LATIN GREEK ROOTS
FRENCH PHRASES
CHARACTER QUESTIONS
TWELFTH NIGHT and SHAKESPEARE
TAKE YOUR CHANCE
100
A Latin Root for trust, confidence, and loyalty
What is FIDO?
100
A term for someone whose actions or remarks cause embarrassment.
What enfant terrible (say: ah fah tear ee ble) :-)
100

Shipwrecked with Sebastian

Who is Antonio?

100
In Act 1, Scene 3, the speaker of this phrase: What’s wrong with my niece? Why is she reacting so strangely to her brother’s death? Grief is bad for people’s health.
Who is Sir Toby Belch?
100
"My fault" in Latin.
What is MEA CULPA?
200
If you are fighting someone, this Latin root may come to mind.
What is PUGNO?
200
A very controversial issue that generates debate (FRENCH)
What is a cause célèbre?
200

The contents of the letter Maria will write to Malvolio. 

What are his legs, face, manner of walking, the color of his beard, and other pieces of his appearance?

200
In scene 1, the person who says this famous phrase: "If music be the food of love, play on."
Who is Orsino?
200

A symbol in The Good Earth.

What are pearls, The Great House of Hwang, crows, tea...etc.

300
The root in Latin for "man" or "mankind."
What is ANTHROPOS?
300

A French phrase for overthrowing a government.

What is a coup d'etat? (Trivia: etat is the French word for state. If you spell the English word STATE backward you will remember the French word.)

300

The beginning line of the speech that makes Olivia fall for Viola/Cesario.

What is "Make me a willow cabin at your gate..."

300
Who speaks this phrase in Act 1, Scene 2? And what should I do in Illyria? My brother he is in Elysium. Perchance he is not drown’d.—What think you, sailors?
Who is VIOLA?
300
The name of the theater in which Shakespeare often performed plays?
What is the GLOBE?
400
Sanguis as a Latin root has this meaning.
What is BLOOD?
400
Your "reason for being" in French.
What is raison d'etre?
400

The person who Viola turns to when she says: "conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent."

Who is the SEA CAPTAIN?

400
What two male characters banter about hair and marriage and dancing in Act 2, Scene 3?
Who are Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew?
400
The setting for 12th Night
What is Illyria?
500

Pendo and Jungo have what Latin root meanings?

What is weigh, and join?

500
The name for full discretionary power given to a person
What is carte blanche?
500

Lines that show Orsino is stubborn and won't take no for an answer.

What are: "Stand at her doors and tell them, there thy fixed foot shall grow," and "I cannot be so answered..." 

500

Two parts! This is a hard one! 1. 200 pts: What is the year Shakespeare died? and 2. 300 pts: What was the name of the period in England in which he lived?

What is 1616 and What is the Elizabethan Era?

500

A list of how each of King Henry VIII's wives fared.

Two beheaded, two divorced, one died, one survived.

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