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All the World's a Quiz: The Shakespeare Challenge

Your cue has come: ten questions on Shakespeare's plays and characters, his most famous lines, the Globe Theatre and the life of the Bard.

10 questions · by bczak

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  1. Which Shakespeare play contains the line 'To be, or not to be'?
  2. In which English town was William Shakespeare born?
  3. Romeo and Juliet is set mainly in the Italian city of Verona.
  4. Which play features three witches who make prophecies to a Scottish nobleman?
  5. Which of these are tragedies by Shakespeare? Select THREE.
  6. Put these events in Shakespeare's life in order, earliest first.
  7. Which character in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is given a donkey's head?
  8. In 'Othello', which character tricks Othello into believing his wife is unfaithful?
  9. How many sonnets were printed in the 1609 collection of Shakespeare's sonnets?
  10. Which play opens with the line 'Now is the winter of our discontent'?