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100

" 'Oh really,' " the teacher said. 'How interesting. I thought that everyone loved the mosquito, but here, in front of all the world, you claim to detest him.' "

Who is David Sedaris? 

100

This is the capitol of California. 

What is Sacramento? 

100

This NAU professor is an award-winning poet and essayist. 

Who is Dr. Nicole Walker?

100

While you sit there grinning Fast Freddy is making his move. 

What is , after grinning? 

100

"Almost everyone notes that there is no "time" in Las Vegas, no night and no day and no past and no future."

Who is Joan Didion?

200

"A smart Indian is a dangerous person, widely feared and ridiculed by Indians and non-Indians alike." 

Who is Sherman Alexie? 

200

This river has been referred to as "the Nile of North America" due to the constraints from irrigation and agriculture. It flows from the Rockies through the "Cadillac Desert." 

What is the Colorado River? 

200

This author of best-selling non-fiction books continues to write as a sports columnist. 

Who is Mitch Albom? 

200

The Arizona Cardinals squeaked out a win and Kyler Murray gets to keep his job for another week. 

What is , after win. 

TWO INDEPENDENT CLAUSES!

200

"If you have not meimslsxp or lgpdmurct by this time, then you should not be in this room." 

Who is David Sedaris
300

"The industrial eater is, in fact one who does not know that eating is an agricultural act, who no longer knows or imagines the connections between eating and the land and who is therefore necessarily passive..." 

Who is Wendell Berry?

300

This New England city is commonly known as Bean Town. It is also the home of the historic Bunker Hill. 

What is Boston?

300

Born in 1966 with a life-threatening medical condition, this author of Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian has been prolific in essays, poetry, novels, and screenplays. 

Who is Sherman Alexie. 

300

Kyler Murray and the Cardinals are on a one game winning streak after beating the Forty-Niners.

What is, no punctuation necessary? 

300

" 'How can I be envious of where you are. When I've been there myself?' "

Who is Morrie Schwartz as told by Mitch Albom?

400

"We hold these truths to be self-evident..." 

Who is Thomas Jefferson? 
400

This city was the original capitol of the United States.

What is Philadelphia?

400

This author, considered one of the best living humorists, tours the U.S. and Europe reading essays to large crowds. She/he makes "fat stacks," as the kids are saying on the streets. 

Who is David Sedaris?

400

"Because, Morrie continued, most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do." 

What are single quotes here: 

" 'Because,'....'most of us..do.' "

400

" 'You'll need something with more kick than that,' the bride's father said, with heavy jocularity to his new son in law."

Who is Joan Didion? 

500

"I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff—I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them."

Who is JD Salinger? 


Come on, man, Catcher in the Rye!

500

This is ACTUALLY the longest river in the US. 

What is the Missouri River? 

500

Her essays, novels, and screenplays challenged societal norms for decades--especially during the 1960s. 

Who is Joan Didion? 

500

My pet lizard enjoys sleeping. Its its favorite hobby.

What is apostrophe after the first its?

500

"From this time I was never again what might be considered fairly whipped..." 

Who is Frederick Douglass?