HISTORY
PEOPLE
PLACES
CHARACTERS
PLOT POINTS
100

He is a monster descended from Cain.

Who is Grendel?

100
He was eaten by worms for refusing to give God the glory.

Who was King Herod?

100

What is the mead-hall of Hrothgar?

What is Heorot?

100

He is the Crusading king who rewarded Cuthbert's courage with knighthood.

Who is Richard the Lionheart?

100

Bilbo's sword, which glows in the presence of goblins.

What is Sting?

200

He is the Pharisee who came to visit Jesus at night in John 3.

Who is Nicodemus?

200

He was the first to write a history of the early church, after the events in Acts of the Apostles.

Who is Eusebius?

200
Bilbo's home in the Shire, which would eventually be inherited by Frodo.

What is Bag-End?

200

He is the only one of the Fellowship to journey on to Mordor with Frodo.

Who is Samwise Gamgee?

200

They turn to stone when exposed to sunlight.

What are trolls?

300

It was the first of Jesus' public signs, or miracles.

What is turning water into wine?

300

He believed that old books are superior to new books.

Who is C. S. Lewis?

300

It is the beautiful, serene valley ruled over by Elrond.

What is Rivendell?

300

He is the leader of the elves who journey with Bilbo to confront the dragon.

Who is Thorin Oakensheild?

300

The place Edmund sends Freya to be educated.

What is a convent?

400

It was the year the city of Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans.

What is AD 70?

400

She was Augustine's devout mother.

Who was Monica?

400

The creepy forest in which Bilbo's party gets lost and captured by giant spiders.

What is Mirkwood?

400

He is not made invisible by the Ring.

Who is Tom Bombadil?

400

They attributed almost-human qualities to fruit.

Who are the Manicheans?

500

The Roman and British churches had to agree on the correct way to reckon this Christian holiday.

What is Easter?

500

She was the wife of Edwin, and the pope asked her to help bring about her husband's conversion.

Who is Ethelberga?

500

The birthplace of St. Augustine on the north coast of Africa.

What is Hippo?

500

It is the nickname given to Sam's father, Hamfast Gamgee.

What is "the Gaffer?"

500

An ordinary man who was miraculously given the ability to sing beautifully in Ecclesiastical History.

Who is Caedmon?