Kingwood College Library

Shakespeare
Internet Quiz

QUESTIONS

The answers to the following questions can be found on the Internet.  This quiz is not for sissies.  Be prepared to search.  You may want to read ALL of the questions before you begin, in case you run across an answer to another question during your search.    Metacrawler is an excellent search engine for this page.  We hope you enjoy our quiz and will try more of them.

While the display is in the library, Kingwood College Students who complete this quiz and bring it to the librarians will receive a Shakespeare bookmark or key ring.

Suggested search engines are:

 MetaCrawler | Yahoo's Subject Directory


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

  


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

  


Question:
Name this theatre.  It is located in Stratford-on-Avon and was opened in 1599. Shakespeare's plays were shown there.


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


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

 


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


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

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."

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

 

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

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

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

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

  


   Question:
Where was Shakespeare born?

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

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

 


 

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

This quiz brought to you by Ann Jenkins, Susan Goodwin, and Peggy Whitley.
Write the library | To the answers | The Library.   |  Links checked 7/98