Detectives
Who was the Detective in Murders on the Rue Morgue?
Auguste Dupin
What type of words link together seperate ideas in sentences?
Conjunctions
Name one sub-genre of Crime Fiction.
Detective fiction
Hard-boiled fiction
Serial killer fiction
Spy fiction
etc
What was the first full text we studied this term?
Murders on The Rue Morgue
Which animal is said to have nine lives?
The cat.
What is the common name for dried plums?
Prunes
Fastest land animal on Earth?
Cheetah
What suburb are we in?
Waramanga ACT 2611
I'm a blue, hedgehog, I'm fast. Who am I?
Sonic
Who is the fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle?
Sherlock Holmes
What is the name for the literary technique that separates a new idea by commas to add complexity or more information to a sentence.
For example: Mount Stromlo High, a school in Canberra, is studying Crime Fiction in Year 9 English.
I'm a logical fallacy or a literary device that leads readers or audiences toward a false conclusion.
A red herring.
Maggie Simpson
What is the only fruit that has its seeds on the outside?
Strawberries
What was the first soft drink in space?
Coca Cola
What is the longest running TV show?
With well over 700 episodes, The Simpsons is the longest-running scripted primetime TV series.
Name every Australian state and territory.
STATES
New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, and Tasmania
TERRITORIES
Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory.
I'm a game where you control falling shapes and try to fit them with each other. What game am I?
Tetris
Who was Sherlock Holmes' assistant?
Watson
What is the name of the literary feature where an event is hinted at before it happens.
Think about the kids collecting rocks in 'The Lottery'.
Foreshadowing
A parody.
Linda Drysdale
What is the main food source for pandas?
Bamboo
Which country invented ice cream?
China
The hardest known natural material is...
Diamonds
The Statue of Liberty was given to the US by which country?
France
Which company released the first flight simulator?
Microsoft
Who was the male detective from Broadchurch played by David Tennant
Alec Hardy
What is the name of the literary device that describes an object or action in a way that isn't literally true, but helps explain an idea or make a comparison.
For example: "Her eyes were the ocean."
A metaphor.
List TWO features or elements you might find in Crime Fiction.
An air of game-playing with the notion of a murder - it is a puzzle that can be solved
Elaborate methods of murder
Several possible suspects and red herrings
An intriguing series of clues
A mystery requiring exceptional ingenuity on the part of the detective
The police appearing less competent next to the detective.
What was the name of the boy that was murdered in Broadchurch?
Danny
Trivia Question: Which mammal has no vocal cords?
The Giraffe
What is the most consumed manufactured drink in the world?
These are the only mammals that can fly.
Bats
What is the world’s biggest island?
What is the Nintendo home console that came after the Nintendo 64, but before the Nintendo Wii.
(Not a handheld like the Gameboy, or Gameboy Advance.)
The Nintendo Gamecube
Who was the private investigator from Knives Out?
Benoit Blanc
What does a topic sentence do?
It highlights and introduces the main idea of a paragraph, letting the reader know what the paragraph will be about.
Where did the Crime Fiction genre begin? Who was the first to write about it? (Hint: A very famous poet.)
Edgar Allen Poe
What was the name of the narrator (Dupin's friend.) in Murders on The Rue Morgue?
He was not named.
Why are Flamingos pink?
Their diet.
As a flamingo dines on algae and brine shrimp, its body metabolizes the pigments — turning its feathers pink.
What is the only edible food that never goes bad?
(Naturally, without contamination from outside sources.)
Honey
This is the longest river in the world.
The Nile
What is the smallest country in the world?
Vatican City
The US Airforce purchased 1760 of these home consoles and connected them all together to create the 33rd largest supercomputer in the world at the time and it was used to analyse high definition satellite imagery.
What console is this?
The Playstation 3