Matilda Lore🥳🫡
Masks (and movies?)🩻
Into the Unknown✨
Heated rivalries🧨
Ancient Greece
Media (lit + film)
100
True or false, I sucked my thumb as a kid
FALSE. I would never :(
100
In the 1998 movie, The Man in the Iron Mask, who plays King Louis XIV? 
Leonardo DiCaprio
100
‘Wuthering Heights’ was the first UK number one for which artist?
Kate Bush
100
The conflict between these two founding fathers ended with one shooting the other in a duel in New Jersey ? Who were they?
Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton
100
Alexander called over 30 cities what?
Alexandria
100
Finish the line from Terminator 2:
"come with me if you want to ___"
live
200
True or false,
I got a letter from the Queen bc I invited her to my fifth birthday (and she said no😔)
TRUE!!
200
What is the movie franchise that made this mask famous released its fifth installment this year? 
Scream
200
A power nap is also known by this animal name?
a cat nap
200
The conflict between Richard Owen and this famous scientist was over who originally came up with the theory of evolution. Who is the famous scientist?
Charles Darwin
200
How heavy is the average uterus?
60g
200
Following the life and times of eight siblings from the wealthy and prominent titular family, what 19th-century-set romance novel series written by Julia Quinn was transformed into a Shonda Rhimes-produced Netflix series in 2020?
Bridgerton
300
I had two fish. What were their names?
Red and white velvet.
300
Celebrating it's 11,000th performance in 2014, this Broadway mainstay is famous for this mask: 
Phantom of the Opera
300
According to Peter Parker's Uncle Ben, and many others, with great power comes what?
Great responsibility
300
Some historians now believe that it may have been fellow artist Paul Gauguin who cut off this artist's ear. Who!!
Vincent Van Gogh
300
How much did the aged salt, Charon, charge to row a person over the enormous lake?
2 obols
300
What is the name of this famous ship?
Jraco
400
In year 3 and 4, my teacher Vashti kept what class pets?
Mice.
She was fired the year after too...
400
The character who wore this mask was physically played by David Prowse but was voiced by this famous actor. Who is it?
James Earl Jones
400
Explain this lore:
So It Mine El is a memorable catchphrase coined by TikToker @milevenorbileven in a Stranger Things themed fanfiction post on TikTok in April 2024. The post shows the character El (or Eleven) saying that she's pregnant, Mike Wheeler denying that the baby is his, and then Billy Hargrove saying, "So it mine El." The awkward phrasing of the post led to the phrase going viral on TikTok, with many users making fan edits and likening it to the Prolly Not TikTok trend in 2022.
400
These two tech titans, leaders of Apple and Microsoft respectively, had a decades long feud but evidently made up prior to one of their deaths in 2011. Who?
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates
400
Circe is introduced in what book of the Odyssey?
Book 4
400
Agatha Christie's "By the Pricking of My Thumbs" and Ray Bradbury's "Something Wicked This Way Comes" are two novels who take their titles from lines in what Shakespeare play?
Macbeth
500
What colour was my bedroom wall when I was younger? Subtle flex, it was also magnetic paint.
Magenta pink-ish
500
This masked man, known as both the Dread Pirate Roberts and Wesley, is from what movie? 
The Princess Bride
500
The term "girl power" was popularized by this British pop group in the mid-1990's.
Spice Girls
500
A famous battle in 31 BC, representing one of the most significant turning points in the history of the Roman Empire, was between what two men?
Octavian and Mark Antony
500
Carneia was a religous festival that celebrated the death of who?
(shows piety of Spartans, I wrote about this in my Leonidas essay in yr 11...)
Carneus
500
At the conclusion of an 1835 literary fairy tale, a small object is placed in a museum because of its critical role in finding a suitable princess to marry a prince. What is this object that was placed under dozens of mattresses earlier in the tale?
Pea
600
How many cousins do I have? (no second cousins)
8
600
This star of Ace Ventura and The Truman Show starred in the 1994 movie "The Mask." What is the actors name?
Jim Carrey
600
How many years was Eleanor kept prisoner by Henry II?
sixteen years
600
The actors who played these characters in Star Wars evidently never liked each other because one was classically trained and the other was a circus performer. For the former, it was not the role "he was looking for.". What are the character's names?
C3PO and R2D2
600
At what age were Vestal Virgins committed to the priesthood?
Before puberty, they were committed before they started puberty, between the ages of six and ten.
600
What real-life English manor, known for its secrecy during filming and gothic architecture, served as the magnificent Catton family estate in the movie?
(saltburn question!!)
Drayton House in Northamptonshire, a private estate with a long history, kept under strict secrecy to maintain the film's illusion.
700
CRAZY UNEXPECTED MILLY QUESTION!!
What is milly's glasses prescription?
HAH, she doesn't wear glasses 😎🥸🤓🧐
2020 VISION
700
This film slasher wore a mask in all the many sequels in the Halloween franchise. What is the actors name?
Michael Myers
700
This type of power harnesses the energy of water in motion. Dam it can be strong!
Hydroelectric power
700
What two nobel winning scientists had a conflict over which electrical current (AC or DC) was better.
Tesla and Edison
700
Alexander the Great 'untied' the Gordian knot. Who tied this knot? AND what was their famous child called?
The knot was tied by Gordius, the father of King Midas.
700
"Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus," translated as "Never Tickle A Sleeping Dragon," is the official motto for what fictional place of learning?
Hogwarts
800
True or false, I had 3 of these teachers:
Hah, I only had one...
800
This hockey mask became synonymous with what horror film slasher (Only first name necessary)?
Jason
800
What was the reason that Eleanor of Aquitaine divorced her first husband Louis VII?
Consanguinity. Eleanor divorced Louis because of their close relationship, somewhere around third cousins. Ironically, she was actually more closely related to Henry II, somewhere around second cousins.
800
Finish this sentence:
The two most powerful city-states in ancient Greece, ____ and _____ , went to war with each other from _____ to 405 B.C. The ______ War marked a significant power shift in ancient Greece, favoring _____ , and also ushered in a period of regional decline that signaled the end of what is considered the Golden Age of Ancient Greece.
The two most powerful city-states in ancient Greece, Athens and Sparta, went to war with each other from 431 to 405 B.C. The Peloponnesian War marked a significant power shift in ancient Greece, favoring Sparta, and also ushered in a period of regional decline that signaled the end of what is considered the Golden Age of Ancient Greece.
800
Finish this quote by Herodotus:
"The Greeks never ____, they never ____"
"The greeks never slackened, they never backed down"
800
What did Will roll when attempting to fireball the Demogorgon in the opening game of D&D?
7
900
What suburb did I live in until I was 5?
Kingsland
900
During the bubonic plague, who wore these strange masks? :
Doctors
900
What is the name of this guy:
Benji Emo Brother
900
Who are these two people?
Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots
900
What happened to the Roman economy when Octavian returned to Rome with Egyptian wealth?
Interest rates fell and money came out of hiding.
This is a commonsense solution. When confidence is restored, economies improve. Far from creating a financial crisis, with banks closing, Octavian stabilized the Roman economy.
900
What song reminds Jonathan of the first mix he made for Will when he’s driving to his dad’s house to search for his little brother?
“Should I Stay or Should I Go” by The Clash
1000
What percentage did I get in my Grade 1 Jazz exam? (out of 100%)
86, ik kind of disappointing...
1000
What was the biggest conspiracy theories regarding face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Some claimed that masks were an instrument of government control and that they were physically harmful (e.g., causing oxygen deprivation)
1000
What was the name of Eleanor's famous grandfather whom historians regard as the first troubadour, Eleanor's oldest son and Eleanor's one and only brother?
(hint: they're all the same)
William
1000
Brothers Adolf and Rudolf Dassler began these two competing shoe companies after a feud drove them apart. What are the brands/companies called?
Adidas and Puma
1000
With which wife did Augustus have one natural child?
Scribonia
1000
True true, true false, false true, or false false:
Patrick taking a bite of the churro and letting Art take one was unscripted. AND Josh O'Connor was starving and it was the first time he ever had churros.
True True