Play the Hunger Games!

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Did you survive last week's challenge? The correct answers were: 1) a. decorating cakes 2) e. sugar berries 3) h. Cato 4) l. nightlock berries 5) o. cherry blossom

Here’s your new challenge:

1) What was Katniss doing the very first time Peeta saw her?
a) Rooting through the rubbish behind his parents’ bakery
b) Standing on a stool and singing
c) Lining up for the first day of school

2) What color robes do the Gamemakers wear?
d) purple
e) gold
f) white

3) Approximately how many people live in District 12?
g) 12,000
h) 8,000
i) 23,000

4) During the reaping, the youngest candidates stand
j) in back of the older candidates
k) in front of the older candidates
l) with their families

5) What is the name of the Hunger Games announcer?
m) Claudius Templesmith
n) Caesar Flickerman
o) Delly Cartwright

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Play the Hunger Games!

Take the Hunger Games challenge for On the Same Page!

Did you survive last week's challenge? The correct answers were: 1) c. burn ointment 2) d. uphill 3) h. tracker jackers 4) k. slowly cover your face, remain still for a while, then move gradually away 5) m. an explosion

Here's your new challenge:

1) The bakery skill that helps Peeta survive after he is injured in the games is
a) decorating cakes
b) lifting hundred-pound bags of flour
c) making flatcakes

2) Katniss tricks Peeta into swallowing sleep syrup by telling him she has flavored it with berries she calls
d) sweetberries
e) sugar berries
f) jamberries

3) Who is the last tribute to die in the 74th Hunger Games?
g) Thresh
h) Cato
i) Foxface

4) Katniss and Peeta make their stand at the end of the games with a handful of
j) nightshade berries
k) bloodshade berries
l) nightlock berries

5) The pink and white flowers Peeta picks for Katniss as they head home are
m) the tops of wild onions
n) dogwood
o) cherry blossom

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Play the Hunger Games!

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Did you survive last week's challenge? The correct answers were: 1) b. The Girl Who is on Fire 2) e. Vespasian 3) g. Careers 4) l. 11 5) m. Cato and Glimmer

Here’s your new challenge:

1) Haymitch’s first gift to Katniss in the arena is
a) water
b) food
c) burn ointment

2) Katniss has to outrun an artificial forest fire during the games. Fire generally travels faster
d) uphill
e) downhill
f) neither

3) Katniss must avoid stings from giant mutant wasps called
g) jibber jabbers
h) tracker jackers
g) jabber jays

4) If you are in danger of being attacked by hornets,
j) run—hornets will not follow you out of their territory
k) slowly cover your face, remain still for a while, then move gradually away
l) make as much noise as possible while keeping your mouth covered

5) In the arena, Katniss loses her hearing because of
m) an explosion
n) dehydration
o) a hand-to-hand combat wound

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Did you survive last week's challenge? The correct answers were: 1) a. rice 2) f. a year's supply of grain and oil for one person 3) h. cookies 4) k. 74th 5) m. Theseus and the Minotaur

Here’s your new challenge:

1) What is the nickname given to Katniss in the games?
a) The Archer
b) The Girl Who Is on Fire
c) The Girl from District 12

2) Which Roman emperor was famous for building the Colosseum in Rome, where the infamous gladiator games took place?
d) Nero
e) Vespasian
f) Julius Caesar

3) Tributes who practice like Olympic athletes for the Hunger Games are popularly called
g) Careers
h) Alltimers
i) Destines

4) What is Katniss’s score in the pre-game tests?
j) 7
k) 9
l) 11

5) Who are the tributes from district 11?
m) Cato and Glimmer
n) Thresh and Rue
o) Thresh and Glimmer

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Play the Hunger Games!

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Did you survive last week's challenge? The correct answers were: 1) a. aloe vera 2) e. a real plant with an edible root 3) g. a dandelion 4) l. Catnip 5) o. cat

Here’s your new challenge:

1) What is the most widely consumed grain on earth?
a) rice
b) wheat
c) corn

2) The “tesserae” that teens in the districts earn by risking more entries in the reaping lottery are worth
d) a year’s supply of grain for one person
e) a year’s supply of bread for one person
f) a year’s supply of grain and oil for one person

3) As Katniss sets off for the games, Peeta’s father gives her a gift of
g) bread
h) cookies
i) cake

4) Katniss and Peeta participate in which year of the Hunger Games?
j) 70th
k) 74th
l) 79th

5) Collins says she based The Hunger Games partly on the myth of
m) Theseus and the Minotaur
n) Apollo and Diana
o) Opheus and Eurydice


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Did you survive last week's challenge? The correct answers were: 1) b. look for areas where animal tracks converge 2) e. 3 weeks 3) i. white 4) j. don't eat 5) n. oleander

Here’s your new challenge:

1) Katniss’s mother is an herbalist and healer. Which of these healing plants would she probably not find growing wild in the Appalachian region known as District 12?
a) aloe vera
b) bee balm
c) common boneset

2) Katniss’s father named her after a water plant with an edible root. Is katniss
d) a real plant, but it’s not edible
e) a real plant with an edible root
f) made up by Suzanne Collins

3) After Peeta gave Katniss a burnt loaf of bread, what did she see that gave her hope to keep her family from starving?
g) a dandelion
h) a coin
i) a primrose

4) Gale’s nickname for Katniss is
j) Kat
k) Catkin
l) Catnip

5) Prim’s pet Buttercup is a
m) goat
n) rabbit
o) cat

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1) Which of these methods can help you find water in the wild?
a) look for the tallest plants in the area
b) look for areas where animal tracks converge
c) both

2) On average, how long can a person survive without food?
d) 4 days
e) 3 weeks
f) 1 month

3) Though berries of any color can be poisonous, what is the most common color for poisonous berries?
g) black
h) red
i) white

4) Which course of action will slow down your body’s dehydration?
j) don’t eat
k) eat slowly
l) eat a lot of fatty foods

5) Which of the following plants is not edible?
m) cattail
n) oleander
o) dandelion

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