School Supplies
This yellow writing tool must be sharpened and is a staple in every student's pencil case.
What is a pencil?
This Pink Floyd anthem declared, "We don't need no education."
What is "Another Brick in the Wall"?
This card game, involving drawing cards and stacking penalties, has ruined more college friendships than group projects.
What is UNO?
This is the powerhouse of the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
Ferris took a day off from this activity, much to Principal Rooney's dismay.
What is school (Ferris Bueller's Day Off)?
This tool helps you draw straight lines and measure in inches or centimeters.
What is a ruler?
This Vitamin C song became the unofficial graduation anthem of 2000: "As we go on, we remember..."
What is "Graduation (Friends Forever)"?
This MTV reality show, which debuted in 1992, put strangers in a house together — basically a preview of dorm life.
What is The Real World?
In grammar, this punctuation mark is used to connect two independent clauses without a conjunction.
What is a semicolon?
This Disney Channel movie features East High and a basketball star who loves to sing.
What is High School Musical?
This brand of glue was every '90s kid's favorite thing to peel off their hands.
What is Elmer's Glue?
This Grease classic has Danny and Sandy singing about their summer romance: "Tell me more, tell me more..."
What is "Summer Nights"?
This 2007 Judd Apatow-produced comedy follows two high schoolers on a wild last-night-before-graduation mission, starring Jonah Hill and Michael Cera.
What is Superbad?
"Their," "there," and "they're" are examples of these — words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings
What are homophones?
In this 2004 comedy, a slacker pretends to be a substitute teacher and forms a rock band with his students.
What is School of Rock?
This PDA/organizer, popular in the early 2000s, was the precursor to smartphones and was banned in most classrooms.
What is a Palm Pilot?
Simple Minds' 1985 hit became the anthem of Saturday detention thanks to The Breakfast Club.
What is "Don't You (Forget About Me)"?
This 2010 David Fincher film chronicles the founding of Facebook in a Harvard dorm room, starring Jesse Eisenberg.
What is The Social Network?
This Greek mathematician is credited with the theorem about the relationship between the sides of a right triangle.
Who is Pythagoras?
This Hogwarts house values bravery and courage, and its colors are scarlet and gold.
What is Gryffindor?
This drafting tool, essential for geometry class, could draw perfect circles — and also served as a mildly dangerous weapon in the wrong hands.
What is a compass?
This 1972 Alice Cooper hit became the ultimate last-day-of-school anthem.
What is "School's Out"?
This drinking game, played with Solo cups arranged in a triangle and ping pong balls, is a staple at every college party.
What is beer pong?
This element, number 79 on the periodic table, has the chemical symbol Au.
What is gold?
Reese Witherspoon proved everyone wrong when Elle Woods got into this prestigious law school.
What is Harvard Law School (Legally Blonde)?