“IC” FACTOR (all answers must have “ic” somewhere in the answer in exactly that order)
Q: The genre of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
A: What is fiction?
Q: “I was born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.”
A: Who is Harriet Jacobs?
Q: The year of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.
A: What is 1865?
Q: The number of times Olaudah Equiano’s name gets changed.
A: What is 3?
Q: The real representation of the “Red Death”.
A: What is Tuberculosis?
Q: The period emphasizing on emotion, individualism as well as a glorification of nature,
A: What is Romantic?
Q: “Rise up- for you the flag is flung- for you the bugle trills,/For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths.”
A: Who is Walt Whitman?
Q: Lincoln’s assassin.
A: Who is John Wilkes Booth?
Q:The difference in years between the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the delivery of the Gettysburg Address.
A:What is 87?
Q: In “Masque of the Red Death,” this feared object signifies the mortality of the revelers.
A: What is the clock?
Q: The subgenre (sometimes considered a separate genre) of Romantic literature, focused on heightened emotion, the supernatural, fear, mystery, and nature as a destructive force.
A: What is Gothic?
Q: “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
A: Who is Frederick Douglass?
Q: The term” for Government of the people, for the people, by the people.”
A: What is a democracy?
Q: The approximate number of “honored dead” at the battle of Gettysburg..
A: What is 50,000? (or 51,000)
Q: Frederick Douglass’s nemesis known as the “slave breaker.”
A: Who is Edward Covey?
Q: Phyllis Wheatly describes the view the white settlers have about the “color” of “[her] sable race” as this.
A: What is “diabolic”?
Q: It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces but let us judge not that we be not judged.
A: Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Q: When Lincoln refers to America as having a “new birth,” he is espousing this Transcendental ideal.
A: What is freedom?
Q: The number of Amendments that comprise the Bill of Rights.
A: What is 10?
Q: The Romantic writers removed this Puritan fear from their writings.
A: What is death?
Q: The romantic poets exalted emotion over this.
A: What is logic?
Q: I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
A: Who is Henry David Thoreau?
Q: According to Lincoln, this transcendental truth is “self-evident”.
A: What is equality?
500 (Daily Double! Only the group who asks for this question gets to wager.)
Q: The number of rights in the First Amendment.
A: What is 5?
Q: This Puritan ideal is the basis for their founding of the United States.
A: What is the separation of church and state?