6th-grade Literature
The event in which Egeon lost his family in Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors.
What is a shipwreck?
In the dystopian novel, The Giver, Jonas is selected to inherit this position.
Who is the Receiver of Memory?
This is Dr. Frankenstein’s first name.
What/who is Victor?
This is the name of Othello’s wife in Shakespeare’s Othello.
Who is Desdemona?
A candidate seeking office in the United States House of Representatives must be, at the least, this age.
What is 25?
This is the name of the character who marries Lucie Manette in Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities.
Who is Charles Darnay?
The home country of Catherine of Aragon.
What is Spain?
The friend of Gilgamesh whose death inspires Gilgamesh to seek immortality
Who is Enkidu?
The Athenian statesman who insisted that Athens build ships after he interpreted the Delphic oracle to be advising the Athenians to entrust their salvation to a navy.
Who is Themistocles?
The two interlocutors who, in the second book of the Republic, take over Thrasymachus’ part.
Who are Adeimantus and Glaucon?
In U.S. building code, this is the maximum distance between two studs in an interior wall. (in feet)
What is two feet?
The mongoose in Rudyard Kipling's short story of the same name.
Who is Rikki Tikki tavi
This is the family name of Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
What/who is Capulet?
The object symbolizing authority and civilization that is used to call meetings in the Lord of the Flies.
What is a conch shell?
This is the name of Huck's primary companion as he travels down the Mississippi River in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Who is Jim?
This man assassinated Abraham Lincoln during a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
Antonio must forfeit this to Shylock as a failure to repay his loan in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
What is a pound of flesh?
The term used to describe French Calvinists - a significant Protestant group.
What are the Huguenots?
In the Odyssey a king of a blessed race who gives Odysseus a bag of wind, in the Aeneid a god placed in charge of winds by Jupiter to keep them from destroying the cosmic order of land, sea, and sky.
Who is Aeolos?
The Latin term for the period during the first and second centuries C.E. of Roman political stability and relative peace.
What is the pax Romana?
The one acting as physician to Boethius.
Who is Philosophy?
This real “gem” of a son was killed by Lucius Opimius in 121 BCE in the wake of an aggressive agrarian law establishing a powerful triumvirate to oversee Roman land distribution.
Who is Gaius Gracchus
This man hires Shane as a farm hand in Jack Schaefer’s Shane.
Who is Joe Starrett?
This is the logo of the Firefighters in Fahrenheit 451.
What is the/a Salamander?
This is Scout’s full, real name in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. (must say all parts)
What is Jean Louise Finch?
This is the region of Europe from which Ántonia’s family comes in Willa Cather's My Àntonia.
What is Bohemia/ Czech Republic/ Czechia?
In the Bill of Rights--this protects Americans against "unreasonable searches and seizures."
What is the Fourth Amendment?
In Voltaire's satire Candide, the title character is taught that this world is the "best of possible worlds," a philosophy associated with this German mathematician and philosopher.
Who is Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz?
An incredibly influential Catholic family dynasty, producing numerous Holy Roman Emperors, and playing a significant role in many European geopolitical events.
Who are the Hapsburgs?
The Greek whose safety is guaranteed by Achilles in the first book of the Iliad.
Who is Calchas?
Alexander's heir, who eventually would come to rule in Alexandria and was nicknamed "Savior" after saving Alexander's life.
Who is Ptolemy (Soter)?
According to Plato, that by which anything performs its work well.
The name of the athlete who holds the high school U.S. record for the mile of 3:53.43.
Who is Alan Webb?
This is the name of the clairvoyant pig in The Book of Three.
Who is Hen Wen?
This is the precious gem that Thorin Oakenshield seeks in The Hobbit.
What is the Arkenstone?
In Shakespeare's Midsummer's Night's Dream, several characters reenact this play in Act V.
What is Pyramus and Thisbe?
This is the city to which Frederick Douglass moved, where he learned to read and write.
What is Baltimore?
This is the name used by the United States/Americans to describe what many Europeans call The Seven Years' War, a global conflict that spanned multiple continents between 1754-1763.
What is the French and Indian War?
This is the full, three-part name of the main character in Crime and Punishment. It must be correctly pronounced.
Who is Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov?
(Rodya Romanych Raskolnikov)
(Родион Романович Раскольников)
French firebrand famously murdered in his own bathtub.
Who is Marat?
The metaphorical object used by Socrates in Plato's Gorgias to demonstrate that we do not derive satisfaction from endless indulgence of pleasures.
What are wine jars?
This title, which means "big man," was used to designate Mesopotamian kings.
What is Lugal?
What is phronesis?
The year of the first powered flight in the United States.
What is 1903?
Charles' real name in Shirley Jackson's short story, "Charles."
What is Laurie?
The victim of the violent crime that exposes Mr. Hyde's true nature.
Who is Sir Danvers Carew?
The mischievous fairy who applies the love potion to the wrong Athenian youth in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Who is Puck? (or: Who is Robin Goodfellow?)
The short, aggressive boss's son whose hand is crushed by Lennie Small in Of Mice and Men.
Who is Curley?
The only person in American history to serve both as president and chief justice of the Supreme Court. (Hint: this person was the 27th president and 10th chief justice).
Who is William Howard Taft?
According to Locke, the power an executive has to act according to discretion for the public good without the authority of law and sometimes even against it.
What is prerogative?
Astronomer who lost his nose in a duel and died when his bladder exploded after he refused to go to the bathroom during a dinner party.
Who is Tycho Brahe?
Her father and seven brothers were killed prior to the events of the Iliad.
Who is Andromache?
A prosperous Mecca merchant who was also Muhammad's first wife.
Who is Khadija?
Two formative influences, compared by Socrates to a liquefying agent and hardening agent respectively.
What are music and gymnastic?
According to Wikipedia, the third fastest bird on the planet behind the peregrine falcon and the saker falcon.
What is the golden eagle?