Sci-Fi
Animal Farm
Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
Ray Bradbury
100

This form of Science Fiction does not care about making things very scientifically accurate and often focuses on psychology, history, sociology, or political science?

What is Soft Science Fiction?

100

This is political ideology of George Orwell, the author of Animal Farm?

What is Socialism/Communism?

100

This is the language Shakespeare's writing helped to shape.

What is English?

100

This is the reason Romeo and Juliet is considered a Tragic Love Story

What is their families being at war/in a feud, leading to them hiding their marriage, and eventually commiting suicide?

100
This is the name of the virtual reality room seen in the story "The Veldt".

What is "The Nursery"?

200

This is a sub-genere of Science Fiction that depicts a perfect society.

What is Utopia or Utopian Fiction

200

This is a type of story that uses simple archetypes of animal characters to teach a moral or lesson.

What is a Fable?

200

This is the name of the meter of rhymed poetry with 10 syllables alternating between unstressed and stressed sounds?

What is Iambic Pentameter?

200

This character from Romeo and Juliet is on neither side of the conflict, but tries to use the main character's love to solve it.

Who is Friar Lawrence?

200

This is the key difference between our own home planet and the setting of the story "All Summer in a Day".

What is it raining all the time and the Sun only coming out for two hours, once every seven years.

300

The settings in this sub-genre of Science Fiction may seem perfect, but they show a world more oppressive and broken than our own.

What is Dystopian fiction or what is Dystopia?

300
This character in Animal Farm was the first to say the phrase "Napoleon is always right."

Who is Boxer, the Horse.

300

This is the genre of play that Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet to be.

What is a Tragedy or Tragic love story?

300

This member of the Capulets is kileld by Romeo in the third act of Romeo and Juliet.

Who is Tybalt?

300

This is the means by which the children of the story "The Veldt" arrange to have their parents killed.

What is training the virtual lions in the Veldt virtual location to hunt their parents and then locking their parents in the virtual reality room, set to the Veldt?

400

This form of science fiction is based in physics, chemistry, engineering, math, or biology and tries to make the science in the story as plausible as possible.

What is Hard Science Fiction?

400
These are the two methods the Pigs use to protect themselves from the consequences of breaking the commandments of Animalism. 

What are changing the wording of the candments at night to make exceptions and then lying that the commandments were always written this way.

400

These are one of the groups of people that Shakespeare was making fun of in his Queen Mab Speech.

Who are Courtiers, Soldiers, Lawyers, or Priests? (any one counts)

400

This legendary figure is quoted in the play as giving dreams to characters such as Romeo, and you must include what type of creature and the title of this figure in your answer. 

Who is the Fairy Queen Mab?

400
This is the most extreme form of bullying that the character Margot experiences in the story "All Summer in a Day?"

What is being locked in a closet during the outside play time she needed most? (more accurate details work as well) 

500

This is the definition of science fiction we learned in class.

What is "a genre of story that imagines what might happen one day or what could happen that is believably scientifically possible"?

500

This is the real reason why Napoleon bans the singing of "Beasts of England" from Animal Farm.

What is the yearning and hope for the freedom the song promises will come in the future.
500

This is the town/city in England where Shakespeare was born and grew up.

What is Stratford-upon-Avon?

500

This is the Tragic ending of Romeo and Juliet and the misunderstanding that causes it?

What is the main characters commiting suicide, mistakenly thinking the other is dead.

500

This is how the Virtual Reality room in the story "The Veldt" is controlled and recreates environments. 

What are telepathy/mind reading and the use of high graphics displays, speakers, temperature control, and artificial scents?