writing
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Survey Says… Homer! Student Feud Comes to Ancient Greece
Good answer! Good answer! The old History Feud from my ToolBook days is back, rebuilt for the browser and renamed Student Feud. Two groups, one board, five top answers, three strikes. And this time the host is a blind poet who has been telling stories for about 2,800 years. Meanwhile, Backstage on Mount Olympus… Homer…
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Rome Was Built on These. . . Spin the History Wheel
Rome was built on these. . . and with three letters on the board and $1,300 on the line, Player 1 knows exactly where this is going: SEVEN HILLS. Meet History Wheel, the newest duel on DuelingHistory.com. It’s a spin-the-wheel vocabulary game rebuilt from a 1993 ToolBook “Chapter Vocabulary” wheel game written by Stephen F.…
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Gordon Central 14, Calhoun 0 — And Nobody Threw a Pass
Somewhere in Gordon County that scoreboard would start an argument. Here it only means Gordon Central answered two more questions than Calhoun did. The Football Quiz Game is new over at Dueling History, and it works like this: two teams, one field, seventy-five yards to the end zone. On every play the team with the…
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Hoist the Black Flag: Ray Stevens Comes Aboard
Every history teacher needs a way to get the room quiet. Some of us use a bell. Ray Stevens used a pirate. He was born Harold Ray Ragsdale in Clarkdale, Georgia, in 1939 — one of our own — and he has spent sixty-odd years proving that a funny song and a serious song are…
