Suicide and Murder
Key Players
All God's Creatures
It's complicated.
Heaven and Hell
100

When he threatens suicide, Romeo says he will use a knife to find his name in a vile part of this.

What is his anatomy (body)

100

He comes between Mercutio and Tybalt when they fight.

Who is Romeo?

100

Juliet believes it to be a nightingale, though Romeo rightly surmises it is the sound of one of these.

What is a lark?

100

Romeo would have gone to Juliet's room and consummated the marriage, except he happens to meet him talking to Mercutio.

Who is Tybalt?

100

If heaven is Verona, where Juliet is, then this place is hell.

Where is Mantua?

200

The Capulets ask for Romeo's death due to the death of this key antagonist.

Who is Tybalt?

200

She brings Juliet news of Tybalt's death.

Who is the nurse?

200

Friar Laurence marvels that while Romeo has the body of a man, he sheds the tears of one of these.

What is a woman?

200

Due to a death in the streets, the Prince gives Romeo this punishment.

What is banishment?

200

According to Romeo either Tybalt or Romeo himself will soon be with Mercutio since this part of him is only a bit above their heads.

What is his soul?

300

After she dismisses the nurse, Juliet, powerless to bring back Romeo, threatens suicide by saying she still has the power to do this three-letter verb.

What is die?

300

The families drag the corpses to the feet of this man, Mercutio's cousin.

Who is the Prince?

300

Mercutio calls Tybalt the king of these.

What is a cat?

300

Juliet is expecting the nurse to bring news of Romeo, but instead she brings this morbid news.

What is Tybalt's death?

300

When the Nurse begins to report Tybalt's death, Juliet says her news should be howled in hell because she thinks Romeo is in this state.

What is death?

400

It is not clear that Tybalt meant to kill Mercutio or whether it was merely one of these.

What is an accident (or synonym)?

400

After the killing of Tybalt, Romeo goes to his room to hide.

Who is Friar Laurence?

400

It is one of the three animals Romeo says are in heaven because they may look on Juliet while he is banished in Matua (hell).

What is a dog (or a cat or a mouse or any unworthy thing)?

400

Though Juliet had hoped to wait for Romeo to return, she is flustered by news that she has this engagement on Thursday.

What is a marriage (to Paris)?

400

When Paris meets Juliet outside the cell of Friar Laurence, she has come to confess this, or so her parents think.

What is her disobedience to her father?

500

This is the number of hours Juliet will appear to be dead, while she is merely drugged to sleep.

What is two-and-forty (42)?

500

This friend advises Juliet to marry Paris.

Who is the nurse?

500

Juliet assures Romeo that the nightingale nightly sings in one of these

What is a pomegranate tree?

500

In order to save Juliet, Friar Laurence give her a vile of potion that will drug her to sleep this many hours.

What is two-and-forty (42)?

500

When the nurse, after counseling Juliet to marry Paris, leaves the room, Juliet calls here this name, meaning she is old and damned.

What is ancient damnation?

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