Sheakespeare
Puck is a mischievous fairy in this play.
What is A Midsummer Night's Dream?
This is a specch in which a character reveals their inner thoughts directly to the audience.
What is a soliloquy?
The root of this plant, used to alleviate nausea and motion sickness, is also a popular cooking spice. Name this plant native to Southeast Asia and used in a namesake ale.
What is ginger?
These features covered the American midwest around 10,500 years ago. They undergo a process called calving and are retreating due to climate change. These giant sheets of ice break away from icebergs.
What are glaciers?
This Greek city-state led the Delian League and was known as the "birthplace of democracy."
What is Athens?
The movie Ten Things I Hate About You is based on this Shakespearean play, featuring characters Katherina and Bianca.
What is Taming of the Shrew?
This is F. Scott Fitzgerald's narrator in The Great Gatsby.
Who is Nick Carraway?
What is the only U.S. state that can be typed using only one row of a standard “QWERTY” keyboard?
What is Alaska?
This lake is bordered by Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya. It is the largest lake in Africa by surface area. It is the world's second largest lake by surface area.
What is Lake Victoria?
She wrote the groundbreaking 1962 novel Silent Spring, a book that warns against the dangers of pesticides.
Who is (Rachel) Carson?
This play is considered Shakespeare's most bloody and violent tragedy.
What is Titus Andronicus?
This is Herman Melville's revenge-obsessed sea captain.
Who is Captain Ahab?
Known as a pound sign and a hashtag, this is the original name of this eight-pointed symbol: #.
What is the octothorpe?
This noun or noun phrase usually appears before a pronoun and must agree with it in number and gender. In "Maria lost her keys," the word Maria fills this role for "her." This is the grammatical term for the word to which a pronoun refers.
What is antecedent?
This New Deal Agency was created in 1933 and led by Harold Ickes. It funded large construction projects, such as dams, schools, hospitals, and courthouses. It generally hired private contractors, rather than employing workers directly.
What is the Public Works Administration (PWA)?
Prince Hal defeats Hotspur in this play.
What is Henry IV, Part I?
This is the term for unruhymed iambic pentameter.
What is blank verse?
This is the artist who painted The Girl With the Pearl Earring.
Who is Johannes Vermeer?
This novel follows a French doctor released after 18 years in the Bastille. It takes place during the French Revolution in both London and Paris, ending with Sydney Carton sacrificing his life.
What is A Tale of Two Cities?
This man, a PE teacher, chaplain, doctor, and coach is known as the inventor of basketball
Who is (James) Naismith?
This character is a wealthy and intelligent heiress in The Merchant of Venice.
Who is Portia?
This novel centers on Jing-mei Woo, who takes her dead mother's place at a mahjong table in San Francisco. Through connected family stories, she learns about her mother's lost twin daughters in China in this work by Amy Tan.
What is The Joy Luck Club?
In human anatomy, this is the common name for the hallux.
What is the big toe?
This humanistic psychologist proposed that people are motivated by a hierarchy of needs, progressing from physiological and safety needs toward belonging, self-actualization, and self esteem. This theory is described in his Motivation and Personality.
Who is (Abraham) Maslow?
Railroad executive Dagny Taggart attempts to save a failing rail line in this novel, whose central mystery asks, "Who is John Galt?"
What is Atlas Shrugged?