Act 1
Act 2
Act 3
Name that Character!
Identify the Figurative Language!
Prove It!
"It's Geek to Me" Trivia
100
The reason commoners are on the streets at the beginning of the play.
What is... Caesar is parading home after defeating Pompey?
100
The letter Brutus finds contains this message from "anonymous" Roman citizens.
What is... "Speak, Strike, Redress"
Essentially: Deal with the tyrannical monarch problem before Caesar becomes king.
100
"Caesar shall go forth" to work, ignoring these warning(s).
At minimum, list TWO.
What is the Soothsayer's warning, the various omens during the night of March 14th, Calpurnia's dream of the bleeding statue, the animal without a heart sacrificed by the priests, and Artemidorus's letter.
100
Convinces Brutus to join the conspirators by sending "anonymous" letters calling for help against the tyrannical Caesar.
Who is Cassius?
100
And therefore think him as a serpent’s egg — which, hatched, would, as his kind, grow mischievous — and kill him in the shell. (II, i, 33-35)
What is a SIMILE?
Caesar before accepting the crown = An unborn serpent, both vulnerable.
100
The evidence/logic Brutus uses to explain why Caesar must die.
What is the Ladder metaphor or the snake egg simile?
100
This is Magneto's mutant power; a bit of a pun if you ask me.
What is... is magnetism?
200
Marullus and Flavius confront the Roman commoners and call them hypocrites because of this.
What is... they support Caesar/betrayed Pompey?
200
Brutus protests when Cassius urges the conspirators to murder Antony, saying this.
What is... the conspirators are not "butchers" and are only going to tastefully kill Caesar?
200
Immediately following the death of Caesar, the conspirators, at Brutus' command, cover themselves with this.
What is Caesar's blood?
200
"Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Lend me your ears!" This simple orator betrays the conspirator's wishes by turning the crowd of Romans against them following Caesar's death. He has not words, but he does have Caesar's "mouths".
Who is Antony?
200
"A trade, sir, that I hope, I may use with a safe conscience; which is, indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles."
What is a Pun?
Sole = Soul?
200
Name ONE piece of evidence/logic Antony uses to prove that Caesar was not ambitious.
What is... Caesar cried for the poor, Caesar brought slaves and money from war, Caesar denied the crown, Caesar's will made the people his heir?
200
Deku from My Hero Academia gets his quirk "One For All" after eating the hair (a bit of literal synecdoche) of this Superman-inspired character.
Clue: Mr. Fitz has this Funko Pop in his room!
Who is All-Might?
300
The general gist of Cassius' argument for why Caesar cannot be king?
What is... Caesar is just like Brutus and Cassius: a normal Roman man because he almost drowned/got sick in Spain?
300
This reason is why Brutus has not been able to sleep recently.
What is... indecision about whether to join with the conspirators to Julius Caesar?
300
Name one of the two demands Brutus gives Antony before his speech at the forum.
What is... Antony must not blame the conspirators for Caesar's death AND Antony must only praise Caesar.
300
Fill in the blank:
Et tu, _____________? Then, fall Caesar.
Who is Brute (Brutus)?
300
My ancestors did from the streets of Rome the Tarquin drive, when he was call’d a king. (II, i, 56-57)
What is an ALLUSION?
Brutus is alluding to his ancestor, Lucius Marcus Brutus who defeated King Tarquin, and delivered Rome out of rule by monarchy.
300
The evidence/logic Decius uses to convince Caesar that Calpurnia's dream is misinterpreted.
What is... the statue bleeding will give life to Roman?
300
To say this Infinity Stone gave Captain Marvel her powers would not be hyperbole.
What is the Space Stone, also called the Tesseract?
400
Antony offers Caesar the crown this many times.
What is thrice?
400
The nightmare Calpurnia sees regarding Caesar's fate.
What is... his statue covered with spouts pouring out red blood into a fountain that Roman people bathe in.
400
In Brutus' speech, he lists this as the reasoning for the murder of Caesar.
What is Caesar's ambition?
400
Name ONE of the two supporters of Pompey who are "silenced" for disrobing Caesar's statues. Got into a confrontation with a carpenter and cobbler in Act 1, Scene 1.
Who are Flavius OR Marullus?
400
But ‘tis a common proof, that lowliness is young ambition’s ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the upmost round he then unto the ladder turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees by which he did ascend. (II, i, 22-28)
What is a METAPHOR?
The "ladder" of success.
400
The evidence/logic Caesar uses to explain why he wishes Cassius was "fatter."
What is... he is too lean and therefore too hungry for power?
400
This recent Sydney Sweeney rom-com is an adaption of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
What is Anyone but You?
500
Flavius and Marullus were killed for this reason.
What is... vandalizing Caesar's statues in Rome?
500
Decius convinces Caesar to go to the Capitol by making these point(s).
What is...
1. Caesar is to be crowned king
2. Calpurnia's dream was a good omen
3. Caesar will be laughed at for staying home because of his wife
500
This is Antony's goal in persuading the Roman people to turn against the conspirators.
What is anarchy/chaos?
500
"It was Greek to me." This oafish conspirator gets the first stab when in during Caesar's assassination.
Who is Casca?
500
“Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius, to cut the head off and then hack the limbs, like wrath in death and envy afterwards; for Antony is but a limb of Caesar. Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius.” (II, i, 174-179)
What is a metaphor?
Hacking the limbs, butchering = Killing more than just Caesar, acting on noble motivations
500
The evidence/logic used by Cassius to explain why Caesar should not be king
What is... Caesar is weak and Brutus is just as noble?
500
There is nothing more tragic than this salesman in Avatar: The Last Airbender who routinely loses carts of this vegetable due to the hijinks of the main characters.
What are cabbages? 
600
How is the night of March 14th ominous?
What is... a lion prowls the street, a man goes by on fire, meteors fall from the sky, a group of lady ghosts says "boo", etc.
600
What does the Soothsayer tell Brutus' wife Portia as he walks to the Capitol?
What is... the Soothsayer plans to warn Caesar one more time about the Ides of March.
600
The Roman commoners mistake this person for a conspirator, but kill him anyways for his "bad verses".
Who is Cinna the Poet?
600
Caesar shall go forth to work... but not before he hears an earful from his wife.
Who is Calpurnia?
600
“No Caesar hath not it, but you and I, and honest Casca, we have the falling sickness.” (I, ii, 271-272)
What is a PUN?
Falling sickness = Epilepsy, or in this case falling from societal grace/favor.
600
The evidence/logic used by Brutus to prove that Caesar needed to die because he was ambitious.
What is... Brutus only mentions that Rome will fall into slavery if Caesar survived?
600
Caesar (1992) was a video game where you took the role of a Roman governor building and planning ancient cities, based off of this Will Wright city planning simulation game.
What is Sim City?