Shakespeare quizzards

Who played Romeo in the 1996 film version of Romeo and Juliet?

• Brad Pitt
• Leonardo DiCaprio
• Johnny Depp
• Tom Cruise

Which theatre was accidentally set alight by a cannon, fired to mark the king’s entrance onstage during a performance of Shakespeare’s Henry VIII in 1613?

• Shakespearean Playhouse
• the Globe Theatre

• Bard Theatre
• Rose Theatre

Where was Shakespeare born?

• Stratford-upon-Avon, England
• Manchester, England
• Liverpool, England
• London, England

In which play by Shakespeare can you read this quote: "to be or not to be, that is the question"

• Macbeth
• Hamlet
• Romeo and Juliet
• Julius Caesar

In which of Shakespeare’s plays does the group of clowns Feste, Malvolio, Sir Toby Belch, and Sir Andrew Aguecheek appear?

• Romeo and Juliet
• Twelfth Night
• Macbeth
• Hamlet

Which play by Shakespeare opens with these words: “If music be the food of love, play on”?

• Twelfth Night
• Romeo and Juliet
• Macbeth
• Hamlet

Between whom does a “merry war” of words go on in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing?

• Macbeth and Lady Macbeth
• Hamlet and Ophelia
• Romeo and Juliet
• Beatrice and Benedick

What is the name of the penniless Venetian who asks his friend for a loan in The Merchant of Venice?

• Bassanio
• Lorenzo
• Gratiano
• Antonio

Which historical character created by Shakespeare boasts that he can “set the murtherous Machevil to school”?

• Othello
• Richard, duke of Gloucester

• Hamlet
• Iago

1. Most of Shakespeare’s plays were written during the reign of which monarch?

• King Henry VIII
• Queen Victoria
• King George III
• Queen Elizabeth I