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1. In an epistolary novel by C.S. Lewis, a senior demon writes letters of advice to his nephew Wormwood. What is the title of this satirical book?
2. What brand of cricket bat is named for the woodboring insect larvae that damaged a bat owned by Joe Sillet, causing him to carve it into a new design?
3. A song is stuck in your head, going around in your mind over and over again. It's driving you crazy! What is a song like this called?
4. In the 1940s, Walter Lantz animation studio created an avian character of the family Picadae, known for his loud, distinctive laugh and his irritating persistence. What kind of woodsy creature was this cartoon character?
5. What 1998 novel by Barbara Kingsolver is narrated by female members of a missionary family who go to the Belgian Congo in 1959 and live through the postcolonial changes of late 20th century West Africa?
6. In the 1950s song that begins "Two and two are four / Four and four are eight / Eight and eight are sixteen / Sixteen and sixteen are thirty-two," what is the inchworm measuring?
7. In what daily comic strip by Bill Watterson did a young boy with a stuffed animal often get in trouble for daydreaming or taking "creative" approaches to assignments in Miss Wormwood's class?
8. In some versions of this European folk tale, a woodcutter or huntsman literally rescues two female characters from the belly of the beast. What is this story?
9. In 1957, Debbie Reynolds heard them "whisperin' above: 'Tammy, Tammy, Tammy's in love.'" What are they?
10. A wodwo (sometimes called a woodwose) is featured in the title of a poem by Ted Hughes and in medieval folklore and literature, including the Middle English poem "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." What American creature does the European wodwo or woodwose most closely resemble?
11. What comic strip character makes multi-layered sandwiches and likes to sleep on the couch, even after his blonde wife brings him the job jar?
12. Roald Dahl's brilliant, telekinetic young protagonist in "Matilda" is not understood or appreciated by her nasty parents. What last name do they share?
13. What creature--also called "groundhog" or "whistle pig" or "land beaver"--would do a certain thing as much as he could, if he actually could do that particular thing?
14. The tallest trees in the world, the giant redwoods, grow naturally only in a narrow strip of land along the coast near which of the world's great bodies of water?
15. In Revelation 8:11, a "star" named "Wormwood" falls into the sea. What does Wormwood do to the waters of the sea?
16. People engaging in a particular hobby might be found searching near a garden or mulch pile in the evening after a rain, turning over rocks, flowerpots, and other debris, looking for nightcrawlers. What are nightcrawlers, and how will the searchers use them?
17. We might know that the dogwood is a flowering tree, and we might know that the dogberry is the fruit of the dogwood, but Dogberry is also a character in a comedy by William Shakespeare. Which play is Dogberry in?
18. In a play with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, a baker and his wife seek a cure for their childlessness, which turns out to be caused by a witch's curse. What play is this, that includes characters from various Grimm fairy tales?
19. What 1990 movie--starring Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, and Michael Gross--features huge worm-like creatures (dubbed "graboids") that threaten the small desert town of Perfection, Nevada?
20. A bitter herb of the family Compositae or Asteraceae, the genus Artemisia, and the species absinthium, this plant is the major ingredient of the distilled alcoholic beverage absinthe. What is its common name?
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