Poems
A Christmas Carol
An Inspector Calls
Macbeth
100

Finish the line: 

Into the valley of (Blank)

Rode the Six hundred

Death

100

Full name of the main character

Ebenezeer Scrooge

100
How is An Inspector supposed to be experienced?

As a play

100

Who is the creator of Macbeth?

William Shakespeare

200

Name every poem associated with war

Remains, Charge of the Light Brigade, Bayonet Charge, Poppies, War Photographer, Kamikaze, Exposure

200

Name each Ghost in ACC

Marley's ghost

Ghost of Christmas past, present and Yet to come

200

How many John and Eva Smiths are there?

millions and millions and millions

200

Finish these quotes

1. "Look like the innocent flower, but be the __________ under’t."

2. "Is this a __________ which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?"

3. "O, full of __________ is my mind, dear wife!"

4. "Out, damned __________! Out, I say!"

5. "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an __________..."

  • serpent

  • dagger

  • scorpions

  • spot

  • idiot


300

Unscramble these poem names: 

AMISNSER 

ZOADINMYAS 

AKIMAZE 

GACREH FO ETH TGILH ADEGRIB 

GNEIKCHC TUO EM YRTOSIH

Remains

Ozymandias

Kamikaze

Charge of the Light Brigade

Checking out me history

300

Finish these quotes:

"Solitary as an __________." 

"If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the __________ population." 

"A squeezed, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old __________!" 

"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the __________."

Oyster

Surplus

Sinner

Year

300

Gives the full names of every character who Eva Smith had slept with?

Eric Birling

Gerald Croft

300

What ghost shows up at Macbeth's victory feast?

Banquo

400

Identify these really badly explained poems

War is lowkey boring

I slimed out my wife

I glazed myself by making a statue

ME BOMBOKLART

Nearly blew myself up on some 9/11 type beat

Exposure

My Last Duchess

Ozymandias

Checking Out Me History

Kamikaze

400

What was the name of Scooge's baddie that he fumbled?

Belle

400

Which economic/social systems does the play advocate for and against?

Socialism

Capitalism

400

Name 5 key themes in Macbeth. (most wins)


1. Ambition

2. The Supernatural

3. Guilt and Madness

4. Lady Macbeth & Gender Roles

5. Kingship and Tyranny

6. Loyalty and Betrayal

7. Appearance vs. Reality

8. Divine Right of Kings

500

Name the Year in which these poems were made (get within 15 years)

London

Ozymandias

My Last Duchess

Exposure 

Kamikaze

  • London (William Blake)

    • Target Year: 1794

    • Acceptable Range: 1779 – 1809

  • Ozymandias (Percy Bysshe Shelley)

    • Target Year: 1818

    • Acceptable Range: 1803 – 1833

  • My Last Duchess (Robert Browning)

    • Target Year: 1842

    • Acceptable Range: 1827 – 1857

  • Exposure (Wilfred Owen)

    • Target Year: 1920 (Written 1918)

    • Acceptable Range: 1905 – 1935

  • Kamikaze (Beatrice Garland)

    • Target Year: 2013

    • Acceptable Range: 1998 – 2028

500

Name 5 items that made up the throne of the Ghost of Christmas present

  • Meats & Poultry: Turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn (pig's head meat), great joints of meat, sucking-pigs, and long wreaths of sausages.

  • Seafood: Barrels of oysters.

  • Sweets & Desserts: Mince-pies, plum-puddings, and immense Twelfth-cakes.

  • Fruits & Nuts: Red-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, and luscious pears.

  • Drinks: Seething (steaming) bowls of punch.

500

What does Gerald Croft find out when calling the infirmary in Act 3?

No girl called Eva Smith had been brought in or died that night

500

Why is MacDuff able to kill MacBeth? Bonus points for a quote

He was born via c-section

"None of woman born shall harm Macbeth "

MacDuff was "untimely ripped"