Movies
This 1977 science fiction classic introduced the world to the Force, Lightsabers and a Galaxy, far, far, away.
What is Star Wars: A New Hope?
This treaty, signed in 1919, officially ended the First World War.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This is when two opposing ideas are placed side by side for contrast, such as: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
What is juxtaposition?
This is the largest lake in Canada by surface area.
What is Lake Superior?
Lake Superior has a surface area of 82,100 Km2
Canada has approximately 2 million lakes which accounts for 14% of the worlds lakes.
This gas makes up approximately 78% of the Earth's atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
This Canadian film maker directed "Avatar," and "Titanic."
Who is James Cameron?
This Canadian Province was the first to grant women the right to vote in 1916.
What is Manitoba?
This literary device uses a part of something to represent the whole - For example: "All hands on deck."
What is synecdoche?
This is the name of the mountain range that runs along the west coast of Canada.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
This organelle in plant cells is responsible for photosynthesis.
What is chloroplast?
This animated Studio Ghibli movie features a young girl working in a magical bathhouse to save her parents.
What is "Spirited Away"?
This rebellion in 1837-1838 aimed to bring responsible government to Upper and Lower Canada.
What is the Rebellion of 1837?
This is a figure of speech in which contradictory terms appear together, such as: "Jumbo shrimp."
What is an oxymoron?
This desert in British Columbia is considered Canada's only true desert.
What is the Okanagan Desert?
This semi-arid shrubland is located in the southern region of the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia and Washington State (U.S.)
This part of the periodic table is made up of elements that typically have a shiny appearance and conduct electricity?
What are metals?
This 1985 movie is about a group of scrappy adventurous kids who discover a pirate map in an attic.
What is "The Goonies"?
Who are "The Goonies"?
In his famous "I Have A Dream" speech Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. dreamt that one day people would be judged, not by the colour of their skin but by this.
What is their - character?
This is a pattern, structure, contrast and or literary device (for example symbols) that repeat to build and draw attention to the ideas in a story. It works to build and define theme(s).
What is a motif?
Fate is a motif in "Romeo and Juliet" Examples: "A star of star-crossed lovers take their life." (Prologue).
Mercutio: Plague on both your houses. (Act 3 Scene 1) Forshadows R and J's death.(Fate)
Symbols: the moon, the sun (the stars in general) - light and dark
Age: young and old
This Canadian province is home to the Bay of Fundy, famous for having the highest tides in the world.
What is Nova Scotia?
This is the process by which water changes from a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?
This movie was inspired by a Stephen King, short story called: "The Body." It features a group of young boys.
What is "Stand By Me"?
This global event to place from 1347 - 1351 and wiped our nearly one-third of Europe's populartion.
What is the Bubonic Plague (the Black Plague)?
This is the use of a word that imitates the sound it describes, like: buzz, sizzle or Shhh.
What is onomatopoeia?
This is the name ofthe line of latitude at 66*33' north, marking the southern boundary of the Artic.
What is the Artic Circle?
This law states that energy can not be created or destroyed, only tranformed.
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?