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Shakespeare Week Trivia Competition
Shakespeare Week Trivia Competition
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Trivia Competition, Shakespeare's Life, Times, and Works
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1
Watch the trailer. This film is an adaptation of which Shakespeare play?
Midsummer Night's Dream
The Tempest
Twelfth Night
Romeo and Juliet
2
In 'The Merchant of Venice', who prevents Shylock from taking his 'pound of flesh'?
Bassanio
Antonio
Portia
Lorenzo
3
Which common saying does not originate from Shakespeare?
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Hope springs eternal.
Sharper than a serpent's tooth.
Love is blind.
4
What is Macduff's title in 'Macbeth'?
thane of Fife
thane of Glamis
thane of Dunsinane
thane of Cawdor
5
Watch the trailer. This film is an adaptation of which Shakespeare play?
Hamlet
King Lear
Macbeth
Cymbeline
6
Watch the trailer. This film is an adaptation of which Shakespeare play?
Merchant of Venice
Macbeth
King Lear
Hamlet
7
If you watched the play from the pit, what were you known as?
a groundsman
a cheapskate
a groundling
a pauper
8
What was the exact date of Shakespeare's birth?
23 April, 1564
26 April, 1564
Unknown
23 April, 1566
9
In the line "
O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore are thou Romeo?
", what does the word
wherefore
mean?
what
why
who
where
10
In 'Romeo and Juliet', who helps both of the 'star cross'd lovers'?
Friar Laurence
the Nurse
Mercutio
Benvolio
11
Which of the following is the name of one of Shakespeare's children?
Romelo
Julietta
Hamnet
Macbent
12
This is a scene from which Shakespeare play?
Julius Caesar
Hamlet
Coriolanus
Richard III
13
Watch the trailer. This film is an adaptation of which Shakespeare play?
Romeo and Juliet
Much Ado About Nothing
The Taming of the Shrew
A Midsummer Night's Dream
14
Watch the trailer. This film is an adaptation of which Shakespeare play?
Hamlet
Macbeth
King Henry the Fifth
Romeo and Juliet
15
What was the first play Shakespeare wrote?
Cymbeline
Henry V
A Winter's Tale
Henry VI Part One
16
What did Shakespeare call his theatre?
The Cockpit
The Fortune Theatre
The Globe
The Rose
17
Who does Helena marry at the end of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'?
Oberon
Robin Goodfellow
Demetrius
Lysander
18
Which of the following literary forms is not among Shakespeare's output?
Narrative Poems
Sonnets
Plays
Novels
19
Which of the following does not go into the weird sisters' cauldron?
Toe of frog
Baboon's blood
Claw of cat
Tongue of dog
20
Watch the trailer. This film is an adaptation of which Shakespeare play?
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
