MOTHER RUSSIA
YOU'VE CAT TO BE
KITTEN ME
KITTEN ME
IT’S ALL GREEK TO ME
FANTASYLAND
MEDIEVAL TIMES
100
This massive region of Russia is famous for brutal winters, vast wilderness, and historically being somewhere you REALLY didn't want the government to send you.
What is Siberia?
100
Scientists have yet to explain the phenomenon, but put Rebecca and Mom in the same vehicle and this 1976 Al Stewart song WILL eventually come on the radio.
What is Year of the Cat?
100
In one of Kappa Kappa Gamma’s more interesting personnel decisions, Rebecca was given this position responsible for addressing members’ conduct.
What is Standards Chair?
100
In the 2008 movie Twilight, Edward famously tells Bella, “And so the lion fell in love with” this animal—a sentence that had teenage girls in an absolute chokehold.
What is a lamb?
100
During the Black Death, some medieval Europeans blamed this completely innocent animal for spreading disease and killed them—which may have been especially unhelpful considering they hunted rats.
What are cats?
200
Boney M.'s ridiculously catchy disco song describes ______ as the lover of the Russian queen.
Who is Rasputin?
200
When a cat rhythmically pushes its paws into you like it has suddenly picked up a shift at Panera, it is commonly called this.
What is making biscuits/kneading?
200
In the 2008 movie Mamma Mia! starring Amanda Seyfried, Sophie has three possible fathers: Bill, Harry, and Sam. Based on absolutely no DNA evidence and entirely on vibes, which one is DEFINITELY not her father? Hint: This same man also showed tremendous courage by agreeing to sing in the film.
Who is Sam? (Pierce Brosnan)
200
In The Lord of the Rings, this object causes approximately nine hours of movie problems because nobody can simply throw it away normally.
What is the One Ring?
200
With Colgate still several centuries away, medieval Europeans sometimes cleaned their teeth using cloths, herbs, and mixtures containing this common seasoning.
What is salt?
300
This was the title used by Russian emperors before the revolution made being one a very bad career choice.
What is Tsar/Czar?
300
This 1970 Disney classic gave us “Everybody Wants to Be a Cat” — and also a Siamese cat playing piano with chopsticks in a scene that has aged about as well as you’d imagine.
What is The Aristocats?
300
When the Cyclops asks his name, Odysseus cleverly gives him this fake name, which becomes useful when the Cyclops later screams that this person is attacking him.
Who is Nobody?
300
In C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, in one of literature’s worst trades, Edmund betrays his siblings to the White Witch in exchange for the promise of more of this candy.
What is Turkish delight?
300
In a devastating blow to redhead representation, medieval artists frequently depicted this biblical figure—best known for betraying Jesus—with red hair.
Who is Judas Iscariot?
400
Nicholas II, Alexandra, and their five children belonged to this Russian dynasty that had a fantastic 300-year run and an objectively terrible series finale.
Who were the Romanovs?
400
Rebecca has owned a cat for roughly a year, yet her rapid descent into cat obsession has us wondering whether she’s contracted this parasite-caused illness associated with felines.
What is toxoplasmosis?
400
Zeus punished this Titan for giving fire to humanity by having an eagle eat his liver every day for eternity. Greek punishments tended to be thorough.
Who is Prometheus?
400
In The Princess Bride, Vizzini repeatedly uses this word until Inigo Montoya finally tells him, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
What is “inconceivable”?
400
George R.R. Martin has cited this series of English dynastic conflicts between York and Lancaster as one inspiration for Game of Thrones.
What are the Wars of the Roses?
500
Rebecca received most of her formal training in Russian history from the 1997 cinematic masterpiece Anastasia.
According to this highly reputable source, “There’s a rumor in ________.” Name the Russian city where the gossip is apparently HOT.
What is St. Petersburg?
500
After the 2019 cinematic war crime Cats was released, the internet became obsessed with rumors that an earlier version had CGI versions of THIS feline body part that were later digitally removed.
What are buttholes?
500
According to legend, this ancient Greek scientist discovered the principle of buoyancy while taking a bath and was so excited that he ran through the streets yelling “Eureka!”—an enthusiasm for science Rebecca should consider bringing to the classroom.
Who is Archimedes?
500
Daenerys Targaryen begins Game of Thrones with three dragon eggs. Name two of her three dragons.
Who are Drogon, Rhaegal, and Viserion?
500
She was Queen of France, got an annulment, married the future King of England, went on Crusade, and gave birth to Richard the Lionheart and King John. Name this medieval overachiever.
Who is Eleanor of Aquitaine?