1. This is… Chaucer Jeopardy!

3. This group was at the top of the feudal order

4. This system of government operated during the Middle Ages

5. This battle started the Middle Ages

6. This children’s song is associated with the plague

7. These are the dates for the period

8. Name Chaucer’s greatest literary work

9. Chaucer’s father was a member of this retail-like profession

10. Chaucer was born

11. This man paid Chaucer’s ransom when he was a POW

12. Chaucer based his early poems on the works of poets of this nationality

13. To show religious devotion people would go on one of these

14. This father and son are on the trip together

15. This pilgrim looked like Santa Claus

16. This pilgrim looked like Robin Hood

17. This pilgrim had an ulcer on his knee

18. “Yet he was rich in holy thought and work…”

19. “She had five husbands all at the church door”

20. “He rode a farmer’s horse as best he could”

21. “…woe to the cook whose sauces had no sting”

22. “…with forking beard and motley dress.”

23. Was named to this post

24. Becket was murdered in this year

25. Becket sided with this important man on legal matters

26. The men that killed Becket thought they were acting on this man’s orders

27. This king named Thomas a Becket to his post

29. This group is at the bottom of the feudal order

30. Give two reasons for the collapse of the feudal system

31. This document was signed in 1215

32. Give another name for the plague

33. The Magna Carta did this

34. Limited the power of a monarch

35. In his lifetime, Chaucer did this, which was only possible because of a breakdown in the government

36. Chaucer wrote translations of this type of poetry

37. In 1366, Chaucer married this woman

38. Name 2 of Chaucer’s professions other than poet

39. Chaucer dies

40. This pilgrim had been married five times

41. These two pilgrims are brothers

42. This pilgrim was in debt

43. This pilgrim was skinny and rode a skinny horse

44. This pilgrim ate only health foods

45. “He was an honest worker, good and true.”

46. “He therefore had a special love of gold”

47. “Wise and in his bearing modest as a maid”

48. “But was a pity…that he should have an ulcer on his knee.”

49. “…and he would gladly learn and gladly teach”

50. The king atoned for Becket’s death by doing this.