Show:
Tralfamadorians
World War II/Dresden
After the War
Characters
Pot Luck
100
They are green, 2 feet tall and shaped like plungers.
What is a Tralfamadorian?
100
Americans and British planes bombed this city in 1945
What is Dresden?
100
This is how Valencia dies.
What is carbon monoxide poisoning?
100
A U.S. soldier who joined the Germans as a recruiter.
Who is Howard Campbell Jr.?
100
These are some of the main themes in this book.
What is free will/religion/anti-war sentiment/PTSD/So it goes.
200
A planet quadrillions of miles from Earth where Billy is kept in a zoo.
What is Tralfamadore?
200
Because he was shot for taking a teapot. (Hint: Literary term used here.)
Why is Edgar Derby's execution so ironic?
200
The guy Billy meets in the mental hospital after the war who is an alcoholic.
Who is Eliot Rosewater?
200
A prisoner who swears to avenge Weary's death and loves revenge.
Who is Paul Lazarro?
200
The German candles are made out of these materials
What is the fat of rendered Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals and Communists?
300
This is how the aliens say the world will end.
What is the Tralfamadorians pushing the button while experimenting with new fuels?
300
This is how POWs are considered legally "alive."
What is they write their names in a big red ledger.
300
This is the reason Billy says the book is written by a "pillar of salt."
What is the biblical reference to Lot's wife and Soddom and Gomorrah? What is he cannot stop thinking back over the war because of PTSD?
300
A friend from WW 2 who goes with the narrator to revisit Dresden.
Who is Bernard V. O Hare?
300
This is what Billy learned in college after the war.
What is the idea that no one is bad and there are no villains. Everyone is equally good.
400
These are the places where Billy is kept in war and Tralfamadore.
What are a zoo and a slaughterhouse?
400
Roland Weary
Who is the guy who died of gangrene and blamed Billy for his death?
400
This is what Mary O'Hare thinks of the war.
What is a comparison to the Children's Crusade of the Middle Ages? Or What is it was fought by children?
400
She is Billy's wife.
Who is Valencia Merble?
400
This is the meaning of the quote "There were no good war stories to tell."
What is war is only glamorous after the horrible things are over?
500
This is the meaning of "so it goes."
What is everything happens without them having control over it?
500
This is the description of the German soldiers who captured Billy and Weary.
What is young boys and old men who are wounded and can't fight and who look androgynous/like angels?
500
This is the reason Kurt Vonnegut wrote this book.
What is to deal with psychological issues (PTSD) he experienced after Dresden?
500
She is a woman brought to Tralfamadore to mate with Billy
Who is Montana Wildhack?
500
We have to accept some things and try to change what we can.
What is the meaning of the serenity prayer? What is the meaning of so it goes? What is having no free will?