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Authors
Historical Background
Monarchs
Geography
Texts
100
The author of Never Let Me Go
Who is Kazuo Ishiguro?
100
The name of the historical time period when Shakespeare was writing
What is the Renaissance or Early Modern Period?
100
One of the monarchs who reigned during Shakespeare's life
Who is Elizabeth 1 or James 1?
100
The ocean adjacent to England
What is the Atlantic?
100
Language that Never Let Me Go was originally written in?
What is English?
200
Wrote Animal Farm and 1984
Who is George Orwell?
200
The name of the historical period in which Beowulf was composed?
What is the Medieval period?
200
The name of the monarch during the Victorian period.
Who is Victoria?
200
The nation unified with England by James I (think Macbeth)
What is Scotland?
200
Name a British text that was written before Macbeth
What is a huge, giant number of different options!
300
Wrote Frankenstein
Who is Mary Shelley?
300
The name of the historical period in which Jane Austen and Oscar Wilde were writing.
What is the Victorian Period?
300
Current monarch of England
Who is Elizabeth II?
300
Part of the United Kingdom (UK) that is not actually attached as a landmass
What is Ireland?
300
Name a play written by a British writer
What is so many options!
400
The name of a British poet.
Who is about a million different possible answers
400
The name of the language that Beowulf was originally composed in
What is Anglo-Saxon or Old English?
400
Name the century during which "Bloody Mary" reigned
What is the 1500s? Or the 16th century.
400
Country in the UK that is attached to England, directly to its east
What is Wales?
400
Name something written by Chaucer
What is The Canterbury Tales.... or many other options
500
The author of Beowulf
Who is ANONYMOUS: the text was derived from the oral tradition
500
The war that initially dissolved English soldier-poets' belief in the value of chivalry and heroism
What is WWI?
500
The monarch who transitioned religion in England from Catholicism to the Church of England (Protestant)
Who is Henry VIII?
500
The imperialized continent known to the British as the "Heart of Darkness"
What is Africa?
500
Name a book written in English by someone in an imperialized country
What is lots of options!