Classic Literature
This is the name of the character that drowns in a bed of flowers in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
Who is Ophelia?
These are the names of the two official UCR mascots.
Who are Scotty and Norm?
This is the TV series that features the battle for the Iron Throne.
What is Game of Thrones?
This is the correct placement of an Oxford comma.
What is immediately before the conjunction in a series of three or more terms?
This is the name of the new English major advisor at UCR.
Who is Elaine Chacon?
In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, this is Romeo’s last name.
What is Montague?
This is name of the building has the trees that grows oranges, kumquats, and other citrus outside it.
What is HMNSS?
This is the name of the author who wrote the Dune books.
Who is Frank Herbert?
This is the correct order of the heading for MLA format.
What is Name, Professor, Class, Date?
This is the name of the professor that EMA hosted at our last Professor Talk event.
Who is Dr. Zieger?
This is the name of the novel that the concept for “Big Brother” comes from.
What is 1984?
This is the year UCR was established.
What is 1907?
This game currently holds the title for Game of the Year.
What is Baldur’s Gate 3?
This is the correct usage of a semicolon.
What is connecting two independent clauses?
This is the poetic form that consists of 14 lines.
What is a sonnet?
This is the name of the author who wrote Prometheus Unbound.
Who is Percy Shelley?
This is the decade that Dr. Axelrod began teaching at UCR.
What is the 1970’s?
This is the name of the romantic poet that Benedict from Bridgerton makes fun of.
Who is Lord Byron?
This is the name the indent used for a Works Cited page.
What is a hanging indent?
This is the full title of Edgar Allen Poe’s sole novel.
What is The Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket?
This is the name of the author who wrote the epic poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”
Who is Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
This is the name of the first building where UCR was created.
What is Anderson Hall?
DAILY DOUBLE: This is the color Niall Horan dyed his hair on the 2013 1D Day livestream.
What is lilac/lavender/purple?
This is the definition of a gerund with an example.
What is a verb that act like a noun?
EG: Sleeping is overrated.
These are the names of any ten current UCR English Department professors.
Any ten are acceptable!