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Category 1 Question 1 When was William Shakespeare baptized?
Category 1 Answer 1 APRIL 26, 1564
Category 1 Question 2 Where was William Shakespeare born?
Category 1 Answer 2 STRATFORD UPON AVON
Category 1 Question 3 How old was William when John was elected mayor?
Category 1 Answer 3 FOUR YEARS OLD
Category 1 Question 4 What had John Shakespeare deal in illegally according to Queen Elizabeth I’s spies?
Category 1 Answer 4 WOOL
Category 1 Question 5 Who was Shakespeare’s favorite novelist?
Category 1 Answer 5 Ovid
Category 2 Question What was the name of the girl William Shakespeare married?
Category 2 Answer 1 ANNE HATHAWAY
Category 2 Question 2 Why did William Shakespeare get married?
Category 2 Answer 2 ANNE WAS PREGNANT
Category 2 Question 3 What was the song at the end of Ralph Roister Doister meant to be a message about?
Category 2 Answer 3 THE QUEEN IS GOOD AND RIGHT
Category 2 Question 4 From what famous book did the mystery plays get much of their material?
Category 2 Answer 4 THE BIBLE
Category 2 Question 5 What did William work as when he lived in the country at Houghton Tower in Lancaster?
Category 2 Answer 5 A TEACHER
Category 3 Question 1 Elsinore was the palace of which Shakespearean fictional prince?
Category 3 Answer 1 HAMLET
Category 3 Question 2 Where was William’s first known London address?
Category 3 Answer 2 BISHOP’S GATE
Category 3 Question 3 Titus Andronicus was one of William Shakespeare’s first _____________.
Category 3 Answer 3 TRAGEDIES
Category 3 Question 4 What was the subject of William Shakespeare’s early history plays?
Category 3 Answer 4 WAR
Category 3 Question 5 Who was the best writer when William Shakespeare came into town?
Category 3 Answer 5 CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Category 4 Question 1 Who are always dangerous in the eyes of authoritarian states?
Category 4 Answer 1 WRITERS
Category 4 Question 2 What was the duty of poets “supposed” to be?
Category 4 Answer 2 TO GLORIFY GOD
Category 4 Question 3 What happened to cause theatres to close in 1593?
Category 4 Answer 3 THE PLAGUE
Category 4 Question 4 What year did Shakespeare form The Lord Chamberlin’s Men?
Category 4 Answer
Category 4 Question 5 What did Shakespeare buy for his father to make him into a proper gentleman?
Category 4 Answer 5 A COAT OF ARMS
Category 5 Question 1 For what male, specifically, do scholars believe Shakespeare wrote many of his poems?
Category 5 Answer 1 HIS SON
Category 5 Question 2 With which play did Shakespeare win the war of the poets?
Category 5 Answer 2 HAMLET
Category 5 Question 3 What is the duty of poets according to Shakespeare?
Category 5 Answer 3 “TO SAY WHAT WE FEEL, NOT WHAT WE OUGHT TO SAY.”
Category 5 Question 4 When did the Globe Theatre open?
Category 5 Answer 4 JUNE 12, 1599
Category 5 Question 5 What did William and the King’s Men do at Christmas?
Category 5 Answer 5 THEY PERFORMED PLAYS FOR THE KING.
Category 6 Question 1 Which Shakespeare play did the gunpowder plot inspire?
Category 6 Answer 1 MACBETH
Category 6 Question 2 How many pounds did Shakespeare have to pay for every profanity in his plays?
Category 6 Answer 2 TEN
Category 6 Question 3 At Christmas 1606, Shakespeare’s company performed which play?
Category 6 Answer 3 KING LEAR
Category 6 Question 4 What is Shakespeare’s lost play?
Category 6 Answer 4 CARDENIO
Category 6 Question 5 APRIL 23, 1616 is…
Category 6 Answer 5 Shakespeare’s death date