Question Bee
MacQuestions
For Eva
So Romantic
Worthwhile Words
Lucky Dip
100
What causes May to leave the house for the Wailing Wall on the night of her death?
Zach's mother calls and reveals that Zach is in jail, which May didn't know.
100
Who is with Macbeth when he encounters the witches for the first time?
Banquo
100
Wall-E is all alone on planet Earth except for his pet, which is what type of animal?
A cockroach
100
Which flower appears "fluttering and dancing in the breeze" in Wordsworth's poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud?
Daffodils
100
If sound is described as non-diegetic, who can hear it?
The audience, but not the characters in the world of the film (the diegesis)
100
In which classroom did we have our first English lesson of the year?
W11
200
Who plays the role of Rosaleen in The Secret Life of Bees film?
Jennifer Hudson
200
What noble title does Macbeth have at the start of the play?
Thane of Glamis
200
The opening song from Wall-E comes from the soundtrack belonging to which iconic musical?
Hello, Dolly!
200
What was the name of the abbey in Wordworth's poem - the first we studied in the Romantic unit of Term 1?
Tintern Abbey
200
Complete this famous line from Macbeth: "Look like the innocent __________, but be the _____________ under it."
flower, serpent
200
Name all of the Year 10s from this class who have been camp seniors this year.
Katelyn, Bianca, Elise, and Izzy
300
What special possession of her mother's is Lily gifted at the Boatwright house and wears when T. Ray arrives?
A whale brooch
300
What are three reasons that Macbeth gives for choosing not to kill Duncan?
He is Duncan's kin (family), his host, and his subject. Duncan is a good king and a good man who is well-liked by his subjects. And he has no reason to commit the act aside from his own "vaulting ambition."
300
What is the name of the satirical technique that involves presenting the opposite of the natural order? (e.g. parents behaving like children; animals behaving like humans, etc)
Reversal
300
In the poem Ozymandias, who tells the narrator all about the "colossal Wreck" of the pharoah sculture?
A traveller (from an antique land)
300
Lady Macbeth calls on the spirits to: "Take my milk for gall." What is gall?
Bile/bitter poison
300
What did Mr Rawson lose this year that devastated him?
His annotated copy of the red Macbeth playtext.
400
What does Rosaleen steal from the church on the day she attempts to register to vote in Sylvan?
A paper fan
400
The witches prophesise that no person of "woman born" will be able to defeat Macbeth. How does this lull him into a false sense of security? How is he defeated?
Macduff, who ultimately kills Macbeth, is born by Caesarian rather than a natural birth.
400
Whose style of art is imitated here in the closing credits of Wall-E?
Vincent van Gogh
400
In The Birth-day, readers are told that "Pale Misery mingles with the throng." Identify the poetic technique that Robinson has employed.
Personification
400
The The Secret Life of Bees, Rosaleen says that May is a "bona fide candidate for the nuthouse." What does bona fide mean?
Real, genuine, true, not false
400
How does Miss Lingard spell her first name?
F I O N N U A L A
500
What is the name of the lawyer who gifts Zach a legal book, and assists Rosaleen to fight her charges at the novel's conclusion.
Clayton Forrest
500
In what way doesn't Lady Macduff conform to Elizabethan gender ideals for women?
She doesn't conform because she speaks out against her husband and criticises his decision to leave her and their children at home.
500
In what year as Wall-E produced and released?
2008
500
In The Birth-day, Robinson states: "Take physic, Pomp!" let Reason say: / "What can avail thy trappings rare?" "Physic" is archaic language meaning what?
Medication
500
In class, we accused the witches of being equivocal. What does it mean to equivocate?
To be deliberately unclear or ambiguous.
500
In one of our creative writing activities, Violet is upset that Zara had ditched her for a new friend she met in gardening club. They plant succulents around the Science Building while Violet paces around the BFR. Who was the new friend?
Aryana
600
Lily finds a book on August's shelf called "Mary Through the Ages." She is shocked by all the images of Mary being presented with what by the angel Gabriel?
Massive white lilies
600
Name three species of birds in Macbeth
Possibilities include towering falcon, pretty chicken, hoarse raven, poor wren, nesting martlets, owls.
600
In Wall-E, characters' ground-paths are colour-coded aboard the Axiom. The robots' path is white, stewards get a red path, while the human ground-path is which colour?
Light blue
600
Wordsworth accuses us of throwing our hearts away like what kind of cheap gift? A s________ b_________
A sordid boon
600
Which word beginning with 'H' describes Ozymandias' arrogance?
hubris
600
In one of the creative writing activities, Serena is upset about not being in her favourite class with her favourite teacher. What is the class/teacher?
Chemistry with Mrs Urry