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25/04/2011 Famous texts (2)

Decode the Wordles of the well-known texts and answer the 2 questions against each Wordle.

(Beware the text at Q2 might only be well-known to the teams that first tackled this round back in 2011!)

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Format index

 

1.

2.

 

a) What is this religious text?

b) Where was the original version of this text first adopted?

 

a) What does this text describe?

b) In what year might this text have first been relevant?

3.

4.

 

a) Of which work of literature is this the first page?

b) What is the first name of the leading male character?

 

a) What was the real surname of the person who wrote this?

b) For which ‘collection’ was it written?

5.

6.

 

a) In which stage show did this first appear?

b) What was the name of the ‘less advantaged’ character?

 

a) Who made this speech and in what year?

b) Where was the speech delivered?

7.

8.

 

a) Who made this speech?

b) Where is his family home?

 

a) What are the first 2 words of this text?

b) Where specifically does this text first appear?

9.

10.

 

a) Who made this statement in February 2002?

b) The “unknowns” were the absence of evidence of what?

 

a) What does this purport to explain?

b) …and what did they conclude “died for nothing”?