Shakespeare

Question 1

Where did Shakespeare grow up?

Accepted Answer

Stratford-upon-Avon

Question 2

What is Shakespeare's longest play?

Accepted Answer

Hamlet

Question 3

What Shakespeare's mother's name?

Accepted Answer

Mary

Question 4

Who was Shakespeare's main contemporaries?

Accepted Answer

Christopher Marlowe

Question 5

Who helped publish Shakespere's first Folio after his death?

Accepted Answer

Two acts from his company, John Herninge and Henry Condell

Question 6

What was Shakespeare's father's name?

Accepted Answer

Richard

Question 7

When was Shakespeare born?

Accepted Answer

April 23, 1564

Question 8

Who were the two reigning monarches during his time?

Accepted Answer

Elizabeth I and James I

Question 9

What is one of the genres Shakespeare's plays were divided into in the First Folio?

Accepted Answer

History, Tragedy, Comedy

Question 10

How many kids did Shakespeare have?

Accepted Answer

3

Question 11

When did Shakespeare die?

Accepted Answer

April 23, 1616

Question 12

Who did NOT play Hamlet on film?

Accepted Answer

Colin Farrell

Question 13

What were Shakespeare's kid's names?

Accepted Answer

Susanna, Judith, Hamnet

Question 14

What is Shakespeare's shortest written plays?

Accepted Answer

Comedy of Errors

Question 15

How many Sonnets did Shakespeare write?

Accepted Answer

154

Question 16

Who was Shakespeare's wife?

Accepted Answer

Anna Hathaway

Question 17

In which outdoor theatre were Shakespeare's play presented?

Accepted Answer

The Globe

Question 18

In what poetic meter where the majority of his plays and verses written in?

Accepted Answer

Imbic Pentameter

Question 19

How many plays did Shakespeare write?

Accepted Answer

37

Question 20

How old was Shakespeare when he died?

Accepted Answer

49

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