Weird Watsons | Clark Elementary | Road Trip! | History | Gummy Bears |
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What is Flint, Michigan?
This is the town where the Watsons live.
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What is turning the book upside-down?
This is how Kenny's teacher gets him to read more slowly.
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What is a "polished turd"?
This is what Byron says the Brown Bomber looks like after Dad has cleaned it up.
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What is 1963?
This is the year the book is set in.
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What is 1922?
This is the year that gummy bears were invented (+/- 5 years is okay!).
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What is her childhood in Birmingham, Alabama, where it's always warm?
This is why Wilona bundles her kids up in layer after layer of winter clothes.
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What is Maytag Washes?
This is the "game" that Larry Dunn plays in the winter when he bullies people.
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What is a smelly green pine tree?
What is the "final touch" that Dad puts on the Brown Bomber--the one he says will set the car apart from all the other buckets of bolts on the road?
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What is Jim Crow?
This is a system of legal segregation in the South.
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What is "dancing bear treats"?
This was the original name of gummy bears.
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What is Hambone Henderson?
This character is the man that Momma might have married if she hadn't decided to marry Dad and move to Michigan.
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Who is Langston Hughes?
This is poet Kenny reads out loud to Byron's class.
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What is the rest stop just outside of Toledo, Ohio?
This is where Byron and Kenny first see--and use--an outhouse (name the state at the very least!).
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What is the Green Book?
This is the book that African American travelers often used in order to plan out safe road trips.
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What is STRAWBERRY?
This is the flavor of green gummy bears.
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What is the fire that burned her house when she was a kid?
This is why Wilona doesn't want Byron to play with matches.
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What is "Give my regards to Clark, Pointdexter"?
This is the phrase Byron says to Kenny every time he and Buphead decide to skip school.
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What is Detroit?
This is as far as Byron gets without speaking in the car (name the city).
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What is a chauffeur's hat?
This is the item that some travelers would keep in their car in order to stay safe if they were stopped by the police or others.
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What is Germany?
This is the country where gummy bears were invented.
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What is "Nazi Parachutes Attack America and Get Shot Down Over the Flint River by Captain Byron Watsons and His Flamethrower of Death"?
This is the full name of Byron's feature film that he directs in the upstairs bathroom.
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What is the joke making fun of Rufus and Cody for sharing one pair of jeans--and, in the joke, one pair of underpants?
This is the joke at Rufus' expense that Kenny laughs at.
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What is holding your hands out the window and letting the air run through your fingers in the mountains of Appalachia?
According to Dad, what does it mean to be "tangled up in God's beard?"
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What is the desegregation of the schools?
What is the "trouble" in Birmingham that the Watsons have seen on TV?
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What is 81 pounds?
This is how many pounds the largest gummy bear in recorded history weighed.
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