Athletes Behaving Badly
Famous Phrases
Minor Characters
Symbolic Moments and Objects
Literary Lingo
SC Slang and Such
Final Jeopardy
100
The first graceful, athletic thing that the narrator describes Sara doing in "Brawler." (hint: it doesn't involve swimming or diving).
What is escaping out the window of detention?
100
Frankie's repeated advice to Maggie:
"Always ____ _____"
What is "protect yourself"?
100
Troy's good buddy.
Who is Bono?
100
What Rose wants built for most of the play.
What is a fence?
100
What "VO" means in screenplay lingo.
What is voice over?
100
The name of this creature.
Who is Spirit?
200
Shawrelle likely purposely floods a bathroom to distract Scrap, and then do this.
What is box (and beat up) Danger?
200
The question that prompts the response: "No, it's Iowa."
What is "is this heaven?"?
200
This text includes a short appearance by a boy who allows another character to steal from his family's convenience store.
What is Brawler?
200
A scholarly article compares Scrap, Maggie, and Frankie to this religious concept.
What is the trinity?
200
"How to transform" has this type of narration.
What is second-person narration?
200
The most recent edition of The Springfield Student newspaper features an article about this unofficial Springfield College rule that dates back to at least 1930.
What is "don't walk on the grass"?
300
Troy buys drinks for this woman, who never appears in the play.
Who is Alberta?
300
"I fooled them, Rose. I [did this] (1). When I found you and Cory and a halfway decent job...I was safe."
What is bunted?
300
At the end of the text, Squeaky contemplates shifting her attention from her own athleticism toward training this character.
Who is Raymond?
300
Why Sara's mother likes vodka, and why Sara doesn't like to eat before competing.
What is the feeling of "clean"?
300
"E" word that refers to the way in which the narrator/playwright reveals backstory.
What is "exposition"?
300
An accurate translation of this sentence:
After my PEAC, I swung by the LC where MBC was announcing plans for a new VAPA building.
Physical Education Activity Course
Learning Commons
Mary Beth Cooper
Visual and Performing Arts
400
The villainous hunter in "The Most Dangerous Game" is an aristocrat from this country.
What is Russia?
400
How to Transform an Everyday, Ordinary Hoop Court into a Place of Higher Learning and ___ ___ ___ ___ (4).
What is "you at the podium"?
400
This athletic character publicly insults and teases you in order to help you assert yourself.
Who is Dante?
400
This character steps off the baseball diamond and instantly ages out of competition.
Who is Moonlight Graham?
400
Aristotle argued that dramatic works should have "unities" of "time, place" and this.
What is action?
400
Known affectionately as "MAC," she is the Provost/Vice President of Academic Affairs at Springfield College, and the chief academic officer at the college.
Who is Mary Ann Coughlin?
400
THE CATEGORY IS . . .
Historical Events mentioned in Literature
500
The narrator of "The Thrill of the Grass" admits to having been a so-so athlete; now, he uses the skills of this, his current profession, to make a little trouble.
What is a locksmith?
500
CORY: You got to take the _____ with the _____. That's what Papa used to say.
What is "crookeds" and "straights"?
500
Terrence Mann is based on this real-life reclusive author, who appears as a fictional character in the novel upon which Field of Dreams is based.
Who is Terrence Mann?
500
Fences concludes with Gabe attempting unsuccessfully to do this.
What is play the trumpet?
500
German academic who invented a "pyramid" template for understanding plot.
Who is Freytag?
500
Springfield College has a problem with names. The "college" is arguably a university; the library isn't called a library; you don't eat meals at "Fuller"; the admissions building reads "Gymnasium," and the building we're all in right now, Weiser Hall--the home of Literature, Writing, and Journalism--is labelled as this kind of building.
What is an infirmary?
500
In Fences, Troy's early life and young adulthood mirrors this, a term historians use to describe a mass movement of African Americans from the Jim Crow South to the industrial North.
What is the Great Migration?