Homeschooled Heroes
Lit Lessons (Testing your knowledge on what you've learned!)
Tubular Teens (pssst, Honor, pick "Tubular Teens 200"!)
How Well Do You Know Your Classmates?
Celebrity Crushes (Who We're Doodling When We're Pretending to be Taking Notes)
100

Simone Biles began homeschooling at 14 to give her some flexibility in her rigorous training schedule. Which sport is Simone Biles part of?

A) Soccer/football

B) Dance

C) Gymnastics 

C - Gymnastics

100

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears! I came up with this question because I couldn't think of anything else. So, tell me, is Rome the capitol of Italy or Greece?

Italy

100

Mary Shelley was 18 when she began writing Frankenstein. What is the name of the genius but probably insane doctor anti-hero who creates the creature?


Victor Frankenstein 

100

Abigail Geffken reads everything from Wodehouse to Dante to Homer. Armed with a typewriter cat, many machines that make the clickety clackety, and a cup or two of cocoa or tea, she masters quizzes on classical languages and writes delicious poems about food.

Which 4 languages is Abigail currently studying?

A) German, Gaelic, Spanish, Welsh

B) Hebrew, Italian, German, Latin

C) Latin, Ancient Greek, Hebrew, French

C - Latin, Ancient Greek, Hebrew, French

100

Sabrina Carpenter started out as a Disney kid (she played Maya in Girl Meets World when she was just a lil guy!) before launching into superstardom as a singer. Among her many hits, she has a song that's named after a type of coffee.

A) Espresso

B) Latte

C) Affogato 

A - Espresso

200

Many celebrities have been homeschooled, including Ryan Gosling. Dressed in pink and sparkles for most of the time, and having conveniently misplaced his shirt in many scenes, Gosling portrayed what character in the 2023 Barbie movie:

A) Steven

B) Ken

C) Addison

B - Ken

200

If you're craving fried chicken at 4am, the logical thing to do is to nab chickens from the farm on the outskirts of town, then shove said chickens in pizza boxes to hide them from the police. What is chicken in Spanish?

A) Poutine

B) Pollo

C) Poulet

B - Pollo

200

Taylor Swift's self-titled debut album was released in 2006, when she was 16 years old. She once stated her high school teachers were always surprised when they did notebook inspections and found all the lyrics she had been writing down during class. 19 years and 14 Grammys after her debut, Taylor Swift released her 12th studio album earlier this month.

What is the name of TS's new album?

A) The Fate of Ophelia

B) The Life of a Showgirl

C) Red

B) The Life of a Showgirl

200

Kateri, Saoirse, and Honor Doran have appeared in more than one Shakespeare play together. In 2021, they played Prospero, Miranda, and Ariel, respectively, in a production of The Tempest. Kateri wore a blue wig that I initially thought was her real hair. Now, they are starring in a soon-to-be Tony-winning production of Julius Caesar, playing Brutus, Casca, and Cassius. 

Who plays who? 

K = Cassius, S = Brutus, H = Casca

200

From when he was a little lad to a charming chap, Hozier has spent most of his life singing. When he isn't writing, recording, or performing music, what quirky hobby does the 6'6 bearded bard of Ireland devote his time to?

A) Origami 

B) Bee keeping

C) Ax throwing

B) Bee Keeping

300

Brilliant inventors such as Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell were homeschooled. Without Edison or Bell, we would not be able to gather on this Zoom call and celebrate homeschoolers. Edison helped invent ways to distribute electricity, and Bell helped to invent which of the following:

A) Zoom ;)

B) The telephone 

C) Early computer programming 

B - the telephone 

300

In writing, there's first person ("I kissed Aragorn"), second person ("The first example didn't seem to shock you terribly"), and third person ("She was not surprised Isabella mentioned Aragorn"). True or false: in writing, there is also fourth person, which is far less common, and is from the perspective of a collective voice ("We think you are a strange child."

True! Fourth person is a thing

300

Before becoming uber famous with "drivers license," Olivia Rodrigo was a Disney kid. She began her Disney career with the TV show Bizaardvark when she was 13. When she was 17, at the time of releasing "drivers license," she was in her second Disney TV show, called:

A) Shake It Up

B) High School Musical: The Musical: The Series

C) Coop and Cami Ask the World

B) High School Musical: The Musical: The Series

300

Ellie Morson spent part of last summer studying music at an arts camp called Interlochen (it's also a boarding school during the academic year). What instrument does Ellie play? 

A) Piano

B) Guitar

C) Oboe

A) Paino

300

Chappell Roan dazzles in cowboy hats, long red hair, "glitter and fake lashes," to quote one of her songs, advocating for women and the queer community in every genre from pop to country, belting out some epic power ballads. 

Complete the lyrics to Chappell Roan's song Pink Pony Club: "I'm gonna keep on dancing at the Pink Pony Club, I'm gonna keep on dancing down in _______"

"West Hollywood"

400

Agatha Christie, the epic mystery writer, was homeschooled for either all or part of her education. She's probably best known for her sleuthing leads Poirot and Miss Marple, but some of her earliest works featured a charming couple who solved crimes together. Their names were

A) Tommy and Tuppence

B) Johnny and June

C) Henry and Hildegarde 

A - Tommy and Tuppence

400

You can decide whether making pie crust or dividing by pi is harder. The first three digits of pi are 3.14 - what are the three that come directly after "14"?


159 (3.14159)

400

Mozart makes me feel like a major slacker. He started composing music at the age of 5, and by his teens, he was writing operas. True or False: Mozart often drew from inspiration for his music from life experiences. At 16, he went out riding with friends and they neared too close to a blackbird's nest. The blackbird swooped down over the heads of the young men, chasing them off. Mozart wrote a song about the experience, giving it a French title that translates to English as: "Woman Bird Scorned."

False, as far as I know 

400

True or False: Isabella Watkins was trying to figure out what the huckleberry would happen next in her novel Peacock Hall and decided to sleep on it, as the experts advise. While asleep, she had a fabulous, real-seeming dream that provided her with a crucial addition to her book. In her dream, she sat up in bed and saw something utterly unexpected in the night sky. In her book, a similar thing happens to one of her characters - but it isn't a dream.

True! That's the second time dreaming has helped me figure out something for a plot :D But I'm not going to give you more details <33

400

Wishbone is the name of the newest album by singer/songwriter Conan Gray, who has officially made PJs cool to wear in public! Yet another reason to love him.

What was the name of Conan's first full-length studio album? 

A) Sunset Season

B) Kid Krow

C) Superache 

B - Kid Krow

500

Jane Austen and her sister, Cassandra, were primarily educated at home after brief stints at two different boarding schools (and narrowly escaping death when typhus broke out). However, Jane and Cassandra's father, Rev. Austen, ran a boy's school from their home at Steventon Rectory. True or False: At the ages of seven and ten, respectively, Jane and Cassandra borrowed their brother Frank's clothes and dressed up as boys in order to sit in on one of their father's lessons. Their father knew it was them, but he allowed them to stay for the full lesson because he didn't want to quelch their fun.

False, as far as I know - though, as a child Jane Austen did fill out marriage registers uniting herself to two different make-believe husbands, so mischief was not beyond her.

500

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed - I must include a reference to Jane Austen! Name the order in which Jane Austen's six full-length novels were published! (The two novels that were last to be published were published in a joint volume.)

As a reminder, her full-length novels are Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, and Mansfield Park.

Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1815), and Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were published jointly in 1817.

500

Jane Austen's Catherine Morland is 17 for most of Northanger Abbey. Equipped with high spirits and an active imagination, Catherine wanders through the glamorous world of Bath and the Gothic realm of Northanger Abbey. In the end she figures out who her real friends are and gains the ability to trust herself.

Who are the the two girls Catherine meets and befriends in Bath? (One turns out to be a false friend.)

A) Diana Eastgate and Eleanor Dashwood

B) Diana Tilney and Isabella Thorpe

C) Eleanor Tilney and Isabella Thorpe


C) Eleanor Tilney and Isabella Thorpe

500

Maryellen Fitzgerald is accomplished in art, writing, goat hospitality, and Spanish. She's also part of a witch coven (but what happens in the coven stays in the coven). What is the plot of the short story Mary has completed two drafts of?

A) a murder mystery set in a remote gas station (or was it visitor center?) in Maine.

B) a comedy set in Florida (or Louisiana?) about goats on a road trip.

C) a spooky story about a group of witches performing their last ritual. 

A - the murder mystery! 

500

Auli'i Cravalho voiced Moana, wayfinder and rebellious teen, in Disney's Moana and Moana 2 films. The second film, which takes place four or five years after the first, introduces Moana's adorable little sister. What is the name of said sister?

A) Lotto

B) Mahina

C) Simea

C - Simea

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