try this counter-intuitive approach...
Asterix comics...
and then get them to figure out how many and why each character is
so.. and the history of the time... and what they did then...
they had so much in there... Caesar, Cleopatra, the Gauls, the
Celtics, the Games and all that... not to mention their names, the
places...
and all very very funny too...
the interaction of the characters and why they were like
that...
over the years, i still think that the whole series was pure genius
