2. ROUND ONE

3. When was Shakespeare born?

5. What were the names of his
father and mother??

7. Name the school that he attended
as a child

9. Shakespeare married
______________________-

11. Shakespeare spent
almost all his years in
this city.Name the city.

13. He left Stratford and travelled
with others…..soon,he became a
great _______________&____________.

15. Apart from Sonnets and
poems,Shakespeare wrote plays.How
many plays did he write??

17. Shakespeare died on his 52nd
birthday and was buried in a
church.Name the church.

19. QUESTION FOR THE AUDIENCE

20. William Shakespeare retired
from the theatre and went back
to his home town Stratford,
where he lived until his
death.Which year did he retire
and when did he die?

22. ROUND TWO

23. My Mum's really cross with me because I
broke the vase. I think it's best if I ___ for
a little while!
Night owl
As dead as a doornail
Lie low
Good riddance packing

25. 2. I have an amazing family, a great job and a beautiful
home. I really do lead ___
Night owl
Mum's the word
As dead as a doornail
A charmed life

27. 3. Don't worry I won't tell a soul,___.
Green-eyed monster
A charmed life
Mum's the word
Lie low

28. Mum’s the word
A form of the phrase was used in John Palsgrave's 1540
translation of the Latin text The Comedye of Acolastus, "I
dare not to do so moche as put my hande to my mouthe,
and saye mum, is counseyle."
But Shakespeare also used the phrase, in a slightly different
form, in Henry VI, Part 2, "Seal up your lips and give no
words but mum."
From there it became a common way of telling someone to
stay silent.

29. 4. He acted like an idiot, I think you
should ___.
A charmed life
Send him packing
As dead as a doornail
Green-eyed monster

31. ________________,it rained heavily
spoiling the picnic completely.
Good riddance
To be or not to be
As luck would have it
Fair and foul

32. As good luck would have it
From Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of
Windsor, 1600:
FALSTAFF:
You shall hear. As good luck would have it,
comes in one Mistress Page; gives
intelligence of Ford's approach; and, in her
invention and Ford's wife's distraction, they
conveyed me into a buck-basket.
The expression is now usually shortened to
simply 'as luck would have it'.

33. Gemma is a ___! She's jealous of everyone!
As dead as a doornail
Lie low
Night owl
Green-eyed monster

34. Green Eyed Monster
6.
The phrase was used by, and possibly coined by,
Shakespeare to denote jealousy, in The Merchant
of Venice, 1596:
Portia:
How all the other passions fleet to air,
As doubtful thoughts, and rash-embraced despair,
And shuddering fear, and green-eyed jealousy! O
love,
Be moderate; allay thy ecstasy,

35. I've been a real ___ since I started university.
It's normal for me to stay awake until 3 in the
morning.
Send him packing
Good riddance
Green-eyed monster
Night owl
As dead as a doornail

36. Twelfth Night, 1602:
"Shall wee rowze the night-Owle in a
Catch?"
Night Owl

37. 'Are you sure the mouse is dead'?
‘Definitely ___'.
Night owl
A charmed life
Good riddance
Lie low

38. Mum's the word
“Good riddance” serves as a phrase of relief after an
unpleasant encounter or revelation. It also served as the title
of a popular song by Green Day, though most commonly refer
to the song as “Time of Your Life.” It has also been used as the
name of a punk rock band and the title of a classic French-
language Canadian film from 1981. All these Pop Culture
representatives can thank Shakespeare for penning the phrase
for the character of Patroclus in his Troilus and Cressida, where
it originally appears as “A good riddance” (II.i).

39. Question for the audience

40. His parents were unhappy that he
had married a girl much older to
him.Does this really mean
that________________________

41. Love is blind
This was coined by Shakespeare and was quite a
favourite line of his. It appears in several of his
plays, including Two Gentlemen of Verona, Henry
V and The Merchant Of Venice; for example, this
piece from The Merchant Of Venice, 1596:

42. ROUND THREE

43. She is a Venetian beauty who
enrages and disappoints her
father, a Venetian senator, when
she elopes with a man several
years her senior. Her husband is
manipulated into believing she is
an adulteress, and, in the last act,
she is murdered by her estranged
spouse.Who is she?/

44. DESDEMONA

45. She is a young woman of aristocratic birth, and the
play's protagonist. Washed up on the shore of Illyria
when her ship is wrecked in a storm, she decides to
make her own way in the world. She disguises herself
as a young man, calling herself "Cesario," and becomes
a page to Duke Orsino. She ends up falling in love with
Orsino — even as the woman Orsino is courting, falls
in love with Cesario. Which female character are we
talking here??

46. Viola is the leading character in the playWhen Viola disguises herself as a male,
she assumes the name “Cesario,” or “LittleCaesar.” This counterfeit male is
reputed to be very handsome.

47. A rich, beautiful, and intelligent heiress, she is
bound by the lottery set forth in her father's
will, which gives potential suitors the chance to
choose between three caskets composed of
gold, silver and lead. If they choose the right
casket – the casket containing her portrait –
they win her hand in marriage. If they choose
the wrong casket, they must leave and never
seek another woman in marriage. Who is
she??

48. PORTIA

49. She is the wife to the play's protagonist,
a Scottish nobleman. After goading him
into committing regicide, she becomes
Queen of Scotland, but later suffers
pangs of guilt for her part in the crime.
She dies off-stage in the last act, an
apparent suicide.Identify her

50. LADY MACBETH

51. one of the main characters of William
Shakespeare’s The Tempest. She was banished
to the Island along with her father at the age
of three, and in the subsequent twelve years
has lived with her father and their slave,
Caliban, as her only company. She is openly
compassionate and unaware of the evils of the
world that surrounds her, learning of her
father's fate only as the play begins.

53. She is a young noblewoman of Denmark, the
daughter of Polonius, sister of Laertes, and
potential wife of Prince Hamlet. As one of the
few female characters in the play, she is used
as a contrasting plot device to Hamlet's
mother, Gertrude.

54. Ophelia in Hamlet

55. She is the youngest of the three daughters, and her
father’s favorite. After her elderly father offers her the
opportunity to profess her love to him in return for
one third of the land in his kingdom, she refuses and is
banished for the majority of the play.Name the female
character.

56. Cordellia from King Lear

57. She is the daughter of the exiled Duke Senior
and niece to his usurping brother Duke
Frederick. Her father is banished from the
kingdom which breaks her heart. She then
meets Orlando and falls in love with him. After
angering her uncle, she leaves his court for
exile in the Forest of Arden. There, she lives
disguised as a shepherd named Ganymede
with her sweet and devoted cousin, Celia,

59. QUESTION FOR THE AUDIENCE

60. She is the queen of the fairies.
Due to Shakespeare's influence,
later fiction has often used her
name for fairy queen
characters.Who is this character?

61. TITANIA FROM A MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT
DREAM

63. Shakespeare “First-Lines”
ROUND FOUR

64. When shall we three meet again
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
a) The Taming of the Shrew
b) King Lear
c) The Tempest
d) Macbeth
First Witch. When shall we three meet again
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
Second Witch. When the hurlyburly's done,
When the battle's lost and won.
Macbeth (1.1)

65. Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
) Richard III
b) Twelfth Night
c) Edward III
d) Hamlet
Richard III (1.1)

66. Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene.
a) The Two Gentlemen of Verona
b) Romeo and Juliet
c) Measure for Measure
d) King John
Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whole misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
Romeo and Juliet (1.1)

67. Tush! never tell me; I take it much unkindly
That thou, Iago, who hast had my purse
As if the strings were thine, shouldst know of
this.
a) Titus Andronicus
b) The Merchant of Venice
c) Richard II
d) Othello
RODERIGO. Tush! never tell me; I take it much
unkindly
That thou, Iago, who hast had my purse
As if the strings were thine, shouldst know of
this.
IAGO. 'Sblood, but you will not hear me:
If ever I did dream of such a matter, Abhor me.
RODERIGO. Thou told'st me thou didst hold
him in thy hate.
Othello (1.1)

68. Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour
Draws on apace; four happy days bring in
Another moon.
a) Much Ado About Nothing
b) A Midsummer Night's Dream
c) 1 Henry IV
d) Love's Labour's Lost
Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour
Draws on apace; four happy days bring in
Another moon: but, O, methinks, how slow
This old moon wanes! she lingers my desires,
Like to a step-dame or a dowager
Long withering out a young man revenue.
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1.1)

69. O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention,
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
a) Hamlet
b) Pericles
c) Henry V Chorus. O for a Muse of fire, that would
d) 1 Henry VI ascend
The brightest heaven of invention,
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
Then should the warlike Harry, like himself,
Assume the port of Mars; and at his heels,
Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword
and fire
Crouch for employment. But pardon, and
gentles all,
The flat unraised spirits that have dared
On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth
So great an object: can this cockpit hold
The vasty fields of France?
Henry V (1.1)

70. As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion
bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand
crowns,
and, as thou sayest, charged my brother, on
his
blessing, to breed me well: and there begins
my ORLANDO. As I remember, Adam, it was upon
sadness. this fashion
bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand
a) The Merry Wives of Windsor crowns,
b) Timon of Athens and, as thou sayest, charged my brother, on
c) As You Like It his
d) Coriolanus blessing, to breed me well: and there begins
my
sadness. My brother Jaques he keeps at
school, and
report speaks goldenly of his profit: for my
part,
he keeps me rustically at home, or, to speak
more
properly, stays me here at home unkept; for
call you
that keeping for a gentleman of my birth, that

71. So shaken as we are, so wan with care,
Find we a time for frighted peace to pant,
And breathe short-winded accents of new
broils
To be commenced in strands afar remote.
a) 1 Henry IV
b) Richard II
c) Henry VIII KING HENRY IV. So shaken as we are, so wan
d) Julius Caesar with care,
Find we a time for frighted peace to pant,
And breathe short-winded accents of new
broils
To be commenced in strands afar remote.
No more the thirsty entrance of this soil
Shall daub her lips with her own children's
blood;
1 Henry IV (1.1)

72. If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it...
Richard III
b) Twelfth Night
c) Edward III
d) Hamlet
the famous lines above open Shakespeare's
comedy Twelfth Night.

73. ROUND FIVE

74. HAMLET

75. Merchant of Venice

76. A Midsummer’s Night dream

77. Romeo and Juliet

78. King Lear

79. Macbeth

80. Othello

81. As You Like It

82. AUDIENCE QUESTION

83. The Tempest

84. Twelfth Night

85. ROUND SIX
THE BOX OFFICE

86. Identify the movie

87. AS YOU LIKE IT

88. Name this movie

89. Hamlet

90. Which movie is this??

91. Julius Ceasar

92. Identify this movie

93. King Lear

94. Name this movie

95. Macbeth

96. Identify this famous
movie

98. Nmae the movie

99. Othello

100. Identify this movie

101. The Tempest

102. This one is for the audience…..

104. Twelfth Night

106. ROUND SEVEN

107. Where does Twelfth Night take place? What is Malvolio’s position?
(A) England (A) He is Orsino’s fool
(B) Illyria (B) He is Viola’s butler
(C) Ruritania (C) He is Sir Toby’s butler
(D) Denmark (D) He is Olivia’s steward
Why is Olivia unwilling to receive any visitors?
(A) She is hideously deformed
(B) She is terribly shy
(C) She cannot speak
(D) She is in mourning for her dead brother
Why is Sir Andrew Aguecheek staying at
Olivia’s home?
Who does Olivia marry?
(A) He is her uncle
(B) He is trying to court Maria (A) Sebastian
(C) He is trying to court Olivia (B) Antonio
(D) He is Malvolio’s brother (C) Orsino
(D) Malvolio

108. B,D,C,D,A

109. Which one of Lear’s counselors reprimands the Before the battle between the French and
king for exiling his daughter? English armies, to whose camp is Lear
brought?
(A) Albany
(B) Kent (A) Cordelia’s
(C) Cornwall (B) Edmund’s
(D) Edmund (C) Gloucester’s
(D) Albany’s
When Lear visits Goneril, what does she
demand of him?
What happens to Cordelia and Lear at the end
(A) That he acknowledge her as the sole queen
of the play?
of the realm
(B) That he send away some of his knights
(A) Both of them kill themselves
(C) That he execute Cordelia
(B) She is hanged in prison and he dies
(D) That he send away the Fool
weeping over her body
When Lear tells Regan that Goneril has (C) She marries Edgar and his kingdom gets
wronged him, what does Regan advise him to restored
do? (D) They order Regan and Goneril to be
executed
(A) Kill himself
(B) Banish Goneril
(C) Make Regan the sole queen
(D) Go to Goneril and ask her forgiveness

110. Kent
That he send away
some of his knights
Go to generil/...
Cordelia’s
She is hanged
and he dies
weeping over
her dead body

111. Whom does Caliban mistake for one of What do we see Miranda and Ferdinand doing
Prospero’s spirits sent to torment him? in the play’s final scene?
(A) Stephano (A) Playing cards
(B) Ferdinand (B) Carrying wood
(C) Miranda (C) Playing chess
(D) Trinculo (D) Playing tag
What was Prospero’s title before his position
was usurped and he was forced to flee Italy? What is the name of Alonso’s daughter?
(A) Duke of Milan (A) Claribel
(B) King of Naples (B) Miranda
(C) Duke of Naples (C) Sycorax
(D) Pope of Rome (D) Alonsa
Which mythical figures appear in the wedding
masque Prospero stages for Miranda and
Ferdinand?
(A) Cupid, Venus, and Mars
(B) Jupiter and Saturn
(C) Ceres, Iris, and Juno
(D) Isis and Osiris

112. D,A,C,C,A

113. According to Oliver, what would Orlando bring How much time does Duke Frederick allow
to a wrestling match with Charles? Oliver to find Orlando?
(A) A strong competitive edge (A) One year
(B) A lust for prize money (B) One month
(C) Poison, or some other deceitful means of (C) One week
securing victory (D) A fortnight
(D) An comprehensive knowledge of strategic
physical combat
At what event do Orlando and Rosalind meet?
With whom does Oliver fall in love?
(A) The wedding of Duke Frederick
(B) A wrestling match
(A) Rosalind
(C) A public execution
(B) Phoebe
(D) A traveling circus
(C) Aliena
(D) Audrey
What name does Rosalind assume for her
disguised self?
(A) Ganymede
(B) Jove
(C) Harry
(D) Icarus

114. C,B,A,A,C

115. Who is chosen to play the lion in the Where do Lysander and Hermia plan to be
craftsmen’s play? married?
(A) Bottom (A) Theseus’s palace
(B) Quince (B) Lysander’s aunt’s house
(C) Peaseblossom (C) The temple of Diana
(D) Snug (D) A forest glade
Which of the young Athenians is first affected
by the love potion? Whom does Demetrius love at the end of the
play?
(A) Lysander
(B) Helena (A) Titania
(C) Hermia (B) Hippolyta
(D) Demetrius (C) Helena
(D) Hermia
Which man does Hermia’s father want her to
marry?
(A) Lysander
(B) Demetrius
(C) Theseus
(D) Philostrate

116. D,A,B,B,C

117. What first attracted Desdemona to Othello? How does Othello kill Desdemona?
(A) His strong hands (A) He stabs her.
(B) His beautifully crafted armor (B) He smothers her.
(C) His handkerchief (C) He strangles her.
(D) The stories he told about his past (D) He beats her to death.
From whom did Desdemona first hear the
“song of ‘Willow’”? On the night of her death, what does
Desdemona ask Emilia to do?
(A) Othello
(B) Her mother’s maid, Barbary (A) Put ribbons in Desdemona’s hair
(C) The clown (B) Sing Desdemona to sleep
(D) Emilia (C) Put Desdemona’s wedding sheets on the
bed
(D) Embroider Desdemona a new handkerchief
Which of the following epithets is most
commonly applied to Iago throughout the
play?
(A) “Honest”
(B) “Fat”
(C) “Stubborn”
(D) “Ugly”

118. D,B,A,B.C

119. Who kills Macbeth? What vision does Macbeth have
before he kills Duncan?
(A) Macduff
(B) Banquo (A) He sees a floating head urging him to spill
(C) Lady Macbeth blood.
(D) Malcolm (B) He sees a bloody axe lodged in Duncan’s
brow.
(C) He sees a pale maiden weeping in the
Who kills Banquo?
moonlight.
(D) He sees a floating dagger pointing him to
(A) Macduff
Duncan’s chamber.
(B) Fleance
(C) Macbeth
(D) A group of murderers hired by Macbeth What happens to Lady Macbeth before she
dies?
(A) She is plagued by fits of sleepwalking.
Whom does Macbeth see sitting in his chair (B) She is haunted by the ghost of Duncan.
during the banquet? (C) She sees her children killed in battle.
(D) She sees her children killed by Macbeth.
(A) himself
(B) Banquo’s ghost
(C) Duncan’s ghost
(D) Lady Macbeth

120. A,D,C,D,A

121. How did Claudius murder King Hamlet? Why, according to Polonius, has Hamlet gone
mad?
(A) By stabbing him through an arras
(B) By pouring poison into his ear (A) He grieves too much for his father.
(C) By ordering him to be hanged (B) He despises Claudius for marrying
(D) By poisoning his wineglass Gertrude.
(C) He is in love with Ophelia.
Which of the following characters cannot see (D) He is jealous of Laertes and longs to return
the ghost? to Wittenberg.
(A) Marcellus
(B) Hamlet
(C) Gertrude Who speaks the famous “To be, or not to be”
(D) Horatio soliloquy?
(A) Claudius
How does Ophelia die? (B) Hamlet
(C) The ghost
(A) Claudius stabs her. (D) Laertes
(B) Hamlet strangles her.
(C) She slits her wrists.
(D) She drowns in the river.

122. B,C,D,C,B

124. Although we read 36 of the plays written by
Shakespeare,he actually wrote 37.Name the play
which has no written record today.
Shakespeare wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets.
One play called "Cardenio" has no written
record today. Only 36 plays can be read today.