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William Shakespeare Quiz
Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
Moscow 2016
Introduction✣Family feud✣Jeopardy!✣The Game of Guesses
Family Feud
Hamlet 50Romeo and Juliet 100Othello 150King Lear 200A Midsummer Night’s Dream 250
Family Feud
The most popular Shakespeare’s works
Macbeth 30001020
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Shakespeare’s background
Shakespeare’s works
It’s 400 years since Shakespeare died. But how many years ago he was born?
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452
Shakespeare’s legacy consist of plays, sonnets, poems and epitaphs. How many total works did he write in his
career?
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199 (38 plays, 154 sonnets, 4 poems and 3 epitaphs)192 (considering only plays and sonnets)
Shakespeare was not just a playwright, but also a (an) …
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Actor/Businessman
Which country is mentioned the most in his works?
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France (369 references; England - 243)
How did George Bernard Shaw call those people who were obsessed with
Shakespeare?
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Bardolatry
What type of supernatural creature can be found in most of Shakespeare's
plays?
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Spirit/ghost
What is the full name of our teacher on the subject of
economic security?
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Yuri Pavlovich Rogulin
Which social class always appear in Shakespeare's history plays?
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Upper class: kings, queens, or nobles
Although we have no written record of Shakespeare's birthday, it is often considered as 23 April. Why is so?
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He died on this day
From which play does a ghost chillingly call out to the main character:
"Remember me"?
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Hamlet
Shakespeare lived through a great historical events: 1. Defeat of the Spanish Armada; 2. The discovery of Pompeii; 3.
The Gunpowder Plot; 4. The built of Taj Mahal.But which of these did not happen while the Bard was
alive?
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4. The Taj Mahal was built (1632-53)
Which historical event influenced the plot of
“Macbeth”?
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The Gunpowder plot, 1605
The Game of Guesses
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Macbeth The timing of the shrew
Troilus and Cressida The comedy of errors
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That was a funny story
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What is Shakespeare’s shortest play?
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A cannon shot set fire to the wooden beams during a performance of Henry VIII
A rival playwright set fire to it in a fit of jealousy
Shakespeare fell asleep while smoking a pipe, thus accidentally setting fire to the theatre
A business associate set fire to it to claim on the insurance
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It was an accident
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Shakespeare had his own theatre called Globe Theatre. But it was burnt down in 1613. How did it
happen?
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Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing
The Tempest and Twelfth Night
King Lear and Henry V
Romeo and Juliet and Othello
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One is comedy, other is tragedy
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Which two Shakespeare plays have been translated into Klingon
(language of star trek series)?
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A pipe that he used to smoke pot Their second best bed
His main masterpieces A coat belonging to a former mistress
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Not the best gift, but romantic one
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What was the only item he left his wife, Anne Hathaway, in his will?
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25 13
3 101
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Not so many, but on worthy number of times
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How many times does suicide figure in his plays?
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One of his poems Made a confession admitting he hadn’t written any of his plays
A list of predictions including the Battle of Waterloo and the rise of the internet
A curse to prevent anyone digging up his remains
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It was a good move
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What was engraved on Shakespeare’s tombstone?
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Pedant Hobnob (friendly conversation)
Buzzer (beep) Nincompoop (fool)
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How did you call me?!
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Shakespeare invented over 1700 words during the course of his writing. However,
which of these did he NOT create?
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Pluto Neptune
Uranus Saturn
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Blue planet composed of ices
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Which planet's satellites are named after Shakespearean
characters?
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It's All Greek To Me One Fell Swoop
Better The Devil You Know Break The Ice
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It’s a national proverb
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Shakespeare was also fond of a turn of phrase. But which of these
did he NOT invent?
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Henry V Henry VI
Henry VII Henry VIII
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Odd number
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Which of these Henrys did Shakespeare NOT write about?
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Samuel Pepys Ben Elton
Elizabeth I George Bernard Shaw
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Sounds like a soft drink!
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Whose opinion of Romeo & Juliet was that "it is a play of itself the
worst that I ever heard in my life."
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Pleaseblossom Titania
Ariel Cobweb
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Daughter of a some God
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Which of these fairies did NOT appear in A Midsummer Night's
Dream?
Be or not to be
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