38) Yemassee, S.C.; great swamps of Georgia; a bayou in Florida
39) crepuscular: like twilight; or active at twilight
40) Edward Frascino (1970); Fred Marcellino (2000)
Principal’s Qs:
P-1) 35 days
P-2) Catastrophe
P-3) So he can depress the three valves on a trumpet.
P-4) Make Way for Ducklings, by Robert McCloskey
P-5) Rats (Cf. Templeton in Charlotte’s Web)
P-6) the Audubon Society
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Final Week Trivia Contest
16) A cob
17) cygnets
18) Great Horned Owl
19) Row, Row, Row Your Boat
20) watercress sandwiches (w/out the bread)
21) by following the railroad tracks from Boston to New York; then from NYC to Philly
22) Curiosity, Felicity, and Apathy
23) Oh, Ever in the Greening Spring
24) pinioning
25) By telegram
26) the Zoo in Philadelphia
27) trumpet; chalkboard (w/ chalk pencil); moneybag; lifesaving medal
28) Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little