Shakedown on Shakespeare

Question 1

Which play is a lost play?

Accepted Answer

Love's Labour's Won

Question 2

What element is Yellow Bile?

Accepted Answer

Fire

Question 3

What was Shakespeare's final play?

Accepted Answer

The Tempest

Question 4

What motivated Shakespeare to write Hamlet?

Accepted Answer

His father's death

Question 5

Who was younger when William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway got married?

Accepted Answer

William Shakespeare, who was 18 (Anne was 26)

Question 6

What was Shakespeare's first play?

Accepted Answer

Henry VI

Question 7

TRUE OR FALSE: The four bodily humors were part of Shakespearean cosmology

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 8

TRUE OR FALSE: Shakespeare was NOT buried in the same church he was baptized in.

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 9

How many King Henry plays did Shakespeare write?

Accepted Answer

VII

Question 10

How many plays did Shakespeare write?

Accepted Answer

37

Question 11

TRUE OR FALSE: Shakespeare was buried at the Holy Trinity Church in Stratford in 1611

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 12

TRUE OR FALSE: Shakespeare and his wife buried their only son Hamnet, who died at 15

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 13

Which of these four humors is not one of the original four?

Accepted Answer

Purple Bile

Question 14

How many sonnets did Shakespeare write?

Accepted Answer

154

Question 15

How many words did Shakespeare invent?

Accepted Answer

1700

Questions 15