Shakespeare Quotes quiz

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1. 1 Medium

   Who delivers the funeral speech opening with 'Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears'?

   Answer: Mark Antony

   Why: Antony's masterclass in rhetoric repeatedly calls Brutus 'an honourable man' while cleverly inciting the crowd to total riot.

2. 2 Easy

   What does Juliet actually mean when asking 'O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?'

   Answer: Why are you Romeo?

   Why: Shakespeare never wrote a balcony into the scene: the stage direction reads 'Enter Juliet above', and Romeo sees her at a window.

3. 3 Medium

   To what natural force does King Lear cry 'Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks'?

   Answer: storm

   Why: Lear rants at the howling tempest on the heath after his ungrateful daughters Goneril and Regan lock him outside.

4. 4 Easy

   What does Duke Orsino call 'the food of love' in Twelfth Night?

   Answer: music

   Why: Orsino asks for an excess of music hoping that an overdose of melody will cure his lovesickness for Olivia.

5. 5 Easy

   Which Shakespeare play contains the line 'Double, double toil and trouble'?

   Answer: Macbeth

   Why: King James I published his witchcraft treatise Daemonologie in 1597, and it is believed to be a source for Macbeth's witches.

6. 6 Easy

   What dying curse does Mercutio place on both families in Romeo and Juliet?

   Answer: A plague o' both your houses!

   Why: Mercutio repeats this bitter curse three times before succumbing to the wound Tybalt dealt him.