Episcopal Life
Beowulf
The Tempest
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Biondi-Rama
100

Hummel and McGuire dormitories are both housed in a building that bears this name.

What is Henderson (Hall)?

100

The story of the poem tells us that Grendel is descended from this biblical brother. 

Who is Cain?

100

Just like Henry IV Part 1 is labeled a history, this is the genre label given to The Tempest. 

What is a romance?

100

This is the utopian town in Florida that Janie and Jody help to found and build up, which was also a real-life town where Hurston herself lived. 

What is Eatonville?

100

Biondi means "blond" in a Northern dialect of this European language.

What is Italian?

200

Mr. Doyle attended this Ivy League safety school, which has become something of a feeder institution for Episcopal faculty.

What is Princeton University?

200

This younger man is the only warrior to stay with Beowulf when he fights the dragon. 

Who is Wiglaf?

200

These are the correct pronunciations from the play of the following words: "boatswain," "Milan," and "masque." 

What are "bo-sun," "millen," and "mask"?

200

What instrument does Logan Killicks have at his home, about which Nanny brags regarding his wealth and exclusivity?

What is an organ?

200

Mr. and Mrs. Biondi were married in this U.S. state. 

What is South Carolina?

300

You may hear it referenced as the woods or even "Vietnam" by alums, but the formal name of the area of campus west of the new track is this. 

What is Laird Acres?

300

This name, derived from the Old English for "stag," graces the hall of Hrothgar. 

What is Heorot?

300

This character from the masque is the Roman goddess of marriage. 

Who is Juno?

300

This is how much money Tea Cake returns with after gambling Janie's $200. 

What is $322?

300

Willa Biondi has this middle name, a tribute to Mr. Biondi's father's middle name.

What is James?

400

This man was the first head of Episcopal High School. 

Who is (William Nelson) Pendleton?

400

Examples of this type of wordplay in the poem include "battle-sweat" (for blood) and "whale-road" (for sea). 

What is a kenning?

400

This word completes the following line from Act V, scene i. "I’ll break my staff, / Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, / And deeper than did ever plummet sound / I’ll drown my __________" (V.i.54-57). 

What is "book"?

400

Their Eyes Were Watching God was primarily written during Hurston's anthropological research trip to this Caribbean nation. 

What is Haiti?

400

In grad school, Mr. Biondi wrote his dissertation on Arthur Miller, author of Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, among others, plus this author of works like The Glass Menagerie and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Who is Tennessee Williams?

500

In this year, Episcopal enrolled (not graduated!) its first class of girls as it began the transition to co-education.

What is 1991?

500

Of the following Shakespearean texts, this is the only one for which Gareth Hinds has NOT created a graphic novel adaptation: King Lear, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth

What is Hamlet?

500

This is Ferdinand's sister, who was married off in "Tunis" in Northern Africa.  

Who is Claribel?

500

This word completes the quote from the first paragraph of the novel: "For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the __________ turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men" (1). 

What is "Watcher"?

500

Mrs. Biondi graduated from Episcopal in this year. 

What is 2008?

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