Stories
What is the name of the genre for our unit?
Dystopias / Dystopian fiction
Which acronym is used to remember the pieces of Figurative Language?
SHAMPOO
What is the magic number for rhythm and remembering music and poetry?
Four (4)
What is it called when your team does not allow a single point in a full game (football, basketball, hockey, soccer, etc)?
What country is also a continent?
Australia
In "Repent, Harlequin!", how much money did the Harlequin spend on jelly beans?
One hundred and fifty thousand dollars
$150,000
Which two literary devices both start with F and have to do with looking back in time and hinting forward at a future event?
Flashback and Foreshadowing
What are the three categories of feeling for connotation?
positive, negative, and neutral
Name three (3) sports where you cannot kick the ball or object to score.
Basketball
Hockey
Volleyball
Tennis
and many more.
When does the new season of Jujutsu Kaisen come out?
January 8th, 2026
In "The Last Dog," what breed of dog is Brog?
Indeterminate breed
Mix
A mutt
Which type of figurative language is being used?
I couldn't believe my eyes, it was a one in a million chance and I remembered the old saying, "When pigs fly."
Idiom
What were the two titles for the poems we read about winter?
Deadly Winter and Wondrous Winter
How many points do you count up in tennis when you score?
Increments of 15.
15-30-45
Which fast food company had the MOST purchased items in in the entire world in 2025?
McDonald's
Which wall is broken in the first episode of "Attack on Titan"?
Wall Maria
Spell the words associated with the H and first O in SHAMPOO.
H-Y-P-E-R-B-O-L-E
O-N-O-M-A-T-O-P-O-E-I-A
In poetry, two lines that go together are called a couplet.
What do you call four lines that go together?
Quatrain
What is the highest vertical jump in human history?
51 inches set this year by Darius Clark
Who coined the phrase "E=mc2" and what does it stand for?
Albert Einstein
energy equals mass times the speed of light squared
In "The Truman Show" how many product placements were there, even the ones they didn't specifically say out loud? #ad
Get within 6 for points.
Approximately 78.
What was a moment of backwards or reverse irony in "The Last Dog"?
The expectation that the scientists are going to kill the dog on sight and they are more curious and pretty kind to it.
Which poem or song that we have read this year had an allusion to another poem or song in its own words?
"Stan" by Eminem references another song "In the Air Tonight" by Phil Collins in which the singer sees a guy watching someone drown and does not help him and then the singer sees the guy who watched the other drown at the show.
How long was the longest SINGLE official sporting event in history?
a 60 hour Gaelic soccer match in Ireland
Players spent an entire extended weekend (Friday to Sunday) playing a mix of rugby and soccer.
Players would sub in and out to take bathroom breaks and get food.
The final score was 635 to 528.
Approximately how many million giraffes would it take to touch the moon from Earth?
Get within 3 for points.
71 million giraffes are needed to reach the moon if all giraffes are of average height.