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100
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
100
Shakespeare was born in England, near this river.
What is the Avon River?
100
This villain from Othello shares a name with a parrot from the 1992 Disney movie Aladdin.
What is Iago?
100
This movie, which won seven Oscars in 1999 (including Best Picture) tells the fictional story of a romance between the playwright and Viola de Lesseps.
What is Shakespeare in Love?
100
Hamlet is set in Kronborg Castle of Elsinore in this country.
What is Denmark?
200
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing
What is Macbeth?
200
Shakespeare wrote at least 154 of these, a type of poem.
What are sonnets?
200
This filmmaker based a 1985 movie on the Shakespeare tragedy King Lear.
Who is Akira Kurosawa?
200
She's the Man (2006) is a modern retelling of this Shakespeare holiday comedy (set during the Christmas season) with a cross-dressing heroine, Viola.
What is Twelfth Night?
200
This northern Italian city is the setting for two Shakespeare plays, one of which includes the name of the city in its title.
What is Verona?
300
To be or not to be
That is the question
What is Hamlet?
300
Shakespeare's wife, who shares a name with a contemporary actress who starred in The Devil Wears Prada.
Who is Anne Hathaway?
300
This Shakespearean actor (pictured here in Julius Caesar) was once called the "handsomest man in America" and a "natural talent" before he became much more famous for an event on April 14, 1865. Hint: Brutus was rumored to have been his favorite role. 
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
300
Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh, Denzel Washington, and Keanu Reeves star in a 1993 film adaptation of a Shakespeare comedy whose title implies that "there's a big fuss for no reason"!
What is Much Ado About Nothing?
300
Macbeth's castle was located in this town in the Scottish Highlands, which sits at the mouth of the Ness River.
What is Inverness?
400
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered—
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he today that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother
What is Henry V?
400
Conspiracy theorists believe that Shakespeare did not write the all of the plays that we now attribute to him. Some claim that they written by this playwright and contemporary of Shakespeare, who is perhaps best known for writing the play Faustus.
Who is Christopher Marlowe?
400
Before he became an Oscar winner in 2016, this actor starred as a modern-day Romeo in Romeo + Juliet
Who is Leonardo DiCaprio?
400
This 2014 movie, whose title comes from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, stars Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort as two sick teenagers who travel to Amsterdam to meet a writer played by Willem Dafoe.
What is The Fault in Our Stars?
400
Othello is set in this Italian city, which was important for trade between Asia and Europe during Shakespeare's time.
What is Venice?
500
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
What is As You Like It?
500
Shakespeare performed plays for Queen Elizabeth I, as well as her successor, this king from the House of Stuart.
Who is James I?
500
This mischievous fairy exclaimed, "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Who is Puck?
500
10 Things I Hate About You is a modern retelling of this play, which is about an unpleasant, ill-tempered older sister who must be married before her younger sister is allowed to marry.
What is The Taming of the Shrew?
500
The Winter's Tale was set in this region, the western part of the present day Czech Republic. The region's name has also come to describe a certain kind of lifestyle.
What is Bohemia?