Sleepy Hollow
The House of Usher
Color Out of Space
Vocab
TV & Movies
100

This is the tall, skinny, scarecrow-like character who teaches at the school in Sleepy Hollow.

Who is Ichabod Crane?


100

This is the name of the last remaining male member of the Usher family.

Who is Roderick Usher?

100

This is the name of the old, odd man who tells the narrator what strange things happened to the town of Arkham.

Who is Ammi Pierce?

100

Ichabod Crane was a scarecrow-like, lanky man.

What is tall and thin?
100

The Sleepy Hollow cartoon was produced by this family entertainment company.

What is Disney?

200

This is the name of ghost that supposedly haunts the town of Sleepy Hollow.

Who is the Headless Horseman?

200

This is the name of the last remaining female member of the Usher family.

Who is Madeline?

200

This is what causes the strange things to happen in the farmland of Arkham in the story.

What is a meteorite?

200

The gloomy atmosphere of the house of Usher made the narrator of that story feel really down.

What is sad/depressing/melancholy?

200

In the 1999 Sleepy Hollow movie, Ichabod Crane is played by this famous actor.

Who is Johnny Depp?

300

This is the name of the muscular character who eventually marries Katrina Van Tassel.

Who is Brom Bones?

300

This is what happens to the House of Usher at the end of the story.

What is it collapses/falls apart?

300

This is the name of the main setting of the story.

What is Arkham?

300

Ichabod Crane became rather discouraged once he was rejected by Katrina at the party.

What is hopeless?

300

In the film version of Color Out of Space, the main character farmer is played by this actor.

Who is Nicholas Cage?

400

This is the name of the horse that is "full of fire and mischief"?

Who is Daredevil?

400

This is a symbol of the Usher family's rot and decay which brings about their downfall by the end of the story.

What is the crack in the house?

400

This is the name of the man whose farmland and family is destroyed by supernatural, alien forces.

Who is Nahum Gardner?

400

There was a fissure in the house of Usher that threatened to split the building in two.

What is a crack?

400

This streaming service produced a mini-series about The House of Usher that is, honestly, not very good...

What is Netflix?

500
Ichabod Crane was originally from this state before moving to Sleepy Hollow.

What is Connecticut?

500

This symbolizes the increasing fear and tension that the narrator feels in the last pages of the story.

What is the storm?

500

One of the Gardner children goes mad after seeing this at the bottom of the well.

What is "moving colors"?

500

The meteorite turns the farmland of Arkham into a "blasted heath."

What is a wasteland or desolate/barren land?

500

In the film version of Color Out of Space, this is the daughter's name.

What is Lavinia?