Cultural Literacy 3

Question 0

800-lb gorilla

Answer 0

Uncomfortable topic

Question 1

“Low hanging fruit”

Answer 1

Easy to pick at.

Question 2

Achilles heel

Answer 2

Weakness.

Dipped in river Styx, one weakness, killed by Paras..? Right spelling?

Question 3

Sisyphean

Answer 3

King who offended Hades, has to roll boulder up hill, but it always go down.
“Impossible task”

Question 4

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”

Answer 4

A Tales of Two Cities- Charles Dickens

Question 5

“April is the cruelest month”

Answer 5

T.S. Elliot, the Wasteland

Question 6

Fish or cut bait

Answer 6

Move it or lose it.

Question 7

On the lam

Answer 7

On the loose; runaway from the law

Question 8

Roaring twenties

Answer 8

Post WW1, guilded age

Question 9

Flappers

Answer 9

Independent minded woman of 20’s (time period or age?)

Question 10

Avantgarde

Answer 10

Cutting edge

Question 11

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave

Answer 11

Perspective vs reality

Stick in a cave, built perspective from what could see. Different from reality.

Question 12

“Crossing the rubicon” Julius Caesar

Answer 12

Point of no return

Question 13

“All animals are equal…” - animal farm

Answer 13

Everyone/thing is qual hit there’s manipulation of this and not equal Ada result, some think others are more equal than others

Question 14

“Grace under pressure” -Ernest Hemingway

Answer 14

Heroic code. Handles adversity with dignity and courage

Question 16

I.R.S.

Answer 16

Internal Revenue Service.

Tax day is April 15th

Question 17

“Nothing to fear but fear itself”

Answer 17

Franklin D. Roosevelt. 1933 Ignagural speech

Question 18

W.P.A.

Answer 18

Works Progess Administration (authority?)

Question 19

“To kill a mocking bird”

Answer 19

It is a sin to kill something that is innoceant or bother something/cause trouble. Such as Arthur “boo” Radley, would have been a sin, as described by Scout, like killing a mockingbird. Causing him trouble, because he killed (so alwasy about death?) Bob Ewell, and he was doing it to protect. Bottom line, Mr. Arthur didn’t want the spot light. Just to be left in solitude.