Easy
Question: Which description would be appropriate for the play 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'?
Answer: Comedy
Question: What is the name of The Queen of the Fairies in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream?
Answer: Titania
Question: Which description would be appropriate for the play 'Romeo and Juliet'?
Answer: Tragedy
Question: In the play 'Romeo and Juliet' which title is held by Paris?
Answer: Count
Question: In the play Richard III, King Richard is depicted as having what physical deformity?
Answer: Hunchback
Question: In the play 'Othello' what position is held by Othello?
Answer: General
Question: In which Shakespeare play is there cooking with nose of Turk and Tartar's lips?
Answer: Macbeth
Question: The line 'To be or not to be' comes from which Shakespeare play?
Answer: Hamlet
Question: Which description would be appropriate for the play 'Henry V'?
Answer: History
Question: The skull of a deceased character called Yorick is featured in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: Hamlet
Question: The play Macbeth is set in which country?
Answer: Scotland
Question: Who married Romeo and Juliet?
Answer: Friar Laurence
Question: Which description would be appropriate for the play 'Twelfth Night'?
Answer: Comedy
Question: Complete the title of the play by William Shakespeare- A Midsummer Night's ???
Answer: Dream
Question: Verona is the setting for more than one Shakespeare play. In which country is Verona?
Answer: Italy
Question: In the play Hamlet, the central character refers to the skull of a dead friend by what name?
Answer: Yorick
Question: Which description would be appropriate for the play 'Macbeth'?
Answer: Tragedy
Question: In what year did William Shakespeare die?
Answer: 1616
Question: In the 'Merchant of Venice' - who is the 'merchant' of the title?
Answer: Antonio
Question: Which Shakespeare character is the victim of a spell that puts a donkey's head on his shoulders?
Answer: Bottom
Question: What was the name of William Shakespeare's wife?
Answer: Anne Hathaway
Question: In Shakespeare's play who killed Macbeth?
Answer: Macduff
Question: In the play 'Hamlet', how is Claudius, King of Denmark, related to Hamlet?
Answer: Uncle
Question: In the play 'Macbeth' how is Lady Macbeth related to the central character?
Answer: Wife
Question: Shakespeare's 'The Winter's Tale' contains the famous stage direction 'Exit stage left - pursued by a _________'?
Answer: Bear
Question: In the play 'King Lear' - Lear is King of what?
Answer: Britain
Question: Though born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare spent much of his career as a playwright and actor in which city?
Answer: London
Question: Which Shakespeare character is also referred to as the 'Thane of Cawdor'?
Answer: Macbeth
Question: William Shakespeare is often referred to as the what of Avon?
Answer: Bard
Question: What is the name of the primary antagonist in the Shakespeare play 'Othello'?
Answer: Iago
Question: William Shakespeare was born in which English town?
Answer: Stratford
Question: In the play 'Antony and Cleopatra' - Cleopatra is Queen of which country?
Answer: Egypt
Question: Complete the title of the play by William Shakespeare- Timon of ???
Answer: Athens
Question: In Shakespeare's play 'Richard III' during a battle, Richard offers what in exchange for a horse?
Answer: His Kingdom
Question: In the Shakespeare play 'Hamlet', Hamlet is the Prince of which country?
Answer: Denmark
Question: The play 'Romeo and Juliet' is set in which country?
Answer: Italy
Question: The Shakespeare play 'Love's Labour's Lost' was followed by 'Love's Labour's__________?
Answer: Won
Question: Richard III was a member of which Royal House?
Answer: York
Question: Which Shakespeare character said 'O, Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?'?
Answer: Juliet
Question: In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, what was Romeo's family name?
Answer: Montague
Medium
Question: William Shakespeare had how many daughters?
Answer: Two
Question: What was the location of the battle in Shakespeare's play Richard III?
Answer: Bosworth Field
Question: Sir Toby Belch is a character from which Shakespeare play?
Answer: Twelfth Night
Question: Which description would be appropriate for the play 'Titus Andronicus'?
Answer: Tragedy
Question: Who is Propero's daughter in 'Twelfth Night'?
Answer: Miranda
Question: Prospero is the main character in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: The Tempest
Question: Be not afeard the isle is full of noises' is a quote from which Shakespearean character?
Answer: Caliban
Question: Sir John Falstaff is a character who appears in three plays by William Shakespeare. In which of these does he NOT appear?
Answer: Richard III
Question: What was the maiden name of Shakespeare's mother, Mary?
Answer: Arden
Question: Which Shakespeare play has the story of two sets of identical twins separated at birth as its central theme?
Answer: The Comedy of Errors
Question: How many plays did Shakespeare write?
Answer: 37
Question: Who played the role of William Shakespeare in the film 'Shakespeare in Love'?
Answer: Joseph Fiennes
Question: Which description would be appropriate for the play 'Troilus and Cressida'?
Answer: Tragedy
Question: What position is held by the Shakespeare character Tutus Andronicus?
Answer: General
Question: In the play 'Othello' what is the name of Othello's wife?
Answer: Desdemona
Question: What were the respective family names of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?
Answer: Montague and Capulet
Question: Which description would be appropriate for the play 'Love's Labour's Lost'?
Answer: Comedy
Question: Which Shakespeare play opens amid thunder and lightning and a meeting of three witches?
Answer: Macbeth
Question: In the play 'Romeo and Juliet' - Juliet's age is said to be what?
Answer: Thirteen
Question: In 'Romeo and Juliet', what is Romeo's surname?
Answer: Montague
Question: Mercutio is a character in which play?
Answer: Romeo and Juliet
Question: Which good-natured braggart appears in Shakespeare's 'Henry IV' and 'The Merry Wives of Windsor'?
Answer: Falstaff
Question: Shylock and Portia are names of characters from which Shakespeare play?
Answer: The Merchant of Venice
Question: What is Shakespeare's shortest play?
Answer: The Comedy of Errors
Question: Which name did William Shakespeare give to his son?
Answer: Hamnet
Question: The Nurse is a major character in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: Romeo and Juliet
Question: Who was the father of Goneril, Regan and Cordelia?
Answer: King Lear
Question: How many suicides are there in Shakespeare plays?
Answer: Thirteen
Question: In the Shakespeare play 'Julius Caesar', who is Caesar's wife?
Answer: Calpurnia
Question: In 'The Taming of the Shrew' - what is the name of the 'shrew'?
Answer: Katherina
Question: In the play 'Hamlet', what is the name of Hamlet's mother?
Answer: Gertrude
Question: William Shakespeare 's birthdate is unknown, but he was baptised in April of which year?
Answer: 1564
Question: In the play 'Troilus and Cressida' Troilus's father is King of Troy. What is his name?
Answer: Priam
Question: Which character in Shakespeare was Prince of Tyre?
Answer: Pericles
Question: Portia is the heroine of which Shakespeare play?
Answer: The Merchant of Venice
Hard
Question: William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in which town?
Answer: Stratford-upon-Avon
Question: In Shakespeare's play, Macbeth becomes king of which country?
Answer: Scotland
Question: Who won an Oscar for playing Elizabeth I in the 1998 film Shakespeare in Love?
Answer: Judi Dench
Question: Who are the Shakespeare characters Valentine and Proteus?
Answer: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Question: Puck is a character in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: A Midsummer Nights Dream
Question: Now is the winter of our discontent' is a line from which Shakespeare play?
Answer: Richard III
Question: In the play 'Romeo and Juliet', who is Escalus?
Answer: Prince of Verona
Question: Which Shakespeare play features fairies called Oberon, Titania and Puck?
Answer: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Question: Which of Shakespeare's plays is set in Vienna?
Answer: Measure for Measure
Question: In the Shakespeare play 'Cymbeline' - who is Cymbeline?
Answer: King of Britain
Question: Nick Bottom is a character in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: A Midsummer Nights Dream
Question: What had been the role of the late Yorick in the play 'Hamlet'?
Answer: Court Jester
Question: The Cole Porter musical 'Kiss me Kate' is based on which play by William Shakespeare?
Answer: The Taming of the Shrew
Question: The 2006 film 'She's the Man', in which a girl pretends to be her brother, is a modern day version of which Shakespeare play?
Answer: Twelfth Night
Question: Which Shakespeare play has the subtitle, 'The Moor of Venice'?
Answer: Othello
Question: Regan is a daughter of which Shakespeare character?
Answer: King Lear
Question: In the play Hamlet, what is the name of Polonius's daughter?
Answer: Ophelia
Question: What is the fate of Romeo and Juliet in Shakespeare's play?
Answer: They Both Die
Question: In the play 'The Taming of the Shrew', what is the name of Katherina's suitor?
Answer: Petruchio
Question: Kenneth Branagh, Mel Gibson and Ethan Hawke have all played which Shakespearean character on film?
Answer: Hamlet
