Roles
Characters
Plot and Devices
Setting
Miscellaneous
Random Movie/ TV Trivia
Love is in the Air
200
Who watched over the Japanese Americans at the camps?
Who are the US Military Soldiers?
200
George's father pursued this kind of business.
What is dry cleaning?
200
At the end of the book, this symbol reminds us that home is more than where we grew up or where we live, it is a feeling of connection, of stability, and of acceptance.
What is the Sewing Machine?
200
The Takeis viewed this place as home, and decided to move there after they left the relocation camp.
What is Los Angeles, CA?
200
George studied Theater at this college.
What is UCLA?
200
There have been this many women who have been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director.
What is 9?
Linda Wertmüller, Jane Campion (twice), Sofia Coppola, Kathryn Bigelow, Greta Gerwig, Emerald Fennell, Chloé Zhao, Justine Triet, and Coralie Fargeat
200
This Roman god of love is often shown with wings and a bow
Who is Cupid?
300
Who was the manager of the block?
Who is George’s father--Mr. Takei, aka Daddy?
300
This person offered George the best opportunity he ever had.
Who is Gene Roddenberry?
300
As the story's plot began to reach the climax we saw the Takeis' mostly face this type of conflict.
What is Internal Conflict?
300
There were ______ of Japanese Americans at the second relocation camp that gave up their American Citizenship.
What is 1000s?
300
Mama's family were located where at the time of the bombings in Japan?
What is Nagasaki?
300
"You're going to need a bigger boat," is an iconic line from this movie.
What is Jaws?
300
These small, chalky candies often feature messages like "Be Mine" and "Call me."
What are conversation hearts?
400
The older boys would play this in place of another common form of play, swapping the roles from____________ with ___________.
What is "war" and "Cowboys and Indians" with "Japanese and Americans"?
400
George credits his accomplishments to whom
Who is his dad?
400
What part of the plot is the following, when the war ends and the Takeis are left with an uncertain Future?
What is the climax?
400
This person determined the course of George's destiny and that of many other Japanese Americans. Because of his efforts, the family stayed together when the camps closed.
Who is Wayne Collins?
400
These four additional elements made Tule Lake a different experience from the start.
What are three layers of barbed-wire fencing guarded by battle-ready troops, machine-gun towers, and tanks?
400
This actor has played a superhero in the most superhero movies
Who is Robert Downey Jr?
He has played Iron Man in 10 movies (with cameos and one-shot).
400
Greek god of love.
Who is Eros?
500
What was the one thing Mama did NOT have to do at the camp?
What is Cook?
500
George empathized with this love-starved character whom people scorned...
Who is The Hunchback of Notre Dame?
500
As George began to have unsettling feelings, we are shown the children in school reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, while they are in camp. This is an example of what Literary device?
What are Situational and Verbal Irony?
500
This place was named the most notorious, the cruelest, and by far the largest of the ten camps.
What is Tule Lake?
500
The people who answered no to questions 27 and 28 were given this nickname.
What are the "No-Nos"?
500
Which is the only Phase Three MCU movie that does not have a Stan Lee cameo due to Lee not being well enough to film one before passing in November 2018?
What is Spider-Man: Far From Home?
500
The commercialization of Valentine’s Day accelerated in the 19th century with this technological advancement that allowed mass production of decorated cards.
What is the printing press (or mechanized card-printing/steam-powered printing)?
600
The men at camp took on the role of doing this to make the swamp lands the camp better during the rain.
What is they built a makeshift boardwalk?
600
Mr. Takei's secretary_________got to meet George after a performance one night.
Who is Florence Kubota?
600
What are the main conflicts in the book?
What is person vs. society and person vs. self?
600
To have a two-room cabin located____________ there had to be some "trade-off" as Mr. Takei said, which was a noisy (and sometimes smelly space) that was farther from the toilets.
What is by the Mess Hall?
600
At this place and during this time is where George discussed Democracy with his father.
What is at the dinning table and after dinner?
600
Name two of the three shows that George Takei had guest roles in at the start of his acting career.
What are Playhouse 90, The Twilight Zone, and Mission:Impossible?
600
In Japan, this gendered custom has women give chocolates to men on February 14 (Valentine's Day), with a reciprocal gift on March 14 known by this name.
What is White Day?
800
In Section 4, this becomes a symbol and alters the role of Japanese Americans negatively in some cases.
What is the Loyalty Questionnaire?
800
This special All Nisei Unit made of thousands of volunteers from Hawaii and from internment camps on the mainland saved 211 men in France, earning the title of the most decorated unit of its size.
Who is the 442nd Regiment?
800
On this date, it was decreed that the Japanese Americans could serve in the U.S. Army
What is February 3, 1943?
800
The 1st Battalion, 141st Regiment of the 36th "Texas" division, were surrounded and cut off from supplies while patrolling this location in France.
What are the Vosges Mountains?
800
This object becomes a symbol for coping, allowing George to think that it keeps him safe while protecting him from reality.
What is barbed-wire fencing?
800
This horror film holds the Guinness World Record for most retakes of a single scene (127 takes to be precise).
What is The Shining?
800
This Roman festival of fertility, celebrated in mid-February, is often cited as a predecessor to Valentine’s Day.
What is Lupercalia?
900
George's father's role was bestowed on him for these (specific) reasons.
What are he spoke English and Japanese fluently, and was not too old.
900
George Takei became famous for playing this character.
Who Hikaru Sulu?
900
"...that my liberty depends on you being free, too...but (it) must be a manual for how to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past."
The book ends with words by______.
Who is Barack Obama?
900
The last full scene image in the book.
What is the Memorial Cemetary Rohwer relocation Center Monument?
900
This is the date for the first ship of deported internees scheduled to depart for Japan.
What is November 15, 1945?
900
This anime, based on Tite Kubo's popular manga, had a successful new run, largely maintaining the same standard with its long-awaited return in 2022.
What is Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War?
900
This 15th-century English poet wrote "first author of my heart" and helped popularize courtly love associated with Valentine’s Day.
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
1000
George and his brother took on this role while their parents were busy with their new camp lives.
What are explorers?
1000
"Hey, kid, you want to learn a magic word?"
Who is Ford?
1000
This person wanted to become governor and would do anything to get that office, including creating hate and bias toward the Japanese-Americans on the West Coast.
Who is Earl Warren?
1000
George Takei's TED Talk took place here.
What is Kyoto, Japan?
1000
Name of the place where George was invited to speak to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of EO 9066.
What The Franklin D. Roosevelt Museum and Library?
1000
The coveted longest-running American TV show goes to...
What is General Hospital (scripted show) with 60 seasons?
Or what is the NFL on NBC (broadcast series) 86 yrs?
1000
The scientific name for fear of Friday the 13th is this tongue-twisting term.
What is paraskevidekatriaphobia or friggatriskaidekaphobia ?
Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of the number 13.