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Book Titles From Shakespeare Trivia Quiz

I'll give you the title of a book which comes from Shakespeare. You tell me the play the quote comes from.

A multiple-choice quiz by wordnerd. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
wordnerd

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
78,463

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
25

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
10 / 25

Plays
3195

Awards
Top 20% Quiz

Last 3 plays: Guest 76 (8/25), Guest 92 (12/25), davejacobs (12/25).

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 25

1. 'The Moon Is Down' by John Steinbeck. Hint

Julius Caesar

A Midsummer Night's Dream

King Lear

Macbeth

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Question 2 of 25

2. 'If This Be Magic' by Leslie John Howard. Hint

The Winter's Tale

Twelfth Night

Timon of Athens

Titus Andronicus

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Question 3 of 25

3. 'Not In Our Stars' by M.M. Marshall. Hint

Timon of Athens

Coriolanus

Antony and Cleopatra

Julius Caesar

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Question 4 of 25

4. 'Chimes At Midnight' by Terence White. Hint

Henry IV, Part 1

King John

Henry V

Henry IV, Part 2

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Question 5 of 25

5. 'Cannon's Mouth' by W. Glenn Duncan. Hint

Richard II

A Midsummer Night's Dream

As You Like It

Henry VI, Part 2

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Question 6 of 25

6. 'The Mousetrap' by Agatha Christie. Hint

The Comedy of Errors

Hamlet

King Lear

The Merry Wives of Windsor

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Question 7 of 25

7. 'Twice-Told Tales' by Charles Dickens. Hint

Henry VI, Part 3

King John

The Tempest

The Winter's Tale

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Question 8 of 25

8. 'Edge of Hazard' by George Horton. Hint

King Lear

Hamlet

All's Well That Ends Well

Antony and Cleopatra

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Question 9 of 25

9. 'A Muse of Fire' A.D. Harvey. Hint

Henry VI, Part 1

Henry IV, Part 2

Henry VIII

Henry V

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Question 10 of 25

10. 'Strange Snow' by Steve Metcalfe. Hint

The Winter's Tale

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Hamlet

Richard III

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Question 11 of 25

11. 'Walk the Night' by Robert C. Reinhart. Hint

Romeo and Juliet

The Tempest

Hamlet

Julius Caesar

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Question 12 of 25

12. 'Out Of This Nettle' by Norah Lofts. Hint

The Merchant of Venice

Henry V

Henry IV, Part I

King Lear

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Question 13 of 25

13. 'This Rough Magic' by Mary Stewart. Hint

Pericles

The Winter's Tale

The Tempest

A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Question 14 of 25

14. 'A Plague On Both Your Houses' by Robert. W. Whitaker.

Answer: (Three Words)

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Question 15 of 25

15. 'This Stage of Fools' by Leonard Merrick. Hint

The Comedy of Errors

Macbeth

Twelfth Night

King Lear

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Question 16 of 25

16. 'A Fire In His Hand' by Michael Grieg. Hint

King John

The Tempest

As You Like It

Richard II

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Question 17 of 25

17. 'An Improbable Fiction' by Sara Woods. Hint

All's Well That Ends Well

Twelfth Night

Pericles

Hamlet

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Question 18 of 25

18. 'All That Glistens' by Mark Ashton. Hint

The Merchant of Venice

Henry VI, Part 3

Romeo and Juliet

The Merry Wives of Windsor

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Question 19 of 25

19. 'Here's A Villain!' by James Mitchell. Hint

All's Well That Ends Well

Othello

Comedy of Errors

King John

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Question 20 of 25

20. 'The Shadow of a Dream' by Charlotte Haldane. Hint

Pericles

Macbeth

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Hamlet

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Question 21 of 25

21. 'The World's Mine Oyster' by D. Wynn. Hint

Twelfth Night

Titus Andronicus

The Merry Wives of Windsor

The Tempest

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Question 22 of 25

22. 'Put Money In Thy Purse' by Michael MacLiammor. Hint

Othello

Titus Andronicus

Measure For Measure

Pericles

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Question 23 of 25

23. 'Thankless Child' by Frank Swinnerton. Hint

Henry IV, Part 1

Romeo and Juliet

King Lear

The Winter's Tale

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Question 24 of 25

24. 'The Giant's Strength' by Basil King. Hint

Measure For Measure

Henry V

Pericles

A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Question 25 of 25

25. 'Brave New World' by Aldous Huxley. Hint

Twelfth Night

As You Like It

The Tempest

A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. 'The Moon Is Down' by John Steinbeck.

Answer: Macbeth

'The moon is down, I have not heard the clock.'

2. 'If This Be Magic' by Leslie John Howard.

Answer: The Winter's Tale

'If this be magic, let it be an art lawful as eating.'

3. 'Not In Our Stars' by M.M. Marshall.

Answer: Julius Caesar

'Men are at some time masters of their fates: the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.'

4. 'Chimes At Midnight' by Terence White.

Answer: Henry IV, Part 2

'We have heard the chimes at midnight, master.'

5. 'Cannon's Mouth' by W. Glenn Duncan.

Answer: As You Like It

'Then a soldier, full of strange oaths and bearded like a pard, jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, seeking the bubble reputation, even in the cannon's mouth.'

6. 'The Mousetrap' by Agatha Christie.

Answer: Hamlet

'KING: What do you call the play? HAMLET: The Mouse-trap.'

7. 'Twice-Told Tales' by Charles Dickens.

Answer: King John

'Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.'

8. 'Edge of Hazard' by George Horton.

Answer: All's Well That Ends Well

'We'll strive to bear it for your worthy sake to the extreme edge of hazard.'

9. 'A Muse of Fire' A.D. Harvey.

Answer: Henry V

'O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention...'

10. 'Strange Snow' by Steve Metcalfe.

Answer: A Midsummer Night's Dream

'Merry and tragical! Tedious and brief! That is, hot ice and wonderous strange snow.'

11. 'Walk the Night' by Robert C. Reinhart.

Answer: Hamlet

'I am thy father's spirit, doomed for a certain term to walk the night.'

12. 'Out Of This Nettle' by Norah Lofts.

Answer: Henry IV, Part I

'Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.'

13. 'This Rough Magic' by Mary Stewart.

Answer: The Tempest

'But this rough magic I here abjure.'

14. 'A Plague On Both Your Houses' by Robert. W. Whitaker.

Answer: Romeo and Juliet

'A plague on both your houses! They have made worm's meat of me.'

15. 'This Stage of Fools' by Leonard Merrick.

Answer: King Lear

'When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.'

16. 'A Fire In His Hand' by Michael Grieg.

Answer: Richard II

'O! Who can hold a fire in his hand by thinking of the frosty Caucasus?'

17. 'An Improbable Fiction' by Sara Woods.

Answer: Twelfth Night

'If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.'

18. 'All That Glistens' by Mark Ashton.

Answer: The Merchant of Venice

In shakespeare's original words, 'All that glisters is not gold; often have you heard that told.' Modern usage generally uses glistens or glitters.

19. 'Here's A Villain!' by James Mitchell.

Answer: Comedy of Errors

'But here's a villain would face me down.'

20. 'The Shadow of a Dream' by Charlotte Haldane.

Answer: Hamlet

'Which dreams are indeed ambition, for the very substance of the ambition is merely the shadow of a dream.'

21. 'The World's Mine Oyster' by D. Wynn.

Answer: The Merry Wives of Windsor

'Why then, the world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.'

22. 'Put Money In Thy Purse' by Michael MacLiammor.

Answer: Othello

'Put money in thy {purse;} follow thou the wars, defeat thy favour with a usurped beard.'

23. 'Thankless Child' by Frank Swinnerton.

Answer: King Lear

'How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!'

24. 'The Giant's Strength' by Basil King.

Answer: Measure For Measure

'It is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.'

25. 'Brave New World' by Aldous Huxley.

Answer: The Tempest

'How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, that hath such people in it!'

Source: Author wordnerd

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