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100
Based on a true event, this film, released in 1997 starring Leonardo DiCaprio, was said to be the most epic romance movie of the year despite the complete tragedy that followed.
What is Titanic?
100
“I went to the library, Mike was there” is an example of this common grammatical error.
What is a comma splice?
100
Outkast Youth’s “Hey Ya” tells audiences to shake it like this.
What is a polaroid picture?
100
This address in London was home to England’s most famous fictional detective.
What is 221B Baker St?
100
This city is the setting for Shakespeare’s most famous romance featuring teenage, star-crossed lovers.
What is Verona, Italy?
100
This colour is worn by Marthas in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.
What is green?
200
This film had the biggest budget ($378.5 million) of this franchise starring Orlando Bloom and Johnny Depp.
What is Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides?
200
“for,” “and,” “or,” “but”--this two-word phrase is used to describe the part of a sentence represented by each of these words.
What is a coordinating conjunction?
200
This Harvard drop-out invented his own social media platform to connect students in 2004.
Who is Mark Zuckerburg?
200
This author’s most famous poem was originally supposed to be about a parrot repeating the word “Nevermore”.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
200
This Shakesperian play includes a mischievous fairy who plays pranks on mortals.
What is A Midsummer’s Night Dream?
200
This Scarborough park features in David Chariandy’s novel Brother.
What is the Rouge Valley?
300
In his role as Deadpool in Deadpool 2, Ryan Reynolds pleads that his superhero suit is not “green or animated”, a slight diss at this 2011 blockbuster flop.
What is Green Lantern?
300
Semicolons can be used in these two ways
What are connecting related independent clauses and in a serial list?
300
This stuffed animal toy changed the medium of playing by allowing toy owners to connect online in 2005.
What is Webkinz?
300
Born in 1343, this Father of English Poetry has a crater on the moon named after him.
Who is Geoffery Chaucer?
300
This is the first line of Shakespeare’s most famous sonnet about immortalized love.
What is “Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer’s Day?”
300
This American salesman gets the better of the “bluenoses” of Nova Scotia in Thomas Chandler Haliburton’s The Clockmaker.
Who is Sam Slick?
400
This 1988 blockbuster hit is often argued amongst fans to be a Christmas movie.
What is Die Hard?
400
This term should be used to refer to the object of a verb or preposition while “who” should be used to refer to the subject of a sentence.
What is the term “whom”?
400
This royal is currently third in line for the English throne.
Who is Prince George?
400
This New York woman died in 1887, the year after the subject of her most famous poem was unveiled.
Who was Emma Lazarus?
400
In As You Like It, one melancholy Shakespearean character famously says this in reference to all men and women being merely players.
What is “All the world’s a stage”? (said by Jacques)
400
Northrop Frye said Canadians saw nature through this terrified perspective.
What is the garrison mentality?
500
The 2010 fantasy adventure film Clash of the Titans concludes with Perseus defeating this mythical creature.
What is the Kraken?
500
In the sentence, “Canoeing is fun,” canoeing is this, also called a verbal noun.
What is a gerund?
500
This was Barbie’s first profession.
What is a Teenage Fashion Model?
500
Dating back to the 7th century BCE, this poetic form was used to give good wishes to a newly married couple.
What is an epithalamium?
500
Shakespeare’s 1603 tragedy about racial prejudice and jealousy features a protagonist who is described by this term when the play displays his racial/ethnic origin or emphasises his non-white skin tone.
What is “Moor”?
500
Thomas King had a fireside reading from this important Canadian report on his CBC radio comedy show Dead Dog Café.
What is the Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples?