Feeling so High School
(Questions about the music scene during this past academic year)
(Questions about the music scene during this past academic year)
She's back seeking carnage and trying to solve existential questions! In April 2026, Olivia Rodrigo released the first single off her new album, "you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love." This album is Olivia's third and marks her return after GUTS (spilled) in 2024.
What is the name of the first single off "you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love"?
A) drop dead
B) vampire
C) All Too Well
A - drop dead
Matilda is a book about a spunky young girl with a very powerful mind. She educated herself for the first six years of her life before attending school, flabbergasting her teacher, Miss Honey, with her brilliance. Yay homeschoolers!
Who is the author of Matilda?
A) Roald Dahl
B) Beverly Cleary
C) Jane Austen
A - Roald Dahl
Charlotte Bronte's first novel was titled The Professor, about an Englishman who taught at a school in Brussels. She sent this work to the publisher Smith, Elder, & Co., who rejected it, but asked Charlotte to send them another novel if she had one better.
So, Charlotte embarked on her second novel, a tale about a young English governess navigating grief, striving for independence, and trying to make sense of her attraction to her sardonic employer. This novel was immediately accepted by Smith, Elder, & Co., and went on to be one of the most revered novels in the English language.
What was the name of this book?
A) Pride and Prejudice
B) Jane Eyre
C) Agnes Grey
B - Jane Eyre
Who doesn't love goats? They're angsty, fun, and energetic as adults, and they're all this x 100 as babies. What is a baby goat called?
A) a kid
B) a calf
C) a goatling
A - a kid
What is the best subject?
A) English
B) Math
C) Science
D) Music
E) Art
F) Social Studies
G) All of the above and more
Any answer will warrant full points, but answer G warrants an additional 10
Sabrina Carpenter, who released her album "Man's Best Friend" in August 2025, is a bona fide popstar after getting her start on the Disney Channel show Girl Meets World.
True or False: In Girl Meets World, Sabrina's character Maya was actually an evil wizard from the 13th century who was cursed to be trapped in the body of a teenage girl for all eternity.
False, Maya was just an angsty teenage girl with no magic involved
It can be argued that Wednesday and Pugsley Addams from The Addams Family were homeschooled. The creepy and comical Addams household would certainly be a very interesting place to be raised.
Fill in the missing six-letter word from the theme song to The Addams Family:
"Their house is a museum/where people come to see 'em/they really are a _ _ _ _ _ _/the Addams family."
Missing word: scream
A) Jane
B) Cathy
C) Elizabeth
B - Cathy
Cats have been worshipped as gods and shunned as demons, valued as mousers and revered as "sphynxes of the hearthstone." For little beings without apposable thumbs, cats really have the world in the palm of their paw.
Do cats have five toes on their front paws?
Yes, but their little "thumbs" are further up than their four little toes, and are sometimes overlooked
Try as hard as they might, the arts cannot seem to stay platonic. Literature, art, and music each went through a Romantic era. While the timelines were slightly different, the Romantic eras of music, literature, and art all overlapped in one particular century.
Which century was that?
A) 1700s
B) 1800s
C) 1900s
B - 1800s
(Some of the Romantic eras lasted from the 1700s - early 1900s, but all three overlapped in the 1800s)
KPop Demon Hunters released on Halloween 2025 to critical acclaim, unleashing MANY addictive, get-stuck-in-your-head-immediately song. What is the name of the fictional girl group at the center of the film?
A) Rumi
B) BlackPink
C) HUNTR/X
C - HUNTR/X
Do you know Sherlock Holmes has a kid sister? Millie Bobby Brown portrays the intrepid young sleuth Enola Holmes in the hit Netflix franchise of the same name. Enola and Sherlock also have an older brother, who also appears in the original Sherlock stories. What is his name?
A) Watson
B) Mycroft
C) John
B - Mycroft
Jane Austen was very close to her sister, Cassandra. Their mother, Mrs. Austen, once remarked in a letter when her daughters were young that Jane and Cassandra were so inseparable that "if Cassandra were to have her head chopped off, Jane would have hers off, too."
True or False: Although they were both ardently in love with the outdoors, Cassandra was more of the gardener than Jane. While Cassandra was away, Jane wrote to inform her, "I will not say that your mulberry-trees are dead, but I am afraid they are not alive."
True! Cassandra probably never left her in charge of the garden again
It would be an honor to know an otter! These fuzzy parcels of fun are remarkably cute and swimmy and are singlehandedly capable of melting the hearts of all who behold them.
True or false: sea otters hold hands/paws when sleeping on their backs in the water so they don't float away from each other.
True! Sea otters hold paws with their otter friends - known as forming rafts - so they all stay together while sleeping. Cute!
In Latin, what does the phrase "vini, vidi, vici" mean?
A) Love, loss, libations
B) I came, I saw, I conquered
C) To be or not to be
B - I came, I saw, I conquered
She might've been sleepless in the onyx night, but sleep deprivation can't stop Taylor Swift from making killer music videos. "Opalite," a single from her October 2025 album "The Life of a Showgirl," features Taylor as a lonely woman making friendship bracelets for her best friend rock. Eventually, Opalite causes her path to cross paths with a lonely man (played by Domhnall Gleeson), whose pre-Taylor beloved was too prickly for his own good.
What was the non-human partner he brought everywhere before meeting Taylor?
A) a porcupine
B) a cactus
C) a pufferfish
B - a cactus
Billie Eilish was homeschooled with her older brother, Finneas. Homeschooling allowed them to pursue their shared love of music from an early age. They went on to release their first song "Ocean Eyes" when Billie was 13 and Finneas was a few years older.
True or False: Before releasing "Ocean Eyes" themselves, Billie and Finneas visited record labels across the country to try to get them to take the demo. The siblings were frequently rebuffed due to being teenagers. In one final attempt, they dressed up as senior citizens - with Billie dying her hair white - to try to get a record label to take them seriously. This didn't work.
False, as far as I know, but it kind of sounds like something they'd do
Anne Bronte was the youngest of the Bronte sisters. Although her work is probably the least famous, her novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall scandalized Victorian society with its radical feminist messages. It was so radical, in fact, that Charlotte Bronte requested the novel not be reprinted after Anne's death.
Is The Tenant of Wildfell Hall an epistolary novel?
Yes, it is, as it's told as a letter from the hero to his brother-in-law, with diary entries from the heroine interspersed
Despite the old saying, dogs can be anyone's best friend. Dogs are loyal and usually friendly, and make excellent main characters. Famous dogs of the media include Lassie, Snoopy, Scooby-Doo, and Bluey.
What breed of dog is Bluey?
A) Great Dane
B) Blue Heeler
C) Beagle
B - Blue Heeler
Van Gogh was a Dutch post-impressionist painter who is famous for works such as Starry Night.
While van Gogh's work is everywhere from the MET to MoMA, there is one official van Gogh Museum located. Where is it located?
A) Amsterdam
B) Rotterdam
C) Copenhagen
A - Amsterdam
From an adorable teen vlogger and YouTuber to performing the world in a sailor suit, Conan Gray is a boss with an adorable grin. Conan Gray's Wishbone World Tour commenced in February, 2026, titled after his latest album, Wishbone.
Besides amazing songs, the album features three music videos that follow a couple navigating *life,* played by Corey Fogelmanis and Conan himself. What are the names of the couple Corey and Conan play?
A) Wilson and Brando
B) Brad and Harris
C) Curran and Connor
A - Wilson and Brando
Venus and Serena Williams were homeschooled by their father, Richard, and given the time and flexibility to pursue their tennis careers. Now, they're both decorated tennis players - two of the most famous and most well known in the world.
Is Venus the older sister, or is Serena?
Venus (born 1980) is fourteen months older than Serena (born 1981).
Jane Austen had a spinster neighbor named Miss Benn whom she invited over for dinner often when living in Chawton. She even read aloud part of the first volume of Pride and Prejudice to Miss Benn on the day of its publication - however, she kept the fact she was the author a secret.
Miss Benn is widely speculated to have inspired Emma Woodhouse's spinster family friend in Emma, a woman named:
A) Miss Bennet
B) Miss Bates
C) Miss Hyde
B - Miss Bates
While not classroom pets, the characters of My Little Pony would be wonderful editions to the classroom. And my Twilight Sparkle stuffed animal helped me get through kindergarten, I kid thee not.
In My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, the "Mane 6" consisted of two Earth Ponies (no wings or horns), two Pegasi ponies (wings), and two Unicorns.
What are the names of the two Unicorns?
A) Twilight Sparkle and Rarity
B) Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash
C) Pinkie Pie and Applejack.
A - Twilight Sparkle and Rarity
Calculus was discovered independently by the English Sir Isaac Newton and the German Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in the 17th century.
True or False: Albert Einstein, when teaching his son the history of calculus, tried to come up with a phrase to help his son remember the full names of the men who both discovered calculus. He came up with the memorable morbid phrase "Newt got fried."
False, as far as I know (I came up with the morbid but memorable phrase, I'm sorry)