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100

How many days were the six men of “Kon-Tiki” on the Pacific

101 days

100

Who told Gilgamesh to go back to his kingdom and enjoy life because nothing is permanent? 

Utnapishtim 

100

Noah Webster said this was the “immediate gift of God”

Language and speech

100

What single most important factor separates man from animal and binds men together as human beings? 

Speech/language 

100

Who is the author of such naturalist works as The Call of the Wild and “To Build a Fire” ?

Jack London

200

In what Northeastern state was “The Skater and the Wolves” set?

Maine

200

What happened to the plant that Gilgamesh tried to take?

Stolen by a serpent. 

200

 Literary device is used in the line “The world is an open book?”

Metaphor 

200

What put the man’s fire out in “To Build a Fire”?

Falling snow from a tree 

200

What is the long, narrative poem which presents characters and actions of heroic proportions?

Epic

300

James Russell Lowell said “Then, if ever, come perfect days” in what summer month?

June

300

What motivated Gilgamesh’s search for eternal life? 

death of Enkidu and his fear of death

300

Who wrote the line “Oh give us pleasure in the flowers today” ?

Robert Frost

300

What element did Saint-Exupery praise at the end of his account as being “the rarest and also the most delicate (of the riches that exist in the world). . .so pure within the bowels of the earth”?

Water 

300

What is considered to be the oldest book in the Bible (we don’t know exactly when the main character lived.) 

Job

400

What piece of winter wonder is “insculpted and embossed” with God’s “hammer of wind, His graver of frost”? 

Snowflake 

400

In “The White Heron” how much money did the ornithologist offer toSylvia and her grandma if they helped find the heron?

Ten dollars.

400

What famous part of the world did Saint-Exupery crash his plane?

Sahara Desert

400

What literary technique did Jack London use in “To Build a Fire” in order to build suspense? Hint: “It was cold.” 

Repetition

400
What father of modern missions ministered for years to the people of India?

William Carrey

500

Who is the Assyrian-Babylonian Noah figure?

Utnapishtim

500

What animal did Sylvia have to chase in the mornings? 

cow

500

According to Tennyson, which animal “clasps the crag wit crooked hands?”

Eagle

500

Sara Oren Jewett wrote primarily about life in what part of the United States?

New England

500

The crew of the Kon-Tiki wanted to prove that it was possible for ancient Indians to sail from the coast of South America to....?

Polynesian Islands