Cave New World
What is the name of the train service that served NYC, Ithaca, and continued up to Geneva and on to Buffalo?
Name the vocab word: When Frederick Douglass talks to the sailboats in the Chesapeake bay, lamenting how they are free and he is not.
soliliquoy or apostrophe
Name that vocab word: "lend me your ears"
synecdoche
When a person changes how they speak as they move between different discourses, it is called...
code-switching
How many full snow days did we have this school year?
3
Who wrote the Allegory of the Cave?
Plato
In Ernest Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants, what do the hills like white elephants symbolize?
The female character's unborn child
What is the top-selling videogame of all time?
Minecraft
What does the M in the BEAM taxonomy stand for?
Method sources
Within 5,000, how many people live in Tompkins County?
103,000
What does the 'T' in T-Mobile stand for?
Telekom/Telecom
For 100 points each, name Mr. Riess' two cats and one fiancé.
Milo, Kaia, Christina
Name that vocab word: "blue buzzed bees bit Billy"
alliteration
Sitting on the hill above Ithaca High School, there is a smokestack. That, and lead in the gorge walls, is all that is left of what business?
Ithaca Gun Company
Which famous literary character is from the Greek island of Ithaka?
Odysseus
"... folks''
Where is Frederick Douglass buried?
Rochester, NY
Name that vocab word: "when the going gets tough, the tough get going"
chiasmus
Geographical isolation, settlement patterns, class difference, racial difference, immigration.
What is the name of the confederacy if Native Americans who have historically lived in this area?
Haudenosaunee (Iroquois)
The name of the once-popular cellular network SPRINT (now absorbed into T-Mobile), was an acronym, reaching back to the days when telegraph lines followed railroad rights-of-way. What did the first two letters of SPRINT stand for?
(Hint: the first half two letters correspond with the biggest cargo rail company in the western U.S.)
Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Networking Telecommunications
In Frederick Douglass' autobiography, what does Captain Auld demand that his wife stop doing?
Teaching Douglass to read.
Name that literary device: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"
juxtaposition
How many aircraft carriers does the US Navy have in active service?
11
Which literary devices literally means "poopy sounds"
cacophony