Shakespeare Jeopardy Flashcards
YOU HAD TO EXPECT SHAKESPEARE–400–This character described himself as having “more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty”
Falstaff
YOU HAD TO EXPECT SHAKESPEARE–800–000-line poem about this title Homeric pair”
Troilus and Criseyde
YOU HAD TO EXPECT SHAKESPEARE–2000–After being a 16th C. version of “The Terminator”, the title guy buys the farm too at the end of this, Will’s 1st tragedy
Titus Andronicus
YOU HAD TO EXPECT SHAKESPEARE–1600–In this comedy featuring a “fantastical Spaniard”, 4 guys take a 3-year vow of celibacy & wackiness ensues
Love’s Labour’s Lost
YOU HAD TO EXPECT SHAKESPEARE–2000–The last of the tragedies, this play deals with the conflict between Rome’s patrician & plebeian classes
Coriolanus
SHAKESPEARE’S KINGS & QUEENS–400–Her lover called her “My Serpent of Old Nile”
Cleopatra
SHAKESPEARE’S KINGS & QUEENS–800–Goneril is the eldest of his 3 daughters
Lear
SHAKESPEARE’S KINGS & QUEENS–1200–The king of Scotland was Macbeth’s cousin
Duncan
SHAKESPEARE’S KINGS & QUEENS–1600–For much of the play, this title character is known simply as Gloucester
Richard III
SHAKESPEARE’S KINGS & QUEENS–2000–About this queen, Hamlet says, “Frailty, thy name is woman”
INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Queen) Gertrude
SHAKESPEAREAN RHYME TIME–400–Jealous Moor’s stringed instruments
Othello’s cellos
SHAKESPEAREAN RHYME TIME–800–Regan’s father’s lachrymal discharges
Lear’s tears
SHAKESPEAREAN RHYME TIME–1200–Robin Goodfellow’s formal attire
Puck’s tux
SHAKESPEAREAN RHYME TIME–1600–Calpurnia’s husband’s small metal hair pluckers
Caesar’s tweezers
SHAKESPEAREAN RHYME TIME–2000–It’s the Afghani Islamic fundamentalist regime that Prospero’s slave would lead
the Caliban Taliban (Caliban’s Talibans accepted)
SHAKESPEARE–400–King Lear foolishly rejects this viruous daughter
Cordelia
SHAKESPEARE–800–Miranda’s father, he ends “The Tempest” with an epilogue
Prospero
SHAKESPEARE–1200–“Romeo and Juliet” begins, “Two households, both alike in” this
dignity
SHAKESPEARE’S SMALL PARTS–400–Nym, a minor character, is a follower of this stout fellow in “The Merry Wives of Windsor”
Falstaff
SHAKESPEARE–3000–Act I of this tragedy begins in a palace in Alexandria
Antony and Cleopatra
SHAKESPEARE’S SMALL PARTS–800–During his brief time on stage, Curtis, this man’s aged servant, does get to say “Shrew”
Petruchio
SHAKESPEARE’S SMALL PARTS–1200–Those portraying a Norwegian captain in this play don’t have to worry about memorizing a lot of lines
Hamlet
SHAKESPEARE–2000–Comedy in which Lysander says, “The course of true love never did run smooth”
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
SHAKESPEARE’S SMALL PARTS–1600–In this fairy tale, Snug doesn’t get the lion’s share of lines, but he does get the lion’s lines
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
SHAKESPEARE’S SMALL PARTS–2000–In Act V, Scene ii Dr. Butts shows up for a couple of lines with Cranmer & this title king
Henry VIII
SHAKESPEAREAN LAST LINES–200–“Tis’ a wonder, by your leave she will be tamed so”
The Taming of the Shrew
SHAKESPEAREAN LAST LINES–400–“Give me your hands if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends”
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
SHAKESPEAREAN LAST LINES–600–“Sir John, to Master Brook you yet shall hold your word, for he tonight shall lie with Mistress Ford”
The Merry Wives of Windsor
SHAKESPEAREAN LAST LINES–800–“And then to Rome–Come, Dolabella, see high order in this great solemnity”
Antony and Cleopatra
SHAKESPEAREAN LAST LINES–1000–“We came into the world like brother and brother, and now let’s go hand-in-hand, not one before another”
A Comedy of Errors
“A” IN SHAKESPEARE–400–In “The Tempest” he’s invisible to everyone but Prospero
Ariel
“A” IN SHAKESPEARE–800–The main plot of this comedy comes from Boccaccio’s “Decameron”; its title ensures a happy ending
All’s Well That Ends Well
“A” IN SHAKESPEARE–2000–“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is set in this Mediterranean City that’s in the title of another Shakespeare play
Athens
“A” IN SHAKESPEARE–1600–Romeo buys poison with which to kill himself from a minor character with this job title
apothecary
“A” IN SHAKESPEARE–2000–An Italian businessman with this first name is “The Merchant of Venice”
Antonio
IF SHAKESPEARE WROTE FOR THE WWE–400–Brutus! You led the assassins that kill me in Act III! That’s not even halfway through my own play! That ain’t right!
INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Julius) Caesar
IF SHAKESPEARE WROTE FOR THE WWE–800–Tybalt! You took out my pal Mercutio & now I’m comin’ after you! I’ll show you what a title guy can do!
Romeo
IF SHAKESPEARE WROTE FOR THE WWE–1200–Antonio! I lend you a few bucks & you end up making me change my religion?! I’ll see you at “Veniceslam!”
Shylock
IF SHAKESPEARE WROTE FOR THE WWE–1600–Richmond! You! Me! Bosworth Field! My kingdom for a horse? Ho ‘bout a folding chair for the back of your head?!
Richard III
IF SHAKESPEARE WROTE FOR THE WWE–2000–Cassio! Iago said you’ve been messing around with my wife! You know how crazy that makes me!
Othello
SHAKESPEARE’S OPENING LINES–200–Chorus: “Two households both alike in dignity, in fair Verona, where we lay our scene”
Romeo
SHAKESPEARE’S OPENING LINES–400–The Duke of Gloucester: “Now is the winter of our discontent”
Richard III
SHAKESPEARE’S OPENING LINES–600–Theseus: “Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour draws on apace”
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
SHAKESPEARE’S OPENING LINES–500–Flavius: “Hence! Home, you idle creatures, get you home”
Julius Caesar
SHAKESPEARE’S OPENING LINES–1000–The Earl of Kent: “I thought the king had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall”
King Lear
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–200–This king’s corpse is carried on stage in the first scene of “Henry VI, Part I”
Henry V
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–400–Of Elbow, Knee, or Blister, the one who’s a simple constable in “Measure For Measure”
Elbow
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–1000–In a famous speech, this woman describes mercy as “An attribute to God himself”
Portia
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–800–Title character who says, “When I did fly from Tyre, I left behind an ancient substitute”
Pericles
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–1000–Cassandra, a prophetess whose father is the king of Troy, is a character in this play
‘Troilus and Cressida’
SHAKESPEAREAN ROYALTY–0– the corpse of Henry VI appear in the play named for him
Richard III
SHAKESPEAREAN 1ST LINES–200–This fairy king’s first line is “Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania”
Oberon
SHAKESPEAREAN 1ST LINES–400–Famous “tamer” who enters saying, “Verona for a while I take my leave”
Petruchio
SHAKESPEAREAN 1ST LINES–600–Warrior who says, “Call here my varlet; I’ll unarm again; why should I war without the walls of Troy….”
Troilus
SHAKESPEAREAN 1ST LINES–800–His first line consists of just one word, “Calphurnia!”
Julius Caesar
SHAKESPEAREAN 1ST LINES–1000–King of Denmark who begins, “Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother’s death the memory be green…”
INSERT INTO clue VALUES (King) Claudius
SHAKESPEARE–200–Canada’s best-known theatrical event is the annual festival here featuring plays by Shakespeare
Stratford, Ontario
SHAKESPEARE–400–The ghost of his wife, Anne, haunted him at Bosworth Field
Richard III
SHAKESPEARE–900–Not only was this king slain by Macbeth, but rumors said his horses ate each other
Duncan
SHAKESPEARE–800–Rejected lover whose last words are “If thou be merciful, open the tomb, lay me with Juliet”
Paris
SHAKESPEARE–1000–The title character of this tragedy is governor of Cyprus, where much of the play is set
‘Othello’
SHAKESPEARE–200–Hamlet found “something rotten” in this country
Denmark
SHAKESPEARE–400–The Moor who loved Desdemona “not wisely, but too well”
Othello
SHAKESPEARE–600–Battle of the sexes on which musical “Kiss Me Kate” was based
The Taming of the Shrew
SHAKESPEARE–800–Chubby character who loved his ale & supplied the name for one
Falstaff
SHAKESPEARE–1000–She was 8 years older & 3 months pregnant when Shakespeare married her
Anne Hathaway
WORDS IN SHAKESPEARE–400–The vehicle in which the deceased travels to the cemetery
a hearse
WORDS IN SHAKESPEARE–800–A round solid geometric figure, or a field of knowledge
a sphere
WORDS IN SHAKESPEARE–1200–A Mexican poncho without the hole
a serape
WORDS IN SHAKESPEARE–1600–To delete recorded data
erase
WORDS IN SHAKESPEARE–2000–Basking or bonnethead
a shark
SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI–200–Shakespeare lived for awhile with the Mountjoys, a Huguenot family, in this capital city
London
SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS–200–It’s the play that inspired Reynaldo Hahn’s opera “Le Marchand de Venise”
The Merchant of Venice
SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI–400–In the last scene of a tragedy, Malcolm speaks of “This dead butcher and his fiend-like queen”
Macbeth
SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS–400–The Bolshoi presented this ballet at the Met in 1959, with Yuri Zhdanov & Galina Ulanova as the title lovers
Romeo
SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS–600–You’ll need some long-winded singers to star in “Stormen”, a Swedish opera based on this play
The Tempest
SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI–600–“Diana”, a story in Spanish by Jorge de Montemayer, is a source for this comedy about a Veronese duo
‘Two Gentlemen of Verona’
SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS–800–Verdi wrote an aria called “La Luce Langue”–The Light Fails–for this bloothirsty villainess
Lady Macbeth
SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS–500–Title character played by former Alvin Ailey dancer Desmond Richardson in a 1997 ballet
Othello
SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI–800–It’s believed Shakespeare wrote part of a 1595 play about this “Utopia” author
St. Thomas More
SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI–1000–Shakespeare’s theatrical company became known as The King’s Men in honor of this king’s patronage
James I
SHAKESPEAREAN MOONS OF URANUS–200–Characters from this play circling Uranus are Ariel & Miranda
The Tempest
SHAKESPEAREAN MOONS OF URANUS–400–Goneril & Regan’s sister orbiting Uranus
Cordelia
SHAKESPEAREAN MOONS OF URANUS–600–Othello called her his “Fair Warrior”
Desdemona
SHAKESPEAREAN MOONS OF URANUS–800–When found by a watchman, she was “Bleeding, warm and newly dead”; now she’s found around Uranus
Juliet
SHAKESPEAREAN MOONS OF URANUS–1000–Moons III & IV are this royal fairy pair from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Titania
SHAKESPEAREAN INSULTS–400–“Heaven truly knows that thou are as false as hell”, said Othello of this character; he later took it back
Desdemona
SHAKESPEAREAN INSULTS–800–“All that is within him does condemn itself for being there”, said Menteith of the title character in this tragedy
Macbeth
SHAKESPEAREAN INSULTS–1200–In this comedy Jaques says to Orlando in the Forest of Arden, “Let’s meet as little as we can”
As You Like It
SHAKESPEAREAN INSULTS–1600–Play in which Thersites tells Ajax, “The plague of Greece upon thee, thou mongrel beef-witted lord!”
Troilus and Cressida
SHAKESPEAREAN INSULTS–2000–The shepherd says “His garments are rich but he wears them not handsomely” of Autolychus in this romance
The Winter’s Tale
SHAKESPEAREAN CROSSWORD CLUES “M”–400–Surname of Romeo’s fatherINSERT INTO clue VALUES (8)
Montague
SHAKESPEAREAN CROSSWORD CLUES “M”–800–“Midsummer” fairy with an insect nameINSERT INTO clue VALUES (4)
Moth
SHAKESPEAREAN CROSSWORD CLUES “M”–1200–Prospero is the deposed Duke of itINSERT INTO clue VALUES (5)
Milan
SHAKESPEAREAN FOOLS–200–The humans in this play inspire Puck to say, “Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
SHAKESPEAREAN CROSSWORD CLUES “M”–3000–The last proper name spoken by MacbethINSERT INTO clue VALUES (7)
Macduff
SHAKESPEAREAN FOOLS–400–Though this historical play contains a clown, it’s the heroine who makes an asp of herself
Antony and Cleopatra
SHAKESPEAREAN FOOLS–600–Trinculo is a jester in this “stormy” drama
The Tempest
SHAKESPEAREAN CROSSWORD CLUES “M”–2000–Feminine form of address for character QuicklyINSERT INTO clue VALUES (8)
Mistress
SHAKESPEAREAN FOOLS–800–Dogberry & Verges are 2 foolish officers in this comedy whose title may mean “nada” to you
Much Ado About Nothing
SHAKESPEAREAN FOOLS–1600–Speed is a clownish servant to Valentine in this comedy set in Romeo’s town
Two Gentlemen of Verona
REDUCED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY–200–“As the sea, my love is deep.”“Ditto!”[Smooch]”You shall be with him hence!”“Ditto!”“No–ooh! Ugh!”“Yaah!”“I die!”“Ditto!”[Kkk!]
Romeo and Juliet
REDUCED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY–400–“Boo-oo!”“Bl-bl-bl-bl! Mad! Ow!”“Poison!”“Mother! Treachery!”“Agh-hh-hh-hh!”“Ugh!”
Hamlet
REDUCED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY–600–“How I do thrive in this lady’s love, and she in mine!”“Ps-ps-ps-ps!”“Thou dost stone my heart!”“Mmgh-mm-mm!”“Ps-ps-ps-ps!”“D’oh! ‘Tis happiness to die. Oo-algh!”
Othello
REDUCED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY–800–“The king never shall sun that morrow see.”“Nay!”[smack!]”Aye!”“The smell of blood! Woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo!”“I will not yield, to kiss the ground! Nyuh-uh-uh.”“Tragic.”
Macbeth
REDUCED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY–1000–“I will fight at sea!”“I’ll help you!”“Huh? Oh, kill me.”“Augh.”“Aah! I can no more! Ow!”“I have immortal longings! Ow. Ow! Aughh.”
Antony and Cleopatra
“C” IN SHAKESPEARE–400–“Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides”, warns this woman in Act I of “King Lear”
Cordelia
“C” IN SHAKESPEARE–800–He calls Gertude “Our sometime sister, now our Queen”
Claudius
“C” IN SHAKESPEARE–1200–In “Troilus and Cressida”, King Priam says that this daughter of his “doth foresee” (yes, but does anyone listen?)
Cassandra
“C” IN SHAKESPEARE–1600–A rather confused Macbeth says, “The Thane of” this place “lives: why do you dress me in borrowed robes?”
Cawdor
“C” IN SHAKESPEARE–2000–In “Richard III”, Richard’s brother George is the doomed duke of this
Clarence
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–200–In Act 1, Scene 1 of “Macbeth” this trio vanishes in “the fog and filthy air”
the three witches
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–400–Soon after Hamlet finishes his “Alas, poor Yorick!” speech he sees this woman’s funeral procession
Ophelia
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–600–She says, “that death’s unnatural that kills for loving” before Othello strangles her
Desdemona
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–2000–“I am a very foolish fond old man”, he tells his daughter Cordelia
King Lear
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS–1000–Portia disguises herself as a male lawyer in this play set in Italy
Merchant of Venice
SHAKESPEARE–200–“Come on, and kiss me, Kate” is actually a line in this comedy that inspired the musical “Kiss Me, Kate”
The Taming of the Shrew
SHAKESPEARE–400–“Henry VI, Part I” features the master-gunner of Orleans & this woman known in the play as Joan la Pucelle
Joan of Arc
SHAKESPEARE–1000–In “King John”, King John’s first words to her are “Silence, good mother; hear the embassy”
Eleanor of Aquitaine
SHAKESPEARE–800–Julius Caesar observes that this man “has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much: such men are dangerous”
Cassius
SHAKESPEARE–1000–Title character who says, “Like an eagle in a dove-cote, I flutter’d your Volscians in Corioli”
Coriolanus
SHAKESPEARE–200–Shakespeare’s only comedy with “comedy” in the title
Comedy of Errors
SHAKESPEARE–400–In it, Puck comments: “Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
SHAKESPEARE–600–What Shylock demanded instead of interest
a pound of flesh
SHAKESPEARE–800–Completes the line “If music be the food of love…”
play on
SHAKESPEARE–1000–Hamlet’s closest friend, only major character left alive at play’s end
Horatio
SHAKESPEARE–200–Brutus tells him, “You shall not in your funeral speech blame us, but speak all good you can devise”
Marc Antony
