The Gospel of Mark
Life on Mars
Girl, Woman, Other
Marine Biology
Potpourri
100

Among the best-known examples of these short moral stories is the tale of a sower who sows seed on various kinds of soil.

What are PARABLES?

100

In the future according to “Sci-Fi,” the word “sun” refers to a device for neutralizing this element.

What is URANIUM?

100

This is the name of the “Abyssinian” father of Daisy’s child, Grace.

What is WOLDE?

100

The spawning grounds of the European and American eel are found in this distinctive patch of the Atlantic Ocean.

What is the SARGASSO SEA?

100

When listing an episode of a TV series in a Works Cited, the name of the series as a whole is considered to be this kind of bibliographic element.

What is a CONTAINER?

200

“The sabbath came about for the sake of man, not man for the sake of the Sabbath.” This cross-wise rhetorical construction is a notable feature of how Jesus speaks.

What is a CHIASMUS?

200

Tracy K. Smith says that she often uses the word “It” to invoke this concept or being.

What is GOD?

200

In the epilogue, Penelope’s an OAP whose life partner is an MBE with a GSOH, where the H stands for this.

What is HUMOR?

200

This creature is recorded as having the longest lifespan of any vertebrate; one specimen is estimated to have lived for over 400 years.

What is the GREENLAND SHARK?

200

Compared to his siblings, The Misfit is described by his father as a “different breed” of this creature.

What is a DOG?

300

In the land of the Gerasenes, the spirits possessing a man tell Jesus that their name is this, because they are many.

What is LEGION?

300

The words “SHINE SHINE SHINE SHINE” derive from a song by this musician.

Who is DAVID BOWIE?

300

Amma used to live in an extensive squat in London whose inhabitants called it the Republic of this.

What is FREEDOMIA?

300

These deep-sea sites where superheated water spews forth toxic chemicals just might be where life on earth originated with the help of chemosynthesis.

What are HYDROTHERMAL VENTS?

300

The name of this bandleader of Sonny’s jazz combo can also refer to certain groups or languages that derive from mixed origins.

Who is CREOLE?

400

This compound term describes the ethnic and geographical origin of a woman who changes Jesus’s mind by telling a story much as he does.

What is SYROPHOENICIAN?

400

A photograph of this Indian animal reminded Tracy K. Smith of her father, as reflected in her elegy written in memory of him.

What is a TIGER?

400

Though he dislikes being viewed as a spokesman for diversity, Roland immigrated to the UK as a young child from this country, which is entirely surrounded by Senegal.

What is (the) GAMBIA?

400

Recent research suggests that these radially symmetrical creatures evolved to lose their trunks, meaning they are all head, despite looking as if they are all arms.

What are STARFISH?

400

This kind of verbal can both take an object of its own and serve as the object of a verb or preposition.

What is a GERUND?

500

Jesus nicknames the brother disciples James and John “Boanerges,” meaning this.

What is SONS OF THUNDER?

500

The name of this poetic form, which uses couplets that conclude with a repeated word, derives from Arabic.

What is a GHAZAL?

500

Penelope is revealed to be this kind of relative to Morgan. (Use the relational term.)

What is a GREAT-AUNT?

500

This term describes the odd phenomenon of convergent evolution best summarized in the phrase “things keep evolving into crabs.”

What is CARCINIZATION?

500

Before he is crucified by the Gutres, Espinoza hears a scream from this kind of bird, legendarily associated with Jesus and the resurrection.

What is a GOLDFINCH?

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