LET'S GO TO THE MOVIES
DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
THE FUTURE OF AMERICA
VOCABULARY TEST
ENGLISH CLASS
100

In this 2002 film, a house-elf named Dobby warns Harry Potter that great danger awaits him at Hogwarts

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

100

Don't jump up & down on your bed to the point that it causes one of these seismic shakings of the Earth's crust

Earthquake

100

The XLth of these championship games will be played in Detroit on Feb. 5, 2006

The Super Bowl

100

Term for a female goat or for someone who takes care of kids

Nanny

100

When "do not" and "should not" are contracted, this mark of punctuation is used to show missing letters

Apostrophe

200

Ads for "The Santa Clause 2" announced that "The Search for" her "Begins November 1st"

Mrs. Clause

200

Don't play fetch with one of these poisonous snakes from India seen here if it wanders into the house

Cobra

200

A new president elected in 2008 would finish serving his or her first term in January of this year

2013 (January 20th)

200

Originally a farmer who lived nearby, now it's any nearby resident, especially one right next door

Neighbor

200

This part of speech doesn't always end in "ly"; once, there & often are other examples

Adverb

300

In 2002 these 3 superheroes from the Cartoon Network joined forces to defeat the evil monkey Mojo Jojo

The Powerpuff Girls

300

Don't roll around in a barrel in preparation for going over these waterfalls on the Canada/U.S. border

Niagara Falls

300

The Space Launch Initiative is an effort to develop a reusable transport system as a successor to this one

The Space Shuttle

300

In math the radius of a circle is half of the line called this

Diameter

300

Capt. Kirk's mission was "to boldly go" where no man had gone before, but he split one of these along the way

An Infinitive

400

The soundtrack to the summer of 2002 Disney animated hit featured 5 songs sung by Elvis Presley

Lilo & Stitch

400

Don't walk on the surface of this closest star to the Earth unless you're wearing heat-resistant booties

The Sun

400

The Census Bureau projects that in 2010 the U.S. population will pass this many hundred million

300 million

400

It's what we call the northern or southern half of the Earth, as divided by the equator

Hemisphere

400

It's the indirect object of the sentence "Carmen gave Jose a cookie"

Jose

500

In this 2002 sequel Carmen & Juni Cortez head to "The Island of Lost Dreams" & meet up with a mad scientist

Spy Kids 2

500

Don't get too close to one of these, like Etna or Vesuvius, if one starts erupting in your backyard

Volcano

500

In 2004 the Missouri Historical Society will open a bicentennial exhibit honoring this exploring duo

Lewis & Clark

500

While a synonym has the same meaning as another word, this is a word that means just the opposite

Antonym

500

It's the third person plural objective case pronoun

Them

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