Shakespeare

Question 1

Herschel named two of Uranus’ moons after characters from this play

Answer 1

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (husband Oberon and wife Titania, rulers of the fairies)

Question 2

MacBeth’s best friend

Answer 2

Banquo

Question 3

Arden Forest play

Answer 3

As You Like It

Question 4

Bohemian coast and desert

Answer 4

The Winter’s Tale

Question 5

Heminges and Condell

Answer 5

Collected first folio

Question 6

Rosalind flees with cousin Celia to Forest of Arden; Touchstone is court fool

Answer 6

As You Like It

Question 7

Brave New World draws title from this play

Answer 7

The Tempest

Question 8

Title character gives his money away to parasitic companions and is rejected

Answer 8

Timon of Athens

Question 9

Navarre setting

Answer 9

Love’s Labour’s Lost

Question 10

MacBeth lordly titles

Answer 10

Thane

Question 11

If you were part of this “earthy” group taking in a play at the Globe Theatre, you paid the lowest amount to stand in the pit & watch

Answer 11

The Groundlings

Question 12

Shipwreck, Viola… Cesario

Answer 12

Twelfth Night

Question 13

Henry V nickname before he was king, used by Falstaff

Answer 13

Hal

Question 14

Bloody

Answer 14

Titus Andronicus

Question 15

Co Writer of Shakespeare in Love

Answer 15

Tom Stoppard

Question 16

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more

Answer 16

Henry V

Question 17

Two very common answers

Answer 17

Caliban and/or Richard III. Woman– Desdemona or Katherine

Question 18

Shakespeare burial place

Answer 18

Trinity Church, Stratford