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Test your knowledge of Old English literature, Anglo-Saxon history, and literary devices with this Jeopardy game. Learn about vernacular language, caesura, wyrd, Beowulf, hyperbole, epithet, kenning, and more!
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Jeopardy Friends & Enemies Old English Literary Devices Anglo-Saxon History Pot Pourri Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Final Jeopardy
$100 Question from H1 What is the language of the common people?
$100 Answer from H1 vernacular
$200 Question from H1 A break in a line is called a…?
$200 Answer from H1 Caesura
$300 Question from H1 What is the Old English word for “fate”?
$300 Answer from H1 Wyrd
$400 Question from H1 Beowulf was first written in Old English in approximately what year?
$400 Answer from H1 700 AD
$500 Question from H1 Who were two possible authors of Beowulf?
$500 Answer from H1 Bede or Caedmon
$100 Question from H2 He was “greater and stronger Than any man, anywhere in the world” is an example of a…
$100 Answer from H2 hyperbole
$200 Question from H2 “Higlac’s follower” is an example of a …
$200 Answer from H2 Epithet
$300 Question from H2 “The iron [sword] sang its fierce song” is an example of….
$300 Answer from H2 Personification
$400 Question from H2 “That sin-stained demon” is an example of….
$400 Answer from H2 Kenning
$500 Question from H2 Black clouds and the groves of trees growing out of there are all covered with frozen spray and wind down snakelike roots… is an example of …
$500 Answer from H2 Imagery
$100 Question from H3 He is king of the Danes
$100 Answer from H3 Hrothgar
$200 Question from H3 He is the only Geat warrior not to abandon Beowulf.
$200 Answer from H3 Wiglaf
$300 Question from H3 He is Hrothgar’s best friend and is killed by Grendel’s mother.
$300 Answer from H3 Esher
$400 Question from H3 Who is Beowulf’s father?
$400 Answer from H3 Edgetho
$500 Question from H3 Who is Healfdane’s son?
$500 Answer from H3 Hrothgar
$100 Question from H4 Who were the original inhabitants of England?
$100 Answer from H4 Celtic people – Gaels and Britons
$200 Question from H4 Who were among the first invaders of England?
$200 Answer from H4 Angles, Saxons, and Jutes
$300 Question from H4 When did the Anglo-Saxon invasion begin? (About what century?)
$300 Answer from H4 5th Century
$400 Question from H4 Who were the invaders that came in the 8th century?
$400 Answer from H4 Danish people known as Vikings
$500 Question from H4 In 1066 who finally drove all the invaders out of England for good?
$500 Answer from H4 William the Conqueror
$100 Question from H5 Name two things that unified Anglo-Saxon England.
$100 Answer from H5 Christianity and a common language
$200 Question from H5 Beowulf means…
$200 Answer from H5 Bear or Bee wolf
$300 Question from H5 Because it is bloody, violent and deals with the supernatural, Beowulf is considered to be on of the first ……
$300 Answer from H5 Horror stories
$400 Question from H5 Which of the following is not a trait of the warrior culture? 1. Belief in privacy 2. Death in battle equaled glory 3. No excessive mourning
$400 Answer from H5 1. Belief in privacy
$500 Question from H5 Which of the following is not a trait Of an epic poem? 1. Has a vast setting 2. Has no historical or factual basis 3. Contains super- natural beings or events
