Name That Rom Com
Pertaining to Cape Breton
Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales
Advanced English 11
Endangered Languages
100

This 2011 film starring Michael Cera, amongst others, is largely credited for if not creating, then largely exemplifying the manic pixie dream girl archetype and has garnered a cult following

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

100

If you're an Acadian cape bretoner and you don't live in cheticamp, chances are you live on this island southeast of Cape Breton Island

Isle Madame

100

This anthropomorphic egg suffers a great injury from which, despite efforts, he can not recover from

Humpty Dumpty

100

This first person short story follows the life of a woman in perpetual isolation and is considered a staple of early feminist literature

The Yellow Wallpaper

100

Another South Polynesian language, this language is one of its country's official languages and is spoken by 50-100 thousand people, a number which is rapidly rising

Māori

200

Renee Zellweger plays a young single woman in this 2001 smash hit, which is actually a modern adaptation of Pride and Prejudice

Bridget Jones' Diary

200

In Cape Breton, it is not unusual to see signs written in any of the region's four spoken languages - which are they?

English, French, Gaelic and Mikmaq

200

This nursery rhyme is rumoured to have been written specifically about the Black Death, although this is unproven

Ring a Ring a Roses

200

Whizz, pop and screech are examples of what poetic device?

Onomatopoeia

200

This Polynesian language is spoken as a first language by about 24,000 people, although this number is on the rise due to public school immersion programs

Hawaiian

300

Steve Carell and Ryan Gosling star in this 2011 film, in which recently divorced Cal must relearn how to flirt with women

Crazy, Stupid Love

300

What was the non-PC nickname of Cape Breton songstress Rita MacNeil

Eat a big meal

300

This nursery rhyme about a religious food is usually one of the first songs that children learn on the recorder

Hot Cross Buns

300

Shakespeare's plays are known for their use of this literary device, in which a character makes a speech to itself

Soliloquy 

300

Breton, Cornish, and Manx are all endangered languages in this language family

Celtic Languages

400

Joseph Gordon Levitt and Zooey Deschanel star in this 2009 rom com, which follows the life of a boy in love with a girl who doesn't really care about him

500 Days of Summer

400

Though Cape Breton is best known for its coal mines, what other major industry played a massive part in its early 1900s growth?

Steel

400

This English nursery rhyme was relevant in 2006 pop culture after being sampled in a Fergie hit

London Bridge

400

Continuous writing that is not organized into lines and stanzas but rather paragraphs and sentences is called this

Prose

400

This language isolate is spoken only on the volcanic island of Hokkaido, by 24,000 indigenous people

Ainu

500

Amy Schumer plays a fun-loving party girl with no time for romance in her 2015 film debut, called what?

Trainwreck

500

The Cape Breton highlands are a subgroup of what long and ancient mountain range?

The Appalachians

500

In this nursery rhyme, our poor titular character is disrupted from her meal of curds and whey by a big spider

Little Miss Muffet

500

These pieces of literature allow the reader to consume an entire narrative or story within a very short phrase

6 word story

500

This endangered American creole contains linguistic elements of various Aboriginal and West African languages, in addition to French and English

Louisiana Creole

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