General ELA
Kid TV/Movies
General Knowledge
Movies/TV
ELA World Lit!
100
Literary device
Sharp and hard as flint
simile
100
Who is Spongebob's Best Friend?
Patrick Star
100
How do you say 1:00pm in military time?
Thirteen hundred hours
100
In which movie did a boy live in the cupboard under the stairs?
Harry Potter
100
Give an example of a simile
(Teacher will verify if correct)
200
What literary device?
The wind whistled through the trees, and the trees shivered.
personification
200
In Encanto, we don't talk about this guy.
Bruno
200
Who is the highest paid player in the NBA?
Stephen Curry
200
In what city is Ratatouille based?
Paris
200
What is it called when a writer references something well-known from history, mythology, or a religious text?
allusion
300
What is the technical name for the following words: Boom, crash, vroom
onomatopoeia
300
Name 4 of main muppet characters on Sesame Street?
Elmo, Grover, Cookie Monster, Big Bird, Ernie, Bert, Oscar the Grouch
300
Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
300
Lebron James is in the most recent Space Jam movie. Who was in the original Space Jam?
Michael Jordan
300
Give an example of an oxymoron.
(Teacher will verify if correct)
400
How does an author's name appear on a Works Cited page in MLA format?
Last name, First name
(Borck, Anna)
400
A popular TV show from the early 2000's where a young woman nannies 4 ultra-rich kids in a New York City Penthouse.
Jessie
400
Who Wrote The House on Mango Street?
Sandra Cisneros
400
Where did Kevin's family travel to in the second home alone movie?
Miami
400
In MLA formatting, do you write the letter "p." when citing a page in a text?
No
500
What literary device is this?
She won the race by running the race, swimming the distance, and biking the trail.
(The verbs are all the same; the phrases are all the same)
parallel structure
500
What is the name of Nemo's dad?
Marlon
500
Name FOUR of the phases of the moon.
New moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, third quarter, waning crescent
500
Who plays Iron Man in the Marvel Universe movies?
Robert Downey Jr.
500
Who wrote the short story we read entitled "One of These Days?"
Gabriel Garcia Marquez