Shakespeare 2010

Here are today's questions:

q1. Which English city was Shakespeare born in?

q2. In which play would you find these characters: Bottom, Quince, Puck and Tatania?

q3. Shakespeare's plays are listed in four groups. One of these groups is called Tragedies. Can you name the other three?

q4. How many witches appear at the satrt of Macbeth?

q5. From which play does the famous quote 'To be or not to be - that is the question?' come?

19/04/2010

Hi! Today's questions:

q6. In which play does a king shun one daughter and give his kingdom to the other two?

q7. In which Italian city does the play Julius Caesar open?

q8. Is Hamlet, King Lear or Richard III Shakespeare's longest play with 4,024 lines?

q9. Which of the following is not one of Shakespeare's history plays: King John, Richard II, KIng Lear or Edward III?

q10. Which of the following is not one of Shakespeare's romance plays: Love's Labour's Lost, The Winter's Tale, The Two Noble Kinsmen?

20/04/2010

q11.What name beginning with the letter S, is given to a type of short verse, of which Shakespeare wrote many?

q12. Which play is called 'the Scottish play' by actors, who consider it unlucky to mention its name in a theatre?

q13. Which of the following is not one of Shakespeare's tragedies: Hamlet, Timon of Athens, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar?

q14. Is Titus Andronicus set mainly in Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Ancient Carthage or Tudor England?

q15. In which country is Hamlet largely set?

q16. Which Shakespeare comedy features lovers getting mixed up in a forest, enchanted fairies and a craftsman whose head is turned into that of an ass?

q17. In Julius Caesar, who gives the famous speech beginning, 'Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears...'?

q18. Does Twelfth Night, Love's Labour's Lost or Much Ado About Nothing feature a brother and sister who are twins?

q19. In which play would you find the female characters Bianca, Emilia, and Desdemona?

q20. Which of the following is not one of Shakespeare's comedies: Trilus and Cressida, The Taming of the Shrew or The Tempest?

q21. Which comedy is the shortest of Shakespeare's plays, measuring 1,786 lines in length?

q22. Can you give the title of one of Shakespeare's tragedies that starts with the letter M?

q23. Which play features a Prince of Denmark and is considered by many people to be Shakespeare's greatest work?

q24. "The miserable has no other medicine but only hope" is a famous quote from: Macbeth, Measure foir Measure or The Merry Wives of Windsor?

q25. What was the name of the famous theatre where most of Shakespeare's middle and later period plays were presented?

q26. Was Shakespeare's father called John, Harry, Walter or Thomas?

q27. In which century was Shakespeare born: 14th, 15th, 16th or 17th?

q28. What was the name of Shakespeare's wife?

q29. How old was Shakespeare's only son when he died?

q30. Who were not permitted to act in plays during Elizabethan times: women, foreigners or poor people?

q31. Was the name given to the first known published collection of Shakespeare's plays The Workes, First Folio or The Dramatic Arts of William Shakespeare?

q32. In 1603, when Shakespeare was at the height of his powers, which king or queen died?

q33. Did The Globe theatre burn down in 1613 during a performance of King Lear, Othello, Henry VIII or The Comedy of Errors?

q34. In which city was the original Globe theatre constructed?

q35. How many of Shakespeare's history plays featured a king called Henry in their title?

q36. Did Shakespeare die on St George's, St David's or St Patrick's Day in 1616?

q37. Who wrote Shakespeare's epitaph, the words that appear on his gravestone?

q38. Did a reconstruction of the Globe theatre open near the original site in 1962,1979,1977 or 2003?

q39. Was Mary Arden Shakespeare's mistress, his mother or the person who sponsored his early plays?

q40. In front of which king was The Tempest first performed in 1611?

q41. Could the original Globe theatre hold over 250, 600, 950 or 1,500 people?

q42. Which queen ruled England during the early years of Shakespeare's life?

q43. Which of the following was not one of William Shakespeare's brothers: Gilbert, Thomas, Edmund or Richard?

q44. Did the Globe theatre open in 1582, 1599, 1604 or 1613?

q45. Some theatres closed and people left London in 1592 because of: a great fire, a war with France or an outbreak of plague?