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1984 by George Orwell

11th-12th grade or AP Lang · Hard · 20-25 min

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This board helps players review Literature · Dystopian through a Jeopardy-style game format on Kleveroo. It includes categories such as Characters, Setting, Concepts, Themes, Trivia & Quotes. It is useful for classroom review, team trivia, family game night, test prep, and group play.

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  • Characters

    The protagonist who rewrites history.

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    Winston Smith

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  • Setting

    The country Winston lives in.

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    Oceania

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  • Concepts

    Surveillance device in every home.

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    Telescreen

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  • Themes

    Central theme — government overreach.

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    Totalitarianism

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  • Trivia & Quotes

    Year published.

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    1949

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  • Author & Context

    The three superstates constantly at war.

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    Oceania, Eurasia, Eastasia

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Characters

$100 — The protagonist who rewrites history.
Winston Smith
$200 — The woman Winston loves.
Julia
$300 — The mysterious Inner Party member.
O'Brien
$400 — The dictator everyone sees on posters.
Big Brother
$500 — The supposed enemy of the Party.
Emmanuel Goldstein

Setting

$100 — The country Winston lives in.
Oceania
$200 — The city where the novel takes place.
London (Airstrip One)
$300 — The Ministry where Winston works.
Ministry of Truth (Minitrue)
$400 — The Ministry of Love handles this.
Torture / 'love' is enforcement
$500 — The torture room where Winston is broken.
Room 101

Concepts

$100 — Surveillance device in every home.
Telescreen
$200 — The Party's contradictory thought process.
Doublethink
$300 — The simplified language designed to limit thought.
Newspeak
$400 — Crime of even thinking against the Party.
Thoughtcrime
$500 — The Party slogan about war, freedom and ignorance.
War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength

Themes

$100 — Central theme — government overreach.
Totalitarianism
$200 — The Party's manipulation of facts.
Truth and propaganda (alternative facts)
$300 — Loss of individual identity.
Individuality vs. collectivism
$400 — Control of communication through this concept.
Language as control
$500 — The novel warns against this kind of state.
Surveillance state

Trivia & Quotes

$100 — Year published.
1949
$200 — Famous opening: 'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking ___.'
Thirteen
$300 — Winston's job at the Ministry of Truth.
Altering historical records
$400 — What Winston fears most (revealed in Room 101).
Rats
$500 — The book's final line — Winston loves this.
Big Brother

Author & Context

$100 — The three superstates constantly at war.
Oceania, Eurasia, Eastasia
$200 — The three Party slogans plastered everywhere.
War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength
$300 — The 20th-century regimes Orwell drew from.
Stalinist USSR and Nazi Germany
$400 — Orwell's other famous political allegory.
Animal Farm
$500 — Adjective meaning 'authoritarian and dystopian'.
Orwellian

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