GCSE Jeopardy

NAME THAT POEM AND AUTHOR

100

"On with the Muse"

Head of English (Carol Ann Duffy)

200

"My heart is like a signing bird"

A Birthday (Christina Rossetti)

300

"Sidestep hysteria"

The City Planners (Margaret Atwood)

400

"A life subdued to its instrument"

Pike (Ted Hughes)

500

"I lost a river, culture, speech, sense of first space"

Originally (Carol Ann Duffy)

WHO AM I?

100

She had a 'low, thrilling voice. It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again'

Daisy

200

'a brute of a man, a great, hulking physical specimen'

Tom

300

'He doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus, and we petty men walk under his huge legs...' is said about which character?

Caesar

400

'_________ has a lean and hungry look, he thinks too much: such men are dangerous'

Cassius

500

'I was looking at an elegant young rough-neck' is said about which character?

Gatsby

WHOSE LINE IT IS IT?

100

'Beware the Ides of March'

Soothsayer

200

"There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired"

Nick Carraway

300

"There is bus one mind in all these men, and it is bent against Caesar"

Artemidorus

400

'The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones: so let it be...'

Antony

500

"It's a bona-fide piece of printed matter. It fooled me. This fella's a regular Belasco."

Owl-Eyes

IMPORTANT QUOTES

100

"I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. Explain the importance of this quote

Daisy shows her own ideas of the values of the current era. Through her own boredom, she implies that the only way a woman can have fun is by being beautiful and simplistic.

200

I could be well moved if I were as you. If I could pray to move, prayers would move me. But I am constant as the Northern Star, Of whose true fixed and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament.

"Comparing himself to the North Star, Caesar boasts of his constancy, his commitment to the law, and his refusal to waver under any persuasion. This comparison implies more than steadfastness, however: the North Star is the star by which sailors have navigated since ancient times, the star that guides them in their voyages, just as Caesar leads the Roman people. So, too, is the North Star unique in its fixedness; as the only star that never changes its position in the sky, it has “no fellow in the firmament.” As it comes mere moments before the murder, the speech adds much irony to the scene: having just boasted that he is “unassailable,” Caesar is shortly assailed and killed.

300

"A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host, who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell." Explain the importance of this quote.

Gatsby is seen here alone, which sums up how he appears to us through most of the novel. He has money, and through elaborate parties, but at the end of the day is alone and unhappy.

400

He was my friend, faithful and just to me. But Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honourable man. . . . When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept. . . . Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honourable man. . . . I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, And sure he is an honourable man

The speech draws much of its power from repetition. Each time Antony cites Brutus’s claim that Caesar was “ambitious,” the claim loses force and credibility. Similarly, each time Antony declares how “honourable” a man Brutus is, the phrase accrues an increasingly sarcastic tone until, by the end of the speech, its meaning has been completely inverted. The speech wins over the crowd and turns public opinion against the conspirators; when Antony reads Caesar’s will aloud a few moments later, the dead Caesar’s words join with Antony’s in rousing the masses against the injustice of the assassination.

500

'Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning— So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.'

These words conclude the novel and find Nick returning to the theme of the significance of the past to dreams of the future, here represented by the green light. He focuses on the struggle of human beings to achieve their goals by both transcending and re-creating the past. Yet humans prove themselves unable to move beyond the past: in the metaphoric language used here, the current draws them backward as they row forward toward the green light. This apt metaphor characterizes both Gatsby’s struggle and the American dream itself. Nick’s words register neither blind approval nor cynical disillusionment but rather the respectful melancholy that he feels when reflecting on Gatsby’s life.

RANDOM

100

Name two sonnets from Songs of Ourselves

The cockroach Sonnet: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge

200

Name 3 persuasive techniques that Antony uses in his funeral oration?

- sarcasm - repetition - anecdotes - props (Caesar's body and cloak) - comes down to the same level as the Plebians

300

Imagine living in a strange, dark city for twenty years. What's the next line?

There are some dismal dwellings on the east side.

400

Name the song from the recent Gatsby film which is in the top 5 on the song charts at the moment.

A Little Pary Never Killed Nobody

500

Point out where in Canada Miss Lecourt is from

Peterborough, Ontario