Monsters and Mythos
Space
Light and Color
Homophones
Standard Highschool Literature
400

Spanish for “goat-sucker,” this legendary creature was reportedly first seen in Puerto Rico in 1995

What is Chupacabra?

400

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?

400

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?

400

The solution of one plus one and expressing motion in the direction of

What is two and to?

400

Boo Radley, Scout, and Atticus Finch are all characters in this staple book of high school English class.

What is To Kill a Mockingbird?

800

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?

800

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?

800

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?

800

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

800

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?

1200

[DAILY DOUBLE #3]

What is a hydra?

1200

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

1200

The wavelength of the light we see determines its color. This color has the shortest wavelength

What is violet?

1200

[DAILY DOUBLE #2]

What is corps and core?

1200

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"?


1600

A "Lycanthrope" is more commonly referred to as this

What is a werewolf?

1600

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?

1600

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?

1600

A tract of open uncultivated upland and a greater or additional amount

What is more and moor?

1600

"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?

2000

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?

2000

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?

2000

In the thirteenth century, this color was named geoluhread, meaning this

What is red-yellow?

or

What is orange?

2000

Young male cattle primarily raised for beef and to direct the path of a car or other locomotive

What is Steer and Steer?

2000

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?

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