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Six-Letter Shakespeare Chain - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 99 times
- The average score is 12 of 24
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| "To be or not to be." Arguably his most popular play. | Hamlet | 100%
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| Shakespeare wrote 154 of these. | Sonnet | 99%
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| The ___ of the Shrew | Taming | 99%
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| The Comedy of ___ | Errors | 95%
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| The setting of Romeo and Juliet - "fair ___, where we lay our scene." | Verona | 83%
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| Troilus and Cressida is set against the backdrop of this war. | {Trojan} War | 80%
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| City, one-time home to the manhater Timon. | Athens | 68%
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| Nationality of Claudius, Gertrude and Horatio. | Danish | 67%
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| Court jester whose skull is famously held aloft. | Yorick | 67%
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| Juliet's hot-headed cousin, the Prince of Cats. | Tybalt | 64%
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| The Two Noble Kinsmen is based on this one of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. | The {Knight}'s Tale | 55%
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| King of Scotland, killed by Macbeth. | Duncan | 54%
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| Anonymous history play of 1596, thought by some to be Shakespeare's. | {Edward} III | 53%
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| Country of Fortinbras. | Norway | 45%
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| This Russian-born American sci-fi writer also published a two-volume guide to Shakespeare in 1970. | Isaac Asimov | 42%
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| Bastard son of Gloucester, half-brother of Edgar. | Edmund | 34%
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| An archaic form of 'uncle' used frequently by Lear's fool. | Nuncle | 28%
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| Illyrian countess. Loved by Orsino, loves Cesario, marries Sebastian. | Olivia | 28%
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| One of the most popular alternative Shakespearean authorship candidates. He died in 1604, at least seven years before Shakespeare's last plays are thought to have been written. | Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of {Oxford} | 20%
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| Identical servant twins, one from Syracuse and one from Ephesus. | Dromio | 17%
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| "Love and constancy is dead." Arguably his least popular poem. | The Phoenix and the {Turtle} | 17%
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| In The Tempest, the King of Naples who aided Antonio in usurping Prospero's dukedom. | Alonso | 13%
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| Shakespeare's contemporary, who called him an "upstart crow" in his Groats-Worth of Wit. | Robert Greene | 13%
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| Lady of Milan, the unwilling object of inconstant Proteus's affections in The Two Gentlemen of Verona. | Silvia | 7%
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