YHBA Quiz Off
April 8, 2014
1. The most touching gift came
from a little girl who handed him
her most prized possession- a
brown Berlin teddy bear with fur
worn thin.
•
Candy Bomber p 67
2. After crossing the Atlantic
Ocean, Mont-Blanc’s gleaming,
light-gray hull entered the
Graveyard dockyard in Brooklyn,
New York, on November 25, 1917.
•
Blizzard p 10
3. Smith, 62, has served withWhite
Star for the past 32 years-25 of
them as captain of 17 ships.
• Titanic p9
5. The boy and I sit together in the
back of another alley while Tess
sleeps a short distance away. The
boy has given her his vest again.
• legend
6. A baseball signed by Roger
Maris, Mickey Mantle, and Joe
Pepitione!
• Okay p 162
7. The tent was warm and full of
laughter. As the constellation Orion
rose in the night sky, a trio of
minstrels strummed on their threestringed lutes.
• Outlaw p 47
9. Hildy held the twine in place
with her little thumb as I tied the
bows binding the wrapping in
place. My mind raced with
excitement about training with
Max.
•
Berlin p 45
“My father was from Leeds, but
my mother was born in Munich.”
• Prisoners 26
So how would the judges of the
new Court of Oyer and Terminer
conduct their trials?
• Witches 76
10. And before Kate realized what
was happening, her mother had
stepped forward and was holding
her.
• Emerald p 355
11. But family demands soon
grounded her. Her parents (whose
relationship had remained rocky even
after Edwin had stopped drinking)
were divorced in the summer of 1924.
12. While the insurance companies
are dragging their feet, I am
working twelve, fourteen, sixteen
hour a day to keep us afloat.
13. A video recap plays behind the
headline. I see footage of me
sitting in my cell…Then the video
cuts to the yard, where the firing
squad lines up.
• Legend
14. As we were talking, Ian was
frantically looking around, up and
down at the ceiling and then to the
walls. “The guards are collecting,” he
whispered. “There are two coming
down the front hall at us right now.”
•
Michael Vey p 296
15. The tally was daunting: Seventy
children had been left orphaned;
more than two hundred were left
with only one parent.
• Blizzard p 103
16. Oh man, having you around is the
best! You’re so useful!! They should
sell you!
• Anya’s Ghost
17. He wiggled the wings of his
Douglas C-54,and they went wild,
waving and cheering and running
in circles.
CB 26
• Candy Bomber p 26
18. Emily…Do you think Siobhan was
right? Am I just stupid about Sean?
No, she’s crazy. Your love is pure and
real.
Now pull out this black thing and try it
on with a plaid skirt.
• Anya’s Ghost p 112
19. My ears burned. My father had
been stabbed. Jews were being
robbed and beaten at will.
BBC 367
• Berlin p 367
20. Jake threw his arms around the
stallion’s neck and clung on with all
his strength.
•
Outlaw p 131
21. Mama rubbed her forehead
with her fingers. “And when I knew
we left your daddy’s pillowcase
behind and Huck had it, I had to
get it for you.”
22. Mrs. Windmere came and
stood beside m. She put one hand
on my shoulder and another on my
elbow. “Who else knows the line
for Helen Burns?”
• Okay p 315
23. Why were we being arrested?
Where was Papa?
• Between Shades p 12
24. Some mornings, I see Rosa on
her porch, and when I do, I finish
my run, then trot back to visit with
her.
• Running Dream p 282
25. Twenty minutes later the
motorcycle shot out of the gates
and roared along Embassy Row,
heading for the airport.
• Outlaw p250
26. "I want to choke the Navy
for not finding her...I feel she is
alive and I know she needs us."
• Amelia p 226
27. And you know what they said
when they saw my brother in his
uniform sitting in a wheelchair
with bandages around his eyes, his
legs gone?
• Okay p 229
28. I don't want to talk about Dad's
letter, at least not yet, but when I
get to boating Wren looks like she
knows something is wrong.
• Hidden p 117
29. Then supplies began arriving
from England and the United
States, and from as far away as
Australia.
• Candy p 42
30. The doll’s head is chipped hard
china, yellowish white, with only
one glass eye and a floppy cloth
body. Its dress is tattered.
CO 161
• City p 161
31. According to spectator Calef,
“Martha Cory, protesting her
innocency, concluded her life with
an eminent prayer upon the
ladder.”
• Witches p 101
32. Swings were lowered to take us
up. I was the first one to be put
into the swing and tied in because I
was so numb I couldn’t hold on.
• Titanic p 56
33. The boys’ classes at St. Joseph’s
Catholic School didn’t start until
later in the day. Boys shared the
school with girls, which seemed
odd to Gerald.
• Blizzard p 29
34. Now he’s in a world that is
flashing money and he has no idea
what is going to happen and he
scared to death all over again-but
in a whole new way.
• City p 237
35. The Secretary slammed his
hand on the desk, starting Kate.
“Little birdies should do what
they’re told. Now pleeaasse have a
seat.”
• Emerald p 287
36. He pointed back to the stack of
grain sacks. The commander
walked around, yelling and kicking
as us to hurry.
• Between Shades p 146
37. He grabbed my bed’s railing with
one hand. “I’m really sorry about
what’s happened to your mother, son.
The good news is we have the man
who held you up in custody.
• Michael Vey p 115
38. My mind froze. The Countess
was one of our only remaining
customers. I had no idea what we’d
do if we didn’t have this extra
income.
• Berlin p 200
39. Her skin was pure white, her
gown the color of blood, and the
diamonds covering her throat and
chest shone as if they alone gave
light to the room.
• Emerald p 200
40. He divides the coins into two
piles-what he needs for the next
day’s paper to buy, and his own
eleven –cent profit.
• City p 41
41. In late June she sailed for home, arriving
in New York City on July 6 to a frenzied
welcome. There were parades, receptions,
medals awarded in New York, Boston, and
Chicago. There were interviews and
photographs, magazine covers and product
endorsements, newsreels and lectures and
even a book deal.
• Amelia
42. Hatborn asked the children to
look upon Sarah Good and see if
this were the person who had hurt
them, and so they said it was one
of the persons that did torment
them.
• Witches p 33
43. “Well I am happy to report that
your daughter has mastered all the
necessary functional goals for
release.”
• Running p 44
44. I went back to the Marysville
Free Public Library and stayed until
it closed at nine o’clock. Mr. Powell
had left the book open to the
yellow shank.
• Okay p 179
45. Commander Jameson nods.
“The second knife is stuck in the
wall of the stairwell.”
• Legend
46. It took a few moments to
coordinate the rowing. At first, the
oars slapped at the water
randomly, the boat making little or
no progress…
• Emerald
47. No, I don’t think so. I was down
here for a long time before I died
and I didn’t hallucinate much of
anything. And it doesn’t smell
funny. Or at least it didn’t. I don’t
smell much anymore.
• Anya’s Ghost
48. In the early morning of Friday,
December 7, rescue efforts
continued under threatening gray
skies…By 9:00 A. M. snow was
falling.
• Blizzard
49. “Please don’t let them take her
body…I want to bury her. We can’t
let her be eaten by foxes.
• Between Shades
50. “You’re a filthy spy!” he said.
• Prisoners
51. Everyone saw her kick me-they
must think there was a reason.
Jeremy was watching. I saw her talking
to him later, and he won’t know
there’s another whole part
of the story-whatever she might have
told him.
• Hidden
52. A lot of high schools didn’t
even have shop class anymore, and
most kids were angling to get more
out of their lives than tuning up
cars or fixing refrigerators.
• Trapped
53. “We are each entitled to three
hundred grams of bread for our
work.”
• Between
54.
IB,
Please inform your publishing friend
that I need to speak with him. My next
day out is two Sundays from today.
L.
• Prisoners
55. “I am talking about that
rhinoceros beetle over there.”
• Outlaw
56. “Don’t stop on my account,”
he said with a sickening grin.
A look of panic swept across
Greta’s face.
57. In addition, there are squash
racquets, a tiled Turkish bath
where you can be spoiled by a
masseuse, and, next to it, a heated,
salt-water swimming bath.
58. The slight noise came from a
wood box built into the wall,…The
lid of wood box lifted slowly and
soundlessly.
• Prisoners
59. He was making fast progress,
clipping along, but something else
was happening too. Now I saw it.
The nose of the kart was riding
lower than the rear.
• Trapped
60. “If I've learned one thing in the
last few days it is that every
question does not need to be
answered. A story is not true just
because of it's literal veracity. It is
the message, what it teaches, that
counts.”
•
Dragon Castle
61. After she shut the door, I took
off running. I had just formed an
exclusive club with Taylor Ridley. I
didn’t need to run. I could have
floated the whole way home.
• Michael Vey
62. Something else in mental
image of the tapestry begins to
glow, to stand out.
• Dragon Castle
63. Fact, people say that going to
The Tombs is like taking the first
steps to Hell.
• City
64. The only thing that’s different
about me now versus then is that I
got some better clothes and got rid
of my accent.
• Anya’s Ghost
65. I rolled over to my side and wiped
the blood from my nose with the back
of my hand. I pushed myself up, redfaced and angry. I stood above Jack,
who was frothing at the mouth. “I told
you to leave me alone. If you ever
touch me again, I’ll do worse.
• Michael Vey
66. I better warn her. “I’ve got to tell
you something else, Miss Charleena.
“I’ve tried reading before. I tried with
everything I had, and my brain closes
up.”
• Close to Famous
67. Lee pushed the door open and
we all filed in. The nurse’s office
was a gold mine.
• Trapped
68. “Who were those other two
kids with him?”
“Glows. Zeus and Nichelle.”
69. Archie’s dish…
Cat food?
The dry kind.
•
Hidden
70. Around 2:00p.m., the van
pulled into the driveway with a
guard booth and a tall gate lined
with razor wire.
•
Michael Vey
1. “You’re not going to sing to me?”
he asked her.
Pearly’s little lip was shaking as
she began, “Happy birthday to you…”
She couldn’t keep it up. But then
Mama sang out a happy birthday that
shook the walls.
•
Close
2. “You know, like at fancy hotels.
You can ask for pretty much
anything and they’ll get it for you.
Clothes, front-row concert tickets
and backstage passes, gadgetsalmost anything, within reason.”
Michael Vey
3. “Nobody leaves the King-you
understand that?”
“Stop it!” I screamed. “Stop it!”
“Who’s gonna sign back up for
me now, huh?”
CTF 6
• Close
4. “My father was from Leeds, but
my mother was born in Munich.”
• Prisoners
5. “Don’t know,” he says, and
repeats what the hotel detective
told him-that Packwood said she
didn’t get a compliment, and he
went to Donck’s place and told
him.
• City
12. While the insurance companies
are dragging their feet, I am
working twelve, fourteen, sixteen
hour a day to keep us afloat.
• Running
7. It took us forever to find a can
opener and when we did we felt
like morons.
• Trapped
8. There was this skeleton down
there and I kinda forgot to tell
anyone about it…
• Anya’s Ghost
9. Then supplies began arriving
from England and the United
States, and from as far away as
Australia.
• Candy
10. Commander Jameson nods.
“The second knife is stuck in the
wall of the stairwell.”
• Legend
11. At that moment Jake heard the
choppy whir of rotor blades. A
helicopter came into sight, flying
low above the treetops and
heading their way.
• Outlaw
12. Archie’s door?
(Could I fit through? What if I get
stuck halfway?)
(Where is the dog? Is it chained?)
• Hidden
13. She nodded. “You will need
this. And if you complete your
quest, we shall meet again. My
name, she said, “is Karoline.”
• Dragon Castle
14. When I was in front of the
wheelchair, she put her hand on
the back of my brother’s head and
he leaned into her.
• Okay
15. Anny greeted someone by the
door with two quick kisses on
either cheek. And Max shocked me
by striding right over to my father
and giving him a warm handshake
and a manly hug.
• Berlin