1. Glaze made with excess magnesium carbonate (20% or more), resulting in a "mounding" effect during firing.

2. Type of fuel for most raku kilns.

3. Three methods used to safeguard air quality in a potter's studio.

4. Form misshapen during the wet to leather-hard stage.

5. Sodium silicate, Darvan, soda ash, or tea.

6. Anything which melts at a low temperature on its own or lowers the temperature of a material.

7. Three components of a clay body.

8. Fuel used in Lucy Lewis's pit firings.

9. Deflocculated clay body used to make molded ceramics.

10. Common raku firing temperature.

11. Bentonite, epsom salts, or magnesium carbonate.

12. Miniature Chinese teapots.

13. Three common methods of glaze application.

14. Non-toxic kiln construction material preferred for its superior thermal qualities.

15. Common ingredient in crystalline glazes.

16. Florida artist recognized for his architectural ceramics.

17. About 90% of Rookwood art pottery pieces are decorated with this type of design.

18. Clay Times columnist recognized for her extensive knowledge of ceramic health & safety issues.

19. Cable/satellite television network to air new pottery TV series in June, 2004.

20. Location of NCECA (National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts) Conference in March, 2005.

21. Exhibition hosted in Pennsylvania, annually, featuring utilitarian ceramics.

22. Japanese father of modern-day ceramics.

23. Section of Clay Times which features eight inspirational photos of readers' works in every issue. (Have you submitted YOUR photos yet?!!)

24. Coloring oxide which turns pink or green in oxidation, depending on the presence or absence of tin.

25. Recycled hair colorant bottles useful for this pottery decoration process.

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Ceramic Trivia Questions B:

1. The name for works which employ contrasting colored clays for integral structure and variation in color.

2. Spontaneously shaped form, based on nature.

3. Base form used for making handbuilt, convex objects.

4. Interchangeable disks used for shaping pulled coils.

5. Collectible American pottery founded by Frederick Rhead in the early 1900s in Fairfax, California.

6. Necessary glaze component which serves to adhere glaze onto the form.

7. Term used to describe pieces which have been fully air-dried, or bone dry.

8. Japanese village known for its long tradition of pottery.

9. British father of utilitarian, or functional, ceramics.

10. Point of reference which considers ratio of form and its level of visual appeal.

11. Renowned Canadian author, potter, gardener, and world traveler.

12. Term used to describe the change in crystals which takes place during firing at 573 degrees celsius.

13. Main subject of John Nance's book, "The Mud Pie Dilemma."

14. North Carolina town known for its many generations of folk potters.

15. Type of firing which depletes oxygen from the clay body and/or glaze.

16. Another word for China Clay.

17. Type of disintegrating rock responsible for the formation of clay.

18. American clay artist recognized for Westernizing the raku firing process.

19. Glaze ingredient which yields the color yellow in oxidation firing.

20. Very strong architectural shape used in kiln design.

21. American company known for its manufacture of firing measurement and ventilation aids.

22. European method of decorating over glaze.

23. Atlanta originator of salku firing process.

24. Tool used for cutting and sculpting clay.

25. Substitute for Albany slip.

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