Middle ages
Jeopardy
Name that
Pilgrim!
The Church
The City
Terminology
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200
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300
The Four Tales
The Normans
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Final Jeopardy
Name That Pilgrim: 100
He knew, and whether dry, cold,
moist, or hot;
He knew their seat, their humor
and condition
Answer
Name That Pilgrim: 100
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The Doctor
Game Board
Name That Pilgrim: 200
No bailiff, serf, or herdsman dared to
kick,
He knew their dodges, knew every
trick;
Feared like the plague he was, by those
beneath.
Answer
Name That Pilgrim: 200
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The Reeve
Game Board
Name That Pilgrim: 300
Bold in his speech, yet wise and full
of tact,
There was no manly attribute he
lacked,
What’s more he was a merryhearted man.
Answer
Name That Pilgrim: 300
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The Host
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Name That Pilgrim: 400
He was as hot and lecherous as a sparrow.
Black scabby brows he had, and a thin
beard.
Children were afraid when he appeared.
Answer
Name That Pilgrim: 400
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The Summoner
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Name That Pilgrim: 500
His head was like a nut, his face
was brown.
He knew the whole of woodcraft up
and down.
Answer
Name That Pilgrim: 500
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The Yeoman
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The Church: 100
Who was claimed to have
uttered, “Will no one rid
me of this turbulent priest?
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The Church: 100
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King Henry II
Game Board
The Church: 200
Not paying one’s tithes
would result in what
directive by the papacy?
Answer
The Church: 200
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A summons
Game Board
The Church: 300
What is the name of St.
Thomas Becket’s shrine
located in Canterbury
Cathedral?
Answer
The Church: 300
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The Martyrdom
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The Church: 400
What special “power” does
St. Thomas “claim” to
possess?
Answer
The Church: 400
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He heals the sick
Game Board
The Church: 500
What clergical vow does
Madam Eglantyne break the
most, in her description?
Answer
The Church: 500
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Game Board
Poverty
The City: 100
Prior to their contributions to the
city class, merchants and
craftsmen worked primarily
as..
Answer
The City: 100
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Serfs/peasants
Game Board
The City: 200
Haberdashers, dyers, weavers--these crafts were organized
into what unionized groups?
Answer
The City: 200
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Guild fraternities
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The City: 300
Often times a person’s trade
(such as a cook) morphed into
what about that person’s
identity?
Answer
The City: 300
Answer
His family’s last name
Game Board
The City: 400
Name one British medieval city
that is mentioned in the Prologue.
Answer
The City: 400
Answer
Bath/Oxford
Game Board
The City: 500
Name one character of the city class
who does not steal.
Answer
The City: 500
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The Wife/Cook/Merchant/Lawyer
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Terminology
The
Pardoner’s Tale is
classified as this type of
a story
Answer
Terminology: 100
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An exemplum
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Terminology: 200
The Miller’s Tale is
classified as this type of
a story.
Answer
Terminology: 200
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A fabliau
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Terminology: 300
What aspect of chivalry is
most synonymous with
comitatus?
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Terminology: 300
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Fealty
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Terminology: 400
The Friar is “easy” in
handing these out at
confession.
Answer
Terminology: 400
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Penance
Game Board
Terminology: 500
The Wife of Bath’s Tale
signifies this type of
medieval story.
Answer
Terminology: 500
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Medieval romance
Game Board
The Four Tales: 100
“Gentility is only the renoun/for bounty
that your father’s handed down/Quite
foreign to your person, not your own;
Gentility must come from God alone.”
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The Four Tales: 100
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The Wife of Bath’s Tale
Game Board
The Four Tales: 200
“What’s wrong? Some jolly girl
as you…has not coaxed you
and set you on the trot?”
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The Four Tales: 200
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The Miller’s Tale
Game Board
The Four Tales: 300
“The hose upon his feet/Showed
scarlet through, and all his clothes
were neat/and proper, in a jacket of
light blue.”
Who, in The Miller’s Tale, is described
here?
Answer
The Four Tales: 300
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Absalom
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The Four Tales: 400
“Never again, for all your lies,
You’ll coax a song to make me
blink before your eyes.”
Answer
The Four Tales: 400
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The Nun’s
Priest’s Tale
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The Four Tales: 500
“Don’t ask me why; and even if
you do
I can’t disclose God’s secret
thoughts to you.”
Answer
The Four Tales: 500
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The Miller’s Tale
Game Board
The Normans: 100
Who was the last AngloSaxon king?
Answer
The Normans: 100
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King Harold Godwin
Game Board
The Normans: 200
What was the language of
the Normans?
Answer
The Normans: 200
Answer
French
Game Board
The Normans: 300
What body of water signaled
the advent of the Norman
Conquest?
Answer
The Normans: 300
Answer
The English Channel
Game Board
The Normans: 400
What royal descendant of
William The Conqueror is next
in succession to take the
British Throne?
Answer
The Normans: 400
Answer
Prince Charles
Game Board
The Normans: 500
What childhood word is derived from
the Black Plague?
Answer
The Normans: 500
Answer
“boo-boo”
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Daily
Double
Question
Final Jeopardy Question
What book contained information on
taxed property owned during the
Middle Ages?
Answer
Final Jeopardy Answer
The Domesday
Book