Macbeth
Beowulf Lines 59-300
Beowulf Lines 399-700
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Background Knowledge Challenge
100

The people who meet Macbeth and Banquo on the heath after the battle.

Who are the three witches?

100

The person who builds Heorot (The Great Mead Hall).

Who is Hrothgar son of Halfdane?

100

The choice Beowulf makes about weapons before facing Grendel.

What is that he will fight without a sword or shield, relying on his natural strength?

100

The person who blesses Beowulf and gives him a drink. 

Who is Wealtheow, queen and wife of Hrothgar?

100

The theater that Macbeth would have been performed in.

What is the Globe Theater?

200

The title Macbeth receives after the King's servant is condemned for treason.

What is Thane of Cawdor?

200

The creature who attacks Heorot because of the hall's joyful noise.

Who is Grendel?

200

The story that Unferth brings up to challenge Beowulf's reputation. 

 What is the swimming contest between Beowulf and Breca?

200

The thing Beowulf promises Hrothgar will inherit if he loses the fight with Grendel.

What is his hand-woven chainmail shirt that he had inherited?

200

The gods the real Beowulf most likely have believed in.

Who are the Norse Gods (Woden/Odin, Thor, Loki, and Authhumla the Giant Space Cow)?

300

What the witches predict about Banquo’s descendants.

What is that they will be kings, though Banquo himself will not be king?

300

The person that Grendel is descended from.

Who is Cain, the killer of his brother able and most accursed in hell?

300

The way that Beowulf survived the swimming contest with Brecca.

What is fighting and killing several sea montsers with his sword while Brecca swam on?

300

The reason Beowulf feels justified in travelling to fight Grendel.

What is the village Elders agreed that he should go to help Hrothgar?

300

What is the theater supersition revolving around the play Macbeth?

What is speaking the word "Macbeth" inside a theater—other than during an actual rehearsal or performance of the play— brings severe bad luck, injury, or disaster to the production?

400

What Lady Macbeth fears might stop Macbeth from fulfilling the prophecy and becoming king.

What is the milk of human kindness?

400
The reason Grendel hates the throne and the music in the mead hall.

What is God's appointment of the king and the music celebrating creation and divine order while Grendel represents the demonic and destruction.

400

Beowulf's retort to Unferth bringing up his challenge of Beowulf's reputation.

What is Unferth killing his own relatives and never fighting in a battle?

400
The act that won the battle against Macdonwald and won Macbeth fame and titles.

What is cutting Macdonwald in half from the belly button to his jaw? "Unseamed him from the nave to the chaps."

400

The series of books that is heavily inspired by both Beowulf and Macbeth.

What is the Lord of the Rings Trilogy?

500

Macbeth's response to Duncan naming Malcolm Prince of Cumberland and what he asks the stars to do.

What is that Malcolm is an obstacle to Macbeth’s rise, and Macbeth asks the stars to hide their light so his dark intentions remain unseen? "Stars hide your fires! Let not light see my dark and deep desires."

500

The action that Beowulf took when he landed on shore.

What is unlocking his word horde and promising to take care of Grendel for Hrothgar?
500

Beowulf's answer for who will decide the winner of hios fight with Grendel.

What is God and fate will decide if Beowulf is righteous and awesome enough to win?

500

Pulling a baby from a breast and smashing its head on the concrete until the brains leak out.

What is the thing Lady Macbeth would do if her children were as cowardly as Macbeth?

500

The king who Shakespeare wrote the play for to appease him and justify his rule of Scotland.

Who was James I of England or James VI of Scotland (same guy)?