Shakespeare Characters and Other Clues

Question 1

(C) Title prince of Denmark, nephew of King Claudius

Answer 1

Hamlet

Question 2

(C) King of Denmark, Hamlet’s uncle

Answer 2

Claudius (Hamlet)

Question 3

(C) Queen on Denmark, Hamlet’s mother

Answer 3

Gertrude (Hamlet)

Question 4

(C) Chief counselor to the king, father of Laertes and Ophelia

Answer 4

Polonius (Hamlet)

Question 5

(C) Daughter of Polonius

Answer 5

Ophelia (Hamlet)

Question 6

(C) Friend of Hamlet

Answer 6

Horatio (Hamlet)

Question 7

(C) Son of Polonius

Answer 7

Laertes (Hamlet)

Question 8

(C) Pair of courtiers, friends of Hamlet

Answer 8

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (Hamlet)

Question 9

(P) “What a piece of work is a man.”

Answer 9

Hamlet

Question 10

(P) The title character asks actors to stage “The Murder of Gonzago”.

Answer 10

Hamlet

Question 11

(P) “get thee to a nunnery”

Answer 11

Hamlet

Question 12

(P) Title character realizes he killed Polonius instead of Claudius after pulling back a curtain

Answer 12

Hamlet

Question 13

(P) “Alas, poor Yorick”

Answer 13

Hamlet

Question 14

(P) “the rest is silence”

Answer 14

Hamlet

Question 15

(C) King of Scotland in Macbeth

Answer 15

Duncan (Macbeth)

Question 16

(C) Duncan’s elder son

Answer 16

Malcolm (Macbeth)

Question 17

(C) Duncan’s younger son

Answer 17

Donalbain (Macbeth)

Question 18

(C) General in Duncan’s army. Originally Thane of Glamis, then Thane of Cawdor, then king of Scotland

Answer 18

Macbeth (Macbeth)

Question 19

(C) Wife of title character, queen of Scotland at one point

Answer 19

Lady Macbeth (Macbeth)

Question 20

(C) Friend of Macbeth

Answer 20

Banquo (Macbeth)

Question 21

(C) Banquo’s son

Answer 21

Fleance (Macbeth)

Question 22

(C) Thane of Fife

Answer 22

Macduff (Macbeth)

Question 23

(C) General of the English forces

Answer 23

Siward (Macbeth)

Question 24

(C) Trio led by Hecate

Answer 24

Three Witches or Weird Sisters (Macbeth)

Question 25

(P) Title character lives in castle at Inverness

Answer 25

Macbeth

Question 26

(P) “To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow” soliloquy

Answer 26

Macbeth

Question 27

(P) “from his mother’s womb / Untimely ripp’d” and is not “of woman born”

Answer 27

Macbeth

Question 28

(P) “tis thought, by self and violent hands / Took off her life”

Answer 28

Macbeth

Question 29

(P)

Question 30

(P)