tricky words
Romeo and Juliet
Geography
Folklore
Creatures
100

oxbow

a meander, a big bend in a river

100

Who dies first Romeo or Juliet?

Romeo

100

River that flows through London

Themes

100

A broken mirror

brings 7 years bad luck

100

a baby cow is called a 

calf

200

collywobbles

 tummy aches

200

Where does "Romeo and Juliet" take place?

Verona

200

Capital of Scotland

Edinburgh

200

If you spilt salt you must

throw it over your left shoulder, into the Devil's eye

200

Creature with the tail of a scorpion, a face of a man, the body of a lion

Manticore

300

verdigris

the green rust on copper

300

Name of the man Juliet should have married?

Paris

300

Highest peak in mainland Britain?

Ben Nevis

300

A flickering light seen around bogs and marshes, which may lead travelers off their path

will-o'the-wisp

300

Creature of the flag of Wales

Red Dragon

400

lollygag

to spend time idly

400

Juliet's angry cousin's name?

Tybalt

400

Name of wall built by Romans to protect English territories against the northern tribes?

Hadrian's wall

400

Welsh New Year's tradition featuring a horse skull 

Mari Lloyd

400

The collective noun for crows is

a murder

500

hullabaloo

commotion, an uproar

500

When was Romeo and Juliet written?

1591 - 1595

500

Longest river in Great Britain

River Severn

500

Someone who eats bread off a corpse to absolve the dead of sin

Sin eater

500

Instead of the Tooth Fairy in Lowland Scotland teeth are taken by

a white fairy rat

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