QUESTIONS

A. About the Blackadder introduction.

1. What was Blackadder’s result in the ‘Britain’s Best Sitcom’ survey?
2. How many series were made? What were they called?
3. What was the millennium episode called?
4. What is the role of Baldrick in every series?

5. When Blackadder receives a phone call from Captain Darling, how does he react?
6. After the telephone, Blackadder receives 2 more messages. In what forsm?
7. What message is attached to the pigeon's leg?
8. What does Blackadder do with the 'evidence'?
9. What will happen to Blackadder, according to Captain Darling?
   • court-martial, followed by immediate ending of chocolate ration.
   • court-martial, followed by immediate death by firing squad.
10. Who's Blackadder's lawyer?
11. What does Baldrick bring from Bob Massingbird?
12. Why isn't Massingbird Blackadder's laywer?
13. In his cell, Blackadder receives 3 visits: Baldrick, George, and who are the others?
14. In Blackadder's cell, his lawyer says he's 'an absolute duffer at this sort of thing'. Why?
15. Who is the prosecuter in Blackadder's court-martial?
16. Who is the judge in Blackadder's court-martial?
17. How is Blackadder named in the trial:
    •  the Belgian bird killer
    •  the Flanders pigeon murderer
    •  the Flanders pigeon killer
    •  the Belgian pigeon murderer
18. Blackadder's lawyer clles 2 witnesses. Who are they? What's the result of their testimony?
19. What does Baldrick bring Blackadder in his cell, after the sentencing?
20. What's the mix-up with George's letters?
21. Which of George's relatives can get Blackadder free?
    •  Celia, with her pony
    •  cousin Freddie, with his cricket bat
    •  mad Uncle Rupert
22. What's Blackadder's last-minute-message he receives?
23. What do Baldrick and George get as 'punishment'?

C. Blackadder Goes English

"Blackadder" uses a lot of similes.
A simile is literary tool that uses the words "like" or "as" to compare two ideas, for example: as dead as a dodo, as regular as a clock.
Some similes are used ironically: 'as hairy as a bowling ball', or even 'as elegant as a dead cat'.

• "I need to construct that's as watertight as a mermaid's brassiere."
• "You're as guilty as a puppy sitting next to a pile of poo."
• "I'm as thick as the big-print version of The Complete Works of Charles Dickens."

24. Write down 5 similes of your own.
25. Look up the meaning of these English expressions:
    •  "I'm on tenterhooks."
    •  "You really had him on the ropes"
    •  All my talk of food was just "a dead herring".
    •  It's just there's a few chaps out here would like a bit of "a chinwag".
    •  "Here's looking at you."
    •  "... made such a pig-ear out of ..."

D. Blackadder Goes Internet.

Blackadder and Perkins discuss Oscar Wilde: "A big, bearded, bonking, butch Oscar. The terror of the ladies. 114 illegitimate children, world heavyweight boxing champion, and author of the best-selling pamphlet, "Why I Like To Do It With Girls". Massingburg had him sent down for being a whoopsie."

26. Is the info he gives of Oscar Wilde correct?
27. What's a whoopsie?
28. What can you find about Oscar Wilde's love life?