Wadsworth Lines - Clue (High School Edition) Flashcards
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Vocabulary and key context flashcards covering character secrets, quotes, and plot details from Wadsworth's lines in Clue (High School Edition).
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Pseudonym
A fictitious name recommended to the guests by their host to ensure privacy throughout the evening.
Boddy Manor
The large historical house where the dinner party takes place, built by Lord Reginald Boddy in 1784.
Wadsworth
The butler who greets the guests, explains the blackmail motives, and guides them through Boddy Manor.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The poet quoted by Wadsworth at the dinner table with the line: "Ours not to reason why, Ours but to do and die".
House Un-American Activities Committee
The committee supported by Mr. Boddy, who considers the guests' secret indiscretions to be decidedly un-American.
Old Ebbitt's Grill
The location where Mrs. Peacock allegedly took cash bribes under stall doors to deliver Senator Peacock's votes to lobbyists.
Professor Plum's Indiscretion
Working as a psychiatric specialist, he had his medical license revoked for dating female patients.
Colonel Mustard's Indiscretion
Holding a sensitive security post in the Pentagon, he is threatened by compromising negatives/photographs.
Mrs. White's Indiscretion
She paid blackmail following the mysterious death of her second husband and the permanent disappearance of her first husband, who was an illusionist.
Mr. Green's Indiscretion
He pledged allegiance to the Republican party but neglected to vote for Dwight D. Eisenhower in the last election.
The Parker Brothers
The entity jokingly credited by Wadsworth as the designers of Boddy Manor's secret passages.
John Esquemeling
A 17th-century buccaneer referenced by Wadsworth who documented using mahogany to construct canoes.
Larry Goodman
The true identity of Mr. Green, an FBI agent working to bust the Boddy family organized crime operation.
The Hall Safe
A secret safe hidden behind a portrait in the Hall, used to lock up the bag containing the murder weapons.