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1
What is King Lear about?
Ageing
Betrayal
Politics
Incest
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What is the name of the book which is known for being the "hardest book to read in the English Language"?
Ulysses
Udyxes
Odyxes
Olysses
3
Who is the author of The Mill on the Floss?
Jane M. Wollstonecraft
Gertrude Stein
Virginia Woolfe
George Eliot
4
What art movement is stream of consciousness most strongly connected to?
Realism
Romanticism
Modernism
Postmodernism
5
Which Shakespeare play is the bloodiest?
Macbeth
Titus Andronicus
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
6
Which artist is from the UK
Lionel Richie
Phil Collins
Bruce Springsteen
Tony Benett
7
Which country has the oldest national anthem
The UK
The USA
The Netherlands
France
8
What is the biggest prize for literature?
The Nobel Prize
The Pullitzer Prize
Turing Award
International Booker prize
9
In the song they mention "the day the music died" what event was this?
a metaphor for puberty
The death of Elvis Presley 17/8/'77
The plain crash of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and “The Big Bopper” 3/2/'59
The day first Spice Girls song came out 3/12/'94
10
Who is the lead singer of the Rolling Stones
Mick Jagger
Keith Richards
Charlie Watts
Brian Jones
11
Which of these authors was thrown in prison for being gay?
Oscar Wilde
Salman Rushdie
Daniel Defoe
Lord Byron
12
To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream.
Titus Andronicus
Othello
Hamlet
Macbeth
13
How many questions does this quiz contain?
39
36
38
37
14
How old are Romeo and Juliet in the play?
18 and 15
12 and 11
16 and 13
21 and 20
15
My kingdom for a horse!
Richard I
Richard II
Richard III
Charles III
16
Which of these quotes is
NOT
from a Shakespeare play
"The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk."
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.”
"If music be the food of love, play on."
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Throughout these questions there were a few less familiar names. Which one was made up?
Percy Shelley
Jane M. Wollstonecraft
Honoré de Balzac
Walt Whitman
18
Who are these people?
The Beatles
The rolling stones
19
What is Shakespeare's most common nickname?
The player
The bard
The singer
The writer
20
Who wrote that book?
James Joyce
Charles Dickens
Lord Byron
Walter Whitman
21
What is the name of the place Shakespeare was from?
Shaftesbury
Newcastle upon Tyne
London
Stratford-upon-Avon
22
In a Shakespeare play, Shakespeare has his actors perform a play within the play that you are watching, which one?
A Midsummernight's Dream
Romeo and Juliet
Inception
The Tempest
23
Lord Byron had an affair with a family member, a drug problem and fought in a war In Greece. What art movement is his?
Romanticism
Realism
Modernism
Aestheticism
24
Et tu, Brute?
Julius Caesar
Cleopatra and Anthony
Henry VIII
King John
25
Shakespeare
coined
a lot of words. What doe the word "to coin" mean?
To make money from writing
To use a word in poetry for the first time
To invent a new word for something
To give a word a new meaning
26
Which famous musician was the first musician to win a Nobel prize for literature?
Stevie Wonder
John Foggerty
Frank Sinatra
Bob Dylan
27
Which famous actress shares the name of William Shakespeare's wife?
Anne Hathaway
Cate Blanchett
Jennifer Lawrence
Emma Stone
28
Which author wrote the first romantic novel?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Percy Shelley
Honoré de Balzac
William Wordsworth
29
How many plays did Shakespeare write?
27
37
47
57
30
Anthems finish these lyrics: Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves
Britons will rise up and we'll be brave
Britons never, never shall be slaves
We'll take our love for country to our graves
Our country our soul shall save
31
Which musician is from the UK
Jim Morrison
Kurt Cobain
Robert Johnson
Amy Whinehouse
32
During the 20s Gertrude Stein gave the writers of the post-war era a nickname. What was that nickname?
The lost generation
The union of broken men
Soldiers of the pen
The boozers
33
Which of these musicians was/were the first "rock stars", followed arround by groupies?
Frank Sinatra
Elvis Presley
The Rolling Stones
The Beatles
34
That was "American Pie" by Don Mclean. What was this song about?
A metaphorical reflection on the highs and lows of life
A song about the importance of music in every day life
A song about missing pie
A song about the loss of innocence
35
Which country has had their national anthem the longest?
The Netherlands
France
The UK
The USA
36
Which musician is not a member of the 27 club
Jimi Hendrix
Otis Redding
Amy Winehouse
Kurt Cobain
37
Which author fought in 3 wars, smuggled weapons, was a bull fighter, boxer, hunted sword fish and African animals etc
Jules Verne
Joseph Conrad
Ernest Hemingway
Walt Whitman
