The Ultimate History Boys Revision Quiz Round One What do these images have to do with The History Boys Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 Round Two Finish the Quotation Q11 It’s just one ______thing after another Q12 Take it, ______ it and pass it on Q13 I am far too gone in age and _____________ Q14 There is a __________ in History Q15 The _________ certainly wants it. Round Three Guess the Character Oh! Quelles belles jambes! Q 16 – Who is speaking to whom? Now, who goes home? Q17 Who is speaking to whom? One should have targets Q18 Who is quoting whom? Never such innocence Q19 Who is quoting whom? This is History, not histrionics Q20 Who is quoting whom? Round Four Anagrams Q21 ROTHEC Q22 RIATONSHIS Q23 IELGRAEFDSCI Q24 OHYROTD Q25 NISATL Round Five True or False The Headmaster knew Philip Larkin True or False Q26 Mrs Lintott is divorced from an accountant True or False Q27 The Headmaster’s first name is Boris True or False Q28 Rudge gets into Corpus Christie True or False Q29 Crowther and Lockwood become magistrates True or False Q30 Round Six Who says this: Foul, festering, grubbyminded little trollop Q31 Old Sir, tried and tested Q32 Think charm, think polish, think renaissance man Q33 This is known as Posner’s reward Q34 History is women following behind with a bucket. Q35 Round Seven Spot the mistakes Five words have been replaced in this passage. Can you work out what the original words might have been? Mmm, the important thing is that he has a role. Say Hardy is writing about the Zulu wars or later the Boer War possibly, these were the first battles where men… or common soldiers…were commemorated, the names of the lost recorded and carved on war memorials. Round Eight Multiple Choice Q37 Rudge quotes lines from a song by 1. Duran Duran 2. Spandau Ballet 3. The Pet Shop Boys 4. Bananarama Q38 The Head’s subject is: 1. Geography 2. Mathematics 3. Chemistry 4. Media Studies Q39 Posner’s parents don’t mind him singing songs sung by: 1. Lisa Minnelli 2. Barbra Streisand 3. Gracie Fields 4. Doris Day Q40 Hector originally teaches: 1. English 2. French 3. Music 4. History Q41 Irwin went to 1. Jesus 2. Corpus 3. Oxford for a teaching Diploma 4. Exeter Round Nine Literary References Who wrote the poem? Q42 Loveliest of trees the cherry now Who wrote the poem? Q43 Not waving but drowning Who wrote the poem? Q44 There is some corner of a foreign field What device is used here? Q45 thousands of marriages lasting a little while longer Who wrote the poem? Q 46 His landmark is a kopje-crest that breaks the veldt around Who wrote the poem? Round 10 Final Round The Genius Round What is important about these individual words Q47 Otiose Q48 Pizza Q49 Kneeshaw Q50 Normal Q51 Henry VIII Round One - Pictures • Bike gloves, Hector, groping, facade – Irwin • Communion, Scripps, Breaking bread references – Hector • Holocaust discussion • Pass the parcel – knowledge • Golf, Sartre – Rudge • Brief Encounter • Hector locks the classroom, Locks out disturbance / progress Round 2 – Finish line 1. F***ing – Rudge 2. Feel – Hector 3. Decrepitude – Hector 4. vacancy – Headmaster 5. Headmaster - Irwin Round 3 - Character 1. Posner to Dakin 2. Hector to class 3. Dakin quoting the Headmaster 4. Lockwood (+ others) quoting Larkin 5. Lockwood quoting Round 4 – Anagrams 1. Hector 2. Historians 3. Gracie Fields 4. Dorothy 5. Stalin Round 5 – True False 1. True – Hull 2. True 3. False 4. False – ChristChurch 5. True – in PLAY! Round 6 – Who? 1. Hector 2. Scripps 3. Headmaster 4. Dakin 5. Lintott Round 7 – Mistakes Roll – Name Battles – Campaigns Men – Soldiers Lost – dead Carved - inscribed Round 8 - Choice 1–3 2–1 3–2 4–1 5–3 Round 9 - Poems 1. AE Housman 2. Stevie Smith 3. Rupert brooke 4. Philip Larkin 5.Thomas Hardy Round 10 – Genius 1.Pointless – General Studies 2. Better than sex 3. Nietzsche 4. What is “normal” 5. Stalin and Margaret Thatcher