Fellow Kids
Pansy Parkinson & Draco Malfoy are but 2 of the kids sorted into this Hogwarts house
What is Slytherin?
How bread starts off & something you need to pay your rent
What is dough?
A common Louisiana greeting asks "How is" this familial relation "& them?"
About the Boer War, she sniffed, "We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat"
Who is Queen Victoria?
Oh no! it looks like the tyke picked up this red & black beetle of the Coccinellidae family & is about to eat it!
What is a ladybug?
Percival, a kid in this William Golding tale, is one of the first to see "the beast"
What is Lord of the Flies?
A tree part & a car part
What is a trunk?
La bise is a common French greeting of these affectionate gestures
What are kisses on the cheek?
Facing a tribunal, she said, "My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long" (& soon headed to the guillotine)
Who is Marie Antoinette?
I've childproofed the doors & windows & double-padlocked this mythic box or jar that Hesiod wrote about
What is Pandora's box?
Stanley Yelnats, X-Ray, Zero & the other kids at Camp Green Lake dig & dig & dig in this Louis Sachar book
What is Holes?
Something one stands on in the bathroom & a ratio on a map
What is a scale?
In Sanskrit this greeting means "bowing to you"
What is namaste?
Plutarch reports that when she appeared in public, she often dressed as the goddess Isis & used the name New Isis
Who is Cleopatra?
The kid likes to destroy Lego towers in the guise of this creature first brought to life by Toho Studios in 1954
Who is Godzilla?
One boy threatens to eat another unless he gets more gruel in this 1838 novel
What is Oliver Twist?
A good fire starter & a pleasant surprise on a dating app such as Tinder
What is a match?
Noses touch in the Hongi greeting which symbolizes sharing the breath of life in this Western Polynesian culture
What is Maori?
At 43 she took a new lover, Alexander Vasilchikov, who was in his 20s
Who is Catherine the Great?
I'm sorta impressed: the kid climbed my fountain modeled on this Baroque Roman one from 1762--it was to scale at nearly 90 feet!
What is the Trevi Fountain?
In "Charlie & the Chocolate Factory", they're the 2 Golden Ticket kids whose first names start with "V"
Who are Violet and Victor?
Signals with a hand & things with crests & troughs
What are waves?
The OED says this greeting created by Black soldiers is "a casual gesture ...involving slapping palms... or snapping fingers"
What is a dap?
In I Kings she tells Solomon, "Thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard"
Who is the Queen of Sheba?
Oops--crayon marks all over this c. 9th century illuminated manuscript I borrowed from Trinity College in Dublin
What is the Book of Kells?