What are nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections?
100
This character dies at the very beginning of Fallen Angels.
Who is Jenkins?
100
This celebrity stole the show in a very negative way at this year's VMA's.
Who is Miley Cyrus?
100
This beloved classic novel is a story of growing up in a southern town in the 1930s and the trial of a black man accused of attacking a white girl. It is one of the most banned books in American history for “offensive language and racism,” but it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
200
A lazy person is often referred to using this common idiom.
What is a couch potato?
200
Name the 6 most common conjunctions.
What is: For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So?
Remember your FANBOYS :)
200
Samuel Langhorne Clemens wrote under this pseudonym.
Who is Mark Twain?
200
The band Ylvis is responsible for this viral sensation music video.
What is "What does the fox say?"
200
This series of books has been banned for promoting witchcraft, setting bad examples for youth, and for being “too dark.” Although most of the bans have since been overturned, there are still schools and libraries where these books and films are not welcome.
What is the Harry Potter series?
300
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
Your team must sing the ENTIRE theme song for Spongebob Square Pants.
Are you ready kids "Aye Aye Captain"
I Can't hear you "AYE AYE CAPTAIN"
Ohh...
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea
"Spongebob squarepants"
Absorbant and yellow and porous is he
"Spongebob Squarepants"
If nautical nonsense be something you wish
"Spongebob Squarepants"
Then drop on the deck and flop like a fish
"Spongebob Squarepants"
READY
Spongebob squarepants
Spongebob squarepants
Spongebob squarepants
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS!
300
This is the name for a word that is derived from a verb but that functions as a noun.
What is a gerund?
300
Lt. Carroll is fatally wounded and dies due to this.
What is bleeding to death?
300
This person is the first New Zealand solo artist to have a number one song in the United States.
Who is Lorde?
300
This book is a record of events spanning the years 1942 to 1944 during the Second World War and was banned for being "too depressing."
What is "The Diary of Anne Frank"?
400
This idiom is used when one acts in a frenzied manner.
What is "like a chicken with its head cut off"?
400
Name all 6 verb tenses.
What is past, present, future, present perfect, past perfect, and future perfect?
400
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was first published in this (month/year).
What is December of 1884?
400
This television show beat out Sunday Night Football on the most watched show in America, bringing in 21.6 million viewers.
What is NCIS?
400
This classic was banned in China because it portrayed animals and humans on the same level.
What is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
500
People often use this idiom to express that one is more likely to get in trouble if s/he has nothing to do
What is "idle hands are the devil's tools?"
500
Define the word antecedent, then correctly identify it/them in this sentence:
Zack gave his sister her doll.
What is the noun that the pronoun takes place of in a sentence?
Zack is the antecedent for "his;" his sister is the antecedent for "her."
500
Similar to the protagonist of Fallen Angels, Walter Dean Myers dropped out of high school and joined the army at the age of 17.
True or False?
What is True?
"I dropped out of high school (although now Stuyvesant High claims me as a graduate) and joined the army on my 17th birthday." - Walter Dean Myers
(taken from his personal webpage)
500
Name all of the family members and their wives featured on A&E's hit show, Duck Dynasty.
Who is:
Phil and Kay Robertson
Si Robertson
Willie and Korie Robertson
Jase and Missy Robertson
Jep and Jessica Robertson
500
The Roman emperor Caligula tried to suppress this book in AD 35 because it "expressed Greek ideals of freedom", which was clearly not acceptable when Rome occupied Greece.