Bedtime Tales and More A Jeopardy Game By

Bedtime Tales and More… A Jeopardy Game By Sarah M.

Game Topics This Jeopardy version will feature questions based on our genre study of fairy tales, and nursery rhymes. It will also have questions from our current word study unit.

Rules to the game The class will be broken up into teams. The “host” will call on people from the teams to answer questions from the grid. When it is your turn, please select a category and then a points value question. If you get the question correct, your team will win those points. If you get the question wrong, the other team has the chance to steal the points. The team with the most points at the end of the game is the winner.

Nursery Rhymes Titles Name that Character Story Telling Word Choice More Words… 100 100 100 200 200 200 300 300 300 400 400 400 500 500 500

This category will take you back to your childhood.

Jack and Jill went up this to fetch a pail of water. Answer: What is a hill?

Jack Sprat could eat none of this and his wife could eat no lean. Answer: What is fat?

The children laughed at Mary when she brought this animal friend to school. Answer: What is the lamb?

This the place where a feline visited the queen. Answer: What is London?

Stanley Yelnats’ mother in the novel Holes relates to this widow with many children. Answer: Who is the Old Woman who lived in a shoe?

Name the Fairy tale that the answer is describing.

“Mirror, mirror on the wall, Who is the fairest of us all? ” Answer: What is Snow White?

The wedding day arrived. Mole came to fetch his bride and take her to his deep-down house. She would never see the blue sky again… Answer: What is Thumbelina?

“Then I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house in…” Answer: What is The Three Little Pigs?

“In that case, ” twinkled the old man, “here are the very beans themselves. ” Answer: What is Jack and the Beanstalk?

The old fortune teller told the queen, “but the twilight will claim them. No mortal love will they know. No earthly happiness will they share. There secret is hidden between this world and the next. ” Answer: What is The Twelve Dancing Princesses?

You will give the name of the character in this category.

Late coming home from the ball, in the French version of her tale, she is the girl who wore a “fur” slipper. Answer: Who is Cinderella?

These creatures sneak into the shoemaker’s shop and create masterpieces for him while he sleeps. Answer: Who are the elves?

The queen uses her magic mirror and finds out that this princess still lives. Answer: Who is Snow White?

This little man hates to hear his name. Answer: Who is Rumplestiltskin?

A maiden travels into the night to find light for her step-mother and step sisters and winds up at the doorstep of this witch. Answer: Who is Baba Yaga?

In this category your answers will come from how these stories have been passed on from generation to generation.

As with legends and myths, fairy tales were passed down in this way before they were finally transcribed. Answer: What is through oral traditions or from storytellers?

These two brothers transcribed many fairy tales to preserve German traditions. Answer: Who were the Grimm brothers?

This Frenchman was noted for his transcriptions of classic French fairy tales like “Cinderella. ” Answer: Who was Charles Perrault?

This author of fairy tales was born in 1805. Answer: Who was Hans Christian Anderson?

This type of fairy tale is based on many tales combined to create a new tale. Answer: What is the Fractured Fairy Tale?

The answers in this category come from our word study unit.

Pair; Pear Answer: What are homophones?

Huge; gigantic Answer: What are synonyms?

Good: Evil Answer: What are antonyms?

The word quickly in this sentence: She ran around the track quickly. Answer: What is an adverb?

“It’s raining cats and dogs. ” Answer: What is an idiomatic expression?

In this category you will think about the types of words we have been working on in this unit.

The past tense of leap Answer: What is leapt?

Not one child, but many Answer: What are children?

You must drop the “y”, change it to an “i, ” and add “es” Answer: What is how to make a word that ends in y plural?

A word that is spelled the same as another word, but has a different meaning. Answer: What is a homograph?

Words like “below” and “away” both end in this type of syllable that allows the ending vowel sound to be long Answer: What is an open syllable?