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Author
Publisher
[CreateSpace]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"This book brings you over 2,275 well-crafted, engaging, and thought-provoking geography questions from classroom/regional to national levels to help you achieve success in the National Geographic Bee, as well as other competitions, such as the United States Geography Olympiad, International Geography Bee, and North South Foundation (NSF)"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Being Miss America, Kate Shindle interweaves a memoir of her year as Miss America 1998 with a history of the pageant. She explores what it means to take on the mantle of America's "ideal," especially considering the evolution of the American female identity since the pageant's inception. Shindle profiles winners and organization leaders and recounts important moments in the pageant's story, with a special focus on Miss America's iconoclasts, including...
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Gabriella is a shy, studious new student at East High School. Everything for Gabriella changes when she is forced to sing at a karaoke contest with Troy Bolton, the captain of the school's basketball team. After spending time with each other, they come to realize that they share a passionate love for music and singing.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studio
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
A go-getter clerk in a coffee company, is fooled into thinking he's won a $25,000 prize for inventing a sales slogan. When a trio of practical jokers at Maxford Coffee send him a phony congratulatory telegram announcing that he's the contest winner, he and his girlfriend go off on a mammoth Christmas shopping binge, even though it's the middle of July. Suddenly, the head of Maxford Coffee discovers the mistake, and their spending spree turns into...
Publisher
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Evelyn Ryan. Offers a revealing study of the housewife's plight during the Eisenhower era, along with an inspiring tale of tenacity and survival against formidable odds. Evelyn is a cheerfully strong-willed mother of ten who compensates for the failings of her alcoholic husband by becoming the most successful "contester" in the country. Between the mid-1950s and the early '60s, Evelyn submitted cleverly worded poems, jingles,...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Bitter mens figure skating rivals Chazz Michael Michaels and Jimmy MacElroy brawl after tying for the gold medal at the world championships. Banned for life from the men's single skating competition, these archrivals find a loophole that will allow them to skate again as a figure skating pair.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An editor for The Washington Post's Style section offers a look back on the Miss America pageant as it approaches its 100th anniversary, spotlighting how it has survived decades of social and cultural change and redefined itself alongside evolving ideas of feminism.
Author
Publisher
Geozona Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"This is a book of geography questions and answers. There are 31 chapters in the book organized into seven sections (USA, World, Bodies of Water, Cultural Geography, Economic Geography, Arrange and Decipher, and Other Topics). Each chapter focuses on a different topic. Within each chapter, questions get progressively more challenging. While the first few questions in each chapter are comparable to school-level competition questions, the last couple...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"As a young femme growing up in Manila in the 1990s, Geena Rocero endured shouts of bakla, bakla!, a Filipino taunt aimed at her feminine sway, whenever she left the little universe of her eskinita. Eventually she found her place in trans pageants, events as widely attended and culturally significant as a national sport, going to high school by day and competing by night. When her competitors denigrated her with the nickname "horse barbie," due to...
12) The queen
Language
English
Formats
Description
More than 40 years before *RuPaul's Drag Race*, this ground-breaking documentary about the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant introduced audiences to the world of competitive drag. The film takes us backstage to kiki with the contestants as they rehearse, throw shade, and transform into their drag personas in the lead-up to the big event. Organized by LGBTQ icon and activist Flawless Sabrina, the competition boasted a star-studded panel of...
14) Love n' dancing
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Jessica is a bored-with-life middle-school English teacher who meets Jake, a West Coast Swing champion dancer. The two have an instant connection. Both feel that the other can fulfill what has been missing in their lives. But Jessica has a workaholic fiancé who's not a bad guy - when he's not on his Blackberry. Corinne is Jake's former dance partner, who just won't let Jake get away from the dangling carrot of a rekindled relationship. Now, Jake...
16) Pageant
Publisher
Wolfe Video Llc
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Takes you behind the scenes as 52 men go to extraordinary lengths to be crowned Miss Gay America, a contest about the art of illusion, so enhancements such as hormones are forbidden.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Language
English
Description
Some five million students compete in the annual National Geographic Bee, a cornerstone of the SocietyUs ongoing efforts to foster geography education. This official study guide features maps, photos, graphs, a variety of questions actually used in past Bees.
18) Queen sized
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Overweight high school senior Maggie Baker knows she will never be as pretty, skinny or wealthy as the popular girls. When a cruel prank nominates her for election as Homecoming Queen, Maggie decides to go ahead with her campaign, even though this is against the advice of the school administration and her mom. The mean girls who will do anything to keep Maggie feeling like a loser.
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The first-time Survivor castaways, including two-time The Amazing Race contestant Mike White and professional wrestler John Hennigan, are divided into tribes based on those that constantly have to overcome obstacles and those who have used their advantages to excel in their fields.
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