Vocabulary
Story Details
Literary Devices
General Knowledge
100
open grazing fields in South Africa
veldt
100
What was the name of the daugher?
Wendy
100
the smell of dust like a red paprika in the hot air
Simile
100
Name this famous lion:
Mufasa
200
Persecuted
subjected to hostility and ill-treatment
200
How did they travel upstairs in the house?
Through a vacuum / an air flue
200
The house was full of dead bodies, it seemed
Metaphor
200
What does 3D stand for?
Three dimensional
300
to come forth, proceed, or give off
emanated
300
What did the table forget, causing it to apologize, when it served George and Lydia dinner?
Ketchup
300
The hot straw smell of lion grass, the cool green smell of the hidden water hole, the great rusty smell of animals
Imagery
300
What are the three dimensions in 3D space?
Width, height and depth.
400
recede
to move away, back away from
400
What state were George and Lydia planning on visiting before their death?
Iowa
400
The Veldt serves as a ______ for the dangerous and uncontrollable nature of the children's imagination
Symbol
400
In 2009, director James Cameron created the first ever movie to be specifically viewed in 3D. What was the movie?
Avatar
500
something that deceives the mind
illusion
500
When the children first arrived home they refused supper because they had already eaten what two things?
(strawberry) ice-cream and hotdogs
500
... and found Wonderland, Alice, the Mock Turtle, or Aladdin and his Magical Lamp, or Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz, or Dr. Doolittle ...
Allusion
500
Which country has the largest population of wild lions?
Tanzania (15,000)