Hamlet
This Danish prince is obsessed with revenge, talks to ghosts, and can't make up his mind.
Who is Hamlet?
This classic symptom involves an alarming lack of motivation to complete any work after being accepted into college.
What is senioritis?
This young protagonist rejects society, changes his name to Alexander Supertramp, and hitches a ride to Alaska.
Who is Chris McCandless?
If you are a fan of reality television, you are likely familiar with this massive, globally adapted dating show franchise where a group of incredibly attractive, single contestants move into a luxury villa in a tropical paradise to find romance, couple up to avoid elimination, face sudden twists like Casa Amor, and compete for a massive cash prize.
What is Love Island?
This punctuation mark is used to create a compound sentence by joining two independent clauses without using a conjunction like "and" or "but."
What is a semicolon?
This verbose court counselor gives his son Laertes a long list of hypocritical advice, including "To thine own self be true."
Who is Polonius?
What is another way for a senior to say that they are highly concentrated on a single task?
What is "I'm locked in"?
This famed 1854 literary work advocates for simple living in natural surroundings. Its chapter headings include "Solitude," "Brute Neighbors," and "The Pond in Winter"
What is Walden?
This viral 2026 short-form video trend and dance craze—created by the rapper h5wk and frequently paired with memes of the animated fox Nick Wilde—requires the dancer to hold their own nose closed with one hand to pretend they are underwater while pumping their knees up and down and waving their other arm back and forth.
What is the Scuba Dance (or, Scuba Juke)?
This structural error occurs when a writer joins two independent clauses with only a comma and no coordinating conjunction.
What is a comma splice?
This loyal best friend is the only major character left alive at the end of the play to tell Hamlet's story.
Who is Horatio?
This is the unofficial holiday where graduating students collectively decide to skip a random day of spring semester classes.
What is Senior Skip Day (Senior Ditch Day)?
This 81-year-old leatherworker and veteran meets Chris in California, grows to love him like a grandson, and even offers to adopt him.
Who is Ronald Franz?
This expression serves as the definitive vernacular label for an individual experiencing a profound detachment from objective reality, indicating an urgent necessity for them to physically interface with the terrestrial biosphere.
What is delulu?
This is the only mammal capable of true, sustained flight
What is a bat?
Before her tragic drowning, Ophelia hands out these items to the court, symbolizing her grief and madness.
What are flowers?
This stressful, multi-step process involves begging your favorite teachers for recommendation letters and staring at a blinking cursor on your personal essay.
What is applying for college?
Jon Krakauer includes chapters about his own dangerous, youthful attempt to climb this sheer ice-and-rock peak in Alaska to show he shared Chris's mindset.
What is Devil's Thumb?
Originating deep within sports internet circles before completely taking over mainstream pop culture, this popular three-word slang phrase is widely used as the ultimate compliment to describe a person who genuinely understands sports, has an incredibly high football intelligence, or possesses flawless, expert knowledge about a specific topic.
What is "He knows ball"?
This specific color is the most dominant on the flags of the world, appearing on over 75% of them.
What is red?
This skull belongs to the former court jester, prompting Hamlet to realize that death conquers everyone.
Who is Yorick?
This specific, high-stakes financial document—which underwent a massive, glitch-filled digital redesign—must be submitted by seniors to unlock federal grants, work-study programs, and student loans for college.
What is FAFSA?
This is the specific botanical mistake that Jon Krakauer argues ultimately doomed Chris by causing him to starve to death in the bus.
What is eating toxic wild potato seeds / moldy seeds? (Acceptable: Hedysarum alpinum)
To perfectly execute this viral 2026 short-form video trend that completely took over the internet, a creator must rapidly shake their head from side to side while holding their arms tight against their chest and flapping their hands to mimic the exact physical movements of a viral, chunky marine mammal.
What is the Seal Dance?
This popular fizzy beverage was originally invented by a pharmacist in 1886 as a medicine to treat headaches and exhaustion
What is Coca Cola?