Romeo and Juliet Jeopardy

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Final Jeopardy

$100 Question Characters

At the beginning of the play, he is in love with Rosaline

$100 Answer Characters

Romeo

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$200 Question Characters

Romeo’s cousin who is sent to figure out why he is so depressed

$200 Answer Characters

Benvolio

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$300 Question Characters

Juliet’s cousin who has a fiery temper

$300 Answer Characters

Tybalt

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$400 Question Characters

Lord Montague’s favored suitor for his daughter

$400 Answer Characters

Paris

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$500 Question Characters

Has an in-depth knowledge of rare plants and remedies

$500 Answer Characters

Friar Lawrence

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$100 Question Plot

Describe the feud in the beginning of the play

$100 Answer Topic 2

Montagues v. Capulets – no one seems to know how it started, but still going on

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$200 Question Plot

Describe the Nurse and her role.

$200 Answer Plot

Juliet’s nurse – acts like more of a mother than her own mother. Is her confidante.

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$300 Question Plot

Where does Romeo first meet Juliet? Describe the scene.

$300 Answer Plot

At the Capulet party. It is love at first sight. He is witty – uses a metaphor about pilgrims to kiss her.

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$400 Question Plot

How does Mercutio die? Why?

$400 Answer Plot

Tybalt kills him. He comes looking for Romeo who will not fight him. Romeo tries to break up the fight between Mercutio and Tybalt, but Tybalt stabs him with Romeo blocking the view.

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$500 Question Plot

What does Juliet think about the night she takes the potion?

$500 Answer Plot

Waking up in the vault and seeing Tybalt’s ghost. She also wonders if Friar Lawrence is trustworthy or whether he is trying to kill her off since he secretly married them.

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$100 Question QQ1

Identify speaker and context:

"Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!/ For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night."

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Romeo upon first look at Juliet

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$200 Question QQ1

“My only love sprung from my only hate! / Too early seen unknown, and known too late!”

$200 Answer QQ1

Juliet when she learns that Romeo is a Montague.

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$300 Question QQ1

“What's in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other word would smell as sweet."

$300 Answer QQ1

Juliet when she is thinking about how Romeo is only hated by her family since he is a Montague – he is hated in name only.

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$400 Question QQ1

"A plague o' both your houses!"

$400 Answer QQ1

Mercutio upon his death – blames the Capulets, but Romeo (a Montague) as well

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$500 Question QQ1

Speak not. Reply not. Do no answer me. / My fingers itch. – Wife, we scarce thought us blest /That God had lent us but this only child, / But now I see this one is one too much / And that we have a curse in having her.”

$500 Answer QQ1

Lord Capulet when Juliet asks not to marry Paris

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$100 Question QQ2

“If ever you disturb our streets again, / Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.”

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Prince Escalus – breaking up the feud – threatens both sides that they will lose their lives if they continue to fight

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$200 Question QQ2

“Take thou this vial, being then in bed, / And this distillèd liquor drink thou off, / When presently though all thy veins shall run

A cold and drowsy humor, for no pulse / Shall keep his native progress, but surcease.”

$200 Answer QQ2

Friar Lawrence – instructing Juliet how to use the sleeping liquid to fake her death

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$300 Question QQ2

“But ‘tis strange. / And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, / The instruments of darkness tell us truths, / Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s / In deepest consequence.”

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Banquo – he doubts the trustworthiness of the witches

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$400 Question QQ2

“Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.”

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Friar Lawrence – giving advice to Romeo not to be so impulsive because it is dangerous

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$500 Question QQ2

"Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low,/ As one dead in the bottom of a tomb."

$500 Answer QQ2

Juliet – foreshadowing Romeo’s death

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$100 Question Lit Terms

What is foreshadowing?

$100 Answer Lit Terms

A hint given by the author of things to come.

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$200 Question Lit Terms

What is the difference between an aside and a soliloquy?

$200 Answer Lit Terms

An aside “breaks the stage” – the character speaks directly to the audience and reminds them they are in a play. A soliloquy is a long speech given by the character which gives the audience a peek at his/her inside thoughts and emotions.

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$300 Question Lit Terms

How many acts are there in a Shakespearean play and how is each one used?

$300 Answer Lit Terms

• Act I-II: setting & exposition, rising action

• Act III: climax

• Act IV-V: falling action, resolution

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$400 Question Lit Terms

What are acts and scenes and how are they used?

$400 Answer Lit Terms

• Scenes are used to change location.

• Acts are used to advance time.

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$500 Question Lit Terms

What are the four characteristics of a Shakespearean tragic hero?

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1. “Hero” is born of noble birth or $

2. Hero has a tragic flaw

3. Tragic flaw brings about his downfall

4. Hero comes to terms with his flaw

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$100 Question Biography

In what century did Shakespeare write most of his plays?

$100 Answer Biography

17th century (early 1600s)

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$200 Question Biography

Shakespeare is also well-known for his poetry. What type of poetry is he most well-known for?

$200 Answer Biography

Sonnets

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$300 Question Biography

What was the name of Shakespeare’s wife?

$300 Answer Biography

Anne Hathaway

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$400 Question Biography

What was the name of the famous theatre where many of Shakespeare’s plays were first performed?

$400 Answer Biography

The Globe Theatre

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$500 Question Biography

What was the name of the company of actors who first performed Shakespeare’s plays?

$500 Answer Biography

Lord Chamberlain’s Men

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The King’s Men

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Final Jeopardy Topic

Shakespearean Prose

Final Jeopardy Question

What is the name of the poetic rhythm behind Shakespeare’s lines? What does that mean? Give an example to illustrate how it works.

Final Jeopardy Answer

Iambic Pentameter

Answers will vary, but must illustrate 10 syllables in an unstressed, stressed pattern.

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