Mastermind Club

Quiz 2025-7

Shakespeare

Set by Mel Kinsey

Answers

1/ Which play was being performed when The Globe theatre  caught fire in 1613?  

Henry VIII

2/ Which comedy features the twins Viola and Sebastian?

Twelfth Night

3/ Rosalind and  Orlando meet in which forest in As You Like It

The Forest of Arden

4/ Who is the bumbling constable in Much Ado About Nothing?

Dogberry

5/ “All the worlds a stage” is spoken by which character, in which play?

Jacques in As You like it

6/ Helena cures the King of France in which “problem play”?

All’s Well That Ends Well

7/ A Schoolmaster named Holofernes appears in which word-drunk comedy?

Love’s Labours Lost

8/ Which comedy ends with multiple weddings in Messina?

Much Ado About Nothing

9/ The play subtitled What You Will is better known as?

Twelfth Night 

10/ Who is the villainess who urges her sons to wreak havoc in Titus Andronicus? 

Tamora, Queen of the Goths

11/ “Unsex me here” is prayed by which character?

Lady Macbeth

12/ Romeo purchases poison from an apothecary in which city?

Mantua

13/ Which history play portrays Joan of Arc?

Henry VI part 1

14/ The Archbishop of Cantabury delivers a lenghty Salic law speech to justify war in which play?

Henry V

15/ Who are the father and son Lancastrian nobles who die together at Towton in Henry VI part 3? 

Lord Clifford and Young Clifford 

16/ Triumphant yet tragic general Coriolanus is banished from which city? 

Rome

17/ “exit, pursued by a bear” famously appears in which play? 

The Winters Tale

18/ Imogen disguises herself as what name in Cymberline

Fidele

19/  Who is the wild island servant enslaved by Prospero?

Caliban

20/  How many sonnets did Shakespeare write (standard collection)

154

21/  Sonnet 18 opens with which immortal line?

“Shall I compare thee to a summers day”?

22/ Who is the comedy heroine who disguses as a boy named Cesario?

Viola

23/ Who is Falstaff’s boon companion and bawdy hostess at The Boar’s Head? 

Mistrees Quickly

24/  Who was Desdemonas’s lady -in-waiting who exposes Iago?

Emillia

25/  “Brevity is the soul of wit”originates in which play?

Hamlet