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"The Leaning Tower of Pizza", is this a malapropism or a simile?
What is a malapropism?
A word that starts with an "s" describes what you do to loosen your muscles is called what?
What is "stretch"?
Is the word for a person who inherits money spelled h-e-i-r or h-a-i-r?
What is h-e-i-r?
DAILY DOUBLE
What resource should you use to find a word's correct pronunciation?
What is "a dictionary"?
Is a person who has a "green thumb" good at gardening, cooking, or painting pictures?
What is "gardening?
Did the man l-o-s-e-n his tie or l-o-o-s-e-n his tie?
What is l-o-o-s-e-n?
(Loosen)
Take a 3-letter synonym for "angry". Add a silent "e". What new word do you get?
What is "made"?
Which is NOT a word for a horse: colt, mare, stallion, gazelle, filly?
What is a "gazelle"?
(A gazelle is an antelope)
In which word is the letter "n" pronounced: column or columnist?
What is "columnist"?
DAILY DOUBLE
Form an adverb from the word "smooth".
What is "smoothly"?
Is a story that teaches a moral lesson called a paradox or a parable?
What is a "parable"?
FANBOYS is a mnemonic device for remembering coordinating conjunctions. True or False?
(It helps us remember the conjunctions: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.)
DAILY DOUBLE
Take the word "pain". Add a letter to get the opposite of "fancy".
What is "plain"?
Veranda, mesa, salsa. Are these words borrowed from Italian or Spanish?
What is Spanish?
Fix this sentence: "Their uploading they're video on YouTube".
What is "They're uploading their video on YouTube".
DAILY DOUBLE
Find the answer hidden in the word/phrase:
There's something grandmotherly about a "banana."
Who/What is "nana"
(Banana - "nana")
What do we call a person who is an expert on the economy?
What is an economist?
Fix the verb in this sentence:
"The clock on the wall stricked twelve".
What is the clock on the wall "struck" twelve?
When writing a research paper, do you use the first person (I, me, my, mine, we, ours) or third person (he, she, it, they) point of view?
What is third person?
The first person is used for personal writing and narration. The narrator talks about themself (I, me, my, mine, we, ours).
In second person the narrator talks to the reader directly (you, your, yourself).
In third person the narrator talks about other people (he, she, it, they, their).
Say the words that rhyme with "late":
e-i-g-h-t
n-i-g-h-t
s-t-r-a-i-g-h-t
What are "eight" and "straight"?
Was the sandwich named for a giant clam, a beach resort, or an English nobleman?
What is an English nobleman?
(The Earl of Sandwich)
The hungry horse hurried all the way home". Is this alliteration or onomatopeia?
What is alliteration?
The lecture went "in one ear and out the other". Was it misunderstood or ignored?
What is "ignored"?
"Here's my grocery list peanut butter and jelly."
Where should the colon go?
What is "after the word list"?
("Here's my grocery list: peanut butter and jelly.")
Spell the simple past tense of the verb "fly".
What is "f-l-e-w"?
(Flew)
When your head hurts, do you have a h-e-a-d-a-k-e or h-e-a-d-a-c-h-e?
What is h-e-a-d-a-c-h-e?
(Headache)
Which word has a negative connotation?
a. He left quickly.
b. He beat a hasty retreat.
What is "He beat a hasty retreat"?
DAILY DOUBLE
Who masterminded Apple's iPod, iPhone, and iPad:
Steve Jobs or Larry Page?
Who is "Steve Jobs"?
(Larry Page was the co-founder of Google.)
Is a computer printout called software or a hard copy?
What is a "hard copy"?
Which form of music was popular 100 years ago?
a. Rap
b. Heavy Metal
c. Operetta
What is "operetta"?
Find the answer hidden in the word. There's something scary about "book" What is it?
What is "boo"?
Is "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" a spiritual or a Christmas Carol?
What is a spiritual?
What is "change for the better?
When the word r-e-c-o-r-d means "the best score", which syllable is stressed?
What is "the first syllable"?
(REC-ord)
In a poem, when the text is regularly repeated, is it called the rhythm or the refrain?
What is "the refrain"?
If "I hit a home run" is in the present tense, how do you put it in the simple past?
What is "I hit a home run"?
("Hit" is a verb that has the same present and past forms.)
Which plural is incorrect:
a. cattle
b. steers
c. oxes
d. horses
e. camels
What is "oxes"?
(The correct plural of "ox" is "oxen".)
Which is correct?
a. He did real good.
b. He did really well.
What is "He did really well".
(b.)
In baseball, what do we call the final championship game of the season?
What is "The World Series"?
Which spelling is incorrect?
a. I p-a-s-t the test!
b. I p-a-s-s-e-d the test!
What is "I passed the test!"
(p-a-s-s-e-d)
What's the word for a group of heavenly stars that form a picture?
What is a constellation?
Correct this sentence:
"I don't think no game is that important".
What is "I don't think any game is that important".
(Never use a double negative.)
Is the author of a plays called a "playwright" or a "playwrite"?
What is a "playwright"?
Is a place where money is manufactured called a mint or a treasury?
What is "a mint"?
(A treasury is a place where money and other valuables are kept.)
"On a sleepy road, the house closed its eyes and went to bed". Is this a simile or personification?
What is personification?
Spell the season that follows summer and is also called fall.
What is "A-u-t-u-m-n"?
Autumn
Arrange these exercise words in their correct order:
jog, cool down, walk, warm up, run
What is "Warm up, walk, jog, run, cool down"?
"No, man, we don't have no bananas". Correct this sentence.
"No, man, we don't have any bananas".
Conversation between characters in a story or play is called . . . what?
What is a "dialogue"
What abbreviation do you use when you add a postscript to a letter?
What is P.S.?