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Riddle
100
Translate:
"You're zoomed!"
You're crazy!
100
inspiring or deserving love or affection (begins with "l")
lovable
100
The system in South Africa that separated races.
Apartheid
100
Find the nonstandard English:
We need less homework, and we ain't about to take no for an answer.
ain't
100
What has to be broken before you can use it?
An egg
200
What is a "gummy"?
An old person
200
tough, resistant (begins with "d")
durable
200
Another name for "military takeover"
military coup
200
Fix the double negative:
No one should never drive on ice.
No one should ever drive on ice.
200
If you don’t keep me, I’ll break. What am I?
A promise
300
What is the Last Book in the Universe?
Spaz
300
complaints (begins with "g")
grievances
300
Many Latin American nations depended too much on a single crop or mineral and developed _______________.
One-crop economies
300
Name the type of figurative language:
I am so tired I could sleep for a million years
Hyperbole
300
I have a tail and a head, but no body. What am I?
A coin
400
The most important building in Eden.
The Primary Laboratory
400
Collections of information about many branches of knowledge (begins with "e")
encyclopedias
400
The easiest government to set up where the person with the most military power takes charge.
dictatorship
400
An _____________ is the noun or nouns to which a pronoun refers.
antecedent
400
Which word becomes shorter when you add 2 letters to it?
The word "short".
500
Why were the latches burning and the people rioting?
The proovs turned off the mindprobes
500
An officer in the armed forces (begins with "s")
sergeant
500
This dictator who took over the Congo:
Mobutu Sese Seko
500
Name the figurative language:
My brother loves science and is getting a reputation as a real Einstein.
allusion
500
It belongs to you, but your friends use it more. What is it?
Your name