Show:
Act 3
Acts 4 & 5
Allusions
Elements of Comedy
Misc.
100
Nick Bottom is concerned about terrifying them.
Who are the women in the audience?
100
This person ends up with the Indian boy.
Who is Oberon?
100
Diana's alter
What is the altar belonging to the virgin goddess of the moon and of hunting: identified with the Greek Artemis.
100
A man who is a traffic cop gets his license suspended for unpaid parking tickets.
What is irony?
100
The name of the theater where Shakespeare's plays were performed.
What is the Globe?
200
Peter Qunice says, "Oh, monstrous! Oh, strange! We are haunted. Pray, masters! Fly, masters! Help!" when this happens.
What is when Bottom appears with a donkey head?
200
He had impressive hunting dogs, according to Hippolyta.
Who is Hercules or Cadmus?
200
The god of music, poetry, prophecy, and medicine, represented as exemplifying manly youth and beauty.
Who is Apollo?
200
“The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen..."
What is a linguistic mistake?
200
The monarch on the throne of England at the time of Shakespeare.
Who was Queen Elizabeth I?
300
When Lysander says to Hermia, " Away, you Ethiope!" he refers to this continent.
What is Africa?
300
Theseus spoke these lines: "Egeus, I will overbear your will. For in the temple by and by with us These couples shall eternally be knit.—" He meant the Athenian couples would do this:
What is get married?
300
A nymph who is changed into a laurel tree to escape Apollo's unwanted advances.
Who is Daphne?
300
an exaggeration
What is a hyperbole?
300
The genre of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
What is comedy?
400
Antipodes
What is the other side of the Earth?
400
If we offend, it is with our good will. That you should think we come not to offend, But with good will. To show our simple skill, Quince speaks these words: That is the true beginning of our end. Consider then we come but in despite. We do not come as minding to contest you, Our true intent is. All for your delight We are not here. That you should here repent you, The actors are at hand, and by their show You shall know all that you are like to know. They are what part of the play?
What is the prologue.
400
Acheron
What is a river in Hades?
400
artless beetle-headed clotpole
What is an insult?
400
Shakespeare was born here.
What is Stratford-on-Avon?
500
He spoke these words, "I with the morning’s love have oft made sport, And like a forester the groves may tread Even till the eastern gate, all fiery red, Opening on Neptune with fair blessèd beams, Turns into yellow gold his salt green streams."
Who is Oberon?
500
He speaks these lines:  If we shadows have offended,  Think but this, and all is mended—  That you have but slumbered here  While these visions did appear.  And this weak and idle theme,  No more yielding but a dream,  Gentles, do not reprehend.  If you pardon, we will mend.  And, as I am an honest Puck,  If we have unearnèd luck  Now to ’scape the serpent’s tongue,  We will make amends ere long.  Else the Puck a liar call.  So good night unto you all.  Give me your hands if we be friends,  And Robin shall restore amends.
Who is Robin Goodfellow?
500
Furies
Who are the three terrible female spirits with snaky hair (Alecto, Tisiphone, and Megaera) who punish the doers of unavenged crimes?
500
A Garfield comic strip has Garfield mistaking an actual bear cub for his stuffed bear.
What is mistaken identity?
500
Until 1660 all parts in English Theatre were played by them.
Who are men?