Ichabod Crane is the tragic hero of this short story.
What is "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?"
100
This word means "to see clearly, to be able to distinguish."
What is "discern?"
100
The "Treaty of Versailles" ended this conflict and directly influenced the rise of a second German threat.
What is World War I?
100
This 20th century science fiction author wrote about high school students stranded on a distant planet.
Who is Robert Heinlein?
100
This punctuation mark is used before the coordinating conjunction in a compound sentence.
What is a comma?
200
This character is always trying to capture Br'er Rabbit.
Who is Br'er Fox?
200
This word means "to destroy, to wipe away."
What is "obliterate?'
200
Also called D-Day, this event occurred on June 6, 1944, and was the largest amphibious assault in history.
What is the Invasion of Normandy?
200
Most famous for "Tom Sawyer" this author's real name was Samuel Clemens.
Who is Mark Twain?
200
This sentence error occurs when two independent clauses are joined by a comma.
What is a comma splice?
300
This character slept for 20 years and missed the Revolutionary War.
Who is Rip Van Winkle?
300
This word means "to circle around, to prevent seomthing from happening."
What is "circumvent?"
300
This American general was the Allied Supreme Commander of the European theatre and later became a US president.
Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower?
300
Abraham Lincoln called this author the “little woman who wrote the book that made this great war”--after she wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
300
This punctuation mark should be used to introduce a list.
What is a colon?
400
This celebrated frog is named after a famous senator.
Who is Dan'l Webster?
400
This word means "to speed up, to ease the progress of."
What is "expedite?"
400
This nickname referred to Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill--as one group.
What is the Big Three?
400
This author wrote The Scarlet Letter and Dr. Heidegger's Experiment.
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
400
This is the technical term (other than "verb") that tells what the subject of the sentence does or is.
What is the predicate?
500
This slightly off-center doctor performed a social experiment on four of his friends.
Who is Dr. Heidegger?
500
This word means "to make bigger, to expand."
What is "augment?"
500
General Patton gave his presence to a cardboard army in Dover, England, making the Germans believe the Allied invasion would happen at this area in France.
What is Calais?
500
This author is most famous for his story about the Headless Horseman.
Who is Washington Irving?
500
This is the term that refers to a noun following a linking verb that renames the subject of the sentence.