Homophones
G(r)eek Out!
Recipe for Success
AP Lit ASF
War and Peace
100

Jasmine and Bread making powder

What is Flower and Flour?

100

The original children of Kronos were Zeus, Poseidon, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and this goddess of the hearth and home.

Who is Hestia?

100

Seaweed, sushi rice, cucumber, avocado, and imitation crab

What is a California Roll?

100

This 2001 novel from Yann Martel's fundamental theme is the idea that we can find acceptance in life by suspending our disbelief in "truths" that seem absurd

What is the Life of Pi?

100

The works of Homer involved recounting this war, including heroes, like Odysseus, Achilles, and Agamemnon.

What is the Trojan War?

200

Bird in the sky and an ill person stuck in bed

What is Flew and Flu?

200

The term narcissist comes from the story of this nymph and Narcissus, who drowned after falling into a pool of his own reflection.

Who is Echo?

200

Graham Crackers, granulated sugar, cream cheese, eggs, vanilla extract

What is Cheesecake?

200

The protagonist of this novel is known as a "fireman". Instead of putting out fires, Guy Montag is tasked with burning books. The novel addresses the ideas of censorship and how we record memory and history for the next generation.

What is Fahrenheit 451?

200

This founder of the Mongol Empire helped create the Silk road through this conquest of Asia, which stretched from the Pacific Ocean to the Caspian Sea.

Who was Genghis Khan?

300

Extremely thin and to cut something

What is Sheer and Shear?

300

This Athenian hero famously abandoned King Minos's daughter Ariadne on the island Naxos, which would later lead to her marrying Dionysus, the god of wine, winemaking, grape cultivation, fertility, theater, and religious ecstasy.

Who is Theseus?

300

Sheet noodles, ground beef, italian sausage, marinara, ricotta cheese, eggs

What is Lasagna?

300

This novel about the time travelling Billy Pilgrim is meant to represent the effects of PTSD and fatalism within a young population of men who had to fight in World War 1.

What is Slaughterhouse 5?

300

This song is the 20th song in the Hamilton soundtrack, which focuses on the final battle of the Revolutionary War that led to the British surrender, with the help of the French army.

What is Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)?

400

Vouch for someone and a type of math function

What is Cosign and Cosine?

400

Besides sharing a father in Zeus, Heracles is actually the great grandson of this Greek hero who defeated a sea monster to save his future wife, Andromeda. 

Who is Perseus

400

Chicken, Greek Yogurt, lemon juice, ginger, garlic, cumin, coriander, turmeric, garam masala, chili powder, butter, heavy cream, honey

What is Butter Chicken?

400

Now an Hulu show, this novel's ironic epilogue highlights the patriarchal nature by which history sanitizes and minimizes women's suffering and experiences through the sexist jokes and remarks made by Professor Pieixoto about the suffering of the protagonist, June.

What is the Handmaid's Tale?

400

Also known as the Great War, this war ended with the Treaty of Versailles and was responsible for the creation of new sovereign nations, including Poland, Finland, the Baltic states, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia.

What is World War I?

500

Words heard and Words spoken

What is Aural and Oral?

500

This Greek heroine, who happens to sound like a US capital, famously made a vow to stay a virgin for life unless a man could beat her in a footrace.

Who is Atalanta?

500

Chicken stock, spanish short-grain rice cooked to a crispy bottom crust, onion, garlic, saffron, tomatoes, paprika, shrimp, mussels

What is Paella?

500

This John Steinbeck novel is considered to be his magnum opus and follows an intergenerational drama that reflects the story of Adam and Eve, along with the rivalry between Cain and Abel. The novel addresses whether humans can be born fundamentally evil, or if they have the free will to choose.

What is East of Eden?

500

The fall of this capital city of the Byzantine Empire by the Ottoman Empire in 1453 marked the end of the Roman empire and the beginning of the early modern period of history

What is Constantinople?