Blackadder Goes Forth
 
This DVD-lesson is on series 4: "Blackadder Goes Forth", episode 4: "Private Plane"
 

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?

B. About the episode.

  1. What’s Blackadder doing, or trying to do, at the beginning of the episode?
  2. Blackadder thinks that the … are bombing them, but in fact it is the … .
  3. What does Lt. George think Blackadder and Baldrick are doing under the table?
  4. In what way does Baldrick experience the ‘wind rushing through his hair’?
  5. What does Lt. George’s ‘Book Of The Air’ say about the 20 Minuters?
  6. Why do our three heroes eventually decide to join the Royal Flying Corps?
  7. When Gen. Melchett looks at his map, why does he believe it’s a ‘barren featureless desert’ out there?
  8. Who gives the basic training for the Royal Flying Corps?
  9. Who is Blackadder’s navigator?
  10. Why would, by Blackadder, Baldrick’s ‘mum’ be handy in their situation?
  11. Why isn’t Lt. George allowed to rescue Blackadder?
  12. The Red Baron is intrigued about 1 special item of British culture. Which item?
  13. What is Blackadder and Baldrick’s punishment?
  14. Why doesn’t Blackadder want to be rescued?
  15. How does Blackadder take revenge on Capt. Darling?
  16. Is Blackadder allowed a week’s leave?

C. Blackadder Goes English
Read scene 4 (see Resources) and answer these questions:

  1. Give three other names they use to talk about the Germans.
  2. Give two other words for ‘smell’.
  3. What does Flashheart mean with the word ‘kite’ ?
  4. Why would girls say: “What’s the point of living anymore” ?
  5. What word is used to describe alcoholic drinks?
  6. What’s a ‘prat’?

D. Blackadder Goes Internet.
Go to the Blackadder website and answer the following questions:

  1. Which Blackadder episode is about the first English dictionary?
  2. In which Blackadder episode does Blackadder fall in love with his servant Bob?
  3. In the episode Born to be King, who is the commander of the King’s army?

Go to the Internet Movie Database and look up the answers to the following questions.

  1. The actor who plays Lt. George, is currently playing a doctor in which American TV show?
  2. What’s the title of the FRIENDS episode this same actor played in?
  3. The actor who plays Blackadder played a spy in one of his films. What’s the name of this spy?
  4. The actor who plays Capt. Darling starred in a film with Julia Roberts. What’s the name of the film?
  5. The actor who plays Gen. Melchett narrates the audiobook versions of a very famous book series. Which series?

Go to Wikipedia and look up the answers to the following questions.

  1. Blackader says: “For `magnificent men', read `biggest show-offs since Lady Godiva entered the Royal Enclosure at Ascot claiming she had literally nothing to wear'.”
    Who was Lady Godiva? Describe in 1 sentence and your own words.
  2. After Flash and Bob say ‘woof’, Blackadder says: “God, it's like Crufts in here!”
    What’s ‘Crufts’? Describe in 1 sentence and your own words.
  3. Flash says: “Now I may be packing the kind of tackle that you'd normally expect to find swinging about between the hind legs of a Grand National winner, but I'm not totally stupid...”
    What’s the ‘Grand National’? Describe in 1 sentence and your own words.