AP Lang Game 2

Whodunit?

100

This redhead is determined to usurp Ralph's authority.

Jack

200

This person smuggles a sewing machine to Camp Rohwer in Arkansas.

George Takei's mother

300

This star witness for the prosecution in Adnan Syed's trial referred to himself as 'the criminal element of Woodlawn."

Jay Wilds

400

This author's proposal is not so modest.

Jonathan Swift

500

This character almost commits suicide at the end of Hamlet, saying "I am more an antique Roman than a Dane."

Horatio

Wild Card

100

When you join two independent clauses with a comma, it is called this.

Comma splice

200

This object was a symbol for order, civilization, and authority in Lord of the Flies.

The conch

300

"A little more than kin, and less than kind" is an example of this literary device.

Pun

400

This is the self-service supermarket chain founded in 1916 by George Saunders that still operates today, primarily in the South. 

Piggly-Wiggly

500

The number of years Adnan Syed served in prison before his conviction was vacated in 2022.

23

Geography

100

The setting for The Other Wes Moore, Serial, and part of Henrietta Lacks.

Baltimore

200

Something is rotten in this state.

Denmark

300

Laertes wants to return to this city, but needs permission from the King first.

France

400

Rose Mary Walls owned land in this state.

Texas

500

Henrietta Lacks lived and worked in Clover, _____, after moving there with her father and siblings when her mother died.

Virginia

Whose Line II

100

"Bollocks to the rules! We're strong! We hunt!"

Jack

200

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be."

Polonius

300

“Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.”

Rose Mary Walls

400

"Despite all that we've experienced, our democracy is still the best in the world because it's a people's democracy."

Takekuma “Norman Takei (George Takei's father)

500

“We are at once far too powerful and not nearly powerful enough. We are powerful enough to radically reshape Earth's climate and biodiversity, but not powerful enough to choose how we reshape them.”

John Green

Obscurity

100

Henrietta's youngest child changes his given name Joe to this.

Zakariyya

200

Jeannette Walls attends this college (it's one of the "Seven Sisters" to the Ivy League schools).

Barnard College

300

John Green's favorite beverage

Diet Dr Pepper

400

George Takei's role on Star Trek

Sulu

500

In The Butter Battle Book, these two factions try to outdo each other in an escalating arms race.

The Yooks and the Zooks