Abbreviations
TBA
to be announced
A person who can be typically be found sitting on the couch watching television is referred to as a couch ________.
He opened the package and found a strange ___________ obejct. (SPHERE)
spherical
♫ Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy, I've come home, I'm so cold, let me in-a-your window. ♫
These are the lyrics of Kate Bush's song, inspired by a famous 19th century novel. Name that novel.
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strenght.
George Orwell - 1984
ETA
estimated time of arrival
Die
Make into plural: fungus
fungi
Stephen King's Shining was famously adapted into a movie (1980) starring Jack Nicholson. Who directed it?
Stanley Kubrick
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in a possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
TL,DR
too long didn't read
What are you doing when you're "barking up the wrong tree"?
Explain the difference between a childfree and childless couple
childfree = conscious choice, not wanting to have them
childless = not having kids, possibly open to the possibility
In what year was J.K.Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone first published? (+- 1 year)
1997
"O, I am slain!"
William Shakespeare - Hamlet
ADHD
Attention deficit hyperactive disorder
Complete the idiom
I heard it straight from the _________'s mouth.
(= from someone credible)
horse
Change the following words into verbs
FRIEND
POWER
SAD
BEFRIEND
EMPOWER
SADDEN
What's the name of the main female character in G.B.Shaw's Pygmalion?
Eliza Doolittle
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
F.Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
PTO
paid time off / parent teacher organisation
What does it mean to "put your foot in your mouth"?
say something embarrassing
When I checked my bank account, I discovered I was _________ . (DRAW)
OVERDRAWN
One day, Mary Shelley, her future hubby Percy and another poet friend got stuck indoors while on holiday due to severe weather. Said friend got bored and challenged everyone to write a spooky story. Mary did - Frankenstein. Who was the poet friend who set the challenge?
Lord G.G.Byron
"What, you egg?"
(stabs him)
William Shakespeare - Macbeth