LITERATURE QUIZ NO.38

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TO BE OR NOT TO BE

1 How are Margaret and Alice otherwise known in the title of a Shakespeare play?
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
2 In which Shakespeare play is much confusion caused by two pairs of identical twins?
A COMEDY OF ERRORS
3 Who demanded a pound of flesh in The Merchant of Venice?
SHYLOCK
4 Which Shakespeare play ends with Benedick marrying Beatrice?
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
5 Which Shakespeare play features the murder of King Duncan?
MACBETH
6 Which Shakespeare character died on a battlefield without a horse?
RICHARD III
7 Which Shakespeare play was set in the city of Vienna?
MEASURE FOR MEASURE
8 In Romeo and Juliet what was Juliet’s last name?
CAPULET
9 Which of King Lear’s three daughters was murdered?
CORDELIA
10 Which country provides the setting for Hamlet?
DENMARK

GENERAL

11 Which literary character created by Lewis Carroll sings of, “soup of the evening, beautiful soup”?
THE MOCK TURTLE
12 In which county are the Poldark novels set?
CORNWALL
13 Which bird did the poet Shelley greet in an ode with the words, “Hail to thee blithe spirit”?
SKYLARK
14 Which literary character lived on Mount Alm with her grandfather?
HEIDI
15 Who wrote Ode to a Haggis?
ROBERT BURNS
16 Which literary duo sailed to the land where the bong tree grows?
THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT
17 Which six-letter word is the name given to the holy book in the Jewish religion?
TALMUD
18 Whose first book was entitled How to Cheat At Cooking?
DELIA SMITH
19 What did Sherlock Holmes keep in the toe of a Persian slipper?
PIPE TOBACCO
20 According to his creator Ian Fleming, in what decade was James Bond born?
1920'S

[brod]

10. Denmark
20. 1930s

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10. Denmark...CORRECT
20. 1930s....INCORRECT

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5. Macbeth

[magpie in the 80's]

5. Macbeth

CORRECT FL

[old moz]

3--shylock

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3--shylock

CORRECT OM

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last days for this quiz

[magpie in the 80's]

TO BE OR NOT TO BE

1 How are Margaret and Alice otherwise known in the title of a Shakespeare play?
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
2 In which Shakespeare play is much confusion caused by two pairs of identical twins?
A COMEDY OF ERRORS
3 Who demanded a pound of flesh in The Merchant of Venice?
SHYLOCK
4 Which Shakespeare play ends with Benedick marrying Beatrice?
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
5 Which Shakespeare play features the murder of King Duncan?
MACBETH
6 Which Shakespeare character died on a battlefield without a horse?
RICHARD III
7 Which Shakespeare play was set in the city of Vienna?
MEASURE FOR MEASURE
8 In Romeo and Juliet what was Juliet’s last name?
CAPULET
9 Which of King Lear’s three daughters was murdered?
CORDELIA
10 Which country provides the setting for Hamlet?
DENMARK

GENERAL

11 Which literary character created by Lewis Carroll sings of, “soup of the evening, beautiful soup”?
THE MOCK TURTLE
12 In which county are the Poldark novels set?
CORNWALL
13 Which bird did the poet Shelley greet in an ode with the words, “Hail to thee blithe spirit”?
SKYLARK
14 Which literary character lived on Mount Alm with her grandfather?
HEIDI
15 Who wrote Ode to a Haggis?
ROBERT BURNS
16 Which literary duo sailed to the land where the bong tree grows?
THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT
17 Which six-letter word is the name given to the holy book in the Jewish religion?
TALMUD
18 Whose first book was entitled How to Cheat At Cooking?
DELIA SMITH
19 What did Sherlock Holmes keep in the toe of a Persian slipper?
PIPE TOBACCO
20 According to his creator Ian Fleming, in what decade was James Bond born?
1920'S

QUESTIONS ANSWERED ARE IN RED.
QUESTIONS UNANSWERED ARE IN BLUE.

END OF QUIZ