Extraordinary Words and Meanings
Skellig
Places
Michael and Mina
Themes
100

What are Tawny Owls?

What are the species of owl that feeds Skellig in the attic?

100

What is 27 and 53?

What is Skellig's favorite Chinese food dishes?

100

What does Michael's dad find in the chimney?

What is a nest of bird skeletons?

100

Who is the "Mystery Man" and who calls them that name?

What is Mina's nickname for Michael?

100

The word that is painted on the old house that Mina and Michael bring Skellig.

What is Danger?

200

This fossilized creature is an evolutionary link between birds and dinosaurs.

What is archaeopteryx?

200

What are Spiders, mice, bluebottles?

What is what Skellig eats when he is in the garage?

200

Bags of cement, ancient doors, rolls of linoleum, etc

What is the rubbish Michael discovers when he first enters the garage?

200

Who/What is called Monkey Girl?

Whatt is the name that Coot calls Mina?

200

What is the missing word: 

"How can a bird that is born for _____/Sit in a cage and sing?"

What is Joy?

300

According to Michael's mom, what are shoulder blades for?

What is where your wings were and where they will grow back someday.

300

What is the sweetest of nectars?

What is brown ale?

300

What is significant about Ward 34?

What is it's the floor of the hospital where arthritis patients are cared for?

300

Mina asks Michael what color are blackbirds, to which he answers, "Black."  What does Mina say in reply?

What is Typical?

300

What is the missing word?:

Mina tells Michael, "We must be more calm, we must _____."

What is Listen?

400

"Truth and ______ are always getting muddled."

What are dreams?

400

What is the process by which the mind becomes inflexible? One word?

What is Ossification?

400

What is Falconer Road?

What is the street where Michael and his family move to in the beginning of the story?

400

What is the "brilliant" trick that Michael shows Mina?

What is how to hoot like an owl?

400

The scientific theory that claims that life is constantly changing.

What is Evolution?

500

What did William Blake claim leapt out of his body and back again?

What is his soul?

500

Skellig tells Michael and Mina he is something like a ___, something like a _____, something like an _____."

What is beast/bird/angel?

500

Where was Michael when he wanted to stand up and say,"There's a man in our garage..."?

What is on the bus on his way to school?

500

Who says the line, "You're beautiful"? And who is it said about/to?

What is it's what Mina says to Skellig after she sees his face up close.

500

What is the missing word from the novel:

 "Your sister has a heart of _____."

What is fire?