October 2026 edition

William Shakespeare quiz

Q15 / 50Easy15.0s
Which director made the 1996 film Romeo + Juliet?
ABaz Luhrmann
BFranco Zeffirelli
CTim Burton
DKenneth Branagh
112 pts+10

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The Bard · October 2026 edition

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Q2 / 50Opener
In Macbeth, who prophesies that Macbeth will become king?
ADuncan
BThe three witches
CLady Macbeth
DBanquo

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Five rounds, climbing10 questions each
1OpenerFeuding families, love vows and roses
2EasyYorick's skull, Italian cities and stage superstition
3TrickyBallet, a suitor and a 1968 movie
4HardSonnet structure and Macbeth in feudal Japan
5BrutalGlobe fire, reconstruction and a 2024 theater
The Bard titlesout of 500
Curtain call50 / 50
Act Five350+
Act Four275+
Act Three200+
Act Two100+
Act One1+
Pursued by a bear0

44 of 50 right · six short of Curtain call

You vs Hannah BThe Bard · Easy
412 pts
78%
You
389 pts
72%
Hannah
Which line opens Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?✓GBKB
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
When forty winters shall besiege thy brow

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Twenty seconds a question, and the faster you answer, the more you score. Who told Macbeth he'd be king? No time to dither.

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Five rounds of ten. The sonnets get trickier.

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