Games We Play
In this game, we take turns adding to a steadily growing list of items being packed into a suitcase
PACKING MY SUITCASE
This Egyptian P-word translates literally to "God-King"
PHARAOH
It is this type of professional in which a person would die within a few seconds after noticing a hole torn in the sleeve of his or her work uniform
ASTRONAUT
The Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud theorized that these were just the brain's attempt to fulfill wishes that unfulfilled when we are awake
DREAMS
This is what sea monsters eat
FISH & SHIPS
The goal in this game is to link two given words through three unknown words with just the vowels filled in to start
PASSWORD
This country was the birthplace of French Queen Marie Antoinette
AUSTRIA
This traditional winter construction was the explanation for finding a faded old scarf, a wrinkled old carrot, and a small pile of pebbles in the middle of a grassy field
SNOWMAN
In this group, most if not all of us has more than one of these under our heads or around us when we sleep
PILLOWS
This is a ghost’s favourite fruit
A BOOBERRY
This online game is an interactive game where I can pull the map around and you try to find the characters that appear in a bubble in the upper lefthand corner of the screen
ISPY
Made by humans more than 10,000 years ago, these early works of art depict red and black figures of deer, horses, and even the realistic head and shoulders of a bison
CAVE PAINTINGS
This classic boardgame provides the explanation for why a man pushes his car up in front of a hotel and then stops, realizing he has just gone bankrupt
MONOPOLY
True or false—the German chemist August Kekule puzzled out the structure of a benzene molecule in a dream about the ouroboros—a snake biting its own tail
TRUE
This is what you call a dancing sheep
A BAHHH-LERINA
In this game, whomever is it comes up with a category and then gives the rest of us hints about what the category is by presenting one example at a time, starting with “I am going on a…”
TRIP TO THE MOON
Egypt developed and flourished along the banks and in the valley of this great river, using its waters to irrigate some of the earliest crops grown for food
THE NILE
This term for three babies born together explains why two babies born at the same time are not technically twins
TRIPLETS
This is the term for the condition of not getting enough sleep—the affects of which if allowed to persist can lead to extreme illness and even death
SLEEP DEPRIVATION
This is what one snowman said to the other
SMELLS LIKE CARROTS
This online game based on a TV quizshow format presents five levels of five different categories representing topics we have discussed in previous classes
JEOPARDY
This legendary King of the Britons is known for his powerful magician friend, his Knights of the Round Table and his lovely wife the Queen of Camelot…who was secretly in love with the king’s favourite knight…
KING ARTHUR
This solution explains why Bob and Carol did not seek punishment for Ted when they came home from the movies and found he had killed Alice
TED IS A CAT AND ALICE IS A FISH
Dreams tend to occur during this period of the sleep cycle, characterized by quick, active movements of the eyes
REM SLEEP
This is what the snail with the giant “S” on the side of his race car hoped people would say
"WOW! LOOK AT THAT 'S' CAR GO!"