9 for 10 - Julius Caesar Trivia Quiz

Answer: dogs

Act III Scene 1: Anthony makes a speech over Caesar's body; he starts by saying:
"O! pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers"
He ends with:
"Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the dogs of war;
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial."

Answer: affairs

Act IV Scene 3: Brutus and Cassius, having had news that the forces of Antony and Octavius are approaching, argue about the best place in which to confront these forces. Brutus wishes to go forward to meet them on the plains of Philippi, a decision that proves fatal.

Answer: noblest

Act V Scene 5: At the end of the play Brutus is slain. Antony says of Brutus:
"This was the noblest Roman of them all:
All the conspirators save only he
Did that they did in envy of great Caesar;
He, only in a general honest thought
And common good to all, made one of them."

Answer: gentle

Act V Scene 5:
"His life was gentle, and the elements
So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, 'This was a man!"

Answer: ears

Act II Scene 2: This is one of the best known quotes in the play. It introduces the speech made by Marc Antony after Caesar's assassination. Brutus speaks first and sways the crowd his way. He has them agreeing it was right to get rid of Caesar. However, Antony's speech sways them against the conspirators. Shakespeare, shows how easy it is to manipulate a crowd.

Answer: Rome

Act III Scene 2: Brutus speaks to the crowd after Caesar's assassination. After he has wooed the crowd, Brutus departs and leaves them to Antony's superior oratory.

Answer: once

Act II Scene 2: Caesar's wife, Calpurnia, asks him not to go out as she has had a dream in which he was murdered, but Caesar says:
"Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once."

Answer: underlings

Act I Scene 2: Cassius waxes eloquent when he tries to persuade Brutus to join the conspirators against Caesar.

Answer: soothsayer

ActI Scene 2: At the beginning of the play a soothsayer comes up to Caesar when he is walking in the streets of Rome, and tells him to beware of the ides of March. On this day Caesar encounters the soothsayer again and says to him "The ides of March are come" to which the soothsayer replies, "Ay Caesar, but not gone".

Answer: dangerous

The first letters of the answers to the first nine questions spell the answer to this question.

Act I Scene 2: Caesar is speaking to Anthony.

"Let me have men about me that are fat;
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o'nights.
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much:
Such men are dangerous."