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English or Globish?
Fantasy
World War 1
The Next American President
African-American Women
100
The Latin word for a "universal language".
What is a lingua franca?
100
The writer of "The Chronicles of Narnia".
Who is CS Lewis?
100
The year in which WW1 began?
What is 1914?
100
The name of the election that is currently underway in the States.
What is the primary election?
100
The crop picked by African-American slaves in the 1800s.
What is cotton?
200
The language many believe will rival England as the next "world language".
What is Mandarin?
200
The name of the fantasy universe where the real world is linked to an imaginary universe.
What is a parallel universe?
200
Another word for the holes in which soldiers lived, fought, and died
What is "threnches"?
200
The name of Hillary Clinton's main opponent in the Democratic race?
What is Bernie Sanders?
200
The name of the war which resulted in the freeing of African-American slaves.
What is the Civil War?
300
The term used about literature written in former colonies of the British Empire.
What is postcolonial?
300
The term used to describe how fantasy stories are often tales about something much more general and abstract.
What is "allegory"?
300
A name for the mental illness from which many soldiers suffered after returning home from war.
What is shell shock?
300
Donald Trump's election slogan.
What is "Make America Great Again?"
300
The name of the former slave who received a military funeral out of respect for his/her freeing of slaves.
What is Harriet Tubman?
400
The name of the short story where an Indian man is kicked off a train by two British soldiers because he tries to behave "too British".
What is Karma?
400
The name of the first chapter in the first Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone".
What is "The Boy Who Lived"?
400
The name of the flower that symbolises WW1?
What is poppy?
400
The name for states whose population are unsure whether to vote Republican or Democrat.
What is swing state?
400
The poem in which the following lines occur: "We Lurk Late".
What is "We Real Cool"?
500
The name of the widest circle in Braj Kachru's "3 Circles of the English language".
What is the expanding circle?
500
The name of the first episode of the first season of "Game of Thrones".
What is "Winter is Coming"?
500
The poet who authored the horrifying poem "Suicide in the Trenches".
What is Siegfried Sassoon?
500
The date on which the US will elect the next American president.
What is November 8?
500
The word that finishes this line from Maya Angelou's "Phenomenal Woman": "They try so much but they can't touch my inner ?"
What is mystery?