Trivia

Shakespeare

1.) Which of the following was NOT one of the daughters of King Lear?

• Lilibet
• Goneril
• Regan
• Cordelia

2.) Which of these actors did NOT star as Romeo in a film version of "Romeo and Juliet"?

• Leonardo DiCaprio
• Laurence Olivier
• Leslie Howard
• Leonard Whiting

3.) In which play does the ghost of Banquo appear at a banquet?

• "Hamlet"
• "Cymbeline"
• "Macbeth"
• "Julius Caesar"

4.) Which of Shakespeare's plays is being performed within the musical "Kiss Me, Kate"?

• "Romeo and Juliet"
• "Two Gentlemen of Verona"
• "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
• "Taming of the Shrew"

5.) "Pyramus and Thisbe" was the play-within-a-play performed in which of Shakespeare's works?

• "The Tempest"
• "Twelfth Night"
• "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
• "Two Gentlemen of Verona"

6.) In what play are four characters killed in the final scene?

• "Caesar and Cleopatra"
• "Romeo and Juliet"
• "Titus Andronicus"
• "Hamlet"

7.) Ray Bradbury borrowed a line from which play for the title of his novel "Something Wicked This Way Comes?"

• "Hamlet"
• "Macbeth"
• "The Tempest"
• "Richard III"

8.) What has the longest speaking part in all of Shakespeare's plays, with 1,569 lines?

• "Cleopatra"
• "Brutus"
• "Hamlet"
• "Macbeth"

9.) "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers" is part of a rallying cry in which play?

• "Macbeth"
• "King Lear"
• "Juilius Caesar"
• "Henry V"

10.) The Garter Inn was the setting for several scenes in which play?

• "The Merry Wives of Windsor"
• "Macbeth"
• "Romeo and Juliet"
• "King Lear"