Roses were embarrassed (TLP)
The number of planets in the whole solar system
What is eight?
=5
What is 2+2?
Age of the fellow with pancreatic cancer and the Livid & Horrified Proctor. (hint: they're both quite old, almost the age of five 15-year-olds... that's too big of a hint, maybe)
Who/what is 74 years old?
Her lashes were like buggy whips. (hint: last name required, or no point. #respectwomen)
Who/what is Montana Wildhack? (played by the lovely Valerie Perrine; she died March 23, 2026.)
The percent of AP Lang students who got a 5 in 2025
What is 13.4%? (+/- 1.4%)
The number of bells a star sounds like
What is 500 million?
Age of Mr Chalk in 1984
Wanted to understand the Physiological-Spiritual Man. (not Paul...)
Who/what is Walt Whitman? (To read Paul's thesis, Whitman and the Medicalization of Personality, you can "Request a full-length text from the author" on ResearchGate. That made me sad. He is not here to receive the request.)
Newton's Third Law (hint: for those not physically inclined, the saying goes "Every action has an equal and opposite REaction" - poor old Vee, 2025)
What is useful in rocketry, sh!!!t thin gruel, or blue and ivory claw? (any response works)
Name of the play that Mr. Chalk saw at Shakespeare's Globe (reconstruction of Globe Theatre from the Elizabethan era)
Twelfth Night (by William Shakespeare... rom-com with a character also named Antonio, apparently)
Average lifespan of a modern garden rose
What is 10-15 years?
A "dying" language
Either the book or the author: “With what strife and pains we come into the world we know not, but ’tis commonly no easy matter to get out of it.”
Who is Sir Thomas Browne/what is Religio Medici? (Harvard has the first edition of this, supposedly. "Why Harvard?" and it's that their library has the uncensored version of The Picture of Dorian Gray...)
Billy's office paperweight (hint: poor old ladybugs)
What is a blob of polished amber with three ladybugs embedded in it?
The name of the man that Antonio is (probably) (implied to be) in love with
Bassanio (I don't think it's mutual though... neither do Salerio and Solanio)
The most common snake in the Saharan Desert
What is the Saharan Horned Viper?
The number of people incarcerated in the US in 2023
(not Winston of course)
What is 1.8 million? (credit within +-0.1 million)
If you cut two millimeters deeper right here, this syndrome happens. (Most terrifying line of the book...)
What is locked-in syndrome? (Yes, this sounds like what the senior valedictorian probably has -- JOKE!! I support studying! -- but it's actually physical paralysis. Not good.)
Joe College (hint: poor old Ronald Weary...)
What is the Ilium School of Optometry?
Who said this in The Merchant of Venice: "The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder / Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day / More than the wildcat."
Shylock (his 2004 actor, Al Pacino, is incredible: 1x Academy Award, 2x Tonys, 2x Emmys, 4x Golden Globes, 1x BAFTA, 2x Actor Awards, and more! He was in The Godfather (I & II), Scarface, and House of Gucci.)
The number of pages (UBC PDF) the Little prince was on earth for. (68 total pages)
The amount of vodka (victory gin) that was drank by the Soviet soldiers in the battle of stalingrad.
What is 1.2 million liters? (credit within +-0.1 million litres)
To kill secretly by suffocation or strangulation, or for the purpose of selling the victim’s body for dissection. (hint: this is the OED's definition for the word...)
What is burke? (There's not much information about this on Google... strange... #censorship)
The kind of couple on the bicycle built for two (hint: on the poor old picture painted on the door of the refrigerator)
What is Gay Nineties? (related quote from the big KV himself: "If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts," -Kurt Vonnegut)
The weight of Chonkers, a sea lion the frequents pier 39 in San Francisco
What is 2000 pounds?