Thought & Action
Animal Farm
Politics & Language
Satirical Techniques
General Knowledge
100

If you're too high on the abstraction ladder, what does Schmiller yell?

Farm assets

100

In Animal Farm, what do the animals call each other?

Comrade

100

What is the full name of George Orwell's essay?

Politics and the English Language

100

Define "hyperbole".

Extreme exaggeration. 

100

Who was the leader of the Iranian Revolution?

Ruhollah Khomeini

200

Two-valued orientation does what?

Declares something good or bad, can be illogical

200

What is the name of the pig that is known to twist words and was Napoleon's right hand man?

Squealer

200

What is George Orwell's real name?

Eric Blair

200
Define "satire"

Picking out a human folly and critiquing it without offering any solution

200

The winner gets three stuffed animals. What are they?

Pig, sheep, and chick

300

Hayakawa mentions two types of connotation. What are they?

Affective & informative

300

What is the name of the Revolution that Animal Farm is based on?

Bolshevik revolution

300

We discussed two rules that Pondacia should intentionally ignore. Which ones were they?

Scientific jargon & long words

300

List one of the two satirical technique that was used in our presentation.

Hyperbole or Verbal Irony

300

Name the revolution that Agent Kahn discussed

The Iranian Revolution

400

In which chapter does Hayakawa explain "DLA" or "Dead-Level Abstraction"?

Chapter 8

400

Fill in the quote. "A bird's wing... is an organ of ________ and not of __________"

propulsion; manipulation

400

In his text, "Politics and the English Language", Orwell lists how many rules?

6 rules

400

Agent Collins and Agent Brown discussed in their slides that contradiction equals what?

Manipulation

400

What fictional revolution did Agent Gaetano talk about?

The Hunger Games

500

How many editions of Language and Thought and Action are there?

5

500

Name the two farms that neighbor Animal Farm?

Foxwood and Pinchfield

500

In which rule does Orwell state, "Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent?"

Rule #5

500

What are the two types of satire?

Horatian and juvenalian 

500

What do the initials S.I. in S.I. Hayakawa stand for?

Samuel Ichiye