Vocabualry
Room 209
2024
100

typwriters, morse code,  butter churns, and wash boards are all ______ forms of communication and kitchenry 


what is archaic 

100

Where Knight lived for 27 years - the township

What is Rome, Maine ?

100

Buyer did this of artist Mauizio Cattelan's Comedian piece after buying it for $6.24 million.

He ate it.  Banana stuck on wall with duct tape

200

Those are S------- claims; they are not true!  Emet's favorite book was A Stranger in the Woods (first 2 chapters) and Not Little Women. 

What is spurious 

200

What Hemingway and my Zimbabwe trip have in common.  

What is the iceberg effect 

200

highest grossing Disney/Pixar film about a teenage girl navigating the emotional turbulence of adolescence.

Inside Out 2 

300

To use S....E is to use trickery to gain something 

Christopher lived a ____ life.  He kept to himself like the hermit crab. 

What is subterfuge ?

What is reclusive?

300

What is the timeline order of the following:

The Vikings  Roman Britain    Beowulf    The Anglo Saxons invade Britain 

what is Roman Britain, The Anglo Saxons invade, Beowulf and then, The Vikings. 

300

This nation sent 10,000 troops to help Russia battle Ukrainian forces in Russia's Kursk region

Became the first Black woman to top Billboard's country music chart

What is North Korea 

What is Beyonce (Cowboy Carter)

400

Obedient - like my dog 

Having a wide and diverse range 

HOlding on with "ten fingers" -  not giving up

What is docile,  eclectic , and tenacious

400

Macbeth's character flaw.

By the pricking of my thumbs, 

something wicked _ _ _! 

What is overarching ambition?

What is "...this way comes"

400

The CEO of this nation wide restaurant chain blamed its filing for bankruptcy on a $20 "endless shrimp" promotion.

Microsoft announced a deal to restart a reactor at this nuclear plant - the site of the nation's worst meltdown in 1979, to power its data

What is The Red Lobster

What is Three Mile Island 

500

Unable to be satisfied - can't get enough of something. 

Having a moral compass

Our next unit is Animal Farm.  Based on this type of government 

What is insatiable, scruples, Communism or Fascism  

500
Frankenstein's author

Victor's BFF

century (include early, mid or late) when novel was published 

What is Mary Shelley"

What is "Clerval"

What is early 19th Century (1818) January 1!


500

"The most common way people givew up their power is by thinking they don't have any."

"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize that half of them are stupider than that." 

Katherine Mansfield (author)

Albert Einstein (scientist)

Alice Walker (author )

George Carlin (comedian)

Alice Walker (author )

George Carlin (comedian)