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100

Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by the Nobel Prize-winning British author William Golding. What is the setting of the novel?

island

100

Who is a surly asocial creature with a heart "two sizes too small"

the Grinch

100
  • Ornithophobia: Fear of _____?
  •  birds
100

If you threw this very popular toy away you had reason to hope it would come back.

yo-yo

100

This left handed person was born in February.  He had parents, attended school and went here and there.  He had friends and did stuff and went more places.  Later after attending another school he did more things and went other places.  Who is he? 

Hint he once lived in Illinois and was also once the first black US president.

Barack Obama

200

What letter was the Scarlet Letter?

A

200

What is the main risk of giving a kid an official Red Ryder, carbine action, 200-shot, range model air rifle?

He'll shoot his eye out

200
  • Genuphobia: Fear of _____?    Hints: largest joint, the knights who say"______", proposals
  •  knees
200

Giving dubious advice to children since 1946, this toy was inspired by a spirit writing device used by the inventor's mother Mary, a Cincinnati clairvoyant 

Magic 8 ball

200

This left-hander was a relativityly famous brainiac.

Albert Einstein

300

This Miguel de Cervantes novel is perhaps the most influential and well-known work of Spanish literature. The text has been so influential that a word based on the main character, was created to describe someone who is, “foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals; especially: marked by rash lofty romantic ideas or extravagantly chivalrous action.” 

Don Quixote

300

This movie takes place between Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day in New York City, and focuses on the effect of a department store Santa Claus who claims to be the real Santa. The film has become a perennial Christmas favorite.

Miracle on 34th Street

300
  • Papyrophobia: Fear of ______?
  • paper
300

This compound was first manufactured in Cincinnati, as a wallpaper cleaner in the 1930s. It was devised at the request of Kroger Grocery, which wanted a product that could clean coal residue from wallpaper. Being repurposed and marketed at an educational convention led to it's popularity as a toy. Not meant to be eaten but ... you gotta know.

Play-Doh

300

This left-hander served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing newspaper articles. He later became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before heading west to join his brother in Nevada. He referred humorously to his lack of success at mining.  

Mark Twain

400

The author wrote this novel "in record time for money," but the book's immediate success surprised both her and her publisher.   Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy do stuff and talk.  Ah, poor Beth:(

Little Women

400

In this program, the main character finds himself depressed despite the onset of the cheerful holiday season. A frenemy suggests he direct a neighborhood Christmas play, but his best efforts are ignored and mocked by his peers when he chooses a real, but puny, Christmas tree as a centerpiece.

A Charlie Brown Christmas (or anything with Charlie Brown or Peanuts in your answer)

400
  • Phobophobia: Fear of _______?   Once you are scared of everything else, there is always this.
  •  Fear of phobias
400

This toy was invented and manufactured by George Lerner in 1949, but was first distributed in 1952. It was the first toy advertised on television and has remained in production since.  In its original form, it was offered as separate plastic parts with pushpins to be attached into a real vegetable.  

Mr. Potato Head

400

This left-hander objected to the time-honored military practice of marching on the left side of the road with weapons at the ready in the right hand: it put lefties like him at a strategic disadvantage.  He changed this rule, thus freeing up a hand to put inside his vest between the buttons.

Napoleon Bonaparte

500

The main character of this novel lives the life of a destitute vagabond. He wears the clothes of full-grown men which he probably received as charity, and "he was fluttering with rags." He is an archetypal innocent, able to discover the "right" thing to do despite the prevailing theology and prejudiced mentality of his era. An example of this is his decision to help a desperate man, even though he believes he will go to Hell for it.

Huckleberry Finn

500

In this film a young boy is unexpectedly separated from his family and frightened by his next door neighbor who is rumored to be a serial killer who murdered his own family. After criminals try and fail in many ways to seize the boy, it is actually the neighbor who saves him.

Home Alone

500
  • Chionophobia: Fear of _______?  This would be debilitating for Minnesotans and the movie Frozen would be like a nightmare.  Olaf would be especially terrifying.
  • snow
500

This toy doll was created in 1959 by Danish fisherman and woodcutter Thomas Dam. Dam could not afford a Christmas gift for his young daughter Lila and carved one based on Scandinavian folklore and his imagination. Other children in the Danish town wanted one. They became one of the United States' biggest toy fads from the autumn of 1963 to 1965. 

Troll Dolls

500

If you are ever on a bus that will explode if you slow down, this is the left-handed actor you want to see in the next seat.

Keanu Reeves

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