Books by Haiku
Man makes a monster/family is terrorized/pressured to make wife
Frankenstein
What did Georgie Peorgie do to make the girls cry?
Kissed them
Golden Girls Actress
Betty White
It’s doubtful that she stopped her father from executing John Smith. She was also about 18 years younger than him and they were not lovers.
Pocahontas
Cleveland or Tampa
Tampa
Stuck in asylum/Big Nurse versus cowboy/whose lobotomy
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Along with silver bells and cockle shells, what were in Mary Contrary’s Garden?
Pretty maids all in a row
October 29, 1929, stock market crash is also known as?
Black Tuesday
This woman did make flags during the American Revolution, but the story that she sewed the first American flag was not popularized until the 1870s.
Betsy Ross
Sacramento or Los Angeles
Scramento
Crashed on an Island/A boyish power struggle/who has the conch shell
Lord of the Flies
In Sing a Song of Sixpence, how many blackbirds were baked in a pie?
Four and twenty
Wheel of Fortune letter turner?
Vanna White
This man is said to have caused a panic with his radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds, but the scale of panic was far smaller than usually believed.
Orson Welles
Pittsburgh or Miami
Miami
Lawyer and Father/prejudice in the courthouse/hero of Maycomb
To Kill a Mockingbird
When the cow jumped over the moon, who laughed at that?
the little dog
14th Century European pandemic?
Black Death/Plague
She was a real 11th century English noblewoman, but she probably didn’t ride through town naked to protest her husband’s taxes.
Lady Godiva
Salt Lake City or Tucson
Salt Lake City
Fogey is haunted/his bitterness shown to him/happy holidays
A Christmas Carol
How old is the Pease porridge in the pot?
9 days old
A void in space left by a collapsed star?
Black Hole
This religious founder was not noted for being fat. This misperception results from a confusion between him and a much later Chinese monk, Budai.
Buddha
Seattle or San Francisco