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Adventure Stories
Adventure Stories
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Characters
Characters
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Film Adaptations
Film Adaptations
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Features
Features
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Famous Stories
Famous Stories
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What is the basic description of an Adventure story?
A) An exciting experience with danger, travel and thrill.
B) An epic romance, where you do not know if they will get together in the end.
C) A short rhyming story with a message for small children.
An exciting experience with danger, travel and thrill.
100
What is a definition of the word 'character'?
A) A person or animal that is part of the book
B) Where the story takes place
C) What the overall story has the characters doing
A person or animal that is part of the book.
100
What movie is based on the Adventure book where a board game comes to life?
A) John Carter of Mars
B) Jumanji
C) Tarzan, the Ape Man
Jumanji
100
Give the 'best' vocabulary word to describe the journey in an Adventure book?
A) Epilogue
B) Pathfinder
C) Quest
Quest
100
What Adventure story has its hero, with a bow and arrow, robbing the rich and giving it to the poor? [Hint: He lived merrily in the woods]
A) King Arthur
B) Peter Pan
C) Robin Hood
Robin Hood
200
What is the most common type of Adventure book?
A) A Collection of Jokes
B) Pirates and Treasure Hunting
C) Trade Skills and Hobbies
Pirates and Treasure Hunting
200
What Adventure book is about a man living in the African jungle?
A) John Carter of Mars
B) Swiss Family Robinson
C) Tarzan, the Ape Man
Tarzan, the Ape Man
Can you give me your best Tarzan impression?
200
Which action hero has hunted down treasure in at least 4 big Adventure films?
A) Indiana Jones
B) Long John Silver
C) Robin Hood
Indiana Jones
200
What are 2 things that might be included with an Adventure book?
A) A Glossary and an Index
B) Maps and Backgrounds
C) Markers and Coloring Pages
Maps and Backgrounds
200
What famous French Adventure novel has the heroic swordsmen say the line, "All for One, and One for All!"?
A) The Count of Monte Cristo
B) The Three Musketeers
C) The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Three Musketeers
300
Name an Adventure book that takes place in outer space?
A) The Hunger Games
B) Treasure Island
C) Zathura
Zathura
300
Katniss is a character from what Adventure book series?
A) From Russia With Love
B) The Hunger Games
C) John Carter of Mars
The Hunger Games
300
The Chipmunks retold the famous Adventure story of 'Around the World in 80 Days' in a movie. What was the name of that movie?
A) The Chipmunks Around the World
B) The Chipmunk Adventure
C) The Chipmunks: Chip-wrecked
The Chipmunk Adventure
300
What is the most common type of conflict of Adventure books?
A) Monsters and Nightmares
B) Outer Space and Aliens
C) War and Fighting
War and Fighting
300
In what classic Adventure story, does Captain Nemo take people from the 1800s on an Adventure in a nuclear-powered submarine?
A) Around the World in 80 Days
B) Journey to the Center of the Earth
C) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
400
Which of these is an Adventure book?
A) Dracula
B) Goodnight, Moon
C) Percy Jackson & the Olympians
Percy Jackson & the Olympians
400
Which of the following is a character from "The Lord of the Rings" Adventure books?
A) Frodo Baggins
B) Harry Potter
C) Long John Silver
Frodo Baggins
400
Which of these Adventure movies based on a book, is about a theme park gone bad?
A) Jurassic Park
B) Pirates of the Caribbean
C) Zathura
Jurassic Park
Can you give me your best dinosaur roar?!
400
What are some of the characteristics the main character(s) in Adventure stories usually have?
A) Brave and Courageous
B) Good-Looking and has a Good Singing Voice
C) Weak and Mean
Brave and Courageous; also usually they are Strong
400
French author, Jules Verne, has been called the "Father of Science Fiction'; however, he was also known for writing many popular Adventure stories. Which of his Adventure stories has dinosaurs in it?
A) Around the World in 80 Days
B) Journey to the Center of the Earth
C) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Journey to the Center of the Earth
500
How do we know if we are reading an Adventure book?
A) The book is a text book with nothing but different Math problems.
B) The character(s) travel to a different place or places
C) We are learning about the real-life story of a real person
The character(s) travel to a different place or places
500
What type of characters chased the Swiss Family Robinson family onto their deserted island?
A) Bandits and Outlaws
B) Knights in shining armor
C) Pirates
Pirates
500
Walt Disney made several of his animated films based off of fairy tales and Adventure novels. Which of the follow movie titles, based on a famous Adventure novel, was released first?
A) Aladdin
B) Peter Pan
C) Swiss Family Robinson
Peter Pan (1953)
500
Adventure books never....what?
A) Have the main character hunt for something important
B) Put the main character in jeopardy
C) Stay in the same place for a long time
Stay in the same place for a long time.
500
What planet does John Carter get sent to?
A) Mars
B) Planet X
C) Vulcan
Mars
600
What other genre of stories can sometimes be combined with Adventure stories?
A) Fantasy
B) Horror
C) Romance
Fantasy
600
What is the name of the British Secret Agent, whose book series (and film series) have taken him on Adventures all over the world? [Hint: his code name is 007]
A) Ethan Hunt
B) James Bond
C) Jason Bourne
James Bond
600
Which pirate Adventure story would later become the first movie to be called a "Swashbuckler"?
A) The Adventures of Robin Hood
B) Captain Blood
C) The Goonies
Captain Blood (1935)
600
What famous Adventure story about pirates gave us many of the famous pirate features, such as: peg-legs, eye-patches, pet parrots, and a famous pirate poem?
A) Captain Blood
B) Peter Pan
C) Treasure Island
Treasure Island
Can you give me your best pirate impression?
Aargh...."Shiver me timbers", or sing me their poem: "15 men on a dead man's chest, yo ho ho, and a bottle of rum"
600
One of the oldest Adventure stories ever written, "The Odyssey," comes from Ancient Greece. The story follows the Greek hero Odysseus on his epic journey home, during which he encounters many perils and all his crewmates are killed. Was this story a sequel or its own story?
A) A Sequel
B) Its Own Story
A Sequel. The first story is "The Iliad", where the war of Ancient Troy is happening, and Odysseus helps by creating the famous Trojan Horse.
