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Brick By Boring Brick

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Brick By Boring Brick game quiz
"Lucky Ella has just received her first bucket of Legos for her birthday -- and they're even more educational than she expects! Help Ella as she learns history, art and architecture, brick by boring brick."

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1. Ella opens her bucket of Legos and grabs handfuls of blocks. She knows the Lego bricks are supposed to snap together to make wonderful things, but she's never seen it done. How do two standard Lego bricks fit together?
    Pegs and gaps in the sides of the bricks mesh together, like gears.
    A round peg on the top of one snaps into the bottom of the other.
    A C-shaped brick clamps around an I-shaped one.
    They are held in place only by gravity, unless Ella glues them together.


2. Fascinated, Ella starts stacking her Legos, making one long structure that towers above the floor. Her dad walks in, sees her work, and smiles. He sings softly: "All in all, it's just another brick in the wall." What musical group immortalized this line?
    Queen
    Ben Folds Five
    Simon and Garfunkel
    Pink Floyd


3. Ella's bucket of Lego bricks contains lots of pieces, but they're in just a few colors: white, black, red, yellow, and blue. There's plenty of potential here, though. In fact, there's a Dutch painter whose most famous works Ella could easily reproduce in Lego form: they're rectangles in white and in primary colors, separated by black grid lines. Who is the artist?
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Piet Mondrian
    Pablo Picasso
    Georges Braque


4. Ella turns a corner, and her wall of Legos is on its way to becoming a Lego house. She's following in the footsteps of the folkloric Three Little Pigs, who learned the hard way that bricks made for better houses than what other building material?
    Rock and paper
    Straw and sticks
    Linen and clay
    Iron and glass


5. Ella inspects her handiwork. It's starting to be a fine structure, but its bright Lego colors look very different from the real brick-and-mortar buildings she knows in real life. What is a regular masonry brick made out of?
    Sand
    Steel
    Clay
    Quartz


6. After some work, Ella has a charming little Lego house, and it's time to fill it with little Lego people. Ella's a bit startled by her first Lego figure: the smiley face is very friendly, but the skin is bright yellow! What medical condition does someone with yellowed skin have?
    Hematoma
    Vitiligo
    Jaundice
    Albinism


7. Soon enough there are several Lego people standing around the little Lego house and the green Lego board it's sitting on. Ella begins to worry that they'll get bored; they need someplace else to go! So she starts to make a road for them, pulling out bright yellow bricks for paving stones. According to song and story, where should the Yellow Brick Road lead?
    Rome
    The Emerald Isle
    The Emerald City
    A pot of gold


8. At the other end of the road, Ella builds a pyramid. She places 2x4 bricks to make the four sides of a square. The next layer covers the inner half of the first layer, making a square that's a little smaller and slightly inset, and so on. At the end, when she caps it with a few bricks, she has a step pyramid! Which of the following ancient buildings is NOT a step pyramid?
    The Great Ziggurat of Ur near Nasiriyah, Iraq
    The Red Pyramid at Dahshur, Egypt
    The Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan, Mexico
    El Castillo at Chichen Itza, Mexico


9. Ella turns to the lovely Lego road winding through the Lego countryside. Obviously, it needs some adornment! She builds two brick pillars and stacks a few blocks on top to make an archway. In a real, structural arch, what is the name of the central piece, where the stones from each side meet?
    Gallstone
    Capstone
    Keystone
    Capital


10. All too soon, it's nearly Ella's bedtime, and she has to move her Legos off the floor. Luckily, she can always rebuild in the morning, brick by boring brick. It's been done before: the ancient Egyptian temples of Abu Simbel were moved in pieces in the 1960s. Why?
    To bring them closer to other tourist sites
    To place them in a museum
    To save them from flooding
    To bring them to the estate of their purchaser


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Compiled Jun 28 12