Beowulf Jeopardy Ring-givers & Bling-takers

Agons & Antagonists

Kennings for Clues

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Final Jeopardy

$100 Question from Ring-givers & Bling-takers

This king of the Spear-Danes built the glorious hall of Herot.

$100 Answer from Ring-givers & Bling-takers

Who is Hrothgar?

$200 Question from Ring-givers & Bling-takers

This king’s ashes reside in a barrow built on a sea-cliff.

$200 Answer from Ring-givers & Bling-takers

Who is Beowulf?

$300 Question from Ring-givers & Bling-takers

This swimmer can thank a sudden storm and mean marine monsters for his beating Beowulf by a broad stroke.

$300 Answer from Ring-givers & Bling-takers

Who is Brecca?

$400 Question from Ring-givers & Bling-takers

For a thankful thrust, this Geat thane was given glorious war-gear by his dying king, an old man who caught a killing mouth-claw in his neck.

$400 Answer from Ring-givers & Bling-takers

Who is Wiglaf?

$500 Question from Ring-givers & Bling-takers

This king was presented treasures by his monster-killing thane, a warrior whose father could not afford a weregild.

$500 Answer from Ring-givers & Bling-takers

Who is Higlac?

$100 Question from Agons & Antagonists

Weaponless and without war-wear, Beowulf fought this fiend of the fen, and left him limping away, less one limb.

$100 Answer from Agons & Antagonists

Who is Grendel?

$200 Question from Agons & Antagonists

This one was the warrior that battled alongside Beowulf as he fought the flying flame-breather.

$200 Answer from Agons & Antagonists

Who is Wiglaf?

$300 Question from Agons & Antagonists

Beowulf broke his blade, the noble Nagling, battling this beast.

$300 Answer from Agons & Antagonists

What is the fire dragon?

$400 Question from Agons & Antagonists

Made bold by the buzz of booze, this brother-butcher was bested briskly in a word-war by a boast from Beowulf.

$400 Answer from Agons & Antagonists

Who is Unferth?

$500 Question from Agons & Antagonists

Along with Grendel’s head, Beowulf presented Hrothgar with an ancient hilt forged by these mythical smiths of the past.

$500 Answer from Agons & Antagonists

Who are giants?

$100 Question from Kennings for Clues

Only when the ship of the night makes its voyage does this moor-murderer, Cain’s cannibal kid, make his move for a mead-hall massacre.

$100 Answer from Kennings for Clues

Who is Grendel?

$200 Question from Kennings for Clues

This hulking hoard-guardian hurled great grief on the Geats when a goblet-grabbing slave five-fingered a fraction of its fortune.

$200 Answer from Kennings for Clues

Who is the fire dragon?

$300 Question from Kennings for Clues

Hwaet! He is the seed of Denmark, the orphan-prince that brought fame and glory to the Spear-Danes with his battle-flasher. That was a good king!

$300 Answer from Kennings for Clues

Who is Shild Sheafson?

$400 Question from Kennings for Clues

This wetland-witch, a man-killing matron of the mire, dwells in a damp deep with slime, sludge, and slaughter-slush.

$400 Answer from Kennings for Clues

Who is Grendel’s mother?

$500 Question from Kennings for Clues

This battle-flasher didn’t harm a horn or hair on the head of a bog-queen, and so was tossed on the tough turf of her demon-den by the bee-wolf. (“Thanks again, Unferth!”)

$500 Answer from Kennings for Clues

What is Hrunting?

$100 Question from Locations & Linguistics

It is in this country that the mead-hall of Herot is located.

$100 Answer from Locations & Linguistics

What is Denmark?

$200 Question from Locations & Linguistics

It is along the southern coast of this country that the Geats live.

$200 Answer from Locations & Linguistics

What is Sweden?

$300 Question from Locations & Linguistics

It is on this island that the poem Beowulf was first written down.

$300 Answer from Locations & Linguistics

What is England?

$400 Question from Locations & Linguistics

This is the language that the poem Beowulf is written in.

$400 Answer from Locations & Linguistics

What is Old English (Anglo-Saxon)?

$500 Question from Locations & Linguistics

This is the name of the geographical region comprised of the countries Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.

$500 Answer from Locations & Linguistics

What is Scandinavia?

$100 Question from Legends, Lore, & Lectures

According to the narrator, Grendel is a descendant of this arch-murderer.

$100 Answer from Legends, Lore, & Lectures

Who is Cain?

$200 Question from Legends, Lore, & Lectures

This legendary ring-giver prepares us for the poem’s protagonist with a burial at sea.

$200 Answer from Legends, Lore, & Lectures

Who is Shild Sheafson?

$300 Question from Legends, Lore, & Lectures

Not one to withhold wisdom, Hrothgar bids goodbye to Beowulf lecturing long with lofty words to be on guard against this gravest sin, which caught covetous King Hermod in his craw.

$300 Answer from Legends, Lore, & Lectures

What is greed (or pride)?

$400 Question from Legends, Lore, & Lectures

This legendary dragon-slayer is sung of in Herot after the slaying of Grendel.

$400 Answer from Legends, Lore, & Lectures

Who is Siegmund?

$500 Question from Legends, Lore, & Lectures

The legend of Frisian Finn foreshadows a fate foretold by Beowulf about the Danes, that no king can keep peace with a people he opposes with this.

$500 Answer from Legends, Lore, & Lectures

What is marriage (or a peace-weaver)?

Final Jeopardy

Manuscript Origins

Final Jeopardy

Scholars claim a scribe first scribbled down our Scandinavian epic in this century; when words once mouthed were scribbled into script by scribes.

Final Jeopardy Answer

What is the 8th century (c. 725)?

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