Beowulf Jeopardy

Battle with Grendel

100

What causes Grendel to enter Herot in the beginning

What is he was irritated with the music and loud men

200

How Beowulf kills Grendel

What is he rips his arm off with his bare hands

300

Grendel casts a spell on...

What is the men's weapons

400

Beowulf keep Grendel's arm after killing him to

What is to keep is as a trophy

500

Beowulf shows these characteristics in his fight with Grendel

What is bravery / fairness / honor

Battle with Grendel's Mother

100

Where the Battle with Grendel's Mother took place

What is underwater

200

Beowulf uses this to kill Grendel's Mother

What is the Giant's Sword

300

Beowulf takes this with them from Grendel's Mother's Lair

What is Grendel's head

400

Grendel's mother nearly kills Beowulf with this

What is a dagger?

500

Grendel's mother kills this person during her attack

Who is Hrothgar's best friend?

Battle with the Dragon

100

Beowulf has been king for this long before the dragon attacks

What is 50 years?

200

Comes to Beowulf's rescue

Who is Wiglaf?

300

What does Beowulf use in his fight with the dragon?

What is a sword, shield, dagger, and armor

400

What happens to the dragon's treasure?

What is it is buried in the monument/tower they built for beowulf

500

Beowulf asks for this specific structure to be built for him when he dies.

What is a lighthouse?

Terms

100

A long narrative peom

What is an epic

200

repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

alliteration

300

A rhythmic break in the middle of lines

What is caesura

400

two-word poetic renamings of people, places, and things

What is a kenning

500

Shadow of Death is an example of

What is a kenning?

People, places & things

100

The Danish king

Who is Hrothgar?

200

The mead hall Grendel attacks nightly

What is Herot

300

Grendel's ancestor

Who is Cain?

400

Gave Hrunting to Beowulf?

Who is Unferth

500

King of the Geats

Who is Higlac?