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 three-stringed 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-theymust think there was a reason.Jeremy was watching. I saw her talking to him later, and he won’t know there’s another whole partof 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, red-faced 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, gadgets-almost 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