Six-Word Synopses
Lawyer's child watches justice fail gracefully.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
These twins result from two separate eggs fertilized by two different sperm, making them no more genetically alike than typical siblings
What are fraternal twins (or dizygotic twins)?
This fruit shares its name with a tech company, and the object that allegedly fell on Isaac Newton’s head.
What is an apple?
The Erie Canal connects Lake Erie to this river, allowing passage to the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Hudson River?
This 2008 Pixar film followed a near-silent robot through a post-human Earth — and became an environmental fable disguised as family entertainment.
What is WALL-E?
Doublethink reigns. Rats are the worst.
What is 1984?
In this 1999 film, a mirror becomes both a literal object and a metaphor for the division between constructed illusion and hidden reality.
What is The Matrix?
This food-based idiom means to reveal a secret— whether on purpose or by accident.
What is spill the beans?
This classification level comes between ‘phylum’ and ‘order’ in the Linnaean system of taxonomy
What is class?
This artist released the album 808s & Heartbreak in 2008, marking a major shift toward auto-tuned vulnerability in mainstream hip-hop
What is Kanye West?
Order collapses. Conch smashed. Pig’s doomed.
What is Lord of the Flies?
This literary figure or motif appears as a character’s double — sometimes identical, sometimes inverted — and often represents inner conflict, repressed desires, or fate.
What is a doppelgänger?
This dairy product appears in phrases meaning flattery
What is butter?
The capital of this U.S. state begins with the same five letters as the state itself
What is Indiana?
This startup, launched in 2008, began by letting employees anonymously review their companies
What is Glassdoor?
Dust swallows dreams. Family pushes westward.
What is the Grapes of Wrath?
In this sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the protagonist steps through a mirror into a world where logic is reversed and chess dictates movement.
What is Through the Looking-Glass?
In tech and cybersecurity, this seafood is repurposed to describe fake digital bait.
What is phishing?
This number is both a perfect square and a perfect cube — the smallest one after 1.
What is 64?
In 2008, this author pulled the plug on Midnight Sun after a leaked draft surfaced.
Who is Stephanie Meyer?
Idealist pursues green light, not love.
What is the Great Gatsby?
This term from chemistry and geometry refers to an object or molecule that is a non-superimposable mirror image of another — like your hands.
What is chirality?
In web browsing, this delicious term refers to small data files stored on your device.
What is a cookie?
This long punctuation mark can replace commas, parentheses, or colons — often adding emphasis, interruption, or dramatic pause — but it’s not found on a standard keyboard without a shortcut.
What is an em dash?
In September 2008, this 158-year-old investment bank filed for bankruptcy.
What is Lehman Brothers?