Adventure
China
Quebec City
European Cities
Literary Devices
Chess
200
John Krekauer book about loner / traveler Christopher McCandless and his fatal trip to Alaska.
What is Into the Wild?
200
Follow all 3900 miles of China's Yangtze River to the sea and you'll wind up in this metropolis.
What is Shanghai?
200
This river runs through it.
What is the St. Lawrence?
200
Ville des Lumières
The City of Lights -- What is Paris?
200
It gives the reader a hint of something that is going to happen.
F
What is foreshadowing?
200
Still regarded as one of the greatest to ever play chess by grandmasters today... From Brooklyn, New York, he became the youngest U.S. champion ever at the age of 14. And became world champion in 1972.
Who is Bobby Fischer?
400
Alive: About 1972 plane that went down in these mountains.
Only 16 survived out of 45, and what their actions show the extent to which humans will go to survive.
What are the Andes?
400
Reports range from 1,500 to 3,000 left in the wild - Ailuropoda melanoleuca
What is the panda bear or giant panda?
400
Meaning circus of the sun it was founded in 1984 for the street musicians of Quebec City.
What is CIRQUE DU SOLEIL?
400
Sometimes called "the crossroads of Europe."
What is Brussels?
400
It refers to the practice of attaching human traits and characteristics with inanimate objects, phenomena and animals.
P
What is personification?
400
Moving the king two spaces and then crossing over the king with the rook.
What is a castle?
600
Michael Punke novel about travails of 1823 frontiersman, and bear attack, AND a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
What is The Revenent?
600
From 1990 to 2015 the average GDP growth in the U.S. was about 2% per year. In China during this period it was closer to which of the following: 4%, 7%, or 10%.
What is 10%?
600
Park named for this French maritime explorer and cartographer is just 30 minutes from the old town.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
600
ville de l'amour
Paris - "The City of Love"
600
The mental and emotional disposition of the author towards the subject, which lends to a particular character or atmosphere to the work.
M
What is mood?
600
Is the "Sacilian defense" used at the beginning, the middle, or toward the end game?
What is in the beginning?
800
Jon Krekauer book about the 1996 Mt. Everest climbing disaster where 8 people died.
What is Into Thin Air?
800
October 25 1971: The People's Republic of China is admitted to the U.N. & this leader's representatives are expelled.
Who is CHIANG KAI-SHEK?
800
Under the French regime, Place d'Armes was known as the Grand Square, the prime location for public speeches and these kinds of parades.
What are military parades?
800
Venice of the North
What is Amsterdam?
Or what is Bruges, Belgium?
800
This creates a larger-than-life effect and overly stresses a specific points; Or conveys an action or sentiment that is generally not realistically possible.
H
What is hyperbole?
800
Magnus Carlsen is the reigning World Chess Champion, from 2013 to today. He is from this country.
What is Norway?
900
Hemingway wrote Green Hills of Africa about his exploits across the plains of this region / ecosystem.
What is the Serengeti?
900
3-letter people that make up China's largest ethnic group.
What is Han?
900
Place de Paris in Quebec City is surrounded by striking architectural features, including pretty shutters, roofs of different historical periods, and rooftop ladders once used by chimney sweeps.
Now these ladders are used to remove what?
What is snow?
900
City of a hundred spires.
What is Prague?
900
The purpose of this is to substitute unpleasant and severe words with more genteel ones in order to mask the harshness..
But sometimes to also lend a touch of exaggeration or irony in satirical writing.
E
What is a euphemism?
900
The "French Defense" is a defensive opening for the player playing black, in an effort to control this part of the board.
What is the middle?
1000
One of the best novels of the 20th Century... A series of vignettes of a group of soldiers... before, during and after the Vietnam War.
Author: Tim O'Brien
What is The Things They Carried?
1000
The Wild Camel Protection Foundation says there are 600 of this 2-humped camel in China 450 in Mongolia.
What is the bactrian?
1000
It consists of consist of 4 gates, 3 Martello towers, the Citadelle, and 4.6 km of ramparts, complete with cannons.
What are the historic city walls.
1000
Sometimes referred to as Paris of the East or Little Paris.
What is Bucharest?
Not Budapest, which is the City of Bridges.
1000
Adages, wise sayings and maxims aimed at imparting sense and wisdom. They tend to be witty and curt and have an underlying tone of authority to them.
A
What is an aphorism?
1000
Today a political activist... From Azerbijan (part of USSR at the time), he was the youngest chess champion, winning the world title in 1985 at the age of 22, and retaining the title all the way until 2000.
Who is Gary Kasparov?