Jeopardy Family Elise Wimmer Family (continued) Shocker! Works Childhood 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 Family Who was Rudyard Kipling’s Father?

$100 Answer from Family John Kipling

$200 Question from Family Who was Rudyard’s sister?

$200 Answer from Family Alice Kipling

$300 Question from Family What connection did Ruyard’s father have with his writing?

$300 Answer from Family He was his sons illistrator.

$400 Question from Family Where did the family originally come from?

$400 Answer from Family Enlgand

$500 Question from Family Was he raised by his parents throughout his entire childhood?

$500 Answer from Family No, he stayed with a foster parent in parts of his childhood so that he could go to school in England.

$100 Question from Family2 Who was his wife?

$100 Answer from Family2 Caroline Balestier

$200 Question from Family2 How many children did they have?

$200 Answer from Family2 Three

$300 Question from Family2 What were his children’s names and when were they born?

$300 Answer from Family2 1893- Had their first child Josephine 1896- Second child Elsie is born 1897- Third child John is born

$400 Question from Family2 Did any of his children outlive him?

$400 Answer from Family2 His second child Elsie was the only child that outlived him.

$500 Question from Family2 How did his other two children die?

$500 Answer from Family2 Josephine died of pneumonia at age six. John died in the trenched of the first world war. His body was never found.

$100 Question from Works What was the first thing Rudyard had published?

$100 Answer from Works His schoolboy stories of Stalky & Co

$200 Question from Works Did his life experiences have an effect on his writing?

$200 Answer from Works Definitely! He wrote several of his stories for his own children and his abuse as a child had some affect as well.

$300 Question from Works About how many books did Rudyard Kipling publish?

$300 Answer from Works Sixty-Nine

$400 Question from Works What book is he most famous for?

$400 Answer from Works The Jungle Book

$500 Question from Works What award did he receive in 1907?

$500 Answer from Works He won the Nobel Prize for Literature

$100 Question from Childhood Where did he go to school?

$100 Answer from Childhood Went to school in Southsea, England

$200 Question from Childhood What were his interests as a boy?

$200 Answer from Childhood He was very interested in books and stories

$300 Question from Childhood Was he social excepted in school?

$300 Answer from Childhood No, he didn’t get along very well with any of his school mates

$400 Question from Childhood How was he able to stay in England, when his parents were working in India?

$400 Answer from Childhood He and his sister stayed with a foster family. Mrs. Holloway, his foster mother, abused him.

$500 Question from Childhood How long was it until he was saved from his foster family?

$500 Answer from Childhood It wasn’t until he was twelve that they finally took his away from the Holloways.

$100 Question from Shocker! What was Rudyard named after?

$100 Answer from Shocker! Rudyard Lake, the place his parents met to court each other.

$200 Question from Shocker! What was extraordinary about his daughters death/ illness?

$200 Answer from Shocker! He had pneumonia at the same time as his daughter but he recovered.

$300 Question from Shocker! What offer was made to him that he turned down?

$300 Answer from Shocker! He was offered a knighthood and he post of British poet laureate.

$400 Question from Shocker! What was a humorous even right before his death?

$400 Answer from Shocker! His death had been incorrectly announced in a magazine, to which he responded: "I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers."

$500 Question from Shocker! Why did a lot of people think he was a Nazi?

$500 Answer from Shocker! Because on the cover of many of his books was a Swastika, but this was an Indian symbol meaning luck. Note- the arms of a Nazi symbol face right, the one on his books faced left.

Final Jeopardy What did Rudyard Kipling die from?

Final Jeopardy Answer Hemorrhaging in the Brain