| Mythological Allusions | ||
| #1 | Who killed Medusa? | Perseus |
| #2 | The Phoenix symbolizes? | Immortality and rebirth |
| #3 | How was King Tantalus punished? | He was put in the underworld and surrounded by food and water that he could not touch. |
| #4 | Iris, the goddess, of the rainbow, played what role among the gods? | Messenger of war on earth. |
| #5 | What is the modern interpretation of harpy? | A cruel, unscrupulous woman. |
| Literary Allusions | ||
| #1 | An excessively well-dressed or well-mannered boy. | Fauntleroy |
| #2 | Known for indulgence in sensuality | Lothario |
| #3 | Famous for using false humility to take advantage of people. | Uriah Heep |
| #4 | A major example of the 'fat people are jolly' stereotype | Pickwick |
| #5 | Extremely submissive 1920s comic strip character | Milquetoast |
| Biblical Allusions | ||
| #1 | The son that, when given his inheritance early, went out and spent it on gambling. He returned to his father, begging for money and was forgiven and given a job in the stable. | Prodigal Son |
| #2 | After Satan questioned his integrity, God took away Job's happiness and everything he had including his health to see if he would curse the lord. He blamed only himself despite others telling him to blame God, and eventually is given incredible power, many children, and lives to be 140.. | Job |
| #3 | Abraham's illegitimate son. He was thrown out when Isaac was born. Refers to an outcast. | Ishmael |
| #4 | He betrayed Jesus. | Judas |
| #5 | King David impregnated her, sent her husband to war to die, and married her. | Bathsheba |
| Historical Allusions | ||
| #1 | He predicted many things, including the end of the world in June 1999. | Nostradamus |
| #2 | The location where Napoleon suffered a crushing defeat. 'Meet your ___' means to be soundly defeated. | Waterloo |
| #3 | An Italian known for his promiscuity. | Casanova |
| #4 | A horse kept for work/transport. | Hackney |
| #5 | Laconic means 'not using many words' and refers to? (Laconia was their capital) | Sparta |
| Literary terms | ||
| #1 | What is an allegory? (Two words) | Extended metaphor |
| #2 | What is a trochee? | Stressed-Unstressed |
| #3 | What is apostrophe? | Speaking to someone or something that cannot answer. |
| #4 | When one sense is stimulated by the stimulation of another sense. | Synesthesia |
| #5 | Give the name for a type of zeugma that affects two different things in different ways | Syllepsis |
| Final Question | |
| What is the Gordian Knot? | A knot that was supposed to be impossible to untie. Alexander the Great cut it when he could not untie it and claimed that he had solved the riddle. Symbolic of thinking outside the box. |