Literary Artifacts
Lives of Authors
Deaths of Characters
Amazing Stuff
Early American Waters and Liquids
Business and Finance in Lit.
FINAL JEOPARDY
100
In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson claims that the Creator gives human beings certain rights, and calls out these three specific rights by name.
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
100
This writer oddly writes about himself in the third-person.
Who is Smith?
100
Major Molineux probably doesn't die from this painful and humiliating punishment at the end of Hawthorne's story.
What is tar-and-feathering?
100
This character claims that he "owes" something to multiple species of animals.
Who is Mishosha?
100
It's the name of the river AND the mountain range pictured here.
What is the Hudson and the Kaatskills (Catskills)?
100
It's how Equiano earns the money to buy his own freedom.
What is by being a merchant who buys goods in one area and sells them at a higher price in another?
200
Equiano's rediscovered baptismal certificate incited a literary controversy, as it listed this location as his place of birth.
What is Carolina?
200
The first professional author in the early US.
Who is Washington Irving?
200
What Mishosha becomes, in death.
What is a tree?
200
Rip awakes to find that a painting of this person has been changed into a painting of this person. (Need to name two people).
Who are King George and George Washington?
200
Type of alcohol Rip drinks in the mountains.
What is gin?
200
"My Kinsman, Major Molineux" begins with Robin paying double the usual amount for this.
What is a ferry ride?
300
In Washington Irving's short story "Rip Van Winkle," we are told that the story itself was "found among the papers of" this person.
Who is Knickerbocker?
300
She is known as the first "literary" Native American author.
Who is Jane Johnston Schoolcraft?
300
How Dame Van Winkle dies.
What is, yelling at a New England peddlar?
300
Game played by a ghostly crew in the mountains in "Rip Van Winkle."
What is bowling or nine-pins?
300
Magical vehicle in "Mishosha."
What is a canoe?
300
Rip Van Winkle is said to have "an insuperable aversion to all kinds of [BLANK] labor."
What is "profitable"?
400
It's where today you'll find this relief sculpture of Pocahontas saving John Smith.
What is the US Capitol Building?
(in the "origins of the nation" section)
400
Pocahontas did not marry John Smith but this other "John."
Who is Rolfe?
400
In the Indigenous legend "How America Was Discovered," the history of New World colonialism is traced back to the moment when a young European minister finds a secret book which makes this startling claim.
What is that the son of the Creator promised to come back after his death but did not?
400
In the last lines of "How America Was Discovered," this character feels bad about how badly things went.
Who is Satan?
400
According to a Yuchi tribal legend (a "contact narrative"), white people were created out of this substance.
What is seafoam?
400
In "How America Was Discovered," the "weapons" Europeans use to conquer the Americas are "whiskey, fiddles, blood corruption" and these two other things.
What are cards and money?
400
The Category is . . .
Historical People Who Appear in Our Readings
500
Six-letter word for the weapon that Robin carries with him.
What is a cudgel?
500
The exact date, including the year, of Thomas Jefferson's (and John Adams's) death.
What is July 4th, 1826?
500
Rip's dog who (maybe) manages to escape death but is half-starved upon his master's return.
Who is Wolf?
500
In the Yuchi contact narrative "Creation of the Whites," Europeans ask for a box of this.
What is soil or dirt?
500
In the same paragraph in which he tells the reader of his baptism as a boy, Equiano tells about this other incident.
What is how he was being moved between two boats and ended up falling in the river?
500
The amount of money (in pounds) that Mary Rowlandson is ransomed for.
What is 20?
500
Mary Rowlandson, during captivity, acted as this famous person's tailor.
Who is King Philip?