Authors
Beowulf
Anglo Saxon
Medieval Period
Elizabethan Age
100

William Wordsworth

Who wrote The Lucy Poems?

100

The original language of Beowulf

What is old English?

100

The religion of the author of Beowulf

What is Christian?

100

The beginning of the Medieval Period

What is the Norman Conquest?

100

The first theatre built in London

What is the theatre? 

200

James Joyce

Who wrote "Araby"?

200

Grendel is the descendant of him 

Who is Cain?

200

The conventional style of poetic phrase used for or in addition to the name of a person or thing

What is a kenning?

200

The name of the book that accounted for all land and property

What is Domesday Book?

200

The meaning of Renaissance 

What is reawakening/ rebirth? 

300

William Butler Yeats

Who wrote "When You Are Old"?

300

The nationality of Beowulf and his men

What is Geat?

300

The author of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Who is Alfred the Great?

300

Society of merchants with regulated prices and standards

What is a guild?

300

Edward VI established this book during his reign

What is the Book of Common Prayer?

400

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Who wrote "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"?

400

The only thing Herot can be destroyed by

What is fire?

400

The professional poet and historian of the tribe

What is a scop?

400

A law that is common for all citizens of the country, no matter the status

What is common law?

400

The number of lines in iambic pentameter

What is 14?

500

Percy Shelley

Who wrote "Ode to the West Wind"?

500

The end of the Beowulf's battle with Grendel

What is Grendel loses his arm?

500

Established the monastery at Canterbury

Who is St. Augustine?

500

The firstborn son had the exclusive right to inherit the father’s land, money, and estates

What is the Law of Primogeniture?

500

The invention that contributed to the increase in writing in the vernacular 

What is the printing press?