Macbeth Jeopardy
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Final Jeopardy
$100 Question
Characters
At the beginning of
the play, he was
Thane of Glamis
$100 Answer Characters
Macbeth
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$200 Question
Characters
The two characters
who immediately flee
after the death of
King Duncan
$200 Answer Characters
Malcolm
and
Donalbain
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$300 Question
Characters
Believes water can
assuage Macbeth’s
guilt after the killing
of King Duncan
$300 Answer Characters
Lady Macbeth
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$400 Question
Characters
Haunts Macbeth after
his murder
$400 Answer Characters
Banquo
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$500 Question
Characters
Leads the crusade
against Macbeth
$500 Answer Characters
Macduff
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$100 Question Plot
Describe the setting of
Macbeth in the very
first scene. How does
Shakespeare set the
tone?
$100 Answer Topic 2
Set in a dark forest with
witches and spells.
Lets audience know it
will be a dark play.
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$200 Question Plot
What are the first two
prophesies given by
the witches?
$200 Answer Plot
That Macbeth will
become Thane of
Cawdor and that
Banquo’s sons will
inherit the throne.
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$300 Question Plot
How do Lady Macbeth
and Macbeth respond
to King Duncan’s
murder?
$300 Answer Plot
Lady Macbeth feigns ignorance and
acts aghast that such an act could
have taken place in her house.
Macbeth says that he is outraged and
was so angry that he killed the
king’s guards.
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$400 Question Plot
How does Macbeth
convince the
murderers to kill
Banquo?
$400 Answer Plot
He tells them that Banquo is
responsible for their difficult
lives and that they would be
cowards if they did not take
action (compares them to a
woman).
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$500 Question Plot
Name four visions the
witches show Macbeth
in Act IV and explain
each.
$500 Answer Plot
1) Armed head – beware of Macduff
2) Bloody child – no man of woman born
will harm Macbeth
3) Crowned child holding a tree – Birnam
Wood to Dunsinane Hill
4) Line of 8 kings with a mirror and
Banquo’s ghost – Banquo’s heirs
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$100 Question QQ1
Identify speaker and context:
“Boil, boil, toil, and trouble,
fire burn and cauldron
bubble.”
$100 Answer QQ1
The three witches causing
mischief for Macbeth. Speak
in rhyme.
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$200 Question QQ1
“But screw your courage to the
sticking place, and we’ll not
fail.”
$200 Answer QQ1
Lady Macbeth – trying to
convince Macbeth to kill
Duncan. Shows that she is in
charge of Macbeth.
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$300 Question QQ1
“Stars, hide your fires; Let not
light see my black and dark
desires.”
$300 Answer QQ1
Macbeth – as he begins to
consider killing King Duncan.
He does not want to reveal his
evil thoughts.
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$400 Question QQ1
“Out, out, brief candle! / Life’s but a
walking shadow, a poor player /
That struts and frets his hour upon the
stage / And then is heard no more. It
is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of
sound and fury, / Signifying nothing.”
$400 Answer QQ1
Macbeth – upon learning that
Lady Macbeth has killed
herself. Reveals that he is not
upset, but just sees it as an
eventuality. He is detached
from emotion at this point.
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$500 Question QQ1
“But signs of nobleness, like
stars, shall shine / On all
deservers.”
$500 Answer QQ1
King Duncan upon hearing that
Macbeth has defeated the
traitor, former Thane of Cawdor.
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$100 Question QQ2
“Is this a dagger which I see
before me, /
The handle toward my hand?
Come, let me clutch thee: / I
have thee not, and yet I see
thee still.”
$100 Answer QQ2
Macbeth – hallucinates after he
plans to kill King Duncan. It
represents a moment in time
when he doubts himself and the
plan, but Lady Macbeth
convinces him to do it.
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$200 Question QQ2
“Out, damned spot! Out, I say! –
One: two: why, / then ‘tis time to
do’t. – Hell is murky!”
$200 Answer QQ2
Lady Macbeth – sleepwalking,
she reveals that she was part of
the murder plot and has now
lost her mind – she thinks she
sees blood on her hands.
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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.”
$300 Answer QQ2
Banquo – he doubts the
trustworthiness of the witches
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$400 Question QQ2
“Let’s not consort with them. / To
show an unfelt sorrow is an
office / Which the false man
does easy.”
$400 Answer QQ2
Malcolm – this is part of his
justification for running away.
He is afraid of being killed
himself and doesn’t trust the
others.
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$500 Question QQ2
“O gentle lady, / ‘Tis not for you
to hear what I can speak: / The
repetition, in a woman’s ear, /
Would murder as it fell.”
$500 Answer QQ2
Macduff – he says this to protect
his wife from the horrors of all of
the murdering.
$100 Question Lit Terms
What is foreshadowing?
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$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?
$500 Answer Lit Terms
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
or
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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