The Ultimate Shakespeare Trivia Quiz

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Question 1/10

How many plays did Shakespeare write?

  • 37 or 38
  • 18 or 19
  • 5 or 6
  • 51 or 52
Question 2/10

Which of the following famous lines did Shakespeare NOT write?

  • To be or not to be, that is the question.
  • Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
  • All that glitters is not gold.
  • If music be the food of love, play on.
Question 3/10

Name that play! A murdered father haunts his son who vows to avenge him...but procrastinates. In the meantime, the son treats women poorly and kills old friends. The play ends with lots of death.

  • King Lear
  • Titus Andronicus
  • Hamlet
  • The Winter’s Tale
Question 4/10

Name that play! The following quotation is found in which play?
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.

  • The Tempest
  • Othello
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • As You Like It
Question 5/10

Shakespeare’s INDOOR theater, at which several later plays premiered, was called…

  • The Globe
  • Blackfriars
  • The Rose
  • The Red Lion
Question 6/10

All of the following plays have ghosts EXCEPT...

  • Antony and Cleopatra
  • Hamlet
  • Macbeth
  • Richard III
Question 7/10

Name that play! A girl dresses as a man and gets a job in a duke’s household but falls in love with him. Things get awkward when he makes her romance the woman he loves...who then falls for the girl.

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  • Much Ado About Nothing
  • Measure for Measure
  • Twelfth Night
Question 8/10

A Shakespearean sonnet ends with...

  • A line of twelve syllables called an alexandrine
  • Blank verse
  • A rhyming couplet
  • A sestet often rhyming CDECDE
Question 9/10

Name that play! The following quotation is found in which play?
And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by...
But we in it shall be remembered--
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;

  • Timon of Athens
  • Henry V
  • Othello
  • The Merchant of Venice
Question 10/10

Which of the following history plays did Shakespeare NOT write?

  • Edward II
  • Richard II
  • Henry VIII
  • King John
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The Ultimate Shakespeare Trivia Quiz

Shakespeare Trivia

This Shakespeare trivia quiz will test your knowledge of the Elizabethan Bard from Stratford-upon-Avon! Any Renaissance person knows their Hamlet and Midsummer, but how about the history plays or sonnets? Prove your Shakespearean prowess by taking this quiz on Romeo, Macbeth, Othello, and all the rest.