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Misc. English Major-y Questions
100

This is the name of the theater where many of Shakespeare’s plays were produced:

The Globe

100

This is the full name of the current UCR Chancellor:

Kim A. Wilcox

100
This actress just won Best Actress at the Academy Awards:

Michelle Yeoh

100

This is how you format basic parenthetical APA citations:

(Author's last name, year published).

100

Name 6 romance tropes

Acceptable: Enemies to lovers, lovers to enemies, friends to lovers, found family, starcrossed lovers, right person wrong time, childhood friends, slow burn, fake dating, the one that got away, etc.

200

The hero Beowulf faces a monster known by this name:

Grendel
200

More commonly known as the Cutie, this is the name of the type of mandarin invented at UCR:

Tango

200

This is the popular movie franchise the dancing dogs TikTok trend is from:

Barbie Movies

200

This is the number of lines a quote must be in order to use block formatting in MLA:

4 lines of a source or 3 lines of verse

200

This is the only genre where the author isn't supposed to lie:

Nonfiction

300

Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights tells of a tragic romance between two lovers. Their names are:

Catherine and Heathcliff

300

This is the year UCR was established:

1907

300

This actress sang "Angela Bassett did the thing" at the BAFTA awards last month:

Ariana Debose

300

Identify the prepositional phrase in this sentence:

Finals season is making me profusely sob in the Rivera Library.

"in the Rivera Library."

300

This is what it is called when a book is written in a letter format:

Epistolary

400

This 20th Century author wrote, “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others” in this book: *need book title & author

Animal Farm by George Orwell

400

This popular 2011 music video was filmed in the original Barn:

Pumped Up Kicks by Foster the People

400

DAILY DOUBLE: It recently surfaced that Pedro Pascal used to have this kind of piercing:

Belly button

400

This is the definition of a gerund: 

*Bonus if you can provide an example!

Gerunds are verbs that act like nouns. 

EG: Sleeping is overrated. 

400

Name 7 of the 12 steps in the hero's journey

Status quo, call to adventure, supernatural aid, crossing the threshold, road of trials, approach, ordeal, reward, magic flight, return, resurrection, resolution

500

This is the name of the fictional town Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird set in:

Maycomb, Alabama

500

This was the first mascot of UCR:

Lady MacTavish of Walpole, aka Buttons the Scottish Terrier

500

This is the correct spelling of Grimes' baby's name:

X AE A-XII Musk

500

Out of these, identify which is NOT an abstract noun: Love, Rainbow, Fear, Democracy

Rainbow

500

These are the elements of a Shakespearean sonnet:

1) Fourteen lines long.

2) Four stanzas. The first three have four lines each, which makes them “quatrains,” with the second and fourth lines of each group containing rhyming words.

3) Concludes with a two-line subgroup, and these two lines rhyme with each other.

4) Ten syllables per line, which are phrased in iambic pentameter.

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