Sports
Books, and Other Writings
Writing Techniques
Parts of Speech
Cartoons
100

This sport is known as “the beautiful game” around the world.

What is soccer?

100

In this classic novel, a girl named Dorothy travels to the Emerald City.

What is The Wizard of Oz?

100

When the opposite of what is expected happens, it is called this.

What is irony?

100

This part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea.

What is a noun? 

100

Name 3 Characters from Spongebob.

Patrick, Spongebob, Squidward, Squilium Fancy Pants, Pearl, Mr. Crabs, Plankton, etc.

200

This hockey trophy is awarded each year to the NHL champions.

What is the Stanley Cup?

200

This novel tells the story of a pig named Wilbur and a spider named Charlotte.

What is Charlotte’s Web?

200

Words like “buzz,” “clang,” and “boom” are examples of this sound-based technique.

What is onomatopoeia?

200

Words like “run,” “jump,” and “think” are examples of this part of speech.

What is a verb?

200

This Nickelodeon cartoon follows a bald boy who can control all four elements.

What is Avatar: The Last Airbender?

300

This athlete won 8 gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Who is Michael Phelps?

300

This dystopian novel features “tributes” competing in a televised fight for survival.

What is The Hunger Games?

300

This technique gives hints or clues about events that will happen later in a story.

What is foreshadowing?

300

In the sentence “She quickly finished her homework,” this part of speech is “quickly.”

What is an adverb?

300

In this cartoon, a boy genius has a secret laboratory hidden behind his bookshelf.

What is Dexter’s Laboratory?

400

This country won the FIFA World Cup in 2022.

What is Argentina?

400

In this George Orwell novel, animals take over a farm to create their own society.

What is Animal Farm? 

400

This type of conflict happens inside a character’s mind.

What is internal conflict?

400

Words such as “and,” “but,” and “or” belong to this part of speech.

What is a conjunction?

400

This cartoon cat and mouse are famous for chasing each other with almost no dialogue.

Who are Tom and Jerry?

500

In baseball, this term describes when a pitcher strikes out three batters on three pitches each, in one inning.

What is an immaculate inning?

500

This novel by Harper Lee tells the story of Scout Finch and the trial of Tom Robinson.

What is To Kill a Mockingbird?

500

This type of irony happens when readers know something the characters do not.

What is dramatic irony?

500

This part of speech shows the relationship between a noun and another word in the sentence, like “under,” “between,” or “beside.”

What is a preposition?

500

This long-running animated TV show was created by Matt Groening before Futurama.

What is The Simpsons?

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