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Test your knowledge of Amy Johnson's life and of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' by Shakespeare

We're answering and asking questions in the past tense.

4th December 2013 - we are having a quiz in teams.

These are the names which the children gave their teams:

The Smilies :-)

The Strikers

The Popcorns

The Superteam

'Hubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble' (A quote from an incantation or spell by witches in the play Macbeth - a tragedy by Shakespeare.  Some actors don't like to say Macbeth as they think it is unlucky.  Some people believe that Shakespeare researched real magic to quote in his play.)

The Hot Dogs

The Cool Girls

The questions, written by the children in teams, are about a text from our course book on Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly from England to Australia, and on the story of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' by Shakespeare.

Amy Johnson

1. When and where was Amy born?
2. What were her favourite sports?
3. Which University did she go to?
4. What was Amy's first job?
5. How many jobs did she have before she began flying?
6. What was the name of the flying club she joined?
7. Did Amy fly from England to Australia in 1930?
8. How many miles did Amy fly from England to Australia?
9. Was Amy Good at Science?
10. Did Amy die when her plane crashed into the Thames in 1941 during World War 2?
11. How many sisters did Amy have and what were their names?
12. Did Amy think that women were as good as men (in Amy's time women only did certain jobs and many married women didn't work)?

Amy Johnson

Robyn Goodfellow or Puck - the most mischievous fairy

1. Who wrote 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'?
2. Where did the story take place?
3. What was the name of the King Fairy?
4. What was the name of the Queen Fairy?
5. Who did Hermia love?
6. What was the name of the flower used to make a magic juice?
7. What did the magic juice do?
8. Who puts the magic juice on the eyes of the Queen of the Fairies?
9. Why did one of the actors have a donkey's head?
10. What was the name of the man with a donkey's head?
11. Who does Hermia marry?
12. What happens at the end of the play?

The results of today's quiz

The winners of our class quiz were:

Hubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble with 26 points

Joint second with 22 points were:

The Smilies, The Cool Girls' Team and The Hot Dogs