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Shakespeare Internet Quiz

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Question
Name two romantic couples who appear in two different Shakespeare tragedies.

Answer: Romeo and Juliet; Antony and Cleopatra
Location: Internet Public Library Shakespeare Bookshelf
http://www.ipl.org/reading/ shakespeare/shakespeare.html

 


Question
Name chapter and verse for three references to eyes or blindness in King Lear.

Answer
(I, v, 22) Fool: Why, to keep one's eyes of either side's nose, that what a man cannot smell out he may spy into.
(III, vii, 60) Gloucester: Pluck out his poor old eyes...
(IV, vi, 136) Lear: I remember thine eyes well enough.. to name a FEW.
Location: Eye, Sight, and Blindness in King Lear
http://mss.scbe.on.ca/dekimage.htm

 


Question:
Name this theatre.  It is the famous London theatre where Shakespeare's plays are presented.

Answer:  The original Globe Theater
Location:    Shakespeare's Globe
http://www.rdg.ac.uk/globe/Globe.html     or www.rdg.ac.uk/globe/Data-Base/Images/NewGlobe/Outside.html
 


Question
What evidence do Baconian's use in their claim that Sir Francis Bacon authored Shakespeare's works.

Answer: It has to do with cryptography, the spelling of Bacon's name and lots of other Sherlockian things. Read the essay!
Location: Who wrote Shakespeare's Works?
http://home.att.net/~tleary/


Question
Who are the most likely candidates for Shakespeare's real identity?

 Answer: Christopher Marlowe, Sir Francis Bacon, Queen Elizabeth I and others are likely candidates. This is a fun page to browse.
Location: Metroactive Stage
http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sfmetro/07.96/shakespeare1-96-7.html


Question
Name the characters shown in this picture from Much Ado About Nothing by Branaugh.

Answer:  Hero, Claudio, Benedick, and Beatrice
Location:   Much Ado About Nothing
http://www.movieforum.com/movies/titles/muchadoaboutnothing/gallery2.shtml


Question
What was the name of Julius Caesar’s wife in the Shakespeare tragedy Julius Caesar?

Answer: Calphurnia (Calpurnia)
Location: Julius Caesar
http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/Tragedy/juliuscaesar/juliuscaesar.html

Question:
In what Shakespeare play does the following quotation appear: "What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

Answer: Romeo and Juliet
Location: The Works of the Bard (Search the Collected Works of Shakespeare)
http://www.gh.cs.usyd.edu.au/~matty/Shakespeare/index.html

 Question
Check out the Royal Shakespeare Theatre and fill in the blanks. The play is Twelfth Night.
Orsino loves __________. Olivia Loves ___________. But Cesario is really ___________. And Viola loves ____________.

Answer: Orsino loves Olivia. Olivia Loves Cesario. But Cesario is really Viola And Viola loves Orsino.
Location: Royal Shakespeare Theatre
http://www.royal-shakespeare.co.uk/

Question
Find a list of words coined by Shakespeare. Do you have a favorite?

ANSWER: My favorite is metamophized - it sounds so 90's. In the opening scene of The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Proteus thinks aloud about his love for Julia. He says to himself, "Thou, Julia, thou hast metamorphis’d me, / Made me neglect my studies, lose my time" (I.i.66-67).
Location: Coined by Shakespeare
http://www.m-w.com/shakespeare/coined.gif

Question
Who was Duncan and in what play did he appear?

Answer: King of Scotland
Location: MacBeth: An Indepth Analysis
http://tqd.advanced.org/2888/

Question
Where does Act I, Scene 1 of the play King Lear take place?

Answer: King Lear’s Palace
Location: King Lear
http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/Tragedy/kinglear/kinglear.html

Question
Which play is the following quotation from: "This was the noblest Roman of them all."

Answer: Julius Caesar
Location: The Works of the Bard (Search the Collected Works of Shakespeare)
http://www.gh.cs.usyd.edu.au/~matty/Shakespeare/index.html

 


 Question:
Where was Shakespeare born?

Answer:
Stratford-on-Avon, England
Location: William Shakespeare Biography
http://mss.scbe.on.ca/dekblear.htm

Question:
What famous playwright is rumored to have faked his death and assumed a new identity as William Shakespeare?

Answer: Christopher Marlowe
Location: Christopher Marlowe
http://www.incompetech.com/Helpdesk/Authors/kitmarlowe/

Question
Use the Internet Movie Database to find 5 Shakespeare plays featuring Sir Laurence Olivier.

 Answer: King Lear | Hamlet | Henry V | Richard III | Othello | Romeo and Juliet + Location:Internet Movie Database
http://us.imdb.com/

Question
What evidence does the Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, bible offer to show that he was Shakespeare?

Answer:"..It certainly is curious that more than a quarter of the 1000 underlined verses and marginal notes in the de Vere Bible turn out to be some of Shakespeare's favorite biblical passages --". Quote from a Frontline essay.
Location: FRONTLINE
http://www2.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shakespeare/update/andersondoc.html

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