Vocabulary
General ideas
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Specifics
Fun Christmas trivia
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A synonym for apprehensions
What is worries?
100
This is a work written about someone's life
What is a biography?
100
This genre of literature was introduced during this era
What is the novel?
100
The Journal of the Plague year was this type of writing
What is fiction?
100
The song "O, Tannenbaum" is about this
What is a Christmas tree?
200
A synonym for destitute
What is without the basics or wanting?
200
He compiled the first standard dictionary
Who is Samuel Johnson?
200
This type of writing pokes fun at something
What is a satire?
200
The war between Lilliput and Blefescu was over this
What is egg breaking?
200
This reindeer's name was changed in the song "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer?
What is Donder?
300
A synonym for odious
What is unpleasant or repulsive?
300
This disease ravaged London during this period
What is the plague?
300
These are side-by-side contrasting ideas to create balance
What is antithesis?
300
The war between Lilliput and Blefescu was satiring what
What is religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants?
300
These are the four food groups in the movie Elf with Will Ferrell
What is candy, candy canes, candy corns, and syrup?
400
A synonym for caprices
What is a whim or fancy?
400
This work was originally encrypted so as not to be read
What is The Diary of Samuel Pepys?
400
This piece mocked the upper class and their importance placed on trivial things
What is The Rape of the Lock
400
The way James Boswell felt about Samuel Johnson
What is deep respect?
400
The two places Kevin McCallister was supposed to actually go in Home Alone and Home Alone 2
What are France (Paris) and Florida?
500
A synonym for recompense
What is compensation?
500
He wrote the biography of Samuel Johnson
Who is James Boswell?
500
This is the belief that God created and then left us to our own devices
What is deism?
500
Gulliver uses this to try to impress the king of Brobdingnag
What is gunpowder?
500
Scott Calvin is the main character in this Christmas movie
What is The Santa Clause?
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