Romeo and Juliet Jeopardy

Plot Characters Quote IDs Literary Terms Fill-in-the- Blank Jeopardy

100 A: Rosaline, the girl he is in love with, has rejected him. Q: At the beginning of the play, why is Romeo so sad?

100 A: Romeo attends a party at the Capulets’ house. Q: How do Romeo and Juliet meet?

200 A: Marry Paris Q: What does the Nurse say Juliet should do after finding out that Romeo has been exiled?

200 A: He is poor, and needs the money. Q: Why does the apothecary agree to sell illegal poison to Romeo?

300 A: Mantua Q: To what city does Romeo flee after being exiled?

300 Q: Who is the fairy that Mercutio says visits Romeo in dreams? A: Queen Mab

400 Q: Whom does Mercutio curse as he lies dying after the duel with Tybalt? A: The Capulets and the Montagues (a plague o’ both your houses)

400 A: The nightingale (bird of the night) and the lark (bird of the morning) Q: The morning after their wedding, what two birds do Romeo and Juliet talk about, and what do they symbolize?

100 A: Friar Lawrence Q: Who marries Romeo and Juliet?

100 A: Tybalt Q: This character becomes angry when he sees Romeo and his friends at the Capulet party

200 A: Benvolio Q: Which character convinces Romeo to go to the Capulet party?

200 A: Friar John Q: Who does Friar Lawrence send to tell Romeo about the plot to fake Juliet’s death?

300 A: Balthasar Q: Romeo’s servant, who brings Romeo the news of Juliet’s death

300 A: Sampson and Gregory; Capulets Q: These two servants open Act I, Scene 1 of the play. What are their names and which house do they belong to?

400 A: Lord Montague wants to raise a statue of Juliet; Lord Capulet offers to raise one of Romeo. Q: Who suggests that a gold statue of Juliet be raised in Verona? A statue of Romeo?

400 A: Mercutio, Tybalt, Paris, Romeo, Juliet, Lady Montague Q: Name the 6 characters who die in this play. (100 bonus pts if you can name them in order.)

100 A: Juliet Identify the speaker. Q: What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet

100 A: Romeo Identify the speaker. Q: But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

200 A: Prince Escalus Identify the speaker. Q: For never was a story of more woe, Than this of Juliet and her Romeo

200 A: Romeo Identify the speaker. Q: If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this; My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

300 A: Romeo Identify the speaker. Q: Ah, dear Juliet, Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe That unsubstantial Death is amorous

300 A: Mercutio Identify the speaker. Q: No, ‘tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door; but ‘tis enough, ‘twill serve. Ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o’ both your houses!

400 A: Chorus Identify the speaker. Q: From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife

400 A: Friar Lawrence Identify the speaker. Q: These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph, die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss, consume

100 A: Metaphor Q: It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. What literary device is this?

100 A: Simile Q: Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books What literary device is this?

200 A: Oxymoron Q: O brawling love! O loving hate! Of anything, of nothing first create! What literary device is this?

200 A: Sonnet Q: A 14-line poem with rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG is called a what?

300 A: “O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright”; “What light through yonder window breaks”; “The clock struck nine when I did send the nurse” “It is the east and Juliet is the sun” “What’s in a name?” Q: Name one soliloquy in Romeo and Juliet.

300 A: The Prologue; the “holy palmers” scene at the Capulet party, when Romeo and Juliet first meet. Q: Name one sonnet in Romeo and Juliet.

400 A: Paris’s death, the apothecary, Friar John’s quarantine, the investigation of the deaths, etc. Q: Name two scenes from the original play that were not included in the Zeffirelli film.

400 A: An aside is a comment made to the audience (Romeo: “Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?”); a soliloquy is a speech delivered alone on stage (Juliet’s speech before taking the potion) Q: What is the difference between an aside and a soliloquy? Give one example of each from the play.

100 A: Hate Q: My only love sprung from my only ______!

100 A: Wherefore Q: O Romeo, Romeo! __________ art thou Romeo?

200 A: Two Q: The continuance of their parents’ rage, which, but their children’s end, naught could remove, is now the ______ hours’ traffic of our stage

200 A: Glove Q: See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O that I were a _______ upon that hand, that I might touch that cheek

300 A: Stars Q: I defy you, ________.

300 A: Morrow Q: Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be ________.

400 A: Stars; Night Q: Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-browed night, give me my Romeo. And, when I shall die, take him and cut him out in little ________, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with _________.

400 A: Jewel; Earth Q: O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich ______ in an Ethiop’s ear Beauty too rich for use, for _______ too dear.