American & English Literature
The repetition of initial consonant sounds is called this.
What is alliteration.
The 1940s holiday film that tells us “Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.”
What is It's a Wonderful Life?
This famous English sponge cake named after a queen has jam in the middle.
What is the Victoria Sponge Cake? (Also known as the Victoria Sandwich)
Water turns into ice at this temperature on the Celsius scale.
What is 0 degrees?
The United Kingdom is made up of this many nations.
What is four?
(England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland)
The oldest written recipe known to humankind is how to brew this drink.
What is beer?
This English author sent a young girl tumbling down a rabbit hole into Wonderland.
Who is Lewis Carroll?
The 1972 Francis Ford Coppola film that begins with “I believe in America.”
What is The Godfather?
The popular fizzy drink Root Beer is made from this.
What are sassafras roots?
This simple machine consists of a rigid bar pivoting on a fulcrum.
What is a lever?
The Pyrenees Mountains form the natural border between these two countries.
What are France and Spain?
This common household appliance was discovered when a scientist’s candy bar melted near radar equipment.
What is the microwave? (Percy Spencer; 1945)
This American novel follows Scott Finch of Maycomb, Alabame.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
The 1938 film that gave Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant some prehistoric comedy.
What is Bringing Up Baby?
This country is responsible for inventing the lobster bisque.
What is France?
This law states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton's Third Law of Motion?
Monte Carlo is in this country.
What is Monaco?
This U.S. state has the only royal palace on American soil.
What is Hawaii?
(Iolani Palace)
This 1818 Gothic novel was inspired by a ghost-story contest amongst friends at Lake Geneva.
What is Frankenstein?
The 1968 musical that introduced “If I Were a Rich Man.”
What is Fiddler on the Roof?
Chocolate chip cookies were invented in this US state.
What is Massachusetts?
This color of the visible spectrum has the longest wavelength.
What is red?
This term describes the body of water formed when a loop of river becomes cut off from the main flow.
What is an Oxbow Lake?
As designed by Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis in 1873, the tiny pocket in a pair of jeans is meant to hold this object.
What is a pocket watch?
This Shakespearean tragedy includes witches chanting “Double, double toil and trouble.”
What is Macbeth?
The 1952 film in which Marilyn Monroe sang “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend.”
What is Gentlemen Prefer Blondes?
These European immigrants introduced the Texan favorite chicken-fried steak.
(country of origin)
Who are German and Austrian immigrants?
He discovered penicillin by accident in 1928.
Who is Alexander Flemming?
The Ganges River flows into this bay.
What is the Bay of Bengal?
This American general is one of the few in history to have fought on both sides of the same war.
Who is Benedict Arnold?
Farenheit451 refers to the temperature that this burns.
What is paper/books?
The 1955 Nicholas Ray film where James Dean drives toward disaster.
What is Rebel Without a Cause?
On average, this many slices of pizza are eaten per year per person in the United States. 21, 33, 46, 72.
What is 46?
The first man in space.
Who was Yuri Gagarin?
(April 12th 1961)
The manmade lake created by the construction of the Hoover Dam.
What is Lake Mead?
The only letter not found on the Periodic Table of Elements.
What is "J"?
This novella features George and Lennie and a dream of “livin’ off the fatta the land.”
What is Of Mice and Men?
This was the first color film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
What is Gone with the Wind?
Regular consumption of this nut has been proven to reduce the risk of coronary heart disease.
What is the walnut?
This Polish-born scientist discovered radium and polonium.
Who is Marie Curie?
More than 20,000 square miles, with no permanent residents, Devon Island is located in this country.
What is Canada?
The U.S. Library of Congress was founded when Congress bought this man’s personal library.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
In Shakespearean structure, Act III traditionally represents this dramatic point.
What is the climax?
The 1964 Cold War satire that ends with a cowboy riding a nuclear bomb.
What is Dr. Strangelove?
This character from Homer's Odyssey makes cheese.
Who is Cyclops?
The theoretical point of infinite density at the center of a black hole.
What is a singularity?
The highest mountain in the alps.
What is Mount Blanc?
This Chinese philosopher emphasized harmony, humility, and “the Way.”
Who is Lao Tzu? (Daoism)
This English epic begins, "Of Man's first disobedience...".
What is Paradise Lost?
The 1930s gangster who declared “You dirty rat!” — though he never actually said it.
Who is James Cagney?
The Granny Smith apple originated on this continent.
What is Australia?
The Austrian monk, Mendel, used pea plants for his research into this subject.
What is genetics/heredity?
The deepest lake in the world, Lake Baikal (5,387 feet), is found in this country.
What is Russia?
(Southern Siberia)
The oldest, continually operating, university in the world is found in this country.
What is Morocco? (The University of al-Qarawiyyin, founded in 859
The narrator of The Tell-Tale Heart insists repeatedly on this quality.
What is (their own) sanity?
This 1956 musical adaptation of Pygmalion won eight Oscars.
What is My Fair Lady?
Salvia officinalis is more commonly known as...
What is Sage?
Microsoft released the operating system Windows in this year.
What is 1985?
The northernmost capital city in the world.
What is Reykjavik?
This animal’s fingerprints are so similar to humans’ they can confuse crime scene investigators.
What are koalas?