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Influences
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Final Jeopardy
$100 Question from
Shakespeare's Life
Which present day actress has the same name
as Shakespeare’s wife, who was 7 years his
senior?
$100 Answer from Shakespeare's
Life
Anne Hathaway
$200 Question from
Shakespeare's Life
Shakespeare lived in what English town?
$200 Answer from Shakespeare's
Life
Stratford-upon-Avon
$300 Question from
Shakespeare's Life
What was the name of the theatre where
most of Shakespeare’s plays were
performed?
$300 Answer from Shakespeare's
Life
The Globe Theatre
$400 Question from
Shakespeare's Life
What was the name of Shakespeare’s
acting troupe during the reign of Queen
Elizabeth I?
$400 Answer from Shakespeare's
Life
The Lord Chamberlain’s Men
$500 Question from
Shakespeare's Life
Shakespeare had three children. Name
one of them.
$500 Answer from Shakespeare's
Life
Susanna, Hamnet and Judith
$100 Question from Quotes
“To be or not to be, that is the
question” is from what Shakespeare
play?
$100 Answer from Quotes
Hamlet
$200 Question from Quotes
“Deny thy Father, and refuse thy name” is from
what Shakespeare tragedy?
$200 Answer from Quotes
Romeo and Juliet
$300 Question from Quotes
“A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a
horse” is from what eponymous
Shakespeare play?
$300 Answer from Quotes
Richard III
$400 Question from
“Double, double, toil and trouble,
Fire burn and cauldron bubble”
is from what Shakespeare play set in
Scotland?
$400 Answer from Quotes
Macbeth
$500 Question from Quotes
“The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars,
but in ourselves.”
is from what Shakespeare play?
$500 Answer from Quotes
Julius Caesar
$100 Question from
Shakespeare's Time
Which monarch ruled when Shakespeare
passed away?
$100 Answer from Shakespeare's
Time
King James I
$200 Question from
Shakespeare's Time
Queen Elizabeth I defeated which
country’s large navy during her reign?
$200 Answer from Shakespeare's
Time
Spain
(The Spanish Armada)
$300 Question from
Shakespeare's Time
Who were the Queen’s mother and father?
$300 Answer from Shakespeare's
Time
King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
$400 Question from
Shakespeare's Time
Who was the cousin of Elizabeth who was
beheaded for treason?
(Hint: Leader of Scotland)
$400 Answer from Shakespeare's
Time
Mary, Queen of Scots
$500 Question from
Shakespeare's Time
Name the two previous monarchs before
Queen Elizabeth I.
$500 Answer from Shakespeare's
Time
Edward VI and Mary I
(numbers not necessary)
$100 Question from Influences
Shakespeare drew influence from which
country, where he set Othello and Romeo
and Juliet, among others?
$100 Answer from Influences
Italy
$200 Question from Influences
What classic Shakespeare romance
influenced West Side Story directly?
$200 Answer from Influences
Romeo and Juliet
$300 Question from Influences
Hamlet, a story about a prince who tries to
get revenge after his uncle kills his father,
the king, influenced which classic Disney
cartoon?
$300 Answer from Influences
The Lion King
$400 Question from Influences
The Shakespeare romantic comedy Much ado
About Nothing was modernized into what
1990’s teen film starring Julia Stiles, Heath
Ledger, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt?
$400 Answer from Influences
10 Things I Hate About You
$500 Question from Influences
What Shakespeare romantic comedy about
twins inspired the Amanda Bynes movie
She’s the Man directly?
$500 Answer from Influences
Twelfth Night
$100 Question from Trivia
Name one word Shakespeare made
up that is still in use today.
$100 Answer from Trivia
accommodation
aerial
amazement
apostrophe
assassination
auspicious
baseless
bloody
bump
castigate
changeful
clangor
control (noun)
countless
courtship
critic
critical
dexterously
Dishearten
dislocate
dwindle
eventful
exposure
fitful
frugal
generous
gloomy
gnarled
hurry
impartial
inauspicious
indistinguishable
invulnerable
lapse
laughable
Lonely
……and many many more
majestic
misplaced
monumental
multitudinous
obscene
palmy
perusal
pious
premeditated
radiance
reliance
road
sanctimonious
seamy
sportive
submerge
suspicious
$200 Question from Trivia
Name one of Shakespeare’s histories
$200 Answer from Trivia
King John
Edward III
Richard II
Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 2
Henry V
Henry VI, Part 1
Henry VI, Part 2
Henry VI, Part 3
Richard III
Henry VIII
Coriolanus
Julius Caesar
Antony and
Cleopatra
$300 Question from Trivia
What percentage of actors in
Shakespeare’s troupe were women?
$300 Answer from Trivia
Zero percent.
Men played all the women’s parts.
Harumph.
$400 Question from Trivia
What is the rhyme scheme for a
Shakespearean sonnet?
$400 Answer from Trivia
ABAB
CDCD
EFEF
GG
$500 Question from Trivia
Name a modern-day actor who acted
in a Shakespeare play in film or
television.
$500 Answer from Trivia
Examples: Sir Kenneth Branagh, David Tennant, Sir Patrick
Stewart, Tom Hiddleston, Dame Judi Dench, Lawrence Olivier,
Al Pacino, Imelda Staunton, Alan Rickman, Michelle Pfeiffer,
Emma Thompson, Denzel Washington, Keanu Reeves, Michael
Keaton, Billie Piper, Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard
Burton, John Cleese, Bruce Willis, Dame Helen Mirren, Russell
Brand, Helena Bonham Carter, Charlton Heston, Brian Cox,
Ralph Fiennes, David Troughton (son of Patrick Troughton),
Marlon Brando, Orson Welles, James Earl Jones, Maggie Smith,
Sean Connery, Brian Blessed, Ian McKellan, Jessica Lange, Zoe
Wanamaker, Sean Pertwee (son of Jon Pertwee), Laurence
Fishburne, Claire Danes, Leonardo DiCaprio, Glenn Close, Mel
Gibson, Kate Winslet, Bill Murray, Julia Stiles, Michael Caine,
Gary Oldman, Lalla Ward, Michael Gambon, Robbie Coltrane
Final Jeopardy
Shakespeare wrote two plays that have a
word appear twice in their title: name one.
Final Jeopardy Answer
Measure for Measure &
All’s Well that Ends Well