Literature
How many days were the six men of “Kon-Tiki” on the Pacific
101 days
Who told Gilgamesh to go back to his kingdom and enjoy life because nothing is permanent?
Utnapishtim
Noah Webster said this was the “immediate gift of God”
Language and speech
What single most important factor separates man from animal and binds men together as human beings?
Speech/language
Who is the author of such naturalist works as The Call of the Wild and “To Build a Fire” ?
Jack London
In what Northeastern state was “The Skater and the Wolves” set?
Maine
What happened to the plant that Gilgamesh tried to take?
Stolen by a serpent.
Literary device is used in the line “The world is an open book?”
Metaphor
What put the man’s fire out in “To Build a Fire”?
Falling snow from a tree
What is the long, narrative poem which presents characters and actions of heroic proportions?
Epic
James Russell Lowell said “Then, if ever, come perfect days” in what summer month?
June
What motivated Gilgamesh’s search for eternal life?
death of Enkidu and his fear of death
Who wrote the line “Oh give us pleasure in the flowers today” ?
Robert Frost
What element did Saint-Exupery praise at the end of his account as being “the rarest and also the most delicate (of the riches that exist in the world). . .so pure within the bowels of the earth”?
Water
What is considered to be the oldest book in the Bible (we don’t know exactly when the main character lived.)
Job
What piece of winter wonder is “insculpted and embossed” with God’s “hammer of wind, His graver of frost”?
Snowflake
In “The White Heron” how much money did the ornithologist offer toSylvia and her grandma if they helped find the heron?
Ten dollars.
What famous part of the world did Saint-Exupery crash his plane?
Sahara Desert
What literary technique did Jack London use in “To Build a Fire” in order to build suspense? Hint: “It was cold.”
Repetition
William Carrey
Who is the Assyrian-Babylonian Noah figure?
Utnapishtim
What animal did Sylvia have to chase in the mornings?
cow
According to Tennyson, which animal “clasps the crag wit crooked hands?”
Eagle
Sara Oren Jewett wrote primarily about life in what part of the United States?
New England
The crew of the Kon-Tiki wanted to prove that it was possible for ancient Indians to sail from the coast of South America to....?
Polynesian Islands