Gonna Be Some Heavy Tithing This Week

Gonna Be Some Heavy Tithing This Week by Roxanne McDonald

Pastor Ben sowed some impressive rows in fifth grade this week, and his church family will reap the rewards.

The church community needs that prize money, says Pastor Ben, for the people have limited funds and therefore limited numbers of supportive community programs.

Thanks to his smarts and his strategic decision to not be greedy, Pastor Ben will get to give…a lot.

Here are the questions Ben answered, with his church family sitting in the congregation, er, audience, watching and cheering him on:
First Grade Grammar
1. What is the abbreviation in the following sentence? “The class voted for Mr. Foxworthy as Teacher of the Year.”

First Grade U.S. Geography
2. Alana went on a trip to see Everglades National Park. What state did she go to?

Second Grade Astronomy
3. True or false? The planet Jupiter has a larger mass than Earth.

Second Grade World Geography
4. What city is the capital of Japan?

Third Grade Animal Science
5. True or false? The Orca is a type of dolphin.

Third Grade World History
6. According to the Ancient Roman calendar, the Ides of March falls on what day in March?

Fifth Grade Earth Science
7. By definition, an anemometer measures the speed of what?

Fifth Grade U.S. History
8. When Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, who was the president of the United States? [paraphrased question, here]

Fourth Grade U.S. Measurements
9. On a map, if one inch equals 20 miles, how many inches equal 180 miles?

Fourth Grade Cultural Studies
10. Who was the Greek god of wine?

The questions new contestant Andy, a former pre-med student, took on, for starters (to be continued next week):
First Grade Health
11. True or false? The esophagus is a passageway that connects the mouth to the nose.

Second Grade Earth Science
12. A man-made lake created for the purpose of storing water is called what?
a) channel
b) reservoir
c) isthmus

Fourth Grade Math
13. What is the product of 2/3 and 48?

1. Mr. [Ben is right.]
2. Florida [Ben gets it right.]
3. True [Both Ben and Kyle are right.]
4. Tokyo [Both Kyle and Ben right.]
5. True [Ben says “false”, but Alana saves him!]
6. March 15th [Ben has no idea, guessing the 3rd, but he copies Alana, who is correct.]
7. wind [Ben has no idea, but peeks at Spencer’s paper and goes with his right answer.]
8. Andrew Johnson [I missed the question in full, but evidently, Ben was right.]

9. 9 [Ben is correct.]
10. Dionysus [Pastor Ben takes the money, but says he would guess Dionysus!]
11. False [Foxworthy has fun with this one, as Andy was a pre-med student and says “True”. Spencer saves Andy with the correct answer.]
12. b) reservoir [Andy is right.]
13. 32 [Andy is right.]

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