Shakespeare

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but a trivia category by any other name wouldn't have questions on The Bard. Test your knowledge about the works of Willy Shakes right here.

In Shakespeare’s Hamlet what is the name of Hamlet’s mother? Gertrude, Gladys, Geraldine, Guinevere

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What was the name of William Shakespeare’s mother? Juliet, Anne, Elizabeth, Mary

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In a Mid summer nights Dream, who was ‘King of the Fairies’?

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What was the occupation of the Shakespearean character “Shylock”?

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What was the occupation of the Shakespearean character “Shylock”?

December 18, 2017 By

Which Shakespearian role does Lady Viola (Gwyneth Paltrow) get in Shakespeare in Love?

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What play opens with “Now is the winter of our discontent”?

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The literary world owes a big debt to actors John Heminges and Henry Condell who compiled what in 1623?

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Who was the playwright son of Mary Arden?

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In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Juliet fakes her death to avoid marrying who?

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Which Shakespeare play begins with the words “If music be the food of love play on”?

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How many of Shakespeare’s heroines disguise themselves as males?

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Who was the Queen of the Fairies in Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream’?

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Name the Shakespeare character son of the witch Sycorax?

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What name connects a Shakespearean King, a 19th century poet and painter, and a manufacturer of jet aircraft?

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Name William Shakespeare’s son.

December 14, 2017 By

Ian Dury’s the lead singer for what group?

December 14, 2017 By

Who’s the lead vocalist for the band Toto?

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In which country was ex-England cricket captain Tony Greig born?

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Who had a US number one hit with “Wishing Well” in 1988?

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According to the nursery rhyme what did the third little piggy have?

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WHICH SHAKESPEARE PLAY WAS ORIGINALLY ENTITLED WHAT YOU WILL?

August 17, 2017 By

What is Bottom’s occupation in A Midsummer Night’s Dream?

August 17, 2017 By

Which Shakespeare play features the murder of King Duncan?

August 17, 2017 By

After William Shakespeare, who is the most frequently quoted writer in the English language with phrases like “Theirs not to reason why,/Theirs but to do and die”?

August 17, 2017 By

WHO HAD THE MOTTO NON SANS DROIT – NOT WITHOUT RIGHT?

August 17, 2017 By

IN THE SHAKESPEARE’S PLAY, HAMLET IS A PRINCE OF WHICH EUROPEAN COUNTRY?

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Whose skull was exhumed by a grave digger in Act 5 of Hamlet?

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Which Shakespeare character died on a battlefield without a horse?

August 17, 2017 By

What two great writers died on the same day – April 23, 1616?

August 17, 2017 By

WHICH SHAKESPEARE PLAY WAS BANNED DURING GEORGE III’S TIME OF MADNESS?

August 17, 2017 By

ROBIN GOODFELLOW ALTERNATIVE NAME WHICH SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER?

August 17, 2017 By

In which city is Romeo and Juliet set?

August 17, 2017 By

Which Shakespeare play was set in the city of Vienna?

August 17, 2017 By

What was the occupation of the Shakespearean character “Shylock”?

August 17, 2017 By

WHICH ‘TAH’ ARE KING AND QUEEN OF ATHENS IN A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM?

August 17, 2017 By

WHAT ‘MOV’ BY SHAKESPEARE HAS PORTIA AS THE PROTAGONIST?

August 17, 2017 By

Which Shakespeare play features a beggar called Christopher Sly?

August 17, 2017 By

In Romeo and Juliet what was Juliet’s last name?

August 17, 2017 By

William Shakespeare wrote his own epitath, True or False?

August 17, 2017 By

WHAT WAS THE FORENAME OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S SON?

August 17, 2017 By

IN HIS WILL WHO LEFT HIS WIFE HIS SECOND BEST BED?

August 17, 2017 By

According to William Shakespeare which monarch said, “Now is the winter of our discontent”?

August 17, 2017 By

Which of King Lear’s three daughters was murdered?

August 17, 2017 By

In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, how many people does Romeo kill?

August 17, 2017 By

WHAT WAS SHAKESPEAR’S LAST COMPLETED PLAY?

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WHICH SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER HAD A DAUGHTER CALLED JESSICA?

August 17, 2017 By

Which Shakespeare character is known as The Moor Of Venice?

August 17, 2017 By

Which country provides the setting for Hamlet?

August 17, 2017 By

What ‘h’ says `to be or not to be’?

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