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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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Gertrude

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

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Mary

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

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Oberon

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

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A money lender

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

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A money lender

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

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Romeo

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

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Shakespeare’s “The Tragedy of King Richard III.”

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

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The First Folio (collection of Shakespeare’s complete plays) Heminges and Condell were in a position to do this because they, like Shakespeare, worked for the King’s Men, the London playing company that produced all of Shakespeare’s plays (in Elizabethan England, plays belonged to the company that performed them, not to the dramatist who had written them).

Who was the playwright son of Mary Arden?

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William Shakespeare

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

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Paris
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