Vocabulary
Story Details
Literary Devices
General Knowledge
BONUS
100
What word means to quiver or tremble as if from weakness?
quaver
100
How did they know which animal to shoot?
They were marked with red paint
100
"Its armored flesh glittered like a thousand green coins."
Simile
100
In what decade did the butterfly effect become a scientific idea?
1960's
100
What are the names of the two main characters?
Eckels & Mr. Travis
200
What word means a luminous atmospheric phenomenon appearing as streamers or bands of light in the night sky
aurora
200
What were the final four words of the story?
... a sound of thunder
200
"Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them."
Personification
200
What is the name of the 1985 movie in which Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel back in time through a DeLorean car?
Back to the Future
200
What phrase describes both the sound of the dinosaurs footsteps and the sound of a gunshot?
A sound of thunder
300
What word means full of or swarming with?
teeming
300
How far back in time did they travel?
Over 60 million years
300
"The jungle was high and the jungle was broad and the jungle was the world forever and forever."
Hyperbole
300
What is the name of Albert Einstein's famous theory related to the speed of time?
Theory of Relativity
300
How many people including Eckels were on the time machine?
5
400
What word means to move with a smooth, wavelike motion?
undulate
400
What was the name of the newly elected president at the start of the story?
Keith
400
Eckles travelled back in time to kill a dinosaur, and all he ended up killing was a butterfly.
Irony
400
Who directed the original Jurrassic Park movie?
Steven Spielberg
400
List at least two changes made since the men returned back from their trip to the past.
president, spelling of language, smell of the air
the guy behind the desk, desk itself
500
What word means a situation that seems impossible or difficult to understand because it contains two opposite facts or characteristics?
paradox
500
What was the path made from the kept it from touching anything?
Anti-gravity metal
500
What two literary devices are used in this description of the T-Rex: "It's mouth gaped, exposing a fence of teeth like daggers."?
metaphor & similie
500
Name the dinosaur?
Velociraptor
500
What year does the story begin and end in?
2055