Passion Projects & ISPs
Morpheme Matrices & Grammar Tests
Once Upon A Time
Ball Up Top
Fun Facts
400
Sucralose, aspartame, and saccharin are all types of these.
What are Artificial Sweeteners?
400
English words are often composed of these three morphological components
What are prefixes, root words, and suffixes?
400
In The Giver, community members take pills every day to help quell these feelings.
What are The Stirrings?
400
The sport of "battledore & shuttlecock" became an Olympic sport in 1992 - although we wouldn't call it that now.
What is Badminton?
400
A group of owls is also known as this.
What is a parliament?
800
In this novel series, best friends Sophie and Agatha find themselves on opposing sides of an epic battle when they're swept away into an enchanted school
What is The School for Good & Evil?
800
This prefix means light
What is photo-?
800
In Holes, Stanley is sent to Camp Green Lake for stealing shoes which originally belonged to this athlete.
Who is Clyde Livingston?
800
This basketball player is famed for scoring 100 points in a single game (although some doubt if this is true, as there is no living footage)
Who is Wilt Chamberlain?
800
First discovered in old bread, this medicine was originally called "mold juice".
What is penicillin?
1200
This is a period about 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago when the early inner Solar System experienced a massive surge in asteroid and comet impacts
What is The Heavy Late Bombardment?
1200
This word, found in our morphology study about logic, is a redundancy where you say the same thing twice using different words.
What is a Tautology?
1200
In The Giver, what special ability is the Giver revealed to have?
What is the ability-to-hear-beyond? (What is the ability to hear music?)
1200
A professional baseball game is comprised of nine of these.
What are innings?
1200
This word was first coined by Dr. Seuss in his 1950 book, If I Ran the Zoo.
What is a "nerd"?
1600
These tasty, doughy dishes are wrapped around a filling or simply cooked on their own.
What are dumplings?
1600
"Soaring in the sky, we watched the hawk hunt for prey" commits this type of grammar error.
What is a Misplaced Modifier?
1600
In Holes, what is the name of the boat where Zero and Stanley find the peaches?
What is the Mary Lou?
1600
This is an offensive basketball tactic where a stationary player uses their body to block or delay a defender.
What is a screen? (What is a pick?)
1600
This was the last letter added to the English alphabet.
What is J?
2000
These luxury items increase in value as their color saturation and purity become stronger
What are Fancy Diamonds?
2000
"Even though they weren’t hungry, Mark went to the restaurant, and Jen cooked dinner at home." is an example of what type of sentence?
What is a Compound-Complex Sentence?
2000
At the end of Holes, Stanley's father finally invents this successful shoe odor solution.
What is Sploosh?
2000
In soccer, this forward is likely the team's highest scoring player.
What is the striker?
2000
This is the actual name of a hashtag.
What is an octothorpe?