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Brain Break
STOP! Grammar Time
Brain Break the Remix
"Vocab Gab-Gab"
100

This is the unspeakable word given at the end of chapter twelve. 

What is ego?

100

Mr. Crew has worn this color more than any other color this semester.

What is blue?

100

This part of speech can be a person, place, thing, or idea and answers the question: "who or what?"

What is a noun?

100

This is Mr. Crew's favorite soft drink.

What is Mountain Dew: Baja Blast?

100

An imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian or post-apocalyptic

What is a dystopia?

200

Ayn Rand, author of Anthem, immigrated to America from this country.

Where is Russia?

200

True or False: Salem Academy's original colors used to be yellow and green.

What is True?

200

Identify all adjectives (excluding articles) in the following sentence:

My favorite Uncle was a Marine, but now works for a big electric company in Georgia's capital city Atlanta.

What are My, favorite, big, electric, Georgia's, and capital?

200
Famous cartoon character's Snoopy and Underdog are this type of dog breed. 

What is a beagle

200

This worldview believes the best thing to do is forget one's self and do what's best for the community. 

What is collectivism?

300

Name one of the sins listed in chapter one of Anthem.

What is write, be alone, think, and think alone?

300

This is Mr. Crew's favorite fast-food spot.

Where is Taco Bell?

300

Identify the verbal and its type in this sentence:

I thought the screeching came from a dying bird outside, but it was just Lucy talking to Somto.

What is screeching/a gerund?

300
This is where Mr. Crew went to college. 

Where is Pensacola Christian College?

300

This novel, written by Sir Thomas More, literally translates to "no place" in the Greek. 

What is Utopia? 

400

These are the names that Equality 7-2521 chooses for he and Liberty 5-3000 to go by at the end of the novella. 

What are Prometheus and Gaea?

400

This university won the last PAC-10 Conference Championship for football in 2010 before it became the PAC-12.

Who is The University of Oregon?

400

This type of verb connects the subject to the complement which comes after it.

What is a linking verb?

400

The Bible is made up of 66 books. This many are contained in the Old Testament. 

What is thirty-nine books?

400

This worldview rejects the existence of God in favor of reason alone and credits Ayn Rand with its creation. 

What is objectivism?

500

Name one auxiliary character from Anthem

Who is International 4-8818, Union 5-3992, Collective 0-0009, Fraternity 9-3452, Democracy 4-6998, Unanimity 7-3304, International 1-5537, Solidarity 8-1164, Alliance 6-7349, Harmony 9-2642, Unanimity 2-9913, Similarity 5-0306, Solidarity 9-6347, or Fraternity 2-5503?

500

The total amount of times Mr. Crew has handed out a detention this semester.

What is one?

500

These are the lyrics to the tune that lists the being verbs in an easy to remember melody. 

(Sing the Being Verbs Song)

What are "Am, Is, Are, Was, Were, Be, Being, Been, Has, Have, Had, Do, Does, Did, Shall, Will, Should, Would, May, Might, Must, Can... May, Might, Must, Can, and Could?"

500

Name one of Mr. Crew's top five Spotify artists in 2021.

Who is Still Woozy, John Denver, Johnny Cash, Peach Pit, or Phoebe Bridgers

500

This type of rhetoric appeals to an audience's morals.

What is ethos