Grammar & Language
Correct the error: Their going to the park.
They're (they are)
True or False: If something is logically valid, it must always be true.
False
The Roman orator famous for his speeches against Catiline.
Cicero
Year World War I began.
1914
In 2020, this sea shanty went viral on TikTok, inspiring countless meme remixes.
The Wellerman
The type of sentence here: Stop talking right now!
Imperative
The study of knowledge is called this...
epistemology
This author wrote Paradise Lost.
John Milton
The three branches of American government.
Judicial, Legislative, Executive
This NOCA teacher's mother also works at the school.
Miss Schutte
Identify the error: Neither the teacher nor the students was late today.
Should be "were late today."
Name the Greek philosopher who founded the Academy in Athens.
Plato
This historical novel published in 1859 by English author Charles Dickens, was set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution.
A Tale of Two Cities
The British monarch during the American Revolution.
King George III
This trending podcast features life at NOCA.
The Jalopy Chronicles
Give an example of an oxymoron.
Tabula rasa means this in philosophy.
Blank slate
Sophocles’ tragic hero was the ill-fated king of Thebes who ends up blind.
Oedipus
Name three rights protected by the First Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
This Pixar franchise features the voice of Tome Hanks.
Toy Story
The literary term for a reference to another work of literature, history, or culture.
Allusion
The Oracle at Delphi declared him the wisest man in Greece.
Socrates
Hester Prynne is the heroine of this Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.
The Scarlet Letter
The two capitals of the Roman Empire after the split.
Rome and Constantinople
The two NOCA teachers whose classrooms are in the same rooms of current Upper School administrators.
Mr. McNerney and Mr. Pfeiffer