The Baudelaires
100: This is the name of the youngest Baudelaire child, a baby who loves to bite things.
Who is Sunny?
Count Olaf has a tattoo of this body part on his ankle. It is also painted and carved all over his house.
What is an eye?
When Mr. Poe says the Baudelaire parents “perished” in a fire, this is what “perished” means.
What is “killed” / “died”?
Mr. Poe always has this health problem. He coughs into his white handkerchief.
What is a cold / a cough?
This is the place where the children are told their parents have died.
What is Briny Beach?
Violet is very good at making these, such as machines and devices.
What are inventions? (accept: machines/devices)
This is Count Olaf’s job, and so is the job of all his friends.
What is an actor?
Mr. Poe tells the children to get ready “briskly.” This means doing it in this way.
What is “quickly”?
This is Justice Strauss’s job. She works at the High Court.
What is a judge?
The children cook this Italian sauce for Count Olaf’s troupe.
What is puttanesca (sauce)?
Violet has this age
What is 14?
Unlike most people, Count Olaf has only this many eyebrows.
What is one?
The trolley the children ride to Briny Beach is “rickety.” This means it is “unsteady” or “likely to do this.”
What is “collapse” / “fall apart”?
Mr. Poe works here, in the city’s banking district.
What is a bank? (accept: Mulctuary Money Management)
This is the name of the play Count Olaf wants the children to be in.
What is The Marvelous Marriage?
When Violet is thinking hard about an invention, she ties her hair up with this to keep it out of her eyes.
What is a ribbon?
Count Olaf tells the children that this many people from his theater troupe are coming to dinner.
What is ten?
400: The word “incentive” means a reward offered to make you do something you do not want to do. Lawyers get this as an incentive to read boring law books.
What is “heaps of money”? (accept: money)
The first thing the children borrow from Justice Strauss’s library is this type of book, because they need to cook dinner.
What is a cookbook?
Count Olaf says Violet will play this part in the play.
What is the bride? (accept: the young woman he marries)
Klaus has read so many books that he knows how to tell an alligator from a crocodile and who killed this famous Roman leader.
Who is Julius Caesar?
When Mr. Poe says Count Olaf is “acting in loco parentis,” he means that Olaf is acting in this role for the children.
What is “the parent” / “acting as their parent”? (accept: acting in the role of a parent)
The children “escape” Count Olaf by reading their books, but they do not escape literally. Snicket says they escape in this way instead.
What is “figuratively”?
Justice Strauss is excited about Count Olaf’s play because she has always wanted to do this, ever since she was a little girl.
What is act / perform on stage? (accept: be in a play/theater)
A man with hooks for hands threatens Klaus in the library. Klaus then secretly does this with one of the books.
What is “hide it under his shirt” / “take it secretly”?