Shakespeare ABC (most missed)

Question 1

This Shakespearean character is also the name of a play which contains, "Double Bubble Toil..."

Accepted Answer

Macbeth

Question 2

What is the correct way to spell the word which means "someone who writes plays"?

Accepted Answer

playwright

Question 3

Shakespeare is credited with inventing this type of joke by using it in one of his plays.

Accepted Answer

knock, knock

Question 4

What was an old word for poet? Shakespeare was often called the "_______ of Avon."

Accepted Answer

Bard

Question 5

This was the nickname given to The Globe (based upon its shape and building materials).

Accepted Answer

"Wooden O"

Question 6

This 1968 director made the most popular movie version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet ever.

Accepted Answer

Franco Zeffirelli

Question 7

In Shakespeare's day, books were __. They were new & unexpected (many were poor & illiterate).

Accepted Answer

novelties

Question 8

When Shakespeare lived, this was a period of intellectual activity occurring in Europe.

Accepted Answer

Renaissance

Question 9

This is another Shakespearean tragic protagonist who let jealousy get the better of him.

Accepted Answer

Othello

Question 10

This is a Shakespearean monologue delivered by a character alone onstage.

Accepted Answer

soliloquy

Question 11

Shakespeare wrote his plays in this. It is unrhymed lines of poetic meter (2 words).

Accepted Answer

iambic pentameter

Question 12

This is a character in a play who is the opposite/in contrast of another character.

Accepted Answer

foil

Questions 12