Throwback: Short Stories
Early 2000s
Greek Stuff We Didn't Study
Disney Movies
Marvel
200

This is the moral or message from a story.

What is theme?

200

The year of the 9/11 attacks.

What is 2001?

200

Most weapons and armor in Ancient Greece were made of this metal.

What is bronze?

200

This is the name of the ghost dog in The Nightmare Before Christmas.

What is Zero?

200
This superhero turned down an invitation to join the Avengers.

Who is Spider-Man?

400

This is where and when a story takes place.

What is the setting?

400

The year John Kerry lost the presidential election to George W. Bush.

What is 2004?

400

The god of death kept Persephone in the underworld because she ate three of these.

What are pomegranite seeds?

400

This was the first animated feature film made by the Walt Disney company.

What is Snow White and the Seven Dwarves?

400

This superhero's powers include telekenesis, flight, mind reading, and creating matter from nothing.

Who is The Scarlet Witch (aka Wanda Maximoff)?

600

This is the author's emotional attitude shown in the story.

What is the tone?

600

Hurricane Katrina devastates New Orleans.

What is 2005?

600

This beautiful woman was not born, but instead she hatched from an egg.

Who is Helen?
600

DAILY DOUBLE!!!!

This was the name of the villain in Tangled.

600

This villain would have destroyed the multiverse if the Avengers (or the Guardians of the Multiverse) had not stopped him.

Who is Ultron?

800

DAILY DOUBLE!!!

This is the part of the plot where everything comes to a breaking point; the most exciting moment of a story.

800

The year Disney got its first Black princess, Tiana.

What is 2009?

800

One of these holds about 750ml of liquid.

What is a wineskin?

800

This woman is the voice of Sisudatu in Raya and the Last Dragon. She also plays Katy in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.

Who is Awkwafina?

800

This type of radiation gave The Incredible Hulk his powers.

What is gamma radiation?
1000

This is the type of characterization when the reader has to figure it out for themself.

What is indirect characterization?

1000

Sonya Sotomayor becomes the first Latina Supreme Court Justice.

What is 2009?

1000

This is the Greek word for hospitality, which is what Odysseus expects from Polyphemus, and what Diomedes and Glauccus remember on the Trojan battlefield.

What is xenia?

1000

This is the setting of the Winnie-the-Pooh stories.

What is the Hundred Acre Wood?

1000

This producer has worked on every Marvel movie and TV series.

Who is Kevin Feige?

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