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Topic 1: 200 Question: Lucky for the Sophomore class, Ms. Rowe made them read Edith Hamilton’s Mythology, so that when they read all of Shakespeare’s ______ to Mythology in Julius Caesar, they were able to understand them. Answer Allusions

Topic 1: 400 Question: Desperately, I tried to explain how the _____ on the homophones hour and our was funny, but not one student in the class even cracked a smile. Answer Pun

Topic 1: 600 Question: Under the _____ of Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt, the Allied forces triumphed over the evil Axis of Hitler and Mussolini. Answer Triumvirate (triumvir)

Topic 1: 800 Question: Stepping off the curb into the street, I slipped, and the heel of my brand new shoe broke right off; I knew that I would have to pay a visit to the ______ that very afternoon. Answer cobbler

Topic 1: 1000 Question: Staring across the ______ landscape, I realized what the vast expanse of our country must have looked like 100 years ago, before the rise of so many cities and suburban areas. Answer barren

Topic 2: 200 Question: Trapped in ______, Brad did not hear us calling his name, and we had to practically scream at the top of our lungs before he even acknowledged us. Answer cogitations

Topic 2: 400 Question: Once a computer virus goes into ______, it is very hard to clean it completely off a hard drive; there always seems to be a remnant of it somewhere on the machine. Answer replication

Topic 2: 600 Question: After getting doused by a waterfall on Congo Rapids, I went on the new stand-up roller coaster, which only increased the annoying ______ that had begun to happen between my thighs. Answer chafing

Topic 2: 800 Question: Only after they were fully ______ in their fancy new uniforms was the Northeast High School Marching Band ready to perform at their regional championship contest. Answer accoutered

Topic 2: 1000 Question: On the days that Rachel wore her golden ______ to school, people always whispered about what a stuck up, snobby person she was, and how she thought she was better than everybody else. Answer Coronet

Topic 3: 200 Question: The Romans thought that pretty much any natural event was a _____; I wonder what they would have thought of such modern disasters a Hurricane Katrina and the Pacific Ocean Tsunami! Answer prodigy

Topic 3: 400 Question: One of God’s _____ is that we should obey our parents; another is that we should not kill another person. Answer ordinances

Topic 3: 600 Question Why all these things change from their _____ /Their natures and preformed faculties/ To monstrous quality … Answer Ordinace

Topic 3: 800 Question: CASCA: When these _____ / Do so conjointly meet, let not men say/ 'These are their reasons; they are natural;' Answer prodigies

Topic 3: 1000 Question: CASCA I saw Mark/ Antony offer him a crown;- -yet 'twas not a crown/ neither, 'twas one of these ______ ;- Answer coronets

Topic 4: 200 Question: CASSIUS Upon the word,/ _____ as I was, I plunged in/ And bade him follow; so indeed he did. Answer Accoutered

Topic 4: 400 Question: CASSIUS The troubled Tiber _____ with her shores,/ Caesar said to me 'Darest thou, Cassius, now/ Leap in with me into this angry flood,/ And swim to yonder point?' Answer chafing

Topic 4: 600 Question: Flavius: And when you saw his chariot but appear,/ Have you not made an universal shout,/ That Tiber trembled underneath her banks,/ To hear the _____ of your sounds/ Made in her concave shores? Answer replication

Topic 4: 800 Question: CASSIUS Then, Brutus, I have much mistook your passion;/ By means whereof this breast of mine/ hath buried/ Thoughts of great value, worthy _____. Answer

Topic 4: 1000 Question: CAESAR Forget not, in your speed, Antonius,/ To touch Calpurnia; for our elders say,/ The ______, touched in this holy chase,/ Shake off their sterile curse. Answer barren

Topic 5: 200 Question: Second Commoner Truly, sir, in respect of a fine workman,/ I am but, as you would say, a _____. Answer cobbler