From Start to Finish Trivia Quiz

Answer: For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

All four are said in the last scene, upon finding Romeo and Juliet dead. The last speech, said by the prince, goes as follows:
"A glooming peace this morning with it brings;
The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head:
Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things;
Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished:
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."

Answer: Hamlet

"Hamlet" begins on a platform outside of the castle at Elsinore. Bernardo asks this of Francisco who replies, "Nay, answer me: stand, and unfold yourself."

Answer: Boatswain!

The master calls to the boatswain who responds, "Here master, what cheer?" They are on a ship with the king and prince of Naples, returning from princess Claribel's wedding in Tunis, and Prospero, on his island has made his servant, Ariel, conjure a tempest to shipwreck them on his island.

Answer: It is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue...

All the qoutes are in her epilogue, however "It is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue, but it is no more unhandsome than to see the lord the prologue." begins it.

Answer: I learn in this letter that Don Peter of Arragon comes this night to Messina.

Leonato, duke of Messina, receives a letter at the opening of the play. The coming of Don Pedro and his troops excites all the young ladies in particular. "Sigh no more ladies..." is the beginning of a song played by Balthasar at the begining of the scene where the prince, Claudio and Leonato trick Benedict into falling in love with Beatrice.

However, in Kenneth Branagh's version, Beatrice reads it as a poem on a picnic before Leonato receives the letter.

Answer: Give me your hands, if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends.

All these rhyming couplets, as they are called, are in Puck's speech. The "serpent's toungue" refers to booing and hissing of the audience if they did not like the play. "Give me your hands..." obviously means CLAP.

Answer: Macbeth

This is said by the First Witch in "Macbeth". When they meet Macbeth they prophecy that he will become thane of Cawdor and eventually the king of Scotland. Macbeth becomes obsessed by this idea when he returns to court and finds that he has been made thane of Cawdor. His wife, Lady Macbeth, also gets possessed by the idea.

Answer: Coriolanus

The "he" is refering to Coriolanus himself who is now dead, and at the end of the speech, said by Aufidius, is carried off stage.

Answer: food

"If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound,
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more:
'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou,
That, notwithstanding thy capacity
Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,
Of what validity and pitch soe'er,
But falls into abatement and low price,
Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy
That it alone is high fantastical."
Duke Orsino is pining for the love of Olivia, a countess, who has foresworn men because of her grief for her brother's death.

Answer: King Lear

Albany says this after the death of King Lear and his only good daughter (the youngest of course), Cordelia.