Hamlet Plot
Math: Probability
Native Americans
Science
Odds: Hamlet T & C; Evens: other math
100

Who is the ghost?

Hamlet Senior, the former king of denmark.

100

What percent is .25 equal to?

25%

100

What is the name of the large animal some Native Americans followed around?  The trains interfered with these herds.

Buffalo

100

What is the process of making a copy of a new cell called.  (Hint, you do this in most of your body, including your toes-ez.)


mitosis

100

Explain one similarity between Hamlet and Fortinbras or Hamlet and Laertes.

Fortinbras: Both are princes, both had countries ruled by England, both had murdered fathers

Laertes: Both connected to Ophelia, both died by the same poisoned sword.

200

How does Hamlet use the players to help figure out if his uncle is guilty?

He has them perform a play that is just like the murder and watches Claudius to see if Claudius acts guilty.

200

If you have one yellow and one red piece of paper, what is the odds of pulling out the yellow, expressed as a fraction?

1/2

200

Give the name of one Native American tribe.

possible answers include Cheyenne, Lakota, Sioux, Apache, Navajo.

200

The 4 stages of mitosis can be remembered with the nonsense word P-MAT.  What is the name for one  of those 4 stages of mitosis?

Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telaphase.

200

What is -5 X 0?

0
300
What keeps Hamlet from going to England?

Pirates attack the ship and Hamlet ends up on their ship.

300

If there are 3 yellow and 4 blue pieces of paper, what is the odds of pulling a yellow piece of paper, expressed as a fraction?

3/7

300

If the Native Americans tribe went to the agencies, name one thing the US government give them.

Food or supplies.

300
During some parts of a cell's life, DNA coils itself up into an X-shaped structure.  What is this X-shaped thing called?

A chromosome.  

300

Give an example of somebody trying to get revenge in Hamlet.

Hamlet jr for Hamlet Sr.'s murder.

Laertes for Polonius' murder.

Fortinbras Jr. for Fortinbras Sr.'s murder.

400

How do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern die?

Hamlet jr. switches up the royal letter.  The new letter tells England to Kill Rosencrantz and Guildenstern instead of Hamlet.

400

If there are 3 yellow pieces of paper and 2 blue pieces of paper, what are the odds of pulling out a blue, expressed as a percent? (calculator allowed for this one)

40%

400

When they went to the agency, what did they want to teach them?

How to farm.

400

Chromosomes have spots which are in charge of different traits.  This sounds like something you would wear.  But it is spelled differently.  What are these called?

Genes.

400

What is the area of a square with a side length of 3 m?

9 m2

500

Fortinbras has a reason for his army to travel through Denmark at the end of the play.  What is the reason?

The army was passing through so they could attack another country.

500

If there are 5 white pieces of paper and 1 black piece of paper, what is the odds of pulling the white, expressed as a percent? (calculator allowed for this one.)

Sixteen point six percent with an infinitely repeating six.

500

If the Native Americans wanted to receive training, what would they need to do?

Cut their hair and change their clothes to look like the Europeans.

500

What is the difference between mitosis and meiosis?

Mitosis goes on in most of the body.  In it, the cell makes an exact copy.  Meiosis only occurs in reproductive cells.  (Sperm and egg cells)

500

Which character is in both the first and final scene of Hamlet

Horatio