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100
These 4 sisters appear in a book we read near our Christmas break.
Who are Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy
100
This character in a Shakespeare play is consistently made fun of for her short stature.
Who is Hermia?
100
The name of the first poem that you learned this year.
What is "The Road Not Taken"?
100
This period of history was known for art, literature, music, and new interest in learning.
What is the Renaissance?
100
The name of the Confederate general who was shot by one of his own soldiers.
Who is Stonewall Jackson?
200
Full name of the sidekick to the "knight" in the first book we read this year.
Who is Sancho Panza?
200
This character in our novel by Mark Twain tried to run away to Texas.
Who is Injun Joe?
200
Walt Whitman wrote a poem that you recited dedicated to the life of a certain man.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
This world explorer circumnavigated the globe, traveling around South America to get to the Spice Islands.
Who is Magellan?
200
This female sharp-shooter had a musical written about her life (Give the full name)
Who is Annie Oakley?
300
This slaveowner owned several large plantations including this one in which Frederick Douglass grew up as a slave.
Who is Colonel Lloyd?
300
This nursery rhyme was sung to Mary at the beginning of The Secret Garden. (Say the whole nursery rhyme)
What is "Mistress Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow? With silver bells and cockle shells, and pretty maids all in a row."
300
The type of poem made famous during the Japanese Feudalism era.
What is a haiku?
300
This painter completed many tremendous works of art including the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
300
The first state to secede from the Union during the time of the Civil War.
What is South Carolina?
400
In "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches", a girl is hired for a strange job with several requirements of her. (List at least two)
What is cut her long hair short OR wear a particular blue dress OR sit in front of a window reading OR laugh at jokes in front of the window.
400
The address of Sherlock Holmes' apartment.
What is 221 B. Baker Street?
400
The opposite of a cloud, according to a certain poem you memorized.
What is "a white reflection in the sea or a huge blueness in the air caused by a cloud's not being there"?
400
This rhyme is used to remember the fates of all of Henry VIII's wives,
What is divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived?"
400
The phrase used by Americans to signify their belief that God wanted them to take all of the land to the Pacific coast.
What is "Manifest Destiny"?
500
The "castles in the air" for each of the Little Women and Laurie.
What are: Amy=go to Rome and be a famous artist Beth=stay at home and take care of family Jo= be a famous writer and have a big house with lots of books and horses Meg= to be a rich/fancy housewife and mother Laurie=travel the world and be a famous musician
500
Don Quixote fell in love with this woman who was the daughter of a farmer (Give the full name - first name and where she is from)
Who is Dulcinea del Toboso?
500
What is the full poem written by Lewis Carroll that you learned this year?
What is "'Twas brillig and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabes, all mimsy were the borogoves and the mome raths outgrabe. Beware the jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the jubjub bird and shun the frumious bandersnatch! He took his vorpal sword in hand: long time the manxome foe he sought-- so rested he by the Tumtum tree, and stood awhile in thought. And as in uffish thought he stood, the jabberwock, with eyes of flame, came whiffling through the tulgey wood and burbled as it came! One two! One two! And through and through the vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head he went galumphing back. "And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!" He chortled in his joy. 'Twas brillig and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe: all mimsy were the borogoves and mome raths outgrabe.
500
This South American/Latin American civilization was known for their long roads and advanced architecture.
Who are the Incas?
500
The US president who encouraged war with Mexico after the Battle of the Alamo, telling Americans that the Mexicans had "invaded American land."
Who is President James Polk?