Passive Voice Quiz Game (A teacher’s only handout)

Draw a jeopardy style quiz square on the board. Choose five topics and fill in

the headings of the square. The teacher asks the question and students must

answer with the passive voice.

Topics: Points:Movies:

Who directed Pulp Fiction? (Quenton Tarantino) 1

Where was Life is Beautiful produced? (Italy) 2

Where was The Lord of the Rings filmed? (New Zealand) 2

Who directed 2001: A Space Odyssey? (Stanley Kubrik) 3

Writers:

Who wrote Hamlet? (Shakespeare) 1

Who wrote Moby Dick? (Melville); 2

Who wrote Crime and Punishment? (Dostoyevsky)

2

Who wrote Frankenstein? (Shelly) 3

Painters:

Who painted the Mona Lisa (Leonardo da Vinci) 1

Who painted Starry Night? (Van Gogh) 2

Who painted Guernica? (Picasso) 2

Who painted The Scream? (Munsch)

3

Inventions:

Who invented the light bulb? (Edison)

1

Who invented the flying machine? (Wright Brothers)

2

Who invented the telephone? (Bell)

2

Who invented the radio? (Marconi) 3

Discoveries:

Who discovered the law of gravity? (Newton)

1

Who discovered E=mc2? (Einstein) 2

Who discovered the moons of Jupiter? (Galileo) 2

Who discovered radioactivity? (Currie) 3

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List of other possible passive voice topics:

Causes:

What causes lung cancer? (Lung cancer is caused by smoking)

Killers:

Who killed JFK? (JFK was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald)

Exploration:

Who climbed Everest first? (Everest was climbed by Hillary)

Famous Deaths:

How was James Dean killed? (James Dean was killed in a car accident)

Famous Cities Burning:

San Fransico was destroyed in an earthquake.

Troy was destroyed by the Greeks.