The Outsiders
"Mother to Son"
Talk to Me About Trivia
Taylor Swift Allusions
English Refreshers
100

The Curtis brothers

Who are Ponyboy, Sodapop, and Darry?

100

The author of the poem

Who was Langston Hughes?

100

Famous diva who attended Harborfields High School who officially rings in Christmas by defrosting in TikToks and Reels

Who is Mariah Carey?

100

The Shakespeare play in which two star-crossed lovers take their lives

What is Romeo and Juliet in "Love Story"?

100

Some people confuse this with again and again, but poets do this for rhythm or effect

What is repetition?
200

S.E. Hinton

Who is the author of The Outsiders?

200

The ongoing metaphor in the poem

What is life is/as a staircase?

200

Donte DiVincenzo, Josh Hart, and Jalen Brunson's alma mater

What is Villanova?

200

Used in both "The New Romantics" and "Love Story"

What is The Scarlet Letter?

200

Michael Jordan, Nike, and Seneca Middle School are all these, which is why their initials are capitalized

What are proper nouns?

300

The setting of The Outsiders

What is Tulsa in the 1960s?

300

Pain in the poem

What are tacks and splinters?

300

2024 NCAA Women's Basketball Champions

Who are the South Carolina Gamecocks?

300

A Tale of Two Cities, which includes the opening line "It was the best of times...it was the worst of times..."

What is the allusion in "Getaway Car"?

300

The most commonly used sentence-ending punctuation

What is a period?

400

The favorite music artist of the Socs

Who were The Beatles?

400

A mother with a difficult life

Who is the speaker of the poem?

400

Singer of "Something Like That" and the title of a Taylor Swift song from Debut

Who is Tim McGraw?

400

Big parties? Jumping in pools from balconies? Champagne sea? A chandelier? All things experienced in mansions on Long Island from this novel featured in "This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things," which is what Nick Carraway learned from Jay, who was played by Leonardo DiCaprio

What is The Great Gatsby?

400

The couple who loses everything of value in The Pearl

Who are Kino and Juana?

500

The favorite music artist of the greasers

Who was Elvis Presley?

500

The theme of the poem

What is life is difficult but don't give up?

500

The title of Kobe Bryant's favorite book that LeBron James's agent quoted at the press conference in which he announced he was going to be a Laker

What is The Alchemist?

500

The woman who lived in Holiday House, Taylor Swift's Rhode Island home

Who is Rebecca in "The Last Great American Dynasty"?

500

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What is Charlie Gordon's original IQ in "Flowers for Algernon"?

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