Generally Tragic Trivia
#ElizabethanEra
What knave hath spoken?
Film Adaptations
Double, double, toil and trouble
100
Lady Macbeth can't seem to get her hands clean from this bodily fluid, no matter how many times she washes them
What is blood?
100
This open-roof theatre was where a majority of Shakespeare's plays were performed, and people still come from all over the world (no pun intended) to witness it for themselves.
What is the Globe?
100
"It will have blood, they say. Blood will have blood.
Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak." and
"Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?"
Who is Macbeth?
100
This Hollywood Legend had the weight of the title role upon his shoulders in the 2021 Joel Coen adaptation of the play.
Who is Denzel Washington?
100
An eye of this amphibian can be found in the Witches' brew. They're also essential to the plot of Roald Dahl's Matilda.
What is a newt?
200
This weapon is seen floating in a hallucination and represents Macbeth's inner conflict about having just killed King Duncan.
What is a dagger?
200
In the Great Chain of Being, the only creatures above the King or Queen was God himself or these spiritual entities
What are angels?
200
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air".
and
"By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes".
Who are the Witches?
200
This actor played Macbeth in a 2015 adaptation of the play, directed by Australian, Justin Kurzel
Who is Michael Fassbender?
200
This ingredient in the witches' potion may be cut from a household pet's mouth to stop constant barking
What is a dog's tongue/tongue of dog?
300
This character shares the same start of the name as Macbeth, and somewhat ironically, is the one to kill him too.
Who is Macduff?
300
To stop the devil entering your body through your mouth, we say this superstitious phrase, which dates back to Elizbethan England.
What is 'bless you'?
300
"Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under't". and "What's done cannot be undone".
Who is Lady Macbeth?
300
In Scotland PA, this actor plays Lieutenant MacDuff, a detective who's investigating the Murder of Duncan, the original owner of a fast food restaurant named "McBeths"
Who is Christopher Walken?
300
The scale of this mythical creature is just another hard-to-attain ingredient in the complicated potion
What is a dragon?
400
Before he was the King of Scotland, or even the Thane of Cawdor, Macbeth was the Thane of this place.
What is Glamis?
400
If a performance was not up to standard, the audience in the pit would hurl these at the actors on stage.
What is rotten fruit and/or vegetables?
400
"What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won"
and
"O valiant cousin! Worthy gentleman!"
Who is King Duncan?
400
This iconic actor turned director adapted the play to screen in 1948, and even played the title character.
Who is Orson Welles?
400
These two parts of the face are needed to complete the Witches' brew
What are nose and lips?
500
At the conclusion of the play, this son of the murdered King Duncan and the rightful heir to the throne, is back in charge of Scotland
Who is Malcolm?
500
Elizabethan Medicine believed the body was made up of a balance of four "humors" which included blood, black bile, yellow bile and this
What is phlegm?
500
"O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart cannot conceive, nor name thee"
and
"Bleed, bleed, poor country! Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure, For goodness dare not check thee"
Who is Macduff?
500
In 1957, Akira Kurosawa directed this adaptation of the play, changing the setting from Medieval Scotland to Feudal Japan.
What is Throne of Blood.
500
This goddess of witchcraft scolds the three witches when they reveal too much to Macbeth, but also helps them fix their mistakes.
Who is Hecate?