1984: Context & Trivia
1984: How well do you know the novel?
The Truman Show: Context & Trivia
The Truman Show: How well do you know the film?
Misc.
English Faculty Lore
Have you been paying attention?
About the class
100
What is George Orwell's real name?
Eric Arthur Blair (I will accept Eric Blair)
100
WAR IS __________
FREEDOM IS __________
IGNORANCE IS __________
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
100
Name another film Peter Weir has directed.
- Homesdale (1971)
- The Cars That Ate Paris (1974)
- Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
- The Last Wave (1977)
- The Plumber (1979)
- Gallipoli (1981)
- The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
- Witness (1985)
- The Mosquito Coast (1986)
- Dead Poets Society (1989)
- Green Card (1990)
- Fearless (1993)
- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
- The Way Back (2010)
100
"In case I don't see ya..."
"In case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening and goodnight."
100
Name this shot type:
Iris shot
100
Which two English teachers are you most likely to see together at a bar on a non-school night?
Mrs Maher & Miss Kummeling
100
Name this surveillance structure.
Panopticon
100
Which houses are the least and most represented in the class?
Least - Watagan (1)
Most - Barrington (10)
200
What war did Orwell fight in?
Spanish Civil War
200
Name the three superstates in Orwell's dystopian world.
Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia.
200
What nationality is Peter Weir?
Australian
200
What excuse does Meryl give when Truman realises the inside of a building nearby his work is fake?
Elevator disaster
200
Explain the difference between diegetic and non-diegetic.
Diegetic = Exists in the universe of the film
Non-diegetic = Exists outside of the universe of the film and is only observed by the audience
200
Who in the English faculty is a twitcher?
(twitcher = avid birdwatcher)
Mrs Laney
200
The first thing that we read together as a class was a discursive essay titled Reading to Write. Who wrote it?
Stephen King
200
How many people in the class have a surname that does not start with A, B, C or D?
4
Max, Taylor, Gemma and Andrew
300
What didn't happen in 1984 (the year, not the novel)?
a) The Berlin Wall fell, opening the border between East and West Germany and symbolizing the collapse of the Iron Curtain.
b) The Space Shuttle, Discovery, had its maiden voyage.
c) Apple Computer Inc. unveiled the Macintosh personal computer. Computers sold for $1,995, and almost 250,000 were sold.
d) Indian Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, was assassinated by two bodyguards.
a) The Berlin Wall fell, opening the border between East and West Germany and symbolizing the collapse of the Iron Curtain.
This happened in 1989.
300
Finish the opening line: It was a bright cold day in April...
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
300
The Truman Show is metacinematic. What does this mean?
Movie within a movie (or, in this case, TV show within a movie).
Metacinema refers to films that allude to themselves as films, to other films, or to cinematic conventions. It is a self-referential act. When cinematographic elements become noticeable, when characters break the fourth wall to address the film audiences, metacinema occurs.
300
What is the name of the "character" that Sylvia plays in the diegetic "The Truman Show"?
Lauren Garland
300
Which of these is not a dystopian novel?
a) Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
b) The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
c) Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
d) The Road by Cormac McCarthy
c) Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
300
Which two English staff members went to the same high school?
Miss Kummeling & Mr Jolly
300
Name the two other novel options that I gave you for our comparative study this term.
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
&
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
300
What letter is the most popular first initial in the class? How many students' names begin with this letter?
E
4 students: Emma, Evie, Eliza and Eustie
400
Orwell died one year after the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four. What caused his death?
Tuberculosis
400
Who is the "author" of the heretical treatise about the history of the Party, The Theory of Oligarchical Collectivism?
Emmanuel Goldstein
400
How old was Miss Kummeling when The Truman Show was released on 5th June, 1998?
3
400
Who is sitting in the seat in front of Truman on the bus?
a) Two nuns
b) A man in a military uniform
c) A young girl and her mother
d) An elderly man
b) A man in a military uniform
400
Define hamartia.
a fatal flaw or error in judgment that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero
400
Which English teacher has had such a storied life that the rest of the faculty have an inside joke about "collecting" all of the past [NAME]s as collectable troll dolls?
Mr Munro
400
The second page in this term's OneNote section is titled Complementary Reading / Viewing. This, as the name would suggest, contains reading/viewing recommendations to further explore the concerns/themes from our study this term. In total, 12 texts are listed. Name 3 of them.
400
Whose dad taught Miss Kummeling when she was in Year 11?
Harriet's
500
What novel served as the blueprint for the dystopian worlds created by Aldous Huxley and George Orwell in Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four respectively?
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
500
What do these symbols represent?
Winston's diary
2 + 2 = 4 / 2 + 2 = 5
The glass paperweight
Rats/Room 101
Miss Kummeling will judge.
500
Name the postmodern concept that we have discussed that is associated with Jean Baudrillard.
Hyperreality
500
What is the name of the lawn mower that Meryl instructs Truman to buy?
500
Who wrote The Crucible?
Arthur Miller
500
How old was Miss Kummeling when she taught her first lesson at HVGS?
21
500
Who is Tessie Hutchinson?
In Shirley Jackson's short story, The Lottery, Tessie Jackson is the woman selected by the lottery to be sacrificed, she is stoned to death by the villagers at the very end of the story.
500
How many students in the room have a sibling who has also been taught by Miss Kummeling?
7 (Jood, Henry, Eliza, Evie, Scarlett, Aarna and Max)
600
The novel was almost not called Nineteen Eighty-Four. What other title did Orwell consider?
The Last Man in Europe
600
What is the name of O'Brien's servant and what does he bring O'Brien during his meeting with Winston and Julia?
His name is Martin and he brings a decanter and glasses.
600
The film draws heavily on philosophical questions about reality. Name a philosopher and how their ideas relate to film.
Answers may include:
- René Descartes asked how we can know whether our perceptions of reality are genuine.
- Plato's Allegory of the Cave explores people mistaking illusions for reality.
600
What is the name given to the lunar production studio?
Omni-cam Ecosphere
600
What is the name of a typographic symbol used in literature to denote a minor break or shift in a text, such as a change in scenes, a jump in time, or a transition to a different character's point of view.
dinkus
600
Who has two dogs named Daisy and Blossom?
Mr Jolly
600
What two texts will our Year 12 comparative study consist of?
The poetry of William Blake
&
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (novel) by Olga Tokarczuk
600
There are 19 students in our class. Who is our middle child?
Chloe