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."
$100 Answer QQ1
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.”
$100 Answer QQ2
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.”
$300 Answer QQ2
Banquo – he doubts the
trustworthiness of the witches
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$400 Question QQ2
“Wisely and slow. They stumble
that run fast.”
$400 Answer QQ2
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?
$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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