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Jeopardy Anglo-Saxons Ideals BeowulfGrendelVocabularyHistory Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy
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$100 Anglo-Saxon Ideals This Anglo-Saxon ideal might explain why King Hrothgar became overcome with bitterness after the deaths of his soldiers
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$100 Anglo-Saxon Ideals Revenge
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$200 Anglo-Saxon Ideals This ideal best explains why Beowulf tore of Grendel’s arm with his bare hands
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$200 Anglo-Saxon Ideals Physical strength
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$300 Anglo-Saxon Ideals This ideal is prevalent throughout the poem, but especially when Beowulf first goes to Herot and meets King Hrothgar.
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$300 Anglo-Saxon Ideals The right to boast about brave deeds
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$400 Anglo-Saxon Ideals This ideal explains why Wiglaf stays behind to help Beowulf fight the dragon.
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$400 Anglo-Saxon Ideals Loyalty to leaders
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$500 Anglo-Saxon Ideals This ideal best explains the trait that Beowulf has that allows him to dive into the lake to defeat Grendel’s mother.
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$500 Anglo-Saxon Ideals Courage
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$100 Beowulf From what country is Beowulf from?
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$100 Beowulf Sweden
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$200 Beowulf Who wrote Beowulf?
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$200 Beowulf An anonymous Christian writer
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$300 Beowulf Why did Hrothgar build Herot?
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$300 Beowulf To have a place to entertain his Thanes
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$400 Beowulf What do the Geats put in Beowulf’s tower?
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$400 Beowulf The Dragon’s treasure
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$500 Beowulf What does Beowulf say to Wiglaf at the end of the poem that indicates the decline of the Anglo-Saxon society?
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$500 Beowulf “’You’re the last of our far-flung family. / Fate has swept our race away’” (68 lines 824-825)
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$100 Grendel Why does Grendel attack Herot?
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$100 Grendel Grendel attacks Herot because he is in pain from all of the noise created by the Danes
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$200 Grendel How do we see traces of Cain’s ancestor in Grendel’s character?
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$200 Grendel Grendel is like Cain because he displays jealousy, his a murderer, and his is exiled from the community.
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$300 Grendel When does Grendel finally show fear?
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$300 Grendel Grendel shows fear when Beowulf first grasps his arm: “’[he] knew at once that nowhere on earth / Had he met a man whose hands were harder…His mind was flooded with fear’” (51 lines 271-276)
![$300 Grendel Grendel shows fear when Beowulf first grasps his arm: ’[he] knew at once that nowhere on earth / Had he met a man whose hands were harder…His mind was flooded with fear’ (51 lines )](http://images.slideplayer.com/19/5897265/slides/slide_28.jpg "$300 Grendel Grendel shows fear when Beowulf first grasps his arm: ’[he] knew at once that nowhere on earth / Had he met a man whose hands were harder…His mind was flooded with fear’ (51 lines )")
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$400 Grendel Why can’t Beowulf’s men help him defeat Grendel?
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$400 Grendel Grendel cast a spell that made his skin impervious to the blades of the Danes and Geats
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$500 Grendel Where does Grendel die?
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$500 Grendel He went to his hole in the marsh to die from his wound
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$100 Vocabulary People in this profession usually sang Beowulf aloud.
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$100 Vocabulary Scops
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$200 Vocabulary An alcoholic drink from the Anglo-Saxon time period
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$200 Vocabulary Mead
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$300 Vocabulary Using the phrase “God’s hatred” to describe something is an example of this.
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$300 Vocabulary Possessive Kenning
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$400 Vocabulary This is the belief that everything has a soul – the rocks, the trees, the rivers, and the ocean.
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$400 Vocabulary Paganism
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$500 Vocabulary This describes a economic system in which a person of high rank will allocate land to loyal followers. These loyal followers will do the same thing which creates a cycle.
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$500 Vocabulary Feudalism
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$100 History Who was the first to inhabit Britain?
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$100 History The Celtic
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$200 History Which king is known for defending Britain against Viking invaders, encouraged the use of written English, and maintained civilization?
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$200 History King Alfred (Alfred the Great)
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$300 History What did the Anlgo-Saxons believe controlled their lives?
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$300 History Wyrd
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$400 History How did the Anglo- Saxons view the world?
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$400 History Grim and fatalisitc
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$500 History How did William the Conqueror earn his title?
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$500 History William, the duke of Normandy felt that he had been cheated out of receiving the throne after a council of nobles appointed an earl named Harold the throne instead. He led that last successful invasion of Britain.
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Final Jeopardy What is significant about the men who rode on horseback around Beowulf’s tower at the end o the poem?
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Final Jeopardy Answer The 12 horsemen. It is yet another biblical reference.
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