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1
How did Tom Stoppard, born Straussler, acquire the last name Stoppard?
He mom remarried after fathers death
He changed his name when he got married
He purchased this at the book store
He looked in a phone book for a pen name
2
Which of Stoppards plays alternates between 1809 and present day?
Armadillo
Arcadia
Armistace
Arena
3
What country was Tom Stoppard born in?
Czechoslovakia
Transylvania
The Ol U.S. of A.
Africa
4
Which of the two is it that first remembers the messenger?
Guildenstern
Rosencrantz
Guildenstern
Rosencrantz
5
After Tom S parents left home country, what country did they end up in, mom ran shoe store
India
Russia
Africa
England
6
What was the name of Stoppard's first play, eventually produced for television?
Walk on the Water
Walk the walk, talk the talk.
Friends
Walking in the Rain
7
In the play set in Zurich, the characters are staging another play by what famous play write?
Oscar De Laurenta
Oscar Meyer
Oscar Hamilton
Oscar Wilde
8
What happened between the time the coins behaved normally and when the coins always end up head
Rosencrantz tells a lie
King Lear appears
The messenger arrives
The Cart tips over
9
G proposes that a way of looking at things is defense against the pure emotion of fear.What?
absurdist
Scientific or logical
religious
methodical
10
In Hamlet, the man who became the king at the end is from ?
Denmark
Norway
Swedan
Clyman
11
G remembers tossing coins before. What was different last time?
coins were lost
coins fell in the river
coins came up 50/50
coins were eaten
12
In first conversation, Guildenstern scoulds Rosencrantz for not responding with what emotion?
fear
joy
hate
love
13
Name of Stoddard play about 3 influential thinkers early 20th century in Zurich?
Transit
Travesties
Transvestite
Transylvania
14
In Hamlet, who becomes king at the end of the play?
Guildenstern
Rosencrantz
Claudius
Fortinbras
15
What famous and influential play by Sam Beckett opened in England in 1955
Death of a Salesman
Waiting for Godot
Forest Gump
Hamlet
16
What character says, "Your visit shall receive such thanks as fits a king's remembrance?
Ophelia
Hamlet
Rosenkrantz
Gertrude/the queen
17
In beginning R & G what are they carrying that makes it obvious that one has been winning
bag of bean
bag of shells
bag of money
bag of spices
18
What year was Tom Stoppard born?
1945
1200 B.C.
1937
1958
19
What did Stoddard co-write set in Shakespeare's day also won an Academy Award?
Written in the Stars
Shakespeare in Harlem
The Bard is batty
Shakespeare in Love
20
Rosencrantz and Gildenstern resemble what film comedy duo from the earlier 20th century?
Timon and Pumba
Abbot and Costello
Laurel and Hardy
Laverne and Shirley
21
What coin always turns up all the time in the beginning?
the gold one
heads
tails
the nickel
22
Hamlet is a prince of what country?
England
Denmark
The Netherlands
Swedan
23
What was Stoppard's first job?
Mail man
Kwik Trip
Journalist
Male model
24
In Shakespeare's Hamlet, who is responsible for the death of Gertrude?
Claudius
Gertrude
King Lear
Ophelia
25
Stoppard is said to write plays that are "meta-theatrical" What's that?
theater that is absurd
held in many large theaters
A lot of metal garbage cans are used
theater that is about theater
26
arrangement of dead bodies in final scene in Elsinore parallels what scene earlier in the Act?
massacre at the banquet
Hamlet on the boat
arrangement of dead bodies in the dumbshow
arrangement of coin flippers at beginning
27
In R & G, coin tossing game, which one of them has been winning?
Rosencrantz
Rosencrantz
Rosencrantz
Rosencrantz
28
Which is the one who tries to figure out the reasons behind the coin flipping results?
Guildenstern
Rosencrantz
Guildenstern
Rosencrantz
29
What is the term for the genre of plays that are based on the illogical or incongruous?
Theater of the Absurd
Theater of Kookiness
Theater of the Ridiculous
Theater of the Sublime
30
What is the title of Stoppard's early play which is a murder mystery set against philosophy
JuJu
Jumpers
Julip
Sketchers
31
When G tries to make a bet with players and players have no money what do they offer instead?
Hardy
Alfred
Laurel
Rosenkrantz
32
In coin tossing game between R & G, which one has been doing the actual flipping of the coin
Guildenstern
Rosencrantz
Rosencrantz
Guildenster
33
In the early part of the play, what sound do Rosen and Guild start to hear?
an owl
Music/band
the song Keke
thunder
34
In contrast to the fingernails and the beard, Rosencrantz says what never grows at all
the lies
intelligence
nosehair
toenails
35
What Steven Speilberg film did Stoppard work on?
Saving Private Ryan
Schindlers List
Empire of the Sun
E.T.
36
What problem keeps R & G stuck and not hurrying on to their destination?
They don't know which way to go
They are not very motivated
They are not very smart
They are waiting for a message
37
What is the name of the film T.Stoddard co-wrote with a member of Monty Python comedy troupe?
Clyman
Brazil
Columbia
Belgium
38
How do R / G in Stoppard's differ from same characters in Hamlet, in plot against Hamlet
mean and culpable in Shakespeare's play
shorter
more attractive in Shake.
hapless and victims in Stoppard's play
39
When G says Heaven make our presence and our practices pleasant and helpful to him, who is him?
Hamlet
Claudius
Rosenkrantz
Gertrude
40
Rosencrantz is doing ? physically when he remarks that fingernails and beards grow after death
cutting his fingernails.
cutting the cheese
cutting his toenails
cutting his beard
41
In Travesties, James Joyce meets Tristan Tzara and what other famous character from history
Joseph Stalin
Mao Tse Tung
Karl Marx
Vlad Lenin
42
What is the name of the genre in lit. and art that focuses on average people?
Classic
Abstract
Realism
Boring
43
Duo tries to figure out the reason for a unnerving experience they have, what is it?
their coins always flip to the same side
that somebody is following them
that there is danger ahead
they don't trust each other
44
Play before Rosencrantz etc had those two meeting which other Shakespearean character
Queen Victoria
Queen Elizabeth
King James
King Lear
45
What is the first thing that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern remember?
a messenger
Their location
Their destination
Their names
46
What went wrong with Player's plan to actually kill man condemned to death in middle of play?
He couldn't find the man
He lost the gun
The man escaped
He just cried/he wasn't believable
47
What is the first well-formed memory of Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern?
Getting lost in the palace
The Coin flipping
eating a burger and fries at 5 guys
The messenger
48
How did Hamlet get away from the boat taking him to England?
He did not get away
Pretended he was a sailor and snuck onto another ship
He jumped overboard
He sailed away on a pirate ship
49
What year did R & Gildenstern first open at the Old Vic Theater in London?
1968
1967
1964
1973
50
What is the name of the literary form that imitates and makes fun of an original form?
Sarcasm
Parody
Poetry
Cartooning