Why Is Everyone in This Town So Weird?
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ISWHO?
More poetry, because why not.
100

Who said, "Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."

Narrator/Scout/Jean Louise Finch

100

Throw or drop something; often from an aircraft or ship

Jettison

100

“Yipping like a dog  who has caught his tail in a door, he streaked for home, shedding ________________________ like confetti as he went”

mousetraps

100

Who is the main antagonist in Red Fox?

Jabe Smith

100

Which bust did the raven perch itself upon?

Pallas

Athena

200

Mean racist battle-axe who was addicted to morphine

Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose

200

Able to be touched or felt

Palpable

200

“I saw several figures running toward me… the woman was waving a _______ - foot-long snowknife, while her three offspring were brandishing deer spears and skinning _______________”

two, knives

200

Which character claims relationship with the King of France?

The King/Dauphin from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

200

Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables.

Haiku

300

Who said, "I shall never marry"

Uncle Jack

300

Abundant in supply or quantity

Copious

300

“… he had been up in a mail - ____________ seventeen times, he had been to  ___________    _____________  , he had seen an elephant, and his granddaddy was Brigadier General Joe Wheeler and left him his ____________________.”

plane, Nova Scotia, sword

300

Who is the aggressor in War of the Worlds?

Mars/Martians

300

Which famous novel was written by Sir Walter Scott in the Romanticist era?

It was mentioned multiple times throughout the course

Ivanhoe

400

The name of the boy who pours syrup aaaallll over his food

Walter Cunningham

400

Completely empty, or not valid

Void

400

“If the morning meat delivery made me somewhat squeamish, it did not inhibit the _________________. With single minded voracity they waded into their ______________________ while Angeline watched them tolerantly, making no attempt to correct their appalling _________________________”

pups, breakfast, manners

400

Which author was said to be "the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war" 

Harriet Beecher Stowe

400

What is the real name of the captain alluded to in "Oh Captain, My Captain"?

Abraham Lincoln

500

What does Miss Maudie call the children’s snowman?

An absolute morphodite

500

When only a small number of people understand

Esoteric

500

“Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us _________________ soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck ___________________, and our ____________________. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the ____________________ what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.”

two, pennies, lives, tree

500

Which two characters obeyed Epps and beat Tom mercilessly?

Quimbo and Sambo

500

Which frumious creature is the child told to shun in The Jabberwocky?

Bandersnatch

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