1. When was William Shakespeare born?
**April 23, 1564**
2. Where was William Shakespeare born?
**Stratford-upon-Avon, England**
3. What was William Shakespeare's father's occupation?
**Glover and merchant**
4. What was William Shakespeare's mother's name?
**Mary Arden**
5. What is one of William Shakespeare's most famous plays?
**Romeo and Juliet**
6. How many plays are traditionally attributed to William Shakespeare?
**38 plays**
7. How many sonnets are attributed to William Shakespeare?
**154 sonnets**
8. What is one of William Shakespeare's most famous tragic plays besides Romeo and Juliet?
**Hamlet**
9. What is one of William Shakespeare's most famous comedies?
**A Midsummer Night's Dream**
10. How old was William Shakespeare when he married Anne Hathaway?
**18**
11. How old was Anne Hathaway when she married William Shakespeare?
**26**
12. How many children did William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway have together?
**3 children - Susanna, Hamnet, and Judith**
13. What was the name of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway's son who died as a child?
**Hamnet**
14. In what year did William Shakespeare die?
**1616**
15. Where is William Shakespeare buried?
**Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon**
16. What acting company was William Shakespeare connected to in London?
**The Lord Chamberlain's Men, which later became The King's Men**
17. For which British monarch did William Shakespeare write some of his plays dedicated to?
**James I**
18. What is the genre of the play William Shakespeare wrote about King Lear?
**Tragedy**
19. What is the genre of the play William Shakespeare wrote about The Tempest?
**Romance**
20. What is the genre of the play William Shakespeare wrote about The Taming of the Shrew?
**Comedy**
21. What is the genre of the play William Shakespeare wrote about Macbeth?
**Tragedy**
22. What is the genre of the play William Shakespeare wrote about As You Like It?
**Comedy**
23. What is one of the best known speeches in William Shakespeare's plays?
**"To be, or not to be" from Hamlet**
24. What city is referred to as a "scepter'd isle" in one of William Shakespeare's plays?
**England in King John**
25. What is the longest of William Shakespeare's plays?
**Hamlet**
26. What is the shortest of William Shakespeare's plays?
**The Comedy of Errors**
27. Which two of William Shakespeare's plays are set in Venice, Italy?
**The Merchant of Venice, Othello**
28. Which characters say "Neither a borrower nor a lender be" in one of William Shakespeare's plays?
**Polonius in Hamlet**
29. Which play by William Shakespeare is based on the reign of King Henry IV of England?
**Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2**
30. Which of William Shakespeare's plays are based on the reign of King Henry V of England?
**Henry V**
31. Which of William Shakespeare's plays are based on the reign of King Henry VI of England?
**Henry VI, Part 1, Henry VI, Part 2, Henry VI, Part 3**
32. Which of William Shakespeare's plays are based on the War of the Roses in England?
**Henry VI, Part 1, Henry VI, Part 2, Henry VI, Part 3 and Richard III**
33. Which of William Shakespeare's plays are based on the legend of King Lear of Britain?
**King Lear**
34. Which of William Shakespeare's plays include the three witches predicting "when shall we three meet again"?
**Macbeth**
35. Which character in William Shakespeare's play says "to be rather clapped or hissed; I am not indifferent"?
**Hamlet**
36. Which character in William Shakespeare's play says "heavy is the head that wears the crown"?
**King Henry IV**
37. Which tragic figure in one of William Shakespeare's plays commits suicide by poison meant for another?
**Romeo**
38. What illness does Lady Macbeth suffer from in William Shakespeare's Macbeth after her role in King Duncan's murder?
**Guilt-ridden sleepwalking and madness**
39. Which island appears in William Shakespeare's The Tempest?
**Prospero's island**
40. Which of William Shakespeare's plays served as the basis for the Disney film "The Lion King"?
**Hamlet**
41. Where in London did William Shakespeare perform his plays?
**The Globe Theatre**
42. Which play by William Shakespeare tells the story of a shipwrecked nobleman?
**The Tempest**
43. Which of William Shakespeare's plays tells the story of a hunchback named Richard who lusts for power?
**Richard III**
44. Which of William Shakespeare's plays involves mistaken identity and separated twins?
**The Comedy of Errors**
45. In which play by William Shakespeare does Lady Macbeth say "unsex me here"?
**Macbeth**
46. Which character in one of William Shakespeare's plays says "To be, or not to be: that is the question"?
**Hamlet**
47. What is the name of the loyal companion who helps Prince Hamlet in his mission of revenge against King Claudius?
**Horatio**
48. Which is considered to be one of Shakespeare's "problem plays"?
**Measure for Measure**
49. Which of Shakespeare's plays is based on the Henryson poem "The Testament of Cresseid"?
**Troilus and Cressida**
50. What occupation did William Shakespeare have before becoming a playwright and poet?
**Actor, theater owner/manager**
51. In what year did William Shakespeare move to London?
**Around 1590**
52. What was Stratford-upon-Avon called during William Shakespeare's time there?
**Stratford-upon-Avon**
53. What evidence is there that William Shakespeare attended Stratford Grammar School as a child?
**Parish records**
54. What classical figures and Roman histories inspired many of Shakespeare's plays?
**Ovid, Plutarch, Holinshed**
55. How old was William Shakespeare when he wrote his first play Henry VI, Part 1?
**Around 30**
56. How many manuscripts survive in William Shakespeare's own handwriting?
**None**
57. What tragedy is considered the greatest of William Shakespeare's works?
**Hamlet**
58. What was the name of William Shakespeare's company granted a monopoly over dramatic performances in London by King James I in 1603?
**The King's Men**
59. Which monarch's court did William Shakespeare write for during the early part of his career?
**Queen Elizabeth I**
60. Which monarch's court did William Shakespeare write for later in his career?
**King James I**
61. What was one of the theaters Shakespeare wrote for that was destroyed by a fire in 1613?
**The Globe Theater**
62. What was another theater Shakespeare wrote for located in London's Shoreditch district?
**The Curtain Theater**
63. When was the First Folio of Shakespeare's works published?
**1623, seven years after his death**
64. Aside from his plays and poetry, Shakespeare is also known for writing narrative poems about what two topics?
**Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece**
65. What age was William Shakespeare when he died?
**52**
66. What is the title of Shakespeare's only narrative poem about an Italianate fantasy adventure romance?
**The Phoenix and the Turtle**
67. According to his epitaph, what are the last words engraved on Shakespeare's tombstone?
**"Blest be the man that spares thses stones, and curst be he that moves my bones"**
68. What was the name given to the alternate authorship theory that the real author of Shakespeare's plays was Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford?
**Oxfordian theory**
69. Approximately how many words are in all of Shakespeare's plays combined if printed in a book?
**Around 884,000 words**
70. What is the longest word found in all of Shakespeare's works?
**Honorificabilitudinitatibus**
71. Considered one the greatest works of dramatic fiction, which play by Shakespeare vividly brings ancient Rome to life through its characters and themes?
**Julius Caesar**
72. Which of Shakespeare's later romantic comedies, recognized as one of his most brilliant, depicts the forest adventures of exiled duke and his entourage?
**As You Like It**
73. In which comedy
74. What is the name of the ship that is stranded in a storm at the beginning of The Tempest?
**The Sea Venture**
75. Which of Shakespeare's plays tells the story of the Scottish lord Macbeth's rise to power and his obsession with becoming king of Scotland?
**Macbeth**
76. Which of Shakespeare's comedies tells the story of two pairs of separated twins and their mistaken identities?
**The Comedy of Errors**
77. Which of Shakespeare's history plays focuses on the downfall of King Richard II and the rise of Henry Bolingbroke?
**Richard II**
78. Which play by Shakespeare portrays the doomed love between Montagues and Capulets amidst feuding families in Verona?
**Romeo and Juliet**
79. What is the name of Shakespeare's summery comedy about fairies, lovers' misadventures in an enchanted forest?
**A Midsummer Night's Dream**
80. Which of Shakespeare's tragedies tells the story of tragic hero Othello and his jealousy and murder of his wife Desdemona?
**Othello**
81. Which of Shakespeare's history plays focuses on Henry V's victory at the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years' War?
**Henry V**
82. Which of Shakespeare's early comedies involves a shipwreck where some of the survivors find themselves on an uncharted island?
**The Tempest**
83. Which of Shakespeare's history plays focuses on the Wars of the Roses and the rise and fall of King Henry VI of England?
**Henry VI, Part 1; Henry VI, Part 2; Henry VI, Part 3**
84. Which of Shakespeare's romantic comedies takes place in the magical forest of Arden?
**As You Like It**
85. Which of Shakespeare's darker comedies centers around the Duke of Vienna and his obsession with Isabella's purity?
**Measure for Measure**
86. In which of Shakespeare's plays does Hamlet feign madness while plotting revenge on his uncle for murdering his father?
**Hamlet**
87. Which of Shakespeare's romances tells the story of the sea-storm tossed nobleman Prospero, who is the rightful Duke of Milan?
**The Tempest**
88. Which of Shakespeare's history plays depicts the power struggle between Bolingbroke and Mowbray which escalates into the downfall of Richard II?
**Richard II**
89. Which of Shakespeare's plays, believed to be one of his very last works, is often cited as his 'romance' plays?
**The Tempest**
90. Which of Shakespeare's late romances focuses on the star-crossed lovers Troilus and Cressida during the Trojan War?
**Troilus and Cressida**
91. Which of Shakespeare's plays explores passion, jealousy and betrayal among the Scottish nobility through the story of Macbeth's crimes of ambition?
**Macbeth**
92. Which of Shakespeare's later tragedies is set in ancient Denmark and revolves around Prince Hamlet's quest to avenge his father's murder?
**Hamlet**
93. Which of Shakespeare's history plays focuses on King Henry V's martial prowess and his claim to the French throne?
**Henry V**
94. What is the general trajectory of Shakespeare's plays from his early-to-late period in terms of tone and subject matter?
**From history plays and comedies to tragedies and romances**
95. Which of Shakespeare's plays features the witches prophesying "fair is foul, and foul is fair" to Macbeth?
**Macbeth**
96. Which of Shakespeare's tragedies explores a soldier's betrayal and downfall through manipulation by his ambitious wife?
**Othello**
97. Which of Shakespeare's comedies involves the romantic exploits and marriages of young Athenian men and women?
**A Midsummer Night's Dream**
98. Which of Shakespeare's plays tells the story of the aging King Lear and how he divides his kingdom among his three daughters based on their expressed love for him?
**King Lear**
99. Considered one of Shakespeare's problem plays, which drama explores complex themes of morality, justice and mercy through its depiction of a corrupt society?
**Measure for Measure**
100. What was Shakespeare's profession?
**Playwright and poet**
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