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Jan-4-2005 18:37

See if there is interest for this.

1. Each day I will post 10 questions, at random times of the day.
2. Each Quiz runs exactly 24 hours.
3. The first person that has all 10 questions right, wins. Or if no one has all questions right, the best one wins.
4. You can only post answers ONCE for the same quiz.
5. No cash involved. Just glory. :)

Jun-13-2006 17:22

Sorry everyone...It's been a really hectic around here today. I'll have the next quiz up in a few hours...I gotta run out and just had a few moments to check in. I'll post when I get back :)

Jun-13-2006 20:08

To everyone waiting on the quiz...I apologize for being late with it :)

Let's see how well you know your Shakespeare...Name the play that each quote came from and the character who spoke the line (1 point for each part):

1. "Out, damned spot! out, I say!"
2. "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players."
3. "Oh, I am fortune's fool!"
4. "Now is the winter of our discontent."
5. "I am dying, Egypt, dying."
6. ""Why, then the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open."
7. "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
8. "Nothing can come of nothing: speak again."
9. "Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once."
10. "I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; If wealthily, then happily in Padua"

Bonus:

Fill in the blank, and then name the play and speaker...

"Yond ________ has a lean and hungry look, He thinks too much; such men are dangerous."

Jun-13-2006 20:47

i can almost hear rosamund rubbing her hands together...

Jun-13-2006 23:54

*art stumped...verily stumped*

Jun-14-2006 00:14

Yeees! You're quite right, Squirrel, but I read some of the plays years ago and I'm not sure about half of the answers. It's easier to remember the play than the speaker.

1. Macbeth - Lady Macbeth
2. As you like it - ?
3. Romeo and Juliet - Romeo
4. One of the kings, but I'm not sure which one. Richard III? I don't remember the speaker
5. Antony and Cleopatra - Antony
6. don't know
7. Hamlet - Gertrude?
8. King Lear - Lear
9. Julius Caesar? - ?
10. The Taming of the Shrew - Petrucchio

Bonus: I think it's from Julius Caesar, but I don't remember the word or the speaker.

This is a beautiful quiz, Serena!

Jun-14-2006 00:24

1. McBeth - Lady McBeth
2. Don't remember
3. Romeo & Juliet - Romeo
4. straining mind to remember something about a king. Nope. not there
5. Anthony and Cleopatra - Mark Antony
6. Merry Wives of Windsor - name started with a 'P'
7. Hamlet - Queen somebody Hamlet's mother *aaarrgghhh*
8. King Lear - King Lear to his youngest daughter, Candace
9. Julius Caesar - Julius Caesar
10. Taming of the Shrew - don't remember
Bonus - Cassius (from Julius Caesar)

That was a brain strain. Some of those I haven't read for years!

Jun-14-2006 00:28

LOL, and now that I see Rosamunds answers, I remember #4. and the queens name. *grin*

Jun-14-2006 00:31

1. Macbeth - Lady Macbeth
2. As You Like It - Jaques
3. Romeo and Juliet - Romeo
4. Richard III - Richard III
5. Antony and Cleopatra - ?
6. The Merry Wives of Wimbledon - erhh Windsor - Falstaff
7. Hamlet - can't remember, Hamlet?
8. ?
9. ?
10. The Taming of the Shrew - Petrucchio
Bonus: ?

Jun-14-2006 00:34

lol it's sad but the thing that got me into Shakespeare was seeing John Cleese on video playing Petrucchio in Taming of the Shrew in Year 8 English.

Stealing Rosamund's answers...

adding 2. Jaques?
4. Dick III by Dick III - I once hear this misquoted as 'Now is the winter of our discoteque' (which has always stuck in my noggin')
6. Merry Wives of Windsor ... I think, but no idea who said it? (going to go google it.)
9. don't know! (another one to go off and google)

Cassius and Caesar said it.

and there's just not enough excuses these days to use "methinks".

Jun-14-2006 00:35

and there's a sudden flood of answers lol