Jeopardy!Arthurian Legends Info

Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur

T.H. White’s “Arthur

Becomes King”Literary Terms

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Archetypes

$100 Answer: Arthurian Legends Background Info

Honor, loyalty, and bravery are all important aspects of this knightly code.

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What is the code of chivalry?

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This was a traditional relationship of reverent admiration that a knight might express for his queen.

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What is courtly love?

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This is the country other than Great Britain where many Arthurian legends originated, including those featuring Sir Launcelot

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What is France?

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These are the invaders that the “historic” Arthur fought against.

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Who are the Saxons and Angles?

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This genre differs from myth in that it has a basis in historical fact, although it often contains exaggerated, magical, or supernatural elements.

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What is a legend?

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The three broad categories of archetypes are character, situation, and this category which includes shapes, numbers, colors, and even animals.

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What is image?

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King Arthur, Harry Potter, Luke Skywalker, and Odysseus can all be classified as this character archetype.

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What is the hero?

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This animal, in Biblical, mythological, and legendary stories, represents insidious evil, destruction, and temptation.

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What is the snake?

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The historian Joseph Campbell wrote a book describing this archetypal cycle, literally the “one story,” describing the hero’s journey.

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What is the Monomyth?

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Psychoanalyst Carl Jung said that archetypes are the product of this, a universal pool of human knowledge and experience.

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What is the collective unconscious?

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This number, symbolic of natural and elemental harmony, is also the number of queens Sir Launcelot encountered in the woods.

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What is FOUR?

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This wizard was a close advisor to King Arthur and to his father Uther before him.

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Who is Merlin?

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This is the knight who finally throws Excalibur in the lake.

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Who is Sir Bedivere?

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This archetypal villain and traitor was the illegitimate son of Arthur and his half-sister Morgause.

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Who is Mordred?

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This is the enchanted, heavenly island where the queens take Arthur to heal his wounds.

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What is Avalon?

$100 Answer from “The Once and Future King”

This was Arthur’s childhood nickname.

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What is Wart?

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This knight is Arthur’s foster brother; later, he is Arthur’s seneschal.

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Who is Sir Kay?

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This is Wart’s reaction when he discovers that he will be king.

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• What are tears?

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These come to Wart’s aid when he tries to pull the sword from the stone.

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What are animals?

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In “The Once and Future King,” it is humorous, whereas in Le Morte d’Arthur, it is formal and serious

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What is tone?

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$100 Answer from Literary Terms

• This the literary genre that tries to explain the origins of life, evil, natural phenomena, etc. They are passed down through the generations and typically do not have a specific historic basis.

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What is a myth?

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This is the genre of poetry that Tennyson’s Idylls of the King falls into.

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What is epic?

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An example of this is the fact that Sir Thomas Malory wrote his tales of chivalrous, heroic knights while incarcerated.

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What is irony?

$400 Answer from Literary Terms

The “BIG IDEA” in a work of literature: In “The Tale of King Arthur,” for example, it could be stated as: “One cannot escape one’s destiny;” or, “nobility and kindness are their own rewards.”

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What is theme?

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Because he changes from a timid, bumbling boy called Wart to England’s most beloved king, Arthur can be described as this kind of character.

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What is a dynamic character?

Final Jeopardy

Final Jeopardy Question

In “The Death of King Arthur,” this is the knight (also Arthur’s nephew) who visits Arthur in a dream to warn him about fighting Mordred.