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 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.

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 word is commonly misquoted after 'I knew him' in Hamlet's Yorick speech?

   Answer: well

   Why: Shakespeare actually wrote 'I knew him, Horatio': Yorick was the king's jester who had carried young Hamlet on his back a thousand times.

5. 5 Easy

   What does King Richard offer his entire kingdom for during the Battle of Bosworth?

   Answer: A horse

   Why: Richard loses his mount in the fray and is slain shortly after, making this desperate plea his final famous line.

6. 6 Easy

   Which character in Shakespeare's Hamlet offers the advice 'To thine own self be true'?

   Answer: Polonius

   Why: Polonius says it as farewell advice to his son Laertes, who is leaving for France, in the same speech that warns 'Neither a borrower nor a lender be'.