Romantic Period Trivia

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Romantic Period Trivia
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SIMPLICITY
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• Wendys founder, Dave Thomas actually used to work
  for what fast food chain known for its chicken?

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KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN
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• The issue that was particularly controversial in
  America during the Romantic Period concerning
  exploration was what?

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MANIFEST DESTINY
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• This sweet delight was given to arrivals at Ellis
  Island, but being unfamiliar with this substance
  they mistook if for butter and spread it on their
  toast.

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ICE CREAM
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• Emerson says Pythagoras, Socrates, Jesus, Lutehr,
  Newton, and Galileo were great because they were
  what?

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MISUNDERSTOOD
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• Invented in Tennessee, this soft drink was
  originally invented and intended to mix with
  whiskey.

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MOUNTAIN DEW
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• Emerson says that we should speak words like
  cannon balls in order to relay our personal
  opinions and beliefs despite the odds, which is
  in keeping with his philosophy that it is hardest
  for man to remain loyal to
• a) the crowd in the midst of the crowd b) the
  individual in the midst of no one
• c) the individual in the midst of the crowd d)
  God in the midst of a crowd

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c) the individual in the midst of the crowd
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• In 1557, European doctors recommended this bad
  advice to help get rid of bad breath.

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SMOKING
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• Thoreau believed that the way to connect with
  what Ralph Waldo Emerson called the oversoul was
  through becoming one with God and _________.

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NATURE
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• About 5 of the US potato crop goes to making
  these.

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MCDONALDS FRENCH FRIES
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• In Dickinsons poem, Because I Could Not Stop
  for Death, she uses ________ to describe death
  as a man.

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PERSONIFICATION
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• The black pirate flag known as the Jolly Roger
  was once the surrender flag of France and this
  color.

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RED
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• Which of the following did the Trancendentalists
  place importance in addition to nature?
• a) science c) individualism
• b) tradition d) commerce

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C) INDIVIDUALISM
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• One quarter of the bones in your body are in your
  what?

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FEET
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• True or False?
• Individuals transcend through intuition, not
  reason.

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TRUE
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• Children are 80 times more likely to be killed
  going to school this way than by taking the bus

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WALKING
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• The fact that Thoreau is used for commercial
  purposed today despite all that he stood for can
  be considered
• a) symbolic c) romantic
• b) spiritual d) ironic

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D) IRONIC
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• While Stephen King sets most of his stories in
  this state, it actually has the lowest crime rate
  in the nation

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MAINE
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• ____________is a movement or period of vigorous
  artistic and intellectual activity

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RENAISSANCE
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YMCA
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• Identify the literary device associated with the
  underlined portion in the following passage
• We passed the school, where children strove
• At recessin the ring---
• We passed the fields of gazing grain
• We passed the setting sun.

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PARALLELISM
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• This New England state is the only US state that
  does not require drivers to wear their seat belts
  in the car.

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NEW HAMPSHIRE
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• Identify the literary device associated with the
  underlined portion in the following passage
• We passed the school, where children strove
• At recessin the ring---
• We passed the fields of gazing grain
• We passed the setting sun.

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ALLITERATION
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• What Augusta BBQ restaurant catered for President
  Jimmy Carter?

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SCONYERS
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• True or False?
• Every human being is capable of transcending

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TRUE
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• Over time polar bears have evolved to develop
  thick skin that is this color.

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BLACK
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• Name one of the efforts Transcendentalist did to
  promote ideal political and social systems.

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COMMUNES-ANTISLAVERY EFFORTS-FEMENISM EFFORTS
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• This NFL team was the first to decorate their
  helmets.

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THE RAMS
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• Emily Dickinson in her poem Because I Could Not
  Stop for Death uses what type of images to
  describe her ride with death?

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CONCRETE
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• Films rated with this letter make more money per
  year than any other rating.

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G-RATED
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• Who is the Thinker and Actor Emerson refers to in
  Self-Reliance?

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GOD
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• What US president spent part of his childhood in
  Augusta?

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WOODROW WILSON