Ancient Roman and Greek History
Books and literature adjacent
Dads or Michael
Flora
100

The Roman emperor Caligula is said to have declared war on this general term for a body of water after instead of invading Britain, he got his troops to form battle lines facing the sea. He later declared victory over Neptune.

Sea

100

This children's book begins as… In the great green room there was a telephone, and a red balloon and a picture of the cow jumping over the moon. There's some debate about whether the author hated children or was just ambivalent towards them.

Good night Moon

100

I oftne use his theme song to entertain her. He lives in a pineapple under the sea.

Spongebob Squarepants

200

This ancient Greek philosopher wasn't a big fan or writing. He thought it weakened memory, created the illusion of knowledge and thought the writings couldjn't respond or defend itself.

Socrates

200

This orange and black design by this well known book publisher got a big boost in WWII when they were widely distributed to British military personnel pocket-sized.  

Penguin books.

200

One of her middle names, if we had a boy we were going to name him this. Hint: Michale has tattoos of this.

Kit

300

The only emperor to retire in a formally planned way, Diocletian withdrew to his palace in Croatia to grow this leafy vegetable. When asked to return to power during political instability, he declined and allegedly said "If you could see the (blank) I planted with my own hands, you would not ask this"  Hint: it's in both types of gyozas.

Cabbages

300

In order to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature or any Nobel Prize really, Kazuo Ishiguro would have had to give a lecture. He had this dystopian novel published in 2005 about cloned children raised for organ donation.

Never Let Me Go.

300

I've got a tattoo of a fox and rabbit. The baby versions of them are called this.

Kit

300

If Flora's birthday is October 21, 2026, she will be exactly  179 days old on this date. 12:58pm if you wanted the exact time.

18-04-2026 (today)

400

This philosopher apparently lived in a jar and insulted everyone. He carried a lantern in daylight looking for an honest man. He even mocked Alexander the Great who asked what he could do for the philosopher as his humble servant. The philosopher replied to get out of his sunlight.

Diogenes.

400

Two foundational mythic frameworks in  Ancient Greek and Roman literature.

The Aeneid and Odyssey

400

These types of penguins incubate eggs on their feet under a pouch through Antarctic winters while females hunt

Emperor penguins

500

This Roman emperor is said to have forced audiences to watch his awful performances as a singer and actor. Some had purportedly feigned illness and leapt from windows in order to escape.

Nero

500

She claims an ancestor in  17th-century witchcraft-lynching survivor Mary Webster. She was born in Ottawa ( you all live here!) but now lives in Toronto. Also a legend in Canadian literature.

Atwood

500

Flora has been transported back in time and has become child school classmates with Carl Fredrich Gauss. Their teacher in order to keep them busy asked them to add all the numbers up from 1 to 100. You could do it all manually... or you can figure out the pattern. This is the correct answer.

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