Poetry & Children's Books
In this E. B. White novel, a spider attempts to save a pig named Wilbur.
What is Charlotte's Web?
Judy Garland travels with a Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion in this 1939 film.
What is The Wizard of Oz?
These young lovers were from the Montague and Capulet families.
Who are Romeo and Juliet?
There are this many holes on a standard golf course.
What is eighteen (18)?
This insect is responsible for the disease malaria in humans.
What are mosquitos?
The official residence of the British monarch in London is this palace.
What is Buckingham Palace?
This mischievous monkey is cared for by the Man with the Yellow Hat.
Who is Curious George?
Humphrey Bogart operates Rick’s Café Américain in this wartime romance set in Morocco.
What is Casa Blanca?
Shakespeare's birthplace.
What is Stratford-upon-Avalon?
In football, this happens when a defensive player catches a pass intended for the offense.
What is an interception?
A group of lions is known by this term.
What is a pride?
John Wayne made his breakthrough in this film.
What is Stagecoach (1939)?
This talking insect-character serves as Pinocchio's conscience.
Who is Jiminy Cricket?
Hawkeye Pierce and his fellow surgeons serve at the 4077th during the Korean War on this series.
What is M*A*S*H?
The name of Hamlet's mother.
Who is Gertrude?
The primary objective in canasta is to form these groups of three or more cards of the same rank.
What are melds?
The only mammal capable of true, sustained flight.
What is a bat?
The phrase "E pluribus unum," found on the Great Seal of the United States, translates to this.
What is "Out of Many, One"?
Meg Murry travels through space and time in this Madeleine L’Engle novel.
What is A Wrinkle in Time?
In Gone with the Wind, this strong-willed Southern heroine declares that tomorrow is another day.
Who is Scarlett O'Hara?
This character kills Mercutio and is then killed by Romeo.
Who is Tybalt?
The number of lanes on a standard 400 meter track.
What is eight (8)?
Mars is often referred to as "The Red Planet" to due a buildup of this element in the planet's crust.
What is iron?
This Oregon lake, which fills the collapsed remains of Mount Mazama, is the deepest lake in the United States.
What is Crater Lake?
The March sisters Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy appear in this Louisa May Alcott novel.
What is Little Women?
Who shoots J.R. in Dallas?
Kristen Shepard (J.R.'s former mistress and sister-in-law)
This monarch ruled England at the start of Shakespeare's career as a playwright.
Who is Elizabeth I?
In bowling, a frame in which fewer than ten pins are knocked down after both deliveries is known by this term.
What is an "open frame"?
This effect helps explain why hurricanes rotate in opposite directions in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
The metric prefix "micro-" represents this fraction.
What is one-millionth (1/1000)?
This poet wrote about a fearsome creature whose “fearful symmetry” was framed in the forests of the night.
Who is William Blake? (The Tyger)
The lead guitarist in The Partridge family.
Who is David Cassidy?
The line “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears!” is spoken at Caesar’s funeral by this character.
Who is Marc Antony?
This athlete first ran a sub four-minute mile.
Who was Roger Bannister?
[May 6th 1954 Bannister ran a mile in 3:59.4 in Oxford, England]
A bee pollinating a flower, receiving nectar in return is an example of this type of natural relationship?
What is a symbiotic relationship or symbiosis?
The first successful printing press using movable metal type in Europe is credited to this inventor.
Who was Johannes Gutenberg?
This reclusive, Massachusetts poet wrote, "'Hope' is the thing with feathers."
Who is Emily Dickinson?
In The Graduate, Benjamin Braddock becomes involved with this older married woman.
Who is Mrs. Robinson?
The unrhymed version of iambic pentameter that appears in Shakespeare's plays.
What is "blank verse"?
A baseball pitcher earns this statistic by throwing at least three effective relief innings after the starter for the winnign team.
What is a Save?
Seagrasses differentiate themselves from seaweed by producing these.
What are flowers and seeds?
The "Rosetta Stone" became famous because it helped scholars decipher this ancient writing system.
What are ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics?
The opening line "Once upon a midnight dreary" begins this famous narrative poem.
What is The Raven? (Edgar Allen Poe)
In It's A Wonderful Life, George Bailey's guardian angel's name.
Who is Clarence Odbody?
This character falls in love with Nick Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Who is Titania?
This country has won both the men's and women's World Cup title.
What is Germany or Spain?
This mountain range is home to the Berbers of Morroco.
What are the Atlas Mountains?
The first successful nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean was completed by this aviator in 1927.
Who was Charles Lindbergh?
The author of the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Who is L. Frank Baum?
Before The Jeffersons became its own hit series, George and Louise Jefferson were introduced on this Norman Lear sitcom.
What is All in the Family?
This Shakespeare poem begins by asking, “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”
What is Sonnet 18?
This country has the most Olympic wrestling gold medals (all-time).
The Soviet Union. (62)
[The United States leads among currently competing nations with 59 gold medals]
The process by which one tectonic plate sinks beneath another is known as this.
What is subduction?
Ratified in 1951, this constitutional amendment limits a person to being elected U.S. president twice.
What is the 22nd-Amendment?
This author created Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, and Eeyore.
Who is A.A. Milne?
This 1940 Alfred Hitchcock film won Best Picture, although Hitchcock himself never won a competitive directing Oscar.
What is Rebecca?
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre burned in 1613 after its roof caught fire during a performance of this history play.
What is Henry VIII?
The record scorer in a single World Cup game with 13 goals.
Who is Just Fontaine?
This scale classifies mineral hardness from talc at 1 to diamond at 10.
What is the Mohs Scale?
This famous ship carried Charles Darwin on the voyage that inspired much of his theory of evolution.
What was the HMS Beagle?