Everybody's Dying
Um, She's Just a Kid, Remember
The Really Famous Quotes
Sharp Dullness
The 9EN2 Experience
100

How does Romeo kill himself?

Poison

100

How old is Juliet?

Thirteen

100

Abraham asks a Montague servant, “Do you bite your” what “at us”?

Thumb

100

What's an oxymoron again?

An adjective/noun where the adjective contradicts the noun (e.g. "small giant")

100

Which part of the 1996 movie gets Buckley right in the feels?

When Juliet cries like a little girl

200

How many people die over the course of the play?

Six

200

Who is Juliet scheduled to marry the day after she takes the Friar’s potion?

Paris

200

What does “Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?” mean?

“Why are you Romeo?” (“Why did you have to be the one man I can’t love?”)

200

How many examples of oxymoron are in the following line?

“Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health”

Three

200

How do we now that Shakespeare is racist?

    

“Like a rich jewel/in an Ethiope’s ear”

300

Who dies first?

Mercutio
300

What does Romeo say is jealous of Juliet’s beauty?

"Th' inconstant moon"

300

Before dying, Mercutio says “A plague on both your” what?

"houses"

300

Finish the line line: “Good night, good night - parting is such…”

"sweet sorrow"

300

What was the name of the small boy whose feelings we hurt by critiquing his essay?

Jerry

400

What honour does Romeo give Paris after stabbing him to death?

Placing his body inside Juliet's crypt

400

Who calls Juliet a “curse” and tells her to “hang, beg, starve, die in the streets”?

Lord Capulet/her dad

400

The play’s first line is “In fair” where “where we lay our scene”?

Verona

400

Why did Shakespeare choose oxymoron as the main language technique in R & J?


It’s a metaphor for the conflicting desires throughout the play.

400

What is the best line Shakespeare ever wrote? (All six words, please.)

   

 “What, you egg! [He stabs him.]"

500

How does Romeo's mother die?

Heartbreak/grief

500

What two word term does Juliet use for Romeo’s knife just before stabbing herself with it?

"happy dagger"

500

Finish the line: “But soft! What light through yonder…”

"window breaks?"

500

After first learning Romeo killer her cousin, Juliet calls him a “dove-feathered” which bird?

"raven"

500

Who was our first ever Prima Ballerina?

Wil