The American Dream
This is the name of the ship that sailed the Puritans from the south of England across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World in September of 1620.
What is the Mayflower?
These are the characters that we come across in "The Veldt".
You must mention all the characters (mother and father and two children) to get the 100 points - and don't forget the psychiatrist!
This is the typical plural ending of English nouns.
What is -s, as in 'cars', or -es, as in 'brushes' if the noun already ends in an s-sound?
This is the first name shared by both the father and his son in the film.
What is Christopher/Chris?
According to Umair Hague, this is what the American Dream is.
What is 'over' or a 'nightmare'?
These are the two forms of American Dream that many people in the past (and today) went to the United States to find.
What is the American Dream of financial success and the American Dream of freedom (from (religious) persecution)?
This is what we know about the setting of the short story "The Murderer".
If you could mention the colourless and clinical corridors, the music being played all the time, the word 'beehive' indicating confusion and the office at the end of the text in which the psychiatrist seems to enjoy performing the same actions over and over again in your answer, that would be great!
This is the difference in the plural between nouns like 'boy' and 'country'.
What is that both nouns end in an -s, but that 'country' changes its 'y' into 'ie' because the 'y' is preceded by a consonant: 'countries'? This is not the case in 'boys'.
This is the name of the wife who does not believe that her husband will ever make the American Dream become reality and so decides to leave her family for a job at a restaurant in New York.
What is Linda?
This is the number of "ways America is a nation in free fall."
What are four: economically, culturally, socially and politically?
These are at least five of the words from the most prominent passage of the Declaration of Independence from July 4, 1776.
What are the following words: "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness"?
This is what we are told about the contrast between Grandpa Bigelow and Tom in the text "Lawns of Summer".
What is that in your answer, you must explain to your friends what is understood by a contrast? What is also that you must mention contrasts like young-old, fast-slow, technology-nature and easy solutions-hard work?
This is what 13 nouns like 'life', 'wife' and 'knife' have in common.
What is that they all change their -f into -ves in the plural?
This is a lead manager and partner for Dean Witter Reynolds that our main character meets and impresses by solving a Rubik’s Cube during a taxi ride, while trying to sell one of his bone density scanners.
Who is Jay Twistle?
This is the shop that the sender went to down the street, only to find out that prices are skyrocketing.
What is the bakery?
This is the name of the first town in the colony of Virginia in North America that the Puritans set sail for in the early seventeenth century.
What is Jamestown?
These are some of the elements of foreshadowing in "The Veldt" – and how the text ends.
What is that in your answer, you must mention Lydia's bloody scarf, George's wallet and the screams in the distance? What is that you must also be able to explain what 'foreshadowing' means?
This is what nouns like 'information', 'advice', 'progress', 'money, and 'furniture' have in common.
What is that they are all uncountable nouns, which means that they cannot be counted and cannot be used in the plural?
This is the name of a top-level pension fund manager in the film, who takes Gardner and his son to a San Francisco 49ers game, where Gardner befriends some of the man's friends and colleagues.
Who is Walter Ribbon?
This is - according to Umair Hague - what America's social structure resembles, with "peasants indebted forever to lords and kings" (p.4, ll. 63-64).
What is a medieval society?
This is the minister who gave a sermon aboard the Arabelle in 1630, telling his crew members that they were to build a city upon a hill in the new world and that they must be exceptional in their endeavour.
Who is John Winthrop?
This is the reason why Douglas is convinced that the circus will never come back again in "The Last Circus."
What is that you must mention the hole in the canvas and the realisation that Douglas will have to leave his childhood behind in order to enter a new stage in life, adulthood, a realisation that is also brought about by his father's constant anxiety about the atom bomb of the Cold War and its possible effect on the landscape of the world?
This is what characterises the nouns 'police', 'people' and 'cattle'.
What is that they always appear in the third person plural, which means that we say 'The police ARE still searching for the hooligans who broke into the Congress building' and 'People never UNDERSTAND me"?
This is the influential gentleman who at the very end of the film notices that Gardner is wearing a new shirt and says that he should wear another one the next day as well, letting Gardner know that he has won the position as a stockbroker at the firm.
Who is Mr Frohm?
Because this has been normalised in America, "half of America has turned to what is basically fascism" (p. 6, ll. 114-115), according to Umair Hague.
What is 'horror'?