Shakespeare

Question 1

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Paris calls this character a “banished haughty Montague”

Answer 1

Romeo

Question 2

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This lover of Bassanio disguises herself as a lawyer & saves Antonio

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Portia

Question 3

$1200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Nahum Tate’s 1681 adaptation of this play omitted the Fool & added a love affair between Edgar & Cordelia

Answer 3

King Lear

Question 4

$1600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Act I of this tragedy is set in Venice; Act II, in Cyprus

Answer 4

Othello

Question 5

$2000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Some believe this comedy was written to be performed during Epiphany festivities, hence its name

Answer 5

Twelfth Night

Question 6

$None ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| These 2 “King Lear” characters, 1 male, 1 female, both represent truthfulness; one disappears when the other returns

Answer 6

Cordelia and the Fool

Question 7

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In this play the Duke of Albany is Goneril’s husband

Answer 7

King Lear

Question 8

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In “The Merchant of Venice”, Jessica is his daughter

Answer 8

Shylock

Question 9

$1200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In this play Guildenstern says, “O, there has been much throwing about of brains”

Answer 9

Hamlet

Question 10

$1600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The title of this comedy refers to Mistress Ford & Mistress Page

Answer 10

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Question 11

$2000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| He says, “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings”

Answer 11

Cassius

Question 12

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| “Come on, and kiss me, Kate” is actually a line in this comedy that inspired the musical “Kiss Me, Kate”

Answer 12

The Taming of the Shrew

Question 13

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This play’s line “murder most foul” has been used as the title of mystery & crime books

Answer 13

Hamlet

Question 14

$1200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| He has the nerve to woo a widow beside her father-in-law’s coffin, but she marries him anyway

Answer 14

Richard III

Question 15

$1600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In “King John”, King John’s first words to her are “Silence, good mother; hear the embassy”

Answer 15

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Question 16

$2000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In “Macbeth”, these 3 words immediately precede the line “and damn’d be him that first cries, ‘Hold, enough!’”

Answer 16

“Lay on, Macduff”

Question 17

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Desdemona’s lady-in-waiting is Emilia, this man’s wife

Answer 17

Iago

Question 18

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Much of Act V of this play is set at Dunsinane Castle

Answer 18

Macbeth

Question 19

$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| A shipwreck separates twin siblings Viola & Sebastian in this comedy

Answer 19

Twelfth Night

Question 20

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Most of “Hamlet” is set in this Danish seaport

Answer 20

Elsinore

Question 21

$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| He’s described as “The triple pillar of the world transformed into a strumpet’s fool”

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Marc Antony

Question 22

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| She is the “Shrew” whom Petruchio must tame

Answer 22

Katarina

Question 23

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| He cannot overcome temptation or ambition but does ignore his own scruples to murder Duncan

Answer 23

Macbeth

Question 24

$1200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The title of this problem comedy tells you how everything is going to turn out when the play is over

Answer 24

All’s Well that Ends Well

Question 25

$3000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| These 2 seasons are found in the titles of Shakespeare plays

Answer 25

winter & summer

Question 26

$2000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Achilles & Ajax are characters in this play

Answer 26

Troilus & Cressida

Question 27

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This title queen uses an asp, a “poor venomous fool”, to kill herself

Answer 27

Cleopatra

Question 28

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This moneylender asks, “Hates any man the thing he would not kill?”

Answer 28

Shylock

Question 29

$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| He uses the word “assassination” for what he plans to do to Duncan

Answer 29

Macbeth

Question 30

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Women in this king’s play included Katharine, wife to the king, later divorced, & Anne, maid of honor, later queen

Answer 30

Henry VIII

Question 31

$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Characters in this play include the charming Rosalind & the sardonic Jaques

Answer 31

As You Like It

Question 32

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Laertes is Ophelia’s brother in this end-all, be-all of Shakespeare’s plays

Answer 32

Hamlet

Question 33

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Desdemona is the wife of the title character of this tragedy

Answer 33

Othello

Question 34

$1200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Shylock gives the “If you prick us, do we not bleed?” speech in this play

Answer 34

The Merchant Of Venice

Question 35

$1600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Proteus & Valentine are “the two gentlemen of” this place, also the setting of “Romeo And Juliet”

Answer 35

Verona

Question 36

$2000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Malcolm gets the last word (literally) in this play

Answer 36

Macbeth

Question 37

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In “Macbeth”, among the items in this container are scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, tongue of dog & toe of frog

Answer 37

the witch’s cauldron

Question 38

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| She was worried when Hamlet came to her “pale as his shirt; his knees knocking each other”

Answer 38

Ophelia

Question 39

$1200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| “Twelfth Night” opens with, “If music be the food of love,” do this

Answer 39

play on

Question 40

$1600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Caesar says this man “thinks too much: such men are dangerous” (No, it’s not Brutus)

Answer 40

Cassius

Question 41

$2000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| 2-word phrase for a predetermined ending; Othello talks of one in Act III

Answer 41

a foregone conclusion

Question 42

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| She cleverly disguises herself as a lawyer & saves Antonio from Shylock’s revenge

Answer 42

Portia

Question 43

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Laertes tells her, “For Hamlet and the trifling of his favor” are “not permanent, sweet, not lasting”

Answer 43

Ophelia

Question 44

$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| He’s the storm-raising Duke of “The Tempest”

Answer 44

Prospero

Question 45

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| A setting in “As You Like It”, it’s also the name of an ancient wooded area near Shakespeare’s home

Answer 45

the Forest of Arden

Question 46

$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| “Pandosto: The Triumph of Time” was the source for this “Tale” of romance

Answer 46

The Winter’s Tale

Question 47

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Puck says, “Lord, what fools these mortals be!” in this comedy

Answer 47

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Question 48

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Some friend–he’s the last to stab Julius Caesar & it’s his idea that the conspirators wash their hands in Caesar’s blood

Answer 48

Brutus

Question 49

$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This title guy: “A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm”

Answer 49

Hamlet

Question 50

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Comedy in which Benedick says Beatrice exceeds Hero “in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December”

Answer 50

Much Ado About Nothing

Question 51

$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Quite an eyeful, he’s the guy Juliet dumps for Romeo

Answer 51

Paris

Question 52

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The Royal Shakespeare Theatre is in this town; the theatre overlooks a river

Answer 52

Stratford-on-Avon

Question 53

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| “The Winter’s Tale” has the memorable stage direction “Exit pursued by” this ursine beast

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a bear

Question 54

$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Forget rotten; T.S. Eliot said “So far from being Shakespeare’s masterpiece”, it “is most certainly an artistic failure”

Answer 54

Hamlet

Question 55

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The line “All the world’s a stage” may have been a reference to this theatre, home to Shakespeare’s acting co. in 1599

Answer 55

the Globe Theatre

Question 56

$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| One of Shakespeare’s sisters had this name, the same as Will’s wife

Answer 56

Anne

Question 57

$None ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Oddly enough, this 3-word phrase is the only Latin phrase spoken in the play “Julius Caesar”

Answer 57

"Et tu, Brute?"

Question 58

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| One Katherine & one Anne are the only wives who appear in the play named for him

Answer 58

Henry VIII

Question 59

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Holding this dead daughter in his arms, King Lear says, “Her voice was ever soft, gentle and low”

Answer 59

Cordelia

Question 60

$1200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| These 2 courtiers were hired by King Claudius to spy on Hamlet

Answer 60

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern

Question 61

$1600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, this Amazon declares, “I was with Hercules and Cadmus once”

Answer 61

Hippolyta

Question 62

$2000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Saturninus opens this play saying, “Noble patricians, patrons of my right, defend the justice of my cause with arms”

Answer 62

Titus Andronicus

Question 63

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| King Lear foolishly rejects this viruous daughter

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Cordelia

Question 64

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Miranda’s father, he ends “The Tempest” with an epilogue

Answer 64

Prospero

Question 65

$1200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| “Romeo and Juliet” begins, “Two households, both alike in” this

Answer 65

dignity

Question 66

$3000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Act I of this tragedy begins in a palace in Alexandria

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Antony and Cleopatra

Question 67

$2000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Comedy in which Lysander says, “The course of true love never did run smooth”

Answer 67

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Question 68

$None ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| 2 of the 4 Shakespeare plays in which ghosts appear on stage

Answer 68

(2 of) Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Richard III

Question 69

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Macduff tells us, “Not in the legions of horrid hell can come a devil more damn’d in evils to top” this man

Answer 69

the Macbeth

Question 70

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Richard III says, “How sweet a thing it is to wear” one & Henry IV says, “Uneasy lies the head that wears” one

Answer 70

a crown

Question 71

$1200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Laertes’ first line in this play is “Dread my lord, your leave and favour to return to France”

Answer 71

Hamlet

Question 72

$2000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In different plays, it’s the name shared by men linked with Helen of Troy & with Juliet

Answer 72

Paris

Question 73

$2000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| It’s the play in which Thaliard says, “So, this is Tyre, and this the court”

Answer 73

Pericles, Prince of Tyre

Question 74

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The name of this play refers to a violent windstorm

Answer 74

The Tempest

Question 75

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Play in which Iago says, “In sleep I heard him say, ‘Sweet Desdemona, let us be wary, let us hide our loves!’”

Answer 75

Othello

Question 76

$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Before disinheriting Cordelia, this man warns her, “Nothing will come of nothing”

Answer 76

King Lear

Question 77

$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The fair Bianca has an older, somewhat unpleasant sister named Katherine in this play

Answer 77

The Taming of the Shrew

Question 78

$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Valentine & his friend Proteus are the title characters of this play

Answer 78

Two Gentlemen of Verona

Question 79

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Brabantio, this woman’s father, dies of grief over her marriage to Othello

Answer 79

Desdemona

Question 80

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This tragic king cries, “Keep me in temper; I would not be mad”

Answer 80

King Lear

Question 81

$1200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The name of the monstrous Caliban in this play is an anagram of an old spelling of “cannibal”

Answer 81

The Tempest

Question 82

$1600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| (Sarah of the Clue Crew in Stratford-upon-Avon, England) You’ll find “The whining schoolboy creeping like snail unwillingly to school” in “The Ages of Man” speech from this Shakespeare play

Answer 82

As You Like It

Question 83

$2000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| A guilty Macbeth laments, “Methought I heard a voice cry” do this “‘no more!’”

Answer 83

sleep

Question 84

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Mercutio declares “A plague o’ both your houses” in this play

Answer 84

Romeo and Juliet

Question 85

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| “Beware the ides of March” is a line from this play

Answer 85

Julius Caesar

Question 86

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The basic situation of this play resembles the Elizabethan ballad “A Merry Jest of a Shrewd and Curst Wife”

Answer 86

Taming of the Shrew

Question 87

$1600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” says, “The course of true love never did” this

Answer 87

run smooth

Question 88

$2000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This “tale” was acted at court in November 1611, a bit early for its title

Answer 88

The Winter’s Tale

Question 89

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| His diabolic plotting leads to tragedy for Othello & Desdemona

Answer 89

Iago

Question 90

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Cicero & Publius are senators in this tragedy

Answer 90

Julius Caesar

Question 91

$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| It’s the name of Romeo’s family

Answer 91

Montague

Question 92

$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| King Claudius commissions these 2 minor characters, Hamlet’s schoolmates, to spy on Hamlet

Answer 92

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern

Question 93

$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Completes Dick the Butcher’s “The first thing we do, let’s…”

Answer 93

kill all the lawyers

Question 94

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| “Love goes toward love as school-boys from their books”, says this young man to Juliet

Answer 94

Romeo

Question 95

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Lavinia has her tongue cut out & Tamora is served her own sons baked in a pie in this far-from-tasteful tragedy

Answer 95

Titus Andronicus

Question 96

$6400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| He has the nerve to woo a widow beside her father-in-law’s coffin, but she marries him anyway

Answer 96

Richard III

Question 97

$1200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Froth is a foolish gentlemen in this comedy whose title begins & ends with the same 7-letter word

Answer 97

Measure for Measure

Question 98

$1600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In “Macbeth”, these 3 words immediately precede the line “And damn’d be him that first cries, ‘Hold, enough!’”

Answer 98

Lay on, Macduff

Question 99

$2000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Guiderius & Arviragus, who pretend to be Polydore & Cadwal, are sons of this title king of Britain

Answer 99

Cymbeline

Question 100

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Shakespeare’s synonyms for this body part include sconce, noll, poll, pash & pate

Answer 100

head

Question 101

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Looking for a title for your mystery novel? Lift this play’s “murder most foul” or “not a mouse stirring”

Answer 101

Hamlet

Question 102

$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In a 1936 production Orson Welles moved the setting of this play from the heath to Haiti

Answer 102

Macbeth

Question 103

$1600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Her Uncle Pandarus encourages her affair with Troilus

Answer 103

Cressida

Question 104

$2000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| “As You Like It” is partially set in the forest of this

Answer 104

Arden

Question 105

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| “Come on, and kiss me, Kate” is actually a line in this comedy that inspired the musical “Kiss Me, Kate”

Answer 105

The Taming of the Shrew

Question 106

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| “Henry VI, Part I” features the master-gunner of Orleans & this woman known in the play as Joan la Pucelle

Answer 106

Joan of Arc

Question 107

$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In “King John”, King John’s first words to her are “Silence, good mother; hear the embassy”

Answer 107

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Question 108

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Julius Caesar observes that this man “has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much: such men are dangerous”

Answer 108

Cassius

Question 109

$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Title character who says, “Like an eagle in a dove-cote, I flutter’d your Volscians in Corioli”

Answer 109

Coriolanus

Question 110

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Many historians disagree with Shakespeare’s portrayal of this king as a hunchbacked, villainous monster

Answer 110

Richard III

Question 111

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In “The Tempest” he was the rightful Duke of Milan, although his brother threw him out of the city

Answer 111

Prospero

Question 112

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| His daughters drive this man to cry out, “I am a man more sinned against than sinning”

Answer 112

King Lear

Question 113

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Play that contains the line “For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so”

Answer 113

“Hamlet”

Question 114

$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| After masquerading as Benedick, Claudio says, “All hearts in love use their own tongues” in this comedy

Answer 114

“Much Ado About Nothing”

Question 115

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This city is home to Petruchio in “The Taming of the Shrew” & the Montagues & Capulets in “Romeo and Juliet”

Answer 115

Verona

Question 116

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Assassin to whom Cassius says the fault “Is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings”

Answer 116

Brutus

Question 117

$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In “The Tempest” he’s the former Duke of Milan, now magician-ruler of a remote island

Answer 117

Prospero

Question 118

$300 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Doubting his attractiveness to Doll Tearsheet in “Henry I

Answer 118

Sir John Falstaff

Question 119

$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Although not historically accurate, Shakespeare set Macbeth’s demise at this hill near Perth

Answer 119

Dunsinane

Question 120

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In lists of Shakespeare’s plays, this comedy is placed first alphabetically

Answer 120

“All’s Well That Ends Well”

Question 121

$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Twin brothers, both named Antipholus, have slaves named Dromio who are also twins in this confusing comedy

Answer 121

“The Comedy of Errors”

Question 122

$900 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Octavius speaks last in these 2 plays

Answer 122

“Julius Caesar” & “Antony and Cleopatra”

Question 123

$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Banished from Rome though he captured Corioli, this title warrior says, “You common cry of curs…I banish you!”

Answer 123

Coriolanus

Question 124

$100 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Disguised as a lawyer, Portia foils Shylock’s plan to collect a pound of flesh in this play

Answer 124

“The Merchant of Venice”

Question 125

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This character who loved Cressida was a prince of Troy

Answer 125

Troilus

Question 126

$300 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In Act I of this play, Cordelia says, “What shall Cordelia speak? Love, and be silent”

Answer 126

“King Lear”

Question 127

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Shakespeare laid the scene of this tragedy in “Fair Verona”

Answer 127

“Romeo and Juliet”

Question 128

$500 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| “‘Tis incredible to believe how much she loves me. O the kindest Kate!” Petruchio says in this play

Answer 128

“The Taming of the Shrew”

Question 129

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| After Othello stabs him, this villain says, “I bleed, sir, but not kill’d”

Answer 129

Iago

Question 130

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This mischievous trickster delivers the epilogue to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

Answer 130

Puck

Question 131

$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In the lottery of the caskets in “The Merchant of Venice”, Bassanio chooses a casket made of this element

Answer 131

Lead

Question 132

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| As he dies in Alexandria, his last words are “Now my spirit is going. I can no more”

Answer 132

Antony

Question 133

$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This title character imprisons his brother, the Duke of Clarence, in the Tower of London

Answer 133

Richard III

Question 134

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| When Mercutio is mortally wounded in this play, he puns, “Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man”

Answer 134

Romeo and Juliet

Question 135

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Meryl Streep & Raul Julia starred onstage in this comedy in 1978, 11 years after the Taylor & Burton film

Answer 135

Taming of the Shrew

Question 136

$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This king’s fool tells him, “I am better than thou art now; I am a fool, thou art nothing”

Answer 136

King Lear

Question 137

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| It’s Falstaff’s first name

Answer 137

(Sir) John

Question 138

$700 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The maiden name of Shakespeare’s mother, or the forest where he set much of “As You Like It”

Answer 138

Arden

Question 139

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This comedy’s last line, “Strike up, pipers!”, is spoken by Benedick

Answer 139

Much Ado About Nothing

Question 140

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Though Juliet married Romeo & Romeo married Juliet, he married both of them

Answer 140

Friar Lawrence

Question 141

$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This play is set partly in Corioli, as you may surmise

Answer 141

Coriolanus

Question 142

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In Venice you may find the answer to the “Merchant Of Venice” question “What news on?” this bridge

Answer 142

The Rialto

Question 143

$1400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In “Macbeth”, it’s the 5-word phrase that precedes “Fire burn and cauldron bubble”

Answer 143

“Double, double toil and trouble”

Question 144

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Appropriately, this stormy drama opens with a storm & a shipwreck

Answer 144

The Tempest

Question 145

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| “Umabatha”, a Zulu version of this play, moves the setting from Scotland to Africa

Answer 145

Macbeth

Question 146

$1500 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Richmond exults, “The bloody dog is dead” after killing this king at Bosworth Field

Answer 146

Richard III

Question 147

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In Act V of “Pericles”, this Roman goddess of the hunt appears to Pericles in a vision

Answer 147

Diana

Question 148

$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In other words, this bawdy battle of the sexes could be called “A Termagant’s Domestication”

Answer 148

The Taming of the Shrew

Question 149

$100 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| He goes to the Capulets’ party to see the fair Rosaline, whom he loves – for now

Answer 149

Romeo

Question 150

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth & Mustardseed are these; Oberon & Titania are their rulers

Answer 150

Fairies

Question 151

$300 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Among the ghosts that appear to this king are those of Prince Edward, Henry VI, Anne & 2 young princes

Answer 151

Richard III

Question 152

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| It must be tea time; the last spoken word in this play is “Scone”

Answer 152

“Macbeth”

Question 153

$500 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| He, not Mark Antony, is the first to speak to the crowd after Caesar’s murder

Answer 153

Brutus

Question 154

$100 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| A cute dog named Crab appears in the comedy about “The Two Gentlemen of” this city

Answer 154

Verona

Question 155

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In 1964 Diana Rigg appeared as Adriana in “The Comedy of Errors” & Cordelia in this tragedy

Answer 155

“King Lear”

Question 156

$300 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The play in which Portia says, “I never did repent for doing good, nor shall not now”

Answer 156

“The Merchant of Venice”

Question 157

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| “Friendly Shakespeare” calls this comedy about gleeful spouses “An Elizabethan I Love Lucy”

Answer 157

“Merry Wives of Windsor”

Question 158

$500 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Vincentio, duke of this Austrian city, is the first character to speak in “Measure for Measure”

Answer 158

Vienna

Question 159

$None ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Hamlet tells this man that Yorick was “A fellow of infinite jest”

Answer 159

Horatio

Question 160

$100 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” includes the line “The course of” this “never did run smooth”

Answer 160

True love

Question 161

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| To be sure, one of his soliloquies begins, “How all occasions do inform against me”

Answer 161

Hamlet

Question 162

$300 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| She persuades her husband to kill Duncan

Answer 162

Lady Macbeth

Question 163

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In this play Gratiano has the last speech; Portia has the next to last

Answer 163

“The Merchant of Venice”

Question 164

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Title teenager who says, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet”

Answer 164

Juliet

Question 165

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Act III, Scene I of this play takes place on March 15, also known as the Ides of March

Answer 165

Julius Caesar

Question 166

$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This queen likes to play billiards when she’s not playing around with Antony

Answer 166

Cleopatra

Question 167

$1300 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Shakespearean character who speaks the lines heard <a>here</a>: <i>“O, I die, Horatio; The potent poison quite o’er-crows my spirit: …the rest is silence”</i>

Answer 167

Hamlet

Question 168

$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| When Othello decides he wants to poison Desdemona, this villain suggests that he strangle her instead

Answer 168

Iago

Question 169

$None ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Shakespeare’s only play named for a Tudor monarch

Answer 169

Henry VIII

Question 170

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| She delivers the line “Goodnight, goodnight! Parting is such sweet sorrow”

Answer 170

Juliet

Question 171

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Fairies in this play include Cobweb, Peaseblossom & Mustardseed

Answer 171

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Question 172

$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In this play, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern almost always appear together

Answer 172

Hamlet

Question 173

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| At Bosworth Field, he shouts, “A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!”

Answer 173

Richard III

Question 174

$500 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| They’re the 3 daughters of King Lear

Answer 174

Cordelia, Goneril & Regan

Question 175

$100 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Friar Lawrence laments that this pair’s “stol’n marriage day was Tybalt’s doomsday”

Answer 175

Romeo and Juliet

Question 176

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| “She has light by her continually, ‘tis her command”, & she sleepwalks carrying a taper

Answer 176

Lady Macbeth

Question 177

$700 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Some scholars think this bawdy comedy was based on a ballad, “A Merry Jest of a Shrewd and Curst Wife…”

Answer 177

“The Taming of the Shrew”

Question 178

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Act I, scene 1 of this play is set in front of Priam’s palace in Troy

Answer 178

“Troilus and Cressida”

Question 179

$500 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| After stabbing him, Hamlet cries, “This incestuous, murderous, damned Dane…follow my mother”

Answer 179

Claudius

Question 180

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The shortest of the tragedies, it may have been written to appeal to James I’s interest in witchcraft

Answer 180

“Macbeth”

Question 181

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This jester makes an appearance in the last act of “Hamlet” when a gravedigger uncovers his skull

Answer 181

Yorick

Question 182

$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| His youngest daughter, Cordelia, shares his stubbornness & refuses to flatter him like her sisters

Answer 182

King Lear

Question 183

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| “As You Like It” is set in part in this forest

Answer 183

Forest of Arden

Question 184

$2700 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Act IV, Scene 1 of this play takes place in the English camp at Agincourt

Answer 184

“Henry V”

Question 185

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Balthasar, his servant, accompanies him to the Capulet vault & remains nearby though ordered to leave

Answer 185

Romeo

Question 186

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In this play Titania, queen of the fairies, becomes enamored of Bottom, the weaver

Answer 186

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

Question 187

$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Iago suspects, or pretends to suspect, his wife Emilia of having an affair with this man

Answer 187

Othello

Question 188

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In Act 5, Scene 3 of this play, the ghosts of the young princes appear to the title character

Answer 188

Richard III

Question 189

$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| These 2 schoolmates of Hamlet are summoned to Denmark to act as spies for Claudius

Answer 189

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern

Question 190

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Act II of this tragedy opens in Polonius’ house

Answer 190

Hamlet

Question 191

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| These families in Verona have been the cause of three civil brawls

Answer 191

the Montagues & the Capulets

Question 192

$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Name shared by the heroine of “The Merchant of Venice” & Brutus’ wife in “Julius Caesar”

Answer 192

Portia

Question 193

$1500 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Bertram, the Count of Rousillon, is the hero of this comedy whose title foretells its happy ending

Answer 193

All’s Well That Ends Well

Question 194

$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Play containing the line “There is among the Greeks a lord of Trojan blood, nephew to Hector; they call him Ajax”

Answer 194

Troilus & Cressida

Question 195

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Near the end of this tragedy, Lodovico tells Gratiano to “seize upon the fortunes of the Moor”

Answer 195

“Othello”

Question 196

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In this play’s first scene, Bernardo says, “Tis’ now struck twelve and a ghost appears soon after”

Answer 196

“Hamlet”

Question 197

$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Prospero’s first line in this play is “Be collected - no more amazement”

Answer 197

“The Tempest”

Question 198

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| When Benedict says “Come, bid me do anything for thee”, she says “Much ado - kill Claudio”

Answer 198

Beatrice

Question 199

$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| He’s the king of the fairies in medieval legend as well as in “A Midsummer Nights’ Dream”

Answer 199

Oberon

Question 200

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Shakespeare called this doomed duo “a pair of star-cross’d lovers”

Answer 200

Romeo & Juliet

Question 201

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| During the Restoration, it became popular for singers & dancers to play the witches in this tragedy

Answer 201

Macbeth

Question 202

$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The last scene of “Richard II” is set in this famous royal castle west of London

Answer 202

Windsor Castle

Question 203

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Mickey Rooney said he’d “never read Shakespeare before or since” he played Puck in a film version of this comedy

Answer 203

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Question 204

$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Surprisingly, Shylock only appears in 5 of this play’s scenes, & he’s gone by the last act

Answer 204

The Merchant of Venice

Question 205

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Polonius tells Hamlet he once played this role in a play, and Brutus killed him

Answer 205

Julius Caesar

Question 206

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Her dying words are “O Antony, nay I will take thee to; what, should I stay?”

Answer 206

Cleopatra

Question 207

$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| He tells his daughter Cordelia “I fear I am not in my perfect mind”

Answer 207

King Lear

Question 208

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The 2 titled ladies in the cast of “Macbeth” are Lady Macbeth & her

Answer 208

Lady Macduff

Question 209

$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, Theseus, Duke of Athens, is engaged to this queen of the Amazons

Answer 209

Hippolyta

Question 210

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In “Macbeth” Hecate commands this trio, “And now about the cauldron sing, like elves and fairies in a ring”

Answer 210

Three Witches/Weird Sisters

Question 211

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Shakespeare’s narrative poem “Venus And Adonis” is based in part on this poet’s “Metamorphoses”

Answer 211

Ovid

Question 212

$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Kenneth Branagh & Emma Thompson played Benedick & Beatrice in the 1993 film version of this comedy

Answer 212

“Much Ado About Nothing”

Question 213

$2000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This play’s last scene takes place on the pleasure grounds of Portia’s house in Belmont

Answer 213

“The Merchant of Venice”

Question 214

$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Many scholars describe this play about a prince of Tyre as a “romance”

Answer 214

“Pericles, Prince of Tyre”

Question 215

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Her nurse tells her, “Thou wast the prettiest babe that e’er I nursed”

Answer 215

Juliet

Question 216

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| She’s walking in her sleep when she says “All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand”

Answer 216

Lady Macbeth

Question 217

$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This prince stabs King Claudius with a poisoned rapier

Answer 217

Hamlet

Question 218

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Settings for this play include an open place by the seaside in Pentapolis & the palace in Tyre

Answer 218

Pericles, Prince of Tyre

Question 219

$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Character who says “Speak of me as one that love not wisely, but too well”

Answer 219

Othello

Question 220

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This play about a Moor was inspired by a tale in Cinthio’s “Hecatommithi”

Answer 220

Othello

Question 221

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This play inspired Robert Browning’s poem “Caliban Upon Setebos”

Answer 221

The Tempest

Question 222

$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In this comedy Julia disguises herself as a boy to follow Proteus from Verona to Milan

Answer 222

Two Gentlemen of Verona

Question 223

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Falstaff’s last line in this comedy is “When night-dogs run, all sorts of deer are chased”

Answer 223

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Question 224

$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Guinness says 4 of the actors died during Sir John Gielgud’s 1942 production of this “bad luck” play

Answer 224

Macbeth

Question 225

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Brutus tells him, “You shall not in your funeral speech blame us, but speak all good you can devise”

Answer 225

Marc Antony

Question 226

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This “Merchant of Venice” heiress has many suitors, including the Duke of Saxony’s nephew

Answer 226

Portia

Question 227

$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In Scene I of this play, the title monarch announces, “Know that we have divided in three our kingdom”

Answer 227

King Lear

Question 228

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| At the end of “Hamlet”, this Norwegian prince arrives to claim the Danish throne

Answer 228

Fortinbras

Question 229

$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Helicanus & Escanes are two lords of this city; Pericles is prince of it

Answer 229

Tyre

Question 230

$100 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| These lovers do “with their death bury their parents’ strife”

Answer 230

Romeo and Juliet

Question 231

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The play in which Emilia screams, “The moor hath kill’d my mistress! Murder! Murder!”

Answer 231

Othello

Question 232

$300 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In Act I, Scene 1 of this play, a ghost appears to Barnardo, Marcellus & Horatio

Answer 232

Hamlet

Question 233

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In “The Merchant of Venice” he tells his friend Tubal, “Meet me at our synagogue”

Answer 233

Shylock

Question 234

$500 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In “King Lear”, she poisons her sister Regan, then stabs herself

Answer 234

Goneril

Question 235

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Cobweb is a fairy, not a spider, in this comedy

Answer 235

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Question 236

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Hamlet gives his “Alas, poor Yorick!” soliloquy in this location

Answer 236

a graveyard

Question 237

$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| After Emilia is stabbed in this tragedy, she says, “I will play the swan” & sings before she dies

Answer 237

Othello

Question 238

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Shakespeare wrote, “When in disgrace with” this “and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state”

Answer 238

Fortune

Question 239

$2000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This young woman lives on an island with her father, a magician

Answer 239

Miranda

Question 240

$100 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The full title of the play includes his title, “Prince of Denmark”

Answer 240

Hamlet

Question 241

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In “The Taming of the Shrew”, this character actually says “Kiss me, Kate”

Answer 241

Petruchio

Question 242

$300 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This character answers to “Gloucester”, because he begins the play as duke of Gloucester, not king

Answer 242

Richard III

Question 243

$700 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Cleopatra speaks of these days, “when I was green in judgment”

Answer 243

her salad days

Question 244

$500 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This king has a fool, said to represent truth, who speaks in rhymes & songs

Answer 244

King Lear

Question 245

$None ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The 3-word title of this play begins & ends with the same 7-letter word

Answer 245

Measure for Measure

Question 246

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The character who orders the death of Lady Macduff & her children

Answer 246

Macbeth

Question 247

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This title character’s ghost appears to Brutus, who calls it a “monstrous apparition”

Answer 247

Julius Caesar

Question 248

$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Near the end of this play, the king’s mount is slain & he has to fight on foot

Answer 248

“Richard III”

Question 249

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This goddess of the hunt appears to Pericles in Act 5 of “Pericles, Prince of Tyre”

Answer 249

Diana

Question 250

$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| When Viola disguises herself as a boy in this comedy, Olivia falls in love with her

Answer 250

“Twelfth Night”

Question 251

$None ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Tho Shakespeare wrote many plays about kings, she is the only title character who is a queen

Answer 251

Cleopatra

Question 252

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Near the end of this play, Theseus says, “Lovers, to bed; ‘tis almost fairy time”

Answer 252

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

Question 253

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This historical play includes the death of Katharine of Aragon

Answer 253

“Henry VIII”

Question 254

$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Cordelia’s 1st words in this play are “What shall Cordelia speak? Love, and be silent”

Answer 254

“King Lear”

Question 255

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Othello kills himself on this island

Answer 255

Cyprus

Question 256

$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Ophelia says “pansies” are “for thoughts”, this is “for remembrance”

Answer 256

Rosemary

Question 257

$None ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| He appears in 3 of Shakespeare’s plays & his death is reported in “King Henry V”

Answer 257

Sir John Falstaff

Question 258

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| 1 of 3 women named in titles of Shakesperean plays

Answer 258

Cleopatra, Cressida & Juliet

Question 259

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In “Othello”, Shakespeare describes jealousy as a “monster” with this facial feature

Answer 259

Green Eyes

Question 260

$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Brutus’ wife in “Julius Caesar” & the lady lawyer in “The Merchant of Venice” shared this name

Answer 260

Portia

Question 261

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| These 2 title characters were named Valentine & Proteus

Answer 261

“Two Gentlemen of Verona”

Question 262

$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Title character who’s Benvolio’s buddy

Answer 262

Romeo

Question 263

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| This comedy features a woman named Hero & a hero named Benedick, but it isn’t “Much”

Answer 263

Much Ado About Nothing

Question 264

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Villain in “Othello” who says, “Wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well used”

Answer 264

Iago

Question 265

$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Make no mistake: this play about twins was “musicalized” as “The Boys from Syracuse”

Answer 265

A Comedy of Errors

Question 266

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In “Antony and Cleopatra”, Marc Antony commits suicide by doing this

Answer 266

falling on his blade

Question 267

$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| He was banished from Verona for killing Tybalt

Answer 267

Romeo

Question 268

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Canada’s best-known theatrical event is the annual festival here featuring plays by Shakespeare

Answer 268

Stratford, Ontario

Question 269

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The ghost of his wife, Anne, haunted him at Bosworth Field

Answer 269

Richard III

Question 270

$900 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Not only was this king slain by Macbeth, but rumors said his horses ate each other

Answer 270

Duncan

Question 271

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Rejected lover whose last words are “If thou be merciful, open the tomb, lay me with Juliet”

Answer 271

Paris

Question 272

$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The title character of this tragedy is governor of Cyprus, where much of the play is set

Answer 272

“Othello”

Question 273

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Antony said this assassin of Caesar made “the most unkindest cut of all”

Answer 273

Brutus

Question 274

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| King Henry IV complained “Uneasy lies the head” that does this

Answer 274

wears the crown

Question 275

$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Falstaff was said to have “eaten” a widow “out of” this

Answer 275

house and home

Question 276

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| At Hamlet’s death he says, “Good night, sweet prince”

Answer 276

Horatio

Question 277

$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Expression “O brave new world” comes from this last play Shakespeare wrote alone

Answer 277

The Tempest

Question 278

$100 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| “Sweets to the sweet: Farewell!” were Hamlet’s mother’s words at this woman’s funeral

Answer 278

Ophelia

Question 279

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Part of Cassius’ anatomy Brutus calls “itching” when accusing him of greed

Answer 279

palm

Question 280

$300 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| “Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies”

Answer 280

Cleopatra

Question 281

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Susanna & the twins, Hamnet & Judith

Answer 281

Shakespeare’s children

Question 282

$500 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The lines “And thereby hangs a tale” & “All the world’s a stage” come from this comedy

Answer 282

As You Like It

Question 283

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Shakespeare’s only comedy with “comedy” in the title

Answer 283

Comedy of Errors

Question 284

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| In it, Puck comments: “Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

Answer 284

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Question 285

$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| What Shylock demanded instead of interest

Answer 285

a pound of flesh

Question 286

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Completes the line “If music be the food of love…”

Answer 286

play on

Question 287

$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Hamlet’s closest friend, only major character left alive at play’s end

Answer 287

Horatio

Question 288

$200 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Hamlet found “something rotten” in this country

Answer 288

Denmark

Question 289

$400 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| The Moor who loved Desdemona “not wisely, but too well”

Answer 289

Othello

Question 290

$600 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Battle of the sexes on which musical “Kiss Me Kate” was based

Answer 290

The Taming of the Shrew

Question 291

$800 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| Chubby character who loved his ale & supplied the name for one

Answer 291

Falstaff

Question 292

$1000 ||| Category: SHAKESPEARE ||| She was 8 years older & 3 months pregnant when Shakespeare married her

Answer 292

Anne Hathaway