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100

This is the nickname that Chris McCandless gives himself.

Alexander Supertramp

100

This popular collectible has long ears, sharp teeth, and is often featured attached to belt loops, backpacks, and purses:

Labooboo

100

The following is an example of what type of imagery?

“Blue spurt and sharp scratch of a lighted match.”

Visual or aural. 

100

One of these animals is pardoned by a sitting president every year:

Turkey

100

Complete this sentence:

Reduce, Reuse, _________. 

Recycle

200

This is the name of the person Chris McCandless works for in South Dakota until they are arrested for involvement in a scheme to build and sell black boxes.

Wayne Westerberg

200

Keroppi is a species of:

Frog

200

The following is an example of what type of imagery:

"The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun, and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music…"

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Visual

200

This animal is lovingly referred to by some as a “trash panda”:

Racoon

200

This blue 90s superhero had a green mullet and tight red short shorts.

Captain Planet

300

What name does Everett Ruess appear to adopt before disappearing forever?

Nemo

300

My Melody is a species of:

Rabbit or Bunny

300

The following is an example of what type of imagery:

"The flesh was sweet like thickened wine."

-Seamus Heaney, "Blackberries"


Gustatory

300

These animals frequent the campus quad and have bushy tails.

Squirrels

300

This environmental writer famously said:

"Simplify, simplify, simplify."

Henry David Thoreau

400

This is the name of the Irish monks that first discover Iceland in the 8th century:

The Papar

400

Tralalero Tralala wears Nike shoes and has the body of this species:

Shark

400

The following includes what type of imagery:

"Mud squelched between my toes."

Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

Tactile

400

Species of bird that Mr. Mull found on the quad and kept as a pet:

Parakeet or "Budgie"

400

Earth Day is celebrated on this day every year:

April 22

500

What was the name of Chris McCandless' dog?

Buck or Buckley

500

This children's book features a boy named Max dressed in a wolf costume who makes mischief and is sent to bed without supper.

Where the Wild Things Are

500

"The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun, and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music…"

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

"Yellow cocktail music" is an example of what literary or poetic device?

Synaesthesia

500

This species of bird popularized by a cartoon character whose first name is Woody is largely believed to be now extinct:

Ivory Billed Woodpecker

500

The environmental film, An Inconvenient Truth, brought global warming to the forefront of the public's conscience in 2006. What former politician is featured throughout this film?

Al Gore

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