Tim Duncan Fundies
Main Character? Energy
First Days of School
Mouse Holes?
The Closest Reads
100

The first question of two main questions we ask when close reading

What is "What is Presented to Us?"

100

Mr. Scully's first name

What is "Pat?"

100

A malnourished or fragile romance

What is Skinny Love?

100

Situational, _____, and moral ironies are themes in A California Holiday

What is "Religious Irony?"

100

Vladek insists that Art's hanger is made from this material

What is a wooden hanger?

200

The third story's main goal in a Three-Story Thesis

What is Broader Significance?

200

Art's comic about losing his mother

What is "The Prisoner on Hell Planet?"

200

A listening device...or something that you were while I was a kid

What is a phonograph

200

Some of Vladek's love interests include: Mala, _____, and Anja

Who is Lucia?

200

Both part of a title and a concept in Common Sense, Thomas Paine HATES this form of government, where kingship is passed down from generation to generation.

What is Hereditary Succession?

300
This narrator is all-knowing

What is 3rd person Omniscient?

300

Our main character was "minding his own" in what seat of the car?

What is the backseat?

300

The example game used by Dan Pink to illustrate his point in The Puzzle of Motivation

What is the Candle Problem?

300

I told you to be patient, ____, fine, and kind

What is balanced?

300

A Proper Noun that appears in both Ear Hustle and A California Holiday

What is San Quentin?

400

A group of words that contain both a subject and a predicate

What is a clause?

400

Vladek expended lots of energy on this machine while telling his story 

What is the Exercise Bike?

400

These are the three key skills that organizations must use, according to Dan Pink

Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose

400

The main character from our non-American short film is named _____ Scrooge

Who is Ebenezer? 

400

His belief is challenged by David Brooks in The Olympic Contradiction

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

500

A noun that usually follows and renames or describes another noun or noun phrase

What is an appositive?

500

This was the author of A California Holiday's occupation

What is a Reporter?

500

Three words repeated over again in Skinny Love's refrain

What is "I told you?"

500

Some chapter titles incude The Sheik, ____, Prisoner of War, the Noose Tightens, Maus Holes, and ______

What is "The Honeymoon" and "Mouse Traps?"

500
The Nebraska town that The Blue Hotel is located

What is Fort Romper?