Memphis Friends
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Books
100
This person is the oldest member of the friend group.
Who is Maddy Turner?
100
Based on her 1989 Princeton University undergraduate thesis, this person founded Teach for America.
Who is Wendy Kopp?
100
This Memphis restaurant, founded in 1970 by Alan Gary, has been voted "Best Burger" by Memphis Magazine every year since 1984.
What is Huey's?
100
This literary device is defined as when initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables are repeated.
What is alliteration?
100
Set in Paris, this 1956 novel told the story of an American GI's doomed love affair with an Italian bartender.
What is Giovanni's Room?
200
Michael Janney is a special education teacher at this MSCS school.
What is A. Maceo Walker Middle School?
200
DEIA is the acronym for this.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
200
This former mayor ruled Memphis with an iron and racist fist during the first half of the twentieth century.
Who is E.H. Crump?
200
This type of word or group of words is used before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show direction, time, place, location, spatial relationships, or to introduce an object.
What is a preposition?
200
This Floridian author's 1937 magnum opus addressed natural disaster, poverty, and gender roles through the eyes of a young woman named Janie.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
300
Mikaela McSharry's mom has also been known to go by this nickname.
What is "Rusty"?
300
This is the translation of the acronym CLS1.
What is Corps-member Learning Series 1?
300
Le Bonheur, the name of the 255-bed children's hospital in Memphis, means this in French.
What is "happiness"?
300
This person was the sixteenth president of the United States.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
300
Although his primary career was as a bureaucrat, this medieval author is known to posterity for his book of 'tales'.
Who was Geoffrey Chaucer?
400
This law school is Ethan Tessler's top choice.
What is Cardozo?
400
Teach For America's mission statement is often abbreviated to this four-word phrase.
What is 'one day all children'?
400
This basketball great began his coaching career for East High, and now coaches the Memphis Tigers.
Who is Penny Hardaway?
400
This scientific instrument is used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
400
Ernest Hemingway rewrote the ending of this novel 39 times to get the words right.
What is A Farewell to Arms?
500
Meghan Jemison earned her Bachelor's degree in this from Stanford University.
What is Science, Technology and Society?
500
This region distinction, introduced after the 2021 corps, is given to select regions focusing on a new approach to alumni leadership, learning, and impact, and NOT recruiting new corps at this time.
What is an Alumni Innovation Region?
500
DAILY DOUBLE: When these four artists recorded together at Sun Records one night in 1956, they were dubbed "the million-dollar quartet."
Who are Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis?
500
The image below is an example of this type of triangle.
What is a scalene triangle?
500
This person is the most portrayed human literary character in film and television history.
Who is Sherlock Holmes?