Vowel Vendettas
Teams of Literature
Funny Words
Nickname Game
Second Place
100

A work by Shakespeare: rm nd jlt

What is Romeo and Juliet?

100

Ted Hughes' classic novel featuring a robot: The Iron ____

What is Giant? 

100

Palindrome: A boat that when flipped around is still the same word

What is kayak?

100

The voice of Maui in Moana, Dwayne Johnson goes by this solid nickname. 

What is "The Rock"?

100

This hot planet is the second from the Sun.

What is Venus?

200

A Disney film set in the East: lddn

What is Aladdin?

200

Edgar Allan Poe wrote a poem about this black bird: The _____

What is Raven?

200

An oxymoron: This was Simon and Garfunkel's big song, starting with "Hello darkness, my old friend."

What is the Sound of Silence?

200

NBA legend Earvin Johnson went by this nickname. It's also something Harry Houdini was good at.

What is "Magic"?

200

This rotund individual was our nation's 2nd president.

Who was John Adams?
300

DAILY DOUBLE: Another work by Shakespeare: thll

What is Othello?

300

Scott O'Dell made this Newbery-Award winning novel about a Native American girl surviving on an island: Island of the Blue ________.

What is Dolphins?

300

A portmanteau (two words combined into one): Smog is made of these two words for when it gets dense

What is smoke and fog?

300

During his life, war career, and following presidency, Dwight D. Eisenhower went by this little nickname.

What is "Ike"?

300

This basketball legend has the most MVP runner-up finishes at 4; coming second in '06, '14, '18, and '20.

Who is LeBron James?

400

Dr Seuss's classic story describing a part of the body: th ft bk. 

What is The Foot Book?

400

Dashiell Hammett's book about private eye Sam Spade has him tracking down a jewel-encrusted statue: The Maltese _____.  

What is Falcon?

400

An emordnilap (flip the words to make another one): To look like royalty, and a type of beer

What is regal and lager?

400
Being brave and strong earned King Richard the 1st this epithet.

 What is the Lionheart?

400

This Giants legend was only the second person to hit 600 home runs. He'd end up as a Hall of Famer with 660.

Who is Willie Mays?

500

A collection of Arab novels: n thsnd nd n nghts

What is One Thousand and One Nights?

500

William Lopp named his book on reindeer after this team. ________ : The Story of the Reindeer in Alaska.

What is White Sox?

500

A kangaroo word: To ambush and this word have the same meaning of taking someone by surprise

What is bushwhack?

500

Charles II, a party-hardy king who loved cocker spaniels, was called this alliterative nickname.

What is "The Merry Monarch"?

500

DAILY DOUBLE: This is the second word in the musical Hamilton. 

What is does?

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