Monsters and Mythos
Spanish for “goat-sucker,” this legendary creature was reportedly first seen in Puerto Rico in 1995
What is Chupacabra?
The Great Red Spot is a persistent high-pressure region spanning more than 10,000 miles wide. The region produces an almost constant anticyclonic storm on this planet
What is Jupiter?
These are the primary colors of pigment (what we are taught are primary colors in art class)
What are red (or magenta), blue (cyan), and yellow?
The solution of one plus one and expressing motion in the direction of
What is two and to?
Boo Radley, Scout, and Atticus Finch are all characters in this staple book of high school English class.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
In 1818, author Mary Shelley released her first novel that depicted the disturbing implications of attempting to undo death, resulting in this monster's creation
Who is Frankenstein's monster?
Commander Shepard is the main character of the classic sci-fi adventure game series Mass Effect. Shepard was named after Alan Shepard, the second person to venture into space and the first from this country
What is the United States of America?
These are the primary colors of light (the colors we can see based on the cones in our eyes)
What are red, green, and blue?
A lake in Gaelic and a mechanism for keeping a door or lid fastened shut
What is lock and loch
also accepting: Latch and Loch
This 1993 American classic by Lois Lowry tells the story of a boy named Jonas who learns about the complexities of his seemingly perfect society through his training with a man who holds all the community's memories
What is the Giver?
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What is a hydra?
List the order of the planets from closest to the sun to furthest in our solar system
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
Pluto can be included or not, no bearing on correctness unless listed in the wrong order
The wavelength of the light we see determines its color. This color has the shortest wavelength
What is violet?
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What is corps and core?
A real life account of surviving the unimaginable hardship of life as a child soldier. In this award-winning memoir, Ishmael Beah outlines his childhood experience of being conscripted as a soldier in a Nigerian warlord's army
What is "A Long Way Gone"?
A "Lycanthrope" is more commonly referred to as this
What is a werewolf?
The length of a planet's year is determined by the amount of time it takes to complete a full orbit around the sun. The length of a planet's day is determined by this
What is the amount of time to complete a full rotation on axis?
This phenomenon occurs when a wave encounters an obstacle or a slit, causing the wave to bend and spread out as it passes through. It is commonly demonstrated using a glass pyramid, where light waves bend and display the whole spectrum of colors as they spread out visible to our naked eye
What is diffraction?
A tract of open uncultivated upland and a greater or additional amount
What is more and moor?
"Of Mice and Men" is a classic American novel following two unemployed men named George and Lenny. The book details their search for work in a post-depression era, before they get into trouble and George is forced to euthanize Lenny written by this author
Who is John Steinbeck?
During his journey home from school one day, this protagonist of Sleepy Hollow encountered a man on horseback without a head, setting in motion a sequence of events ultimately leading to his disappearance
Who is Ichabod Crane?
Almost everyone knows who Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are, but the Apollo 11 mission had a third astronaut on board. This third lesser known astronaut stayed aboard the module while Neil took a giant leap for mankind.
Who is Michael Collins?
In the thirteenth century, this color was named geoluhread, meaning this
What is red-yellow?
or
What is orange?
Young male cattle primarily raised for beef and to direct the path of a car or other locomotive
What is Steer and Steer?
In the classic American novel "The Great Gatsby", Jay Gatsby throws lavish, exquisite parties allowing whoever to show up whenever, in the hopes that his former flame named this shows up
Who is Daisy Buchanan?