Shakespeare Trivia Questions With Answers
Shakespeare wrote "Cruel only to be kind" in what play?
A: Hamlet
Which Shakespeare play is the only one that doesn't have a
song?
A: The Comedy of Errors
Venus and Adonis was whose first published work?
A: William Shakespeare
Which one of Shakespeare's plays was originally titled
"What You Will"
A: Twelfth Night
Who played Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in
Love?
A: Judi Dench.
Which eponymous character was Thane of Cawder Glaimes
A: Macbeth
What's unusual about the moons of Uranus?
A: They were named after Shakespeare characters
Who first said "The Games Afoot"?
A: William Shakespeare
Who are the two most often translated English writers?
A: Shakespeare and Agatha Christie
Who is the most filmed author?
A: Shakespeare over 300 films
In Hamlet who is Ophelia's father?
A: Polonius
In Macbeth what witch speaks first?
A: The first witch
What do these Shakespeare characters - Antony, Romeo,
Othello - have in common?
A: Suicide
In Shakespeare's Hamlet, what herb is said to be for
remembrance?
A: Rosemary
"It's all Greek to me" comes from what Shakespeare play?
A: Julius Caesar
The Dogs of
War took its title from which other work?
A: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
The Boys from Syracuse is based on what Shakespeare play?
A: The comedy of errors.
What Shakespeare play was the basis of The Forbidden
Planet?
A: The Tempest.
Which Shakespeare character says "Blow
winds and crack your
cheeks"?
A: King Lear.
Whose ghost appears in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar?
A: Caesar's Ghost.
What play is set in Venice and Cyprus
A: Othello.