The Reformation
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Renaissance
Writing
Random
100
This is Johann Gutenberg's invention that made the production of books and pamphlets much easier which led to the Bible being made widely available to all people, rich and poor alike.
What is the Printing Press?
100
This is the name of the city in which the story of A Midsummer Night's Dream takes place.
What is Athens?
100
This is the name of the most famous painting in existence which depicts a smiling woman and was painted during The Renaissance by Leonardo DaVinci.
What is the Mona Lisa?
100
The space that signifies the start of a new paragraph.
What is an indent?
100
This is the school cheer that we hear every morning over the announcements.
What is "Let's go flyers let's go (2x), we are leaders, we are learners, we will change the world."
200
The meaning of the word reform.
What is "to make changes to something in order to improve it?"
200
These are the names of the two young men vying for Hermia's love in the play A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Who are Lysander and Demetrius?
200
The name of the wall painting technique in which paint is applied to wet plaster so that the painted image becomes part of the wall.
What is Fresco?
200
When writing an essay, this is what we have been using as the first sentence of the first paragraph. It shares its name with what fisherman place bait onto.
What is the Hook?
200
This is the number of plants that have died in Mr. Enright's class this year.
300
The names given to the two solar system models. The first, which was the common belief of people prior to the Renaissance, places Earth at the center. The second, discovered by Nicolaus Copernicus and supported by Galileo Galilei, puts the Sun at the center.
What are the Geocentric and Heliocentric models of the solar system?
300
This is the insult that Hermia hurls at Helena for believing that she has stolen her love/fiance.
What is "canker-blossom?"
300
These are the people who sparked The Renaissance movement. Inspired by Petrarch, they became highly interested in science, literature, the arts, politics, philosophy, and Ancient Greece and Rome and believed that man could do anything he set his mind to.
Who were the Humanists?
300
Syllables that are added to the beginning of words to change their meaning.
What are Prefixes?
300
The call back signal Mrs. Tess uses to get the class's attention.
What is "Scooby Dooby Doo, where are you?"
400
This is the name given to the documents which members of the Catholic Church would receive when they made donations to literally "pay" for their sins.
What are Indulgences?
400
This is the name of the play that the troupe of actors puts on for the final, group wedding at the end of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
What is The Tragedy of Pyramus and Thisbe?
400
This is the name of the brilliant artist and architect who designed the famous Dome of Florence.
Who is (Filippo) Brunelleschi?
400
The name given to the "F" and "J" keys on a keyboard, where your left and right pointer fingers should be on when at rest.
What are the "home-keys?"
400
The names of the four houses at Hogwarts.
What are Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff, and Ravenclaw?
500
The name of the letter and later publication by Martin Luther that described the many corruptions he saw within the Catholic Church
What are the 95 theses?
500
This is the name (according to Lord Oberon) of the flower whose drops make one fall in love with the first person they see.
What is "Love-in-idleness?"
(The actual name of the flower is a wild pansy (Viola tricola)
500
These are the two famous, Greek philosophers that Raphael placed in the center of his painting The School of Athens.
Who are/were Plato and Aristotle?
500
The punctuation marks used to signify the use of dialogue in a piece of writing. Placed at the beginning and end of a quote.
What are quotation marks?
500
The name of the "good woman of the wood" who Beatrice promises to take Wirt and Greg to in Over the Garden Wall.
Who is Adelaide?