Braingle: 'Shakespeare Speaks!' Trivia Quiz

How well do you know Shakespeare? Can you match up these famous quotes to the correct works from which it was taken? A small clue is provided when needed.

Quiz ID:	#53
Fun:	(2.55)
Difficulty:	(1.87)
Category:	Literature > Shakespeare
Created By:	froggygg

#1 "To be or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.." (Let me be what I am.)

Hamlet
Macbeth
The Tempest
Twelfth Night

#2 "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages." (I think most people would agree and like this quote.)

The Two Noble Kinsmen
The Winter's Tale
The Comedy of Errors
As You Like It

#3 "Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow." (Yes, saying goodbye is hard.)

The Merchant of Venice
Love's Labor's Lost
Romeo and Juliet
Antony and Cleopatra

#4 "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!"

King Richard III
Measure for Measure
Hamlet
Pericles, Prince of Tyre

#5 "We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with a sleep..." (A good nap does sound quite tempting.)

Twelfth Night
The Tempest
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Othello

#6 "The quality of mercy is not strain'd. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes." (Mercy cannot be bought as it is given.)

The Comedy of Errors
Macbeth
The Merchant of Venice
Richard III

#7 "All that glisters is not gold." (Gold is for sale but it cannot buy happiness.)

The Merchant of Venice
Much Ado About Nothing
The Tempest
The Winter's Tale

#8 "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" (Spoken as a true fairy in a dream.)

Twelfth Night
The Comedy of Errors
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Merry Wives of Windsor

#9 "O, what men dare do! What men may do! What men daily do, not knowing what they do!" (Maybe men should do nothing.)

Othello
Much Ado About Nothing
Measure For Measure
King Lear

#10 "Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind as man's ingratitude;" (Most do not like a winter wind as it is quite cold.)

As You Like It
Romeo and Juliet
The Merchant of Venice
The Taming of the Shrew

#11 "This was the unkindest cut of all." (Betrayal often hurts the most.)

All's Well That Ends Well
Julius Caesar
Hamlet
King John

#12 "Off with his head!" (A royal meal perhaps?)

The Comedy of Errors
King John
Othello
King Richard III

#13 "Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind." (One does dream of such a love.)

Romeo and Juliet
Love's Labor's Lost
The Merry Wives of Windsor
A Midsummer Night's Dream

#14 "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark." (An amulet is meant to protect you.)

Hamlet
The Tempest
The Comedy of Errors
As You Like It

#15 "Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and howlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble." (You won't find this on the McDonald's menu.)

Twelfth Night
Macbeth
Othello
King Lear

#16 "To sleep, perchance to dream- ay, there's the rub." (I live in a settlement smaller than a town.)

A Midsummer Night's Dream
Romeo and Juliet
The Winter's Tale
Hamlet

#17 "Why, then the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open." (One must be merry to open an oyster with a sword.)

The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Merchant of Venice
The Two Noble Kinsmen
Julius Caesar

#18 "If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die." (The night is young and there is time to go out to eat.)

Twelfth Night
Macbeth
Othello
The Tempest

#19 "Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once." (Do not be afraid to seize the moment.)

The Merchant of Venice
King Lear
Hamlet
Julius Caesar

#20 "Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (There are many ways greatness can be counted.)

Twelfth Night
Julius Caesar
Hamlet
The Merchant of Venice

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