High School English Jeopardy!

Author Names

100

This author of To Kill A Mockingbird (her first book) didn't write another book until 55 years later.

Harper Lee

200

This author was banned in the USA when he wrote "the great American novel": Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Mark Twain

300

This author's main squeeze's name was Virginia, but he changed it to 'Lenore' in his most popular work.

Edgar Allan Poe

400

This author finally succeeded in her lifelong goal with the help of a kitchen appliance.

Sylvia Plath

500

This author wasn't an Anglo-Saxon, but everyone still called him "The Bard"

Shakespeare

Characters

100

This character was raised by his Aunt Polly and had a big imagination...

Tom Sawyer

200

This character had a love of colors and costumes.  His parties were to die for...

Prospero

300

This character was the magical adoptive parent of King Arthur.  

Merlin

400

This character was the last living crew member of The Pequod.

Ishmael

500

This character made a deal with "the black woodsman" to get his hands on some buried treasure.  It didn't work out well...

Tom Walker

The Odyssey

100

This blind poet is credited for writing both The Odyssey and The Illiad.

Homer

200

On her island, Odysseus's men were turned into pigs!

Circe

300

This sea god had a giant, one-eyed monster for a son.

Poseidon 

400

This messenger god had a fancy pair of winged shoes.

Hermes

500

The blossoms of this plant caused Odysseus's men to forget all their troubles...and their purpose in life.

Lotus

Shakespeare

100

Shakespeare was born in this city in England, which is also the name of Justin Bieber's hometown in Canada.

Stratford-upon-Avon

200

This theater was built by Shakespeare and his acting troupe.

The Globe

300

This church official served as a go-between in Romeo and Juliet.  Too bad his messages showed up late.

Friar Lawrence

400

This type of poetry was favored by Shakespeare and usually included 14 lines.

Sonnet

500

This Shakespearean character had a lot of trouble with witches.  "Double, Double, Toil and Trouble!"

MacBeth

GRAMMAR TIME!

100

The words 'before', 'about', and 'except' are all this type of word...

Prepositions

200

These types of words connect other words or phrases together...so long as they are the same type of words or phrases.

Conjunctions

300

This type of phrase begins with the word "to" followed by a verb.

"To be or not to be" would be two of these types of phrases.

Infinitive

400

This punctuation mark takes the place of both a comma and a conjunction to connect two sentences together.

Semicolon

500

What is the VERB in this sentence?

Two dogs, three cats, and four chickens were under the porch during the thunderstorm.

were (linking verb)