To Kill A Mockingbird (By Quote)
To Kill a Mockingbird (By Plot)
To Kill a Mockingbird (By Character)
Why Are We Obsessed with True Crime?
True Crime Short Stories
Podcast Stories
Anything Goes
2000
Who said this?
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”
Judge Heck Tate
Tom Robinson
Atticus Finch
Atticus Finch
2000
In chapter 1, which citizen of Maycomb are Scout, Jem, and Dill Baker all obsessed with?
Arthur "Boo" Radley
2000
Which character is being described?
An old woman and neighbor of the Finch's. She is an old and bitter woman, and a racist through and through, though Jem and Scout discover she has her own dignity and courage deserving of respect.
Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose
2000
Jooyoung Lee, an associate professor of sociology of the University of Toronto, compared our bingeing of true crime to what?
Tabloids
24 hour news cycle
Our obsession with social media?
24 hour news cycle
2000
How long was the narrator in college for when he killed Russell Gramercy?
2 days
2 weeks
2 months?
Two weeks
2000
What kind of people pulled off the biggest jewel heist in British history?
Nurses
Retirees
Lawyers
Students?
Retirees
2000
What kind of soup is this?
Italian Wedding Soup
4000
Who said this?
“It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.”
Scout
Jem
Dill?
Jem
4000
Scout and Jem are taunted at school because....?
Atticus is defending Tom Robinson.
4000
Which character is this describing?
"Jem and Scout's friend, who visits Maycomb each summer from his home in Meridian, Alabama. Miss Rachel Haverford is his aunt; an intensely imaginative and sensitive boy who uses his imagination to hide loneliness and pain: though his mother is divorced, he constantly makes up stories about the greatness of the father he barely knows."
Dill
4000
People who were this were less affected or nervous by violent content.
More aggressive
Less aggressive?
More aggressive.
4000
In "The Interview, Part 3" of the story The 57 Bus, when Officer Anderson asked "why would [Richard] set that dress on fire?", what was Richard's response?
"Because I could"
"Being stupid"
"No comment"
"Being stupid" (152)
4000
In what art museum is the Mona Lisa located in?
The Guggenheim
The Whitney
The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Louvre?
What is the Louvre?
4000
What is either the name of the song or the name of the artist of this song?
So take the photographs and still frames in your mind
Hang it on a shelf with good health and good times
Tattoos and memories and dead skin on trial
For what it's worth, it was worth all the while?
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) by Green Day?
6000
Who said this?
"Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird."
Calpurnia
Mrs DuBose
Miss Maudie
Mayella Ewell?
Miss Maudie
6000
What does Walter Cunningham douse his food in?
Molasses
6000
Which character is this describing?
"The writer, editor, and publisher of Maycomb's newspaper."
Mr. Underwood
6000
True or false: most true crime series focus on the victims and their families, and less on the person who committed the crime?
True
False
False.
"Lee said that some true-crime series also put an emphasis on the criminal, and pay less attention to victims or their families." (26-27)
6000
"you know, the scene you always view in jail house flicks/palm pressed to palm is true/what they don’t show you is the ? aftermath"
Plastic
Glass
Plexi-glass
Plexi-glass
6000
Where was the hotel located, where a body was found in room 348?
Austin, Texas
Beaumont, Texas
Carlson, Texas
Dallas, Texas?
Beaumont, Texas
6000
What is this building?
Sydney Opera House?
8000
Who said this?
“I got something’ to say an’ then I ain’t gonna say no more. That person yonder took advantage of me an’ if you fine fancy gentlemen don’t wanta do nothin’ about it then you’re all yellow stinkin’ cowards, stinkin’ cowards, the lot of you.”
Bob Ewell
Mr. Gilmer
Mayella Ewell
Tom Robinson?
Mayella Ewell
8000
What kind of flowers did Jem cut at Mrs. Dubose's house because he lost his temper?
Camelias
8000
Which character is this describing?
"Tom Robinson's employer."
Link Deas
8000
"People think that they can help overturn a ruling, exonerate a person, or crack a cold case..."
What is the definition of a "cold case?"
an unsolved criminal investigation which remains open pending the discovery of new evidence.
8000
Going back to the 1st semester, we read a true crime story called Lamb to the Slaughter. What did Mary Maloney kill her husband with?
A frozen chicken wing?
A frozen leg of lamb?
A frozen rack of ribs?
A frozen leg of lamb?
8000
In The Girl in the Picture, which convenience store was Aundria Bowman allegedly been seen in?
AM/PM
7-11
Pilot
ExtraMile?
What is 7-11?
8000
What Southern U.S. state was the first to make Christmas an official holiday?
Alabama?
10000
Who said this?
“Hush your mouth! Don’t matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house’s yo’ comp’ny, and don’t you let me catch you remarkin’ on their ways like you was so high and mighty!"
Mrs. Dubose
Calpurnia
Miss Caroline Fisher
Calpurnia
10000
Why couldn't Tom Robinson have been the one that assaulted Mayella Ewell? What side of his body had a physical deformity?
His left arm was paralyzed.
10000
Which character is this describing?
"The prosecutor at the trial of Tom Robinson."
Mr. Gilmer
10000
What is the emotional response that is a signal of "why we are so captivated by the nature of true crime narratives."
Fight or flight?
10000
What was the nickname of the individual who was arrested in 2018 for crimes he committed throughout the 1970s and 1980s?
The Green River Killer
The Golden State Killer
The White Snake Bandit?
What is The Golden State Killer?
10000
In The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Diamond Heist, Leonardo Notarbartolo (the main character in the story) has a cousin who is the capo dei capi of the Sicilian mob. What is the capo dei capi?
Head of the organization
Vice president of the mob
CEO of the Sicilian mafia?
Head of the organization
10000
Who was the 29th president?
Warren G. Harding