Saturday, August 9, 2008

Shakespeare Said - Random Trivia Questions

William Shakespeare is so quotable that he provided more material for the original edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations than any source besides the Bible. All of the following lines from the Bard of Avon should ring a bell, but can you identify the characters who uttered them and in which plays (one point each)?

Shakespeare Said Questions

  • Q1) "If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?"
  • Q2) "What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other word would smell as sweet."
  • Q3) "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em."
  • Q4) "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!"
  • Q5) "Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing. 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands. But he that filches from me my good name, robs me of that which not enriches him, and makes me poor indeed."
  • Q6) "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."
  • Q7) "Out, damned spot! out, I say!"
  • Q8) "If music be the food of love, play on."
  • Q9) "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; or close the wall up with our English dead!"
  • Q10) "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears."
  • Q11) "All that glisters is not gold."
  • Q12) "Neither a borrower nor a lender be: for loan oft loses both itself and friend."

Bonus question: for which character's quote was All's Well That Ends Well named?

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