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In a __________ Cassius tells the audience that Brutus’ noble nature can be used against him. Cassius then meets with the conspirators Casca and Cinna to discuss the plot to stop Caesar.
What is a soliloquy?
100
“Beware the Ides of March.” (Shakespeare, I.II.18a).
What is the Soothsayer's warning?
100
Cassius reminds Brutus of his reputation and his concern for the good of _______ rather than personal triumph.
What is Rome?
100
________ and ___________are annoyed with the people and tell them that they have forgotten how much they loved Pompey and point out that Caesar hasn’t brought back any wealth or ‘conquests’.
Who are Flavius and Marullus?
100
He wrote 37 of this type of work.
What are plays?
100
Shakespeare’s plays had the royal seal of approval. Both _________ and James VI of Scotland and I of England would often hire Shakespeare’s company to come and perform at the royal court.
Who is Queen Elizabeth I?
100
During this event, the crowd demand an explanation from the murderers. Brutus speaks first. He argues with logic and reason, saying that he loved Rome more than Caesar and asking the crowd if they would rather be free with Caesar dead or ‘slaves' with him alive. The crowd are on his side, saying 'Caesar’s better parts / Shall be crowned in Brutus.’
What was Caeasar's funeral?
100
Okol's daughter's name. In Italian, it translates to a "star."
Who is Stella?
100
In Hollywood, it's the major street 2 blocks North of Sunset Boulevard.
What is Hollywood Boulevard?
200
In Act 1, Scene 2, Cassius tells stories of Caesar's supposed weakness in order to pit Brutus against him. At one moment, Cassius describes a time in which he saved Caesar from drowning. He makes his point by bringing up the story of the epic hero, Aeneas.
What is an allusion?
200
"I will this night, In several hands, in at his windows throw, As if they came from several citizens, Writings all tending to the great opinion. That Rome holds of his name, wherein obscurely. Caesar’s ambition shall be glancèd at.” (Shakespeare, I.II.324-328).
What are letters to Brutus?
200
The conspirators congratulate themselves on their historic deed shouting, '_________ is dead!’ Brutus tells them to 'bathe' their hands in Caesar’s blood.
What is tyranny?
200
Caesar re-enters with his procession and tells Antony that ________ has a ‘lean and hungry look’.
Who is Cassius?
200
Shakespeare wrote 154 14-lined poems.
What are sonnets?
200
Plays in Shakespeare’s time were different to the ones we have today. There were no ____________ and audiences could be very rowdy.
What were the female actors?
200
Antony enters with Caesar’s body. He speaks with this appeal, reminding the crowd of Caesar’s qualities and deliberately repeating that Brutus is ‘an honourable man'. Antony shows them the wounds on Caesar’s body, where each knife stabbed it before revealing Caesar’s will in which he has left the people of Rome money and land.
What is pathos?
200
Okol's place of birth. Bielawa is a town in the southwestern part of this European country.
What is Poland?
200
This lubricant's name means "Water Displacement, 40th Forumla"
What is WD-40?
300
In Act 1, Scene 2, soothsayer calls out from the crowd and utters his famous warning to Caesar to "beware the ides of March." This is an explicit moment of foreshadowing and a setup for this literary device.
SOOTHSAYER:
Beware the ides of March.
CAESAR:
What man is that?
BRUTUS:
A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.
CAESAR:
Set him before me. Let me see his face.
CASSIUS:
Fellow, come from the throng.
Look upon Caesar.
CAESAR:
What sayest thou to me now? Speak once again.
SOOTHSAYER:
Beware the ides of March.
CAESAR:
He is a dreamer. Let us leave him. Pass
What is dramatic irony?
300
“He had a fever when he was in Spain/and when the fit was on him I did mark/How he did shake. ‘Tis true, this god did shake!”(Shakespeare, I.II.119-121)
What are Caesar's weaknesses? OR What is epilepsy?
300
Caesar arrives at this place, with the conspirators. Cassius worries that the plot will go wrong but Brutus reassures him. Caesar is shocked to see his friend Brutus among the murderers asking, ‘Et tu, Bruté??’ as he dies.
What is the Capitol?
300
______ is not convinced by Caesar’s refusal saying, ‘to my thinking, he would fain have had it.’
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Who is Casca?
300
Three of these categories influenced Shakespeare's plays.
What are Comedies, Tragedies, and Histories?
300
This place featured lots of exciting special effects, with trap doors, actors lifted on wires, smoke, fire and even cannons!
What is the Globe Theater?
300
Octavius, Lepidus and Antony, the three men will form the new alliance of Rome, meet in Antony’s house to discuss which conspirators are to die.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
What is a triumvirate?
300
Okol played this game in college with an oval ball that may be kicked, carried, and passed from hand to hand. Points are scored by grounding the ball behind the opponents' goal line (thereby scoring a try) or by kicking it between the two posts and over the crossbar of the opponents' goal.
What is Rugby?
300
If today is Jan. 14, 1952, this show is premiering on NBC.
What is The Today Show?
400
In Act 1, Scene 1, Favius rebukes a crowd of commoners for their celebration of Caesar's defeat of Pompey. He instructs them to head to the Tiber and weep until even the streams of the river reach the bank:
Go, go, good countrymen, and for this fault
Assemble all the poor men of your sort,
Draw them to Tiber banks, and weep your tears
Into the channel, till the lowest stream
Do kiss the most exalted shores of all.
What is a hyperbole?
400
“Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world. Like a colossus, and we petty men. Walk under his huge legs and peep about. To find ourselves dishonorable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates.” (Shakespeare, I.II.135-139).
What are Cassius' concerns about Caesar's rise to power?
400
Warns Caesar to stay at home and not go to the Capitol because she envisioned his murder.
What is Calphurnia's Dream?
400
is a small but important role in the play. He is Caesar’s nephew and chosen heir, meaning that he will rule Rome after Caesar dies. He is also an important friend to Antony and raises an army with him to fight Brutus and the conspirators. He, together with Antony and Lepidus, forms the next Triumvirate to rule Rome at the end of the play.
Who is Octavius?
400
Shakespeare's wife shares the name of a famous modern Hollywood actress.
Who is Anne Hathaway?
400
In order to scare off any potential thieves, he wrote the following epitaph as a deterrent:
‘Good friend for Jesus’ sake forbear,
To dig the dust enclosed here.
Blessed be the man that spares these stones,
And cursed be he that moves my bones.’
Who is William Shakrespeare?
400
When Brutus is left alone, he is visited: ‘Art thou some god, some angel, or some devil, / That mak’st my blood cold and my hair to stare?’
What is Caesar’s ghost?
400
Okol's favorite series brings to screens for the very first time the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth's history. This epic drama is set thousands of years and takes viewers back to an era in which great powers were forged, kingdoms rose to glory, and fell to ruin.
What is Lord of the Rings?
400
It is the title of Stephen King's novel about the creepy clown Pennywise
What is It?
500
In Act 2, Scene 1, as Brutus delivers his soliloquy and shares his plans to kill Caesar with the audience, he uses this literary device to describe his predicament:
"It is the bright day that brings forth the adder,
And that craves wary walking."
What is an idiom?
500
I have seen tempests when the scolding winds. Have rived the knotty oaks, and I have seen, Th'ambitious ocean swell, and rage, and foam, To be exalted with the threat'ning clouds: But never till tonight, never till now, Did I go through a tempest dropping fire. Either there is a civil strife in heaven (Shakespeare I.III 5-11)
What are Casca's Omens?
500
In this ACT & SCENE, Portia, Brutus' wife, comes in after the conspirators leave. She is worried that Brutus is not eating or sleeping and urges him to share his ‘cause of grief'. Brutus promises to tell her what is happening very soon.
What is Act 2, Scene 2?
500
This character features in another of Shakespeare’s plays, called Cleopatra. This play takes place years after Julius Caesar finishes and tells the story of his love for the Egyptian queen, Cleopatra, and their tragic end.
Who is Mark Anthony?
500
William was part of a theatre company called _________, who regularly performed at a place called ‘The Theatre’. But after a dispute with the landlord, they took the building apart, rebuilt it across the river and named it the Globe.
Who were the Lord Chamberlain’s Men?
500
Come 1585, the mysterious William Shakespeare disappeared from records for around seven years! Historians reflect on this part of the writer’s life.
What were the ‘the lost years‘?
500
The row gets heated and personal with Brutus challenging Cassius to kill him and saying ‘Strike as thou didst at Caesar’. Eventually they both calm down and remain friends and Brutus tells Cassius he is upset because_______ has killed herself.
Who is Portia?
500
This number has historically & eerily followed me throughout the course of my life; bringing positive and/or negative outcomes.
What is the number 13?
500
In 1452 Leonardo da Vinci was born near a small Tuscan hill town called this
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
What is Vinci?
600
In Act 1, Scene 2, as Cassius attempts to bring Brutus into his conspiracy against Caesar, he pays careful attention to Brutus's doubts and incorporates them into his argument. Using this rhetoric or appeal and laying the foundations of his case to Brutus's sense of honor, Cassius recruits Brutus to his cause.
What is logos?
600
Thus must I piece it out: “Shall Rome stand under one man’s awe?” What, Rome? My ancestors did from the streets of Rome. The Tarquin drive when he was called a king (Shakespeare, II.I.53-56).
What is Cassius' manipulation?
600
Cassius comes to see him with the rest of the conspirators and they decide to go with Caesar to the Capitol the next day and murder him there. Cassius says they should kill Antony too but Brutus says ‘Let’s be sacrificers, but not _________’.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY:
What are butchers?
600
These words, ‘Call it my fear / That keeps you in the house, and not your own.’ belonged to this character.
Who is Calphurnia?
600
Including Hamlet, Othello, Julius Caesar, King Lear, and Romeo and Juliet.
What are tragedies?
600
It’s likely that Shakespeare wore a gold hoop earring in his left ear – a creative, bohemian look in the Elizabethan & Jacobean eras. This style is evidenced in one of the most famous depictions of Shakespeare.
What is the Chandos portrait?
600
_________ dies as Antony and Octavius arrive. Antony calls this character ‘the noblest Roman of them all’, He says that this character will be given the honourable burial of a soldier.
Who is Brutus?
600
Okol's favorite novel is about a character named Dantès who takes revenge against the three men who caused him to be unjustly accused of treason and imprisoned for fourteen years. Dantès later carries out his revenge after developing a careful plan over many years.
What is the Count of Monte Cristo?
600
The Declaration of Independence & the Constitution were both signed in this Philadelphia hall
What is Independence Hall?