Show:
The Bard
The Globe and Players
Death and Friars
Parties and Verona
Gender
100
The Bard is also known as this.
Who is William Shakespeare?
100
DOUBLE!!! This is another name for the Globe. AND/OR This is another name for actor.
What is the Wooden O? What is a player?
100
This transmitted the plague.
What are rats and fleas?
100
Verona is located in this country.
What is Italy?
100
This is the color of hair preferable for Elizabethan women.
What is blonde?
200
This is the number of plays Shakespeare wrote.
What is 37?
200
This is the age that Elizabethan actors typically began their careers.
What is ten?
200
Friars must live a life of this.
What is poverty?
200
These three colors were the most popular wedding colors.
What is tan, blue, and white?
200
This is what Elizabethan women should limit at parties.
What are talking and drinking?
300
DOUBLE!!! This is the name of Shakespeare's home. AND/OR This is the name of Shakespeare's mother.
What is New Place? What is Mary Arden?
300
DOUBLE!!! These are two qualities the young actors had for playing feminine roles. AND/OR This was the year the Globe was built.
What are body and voice? What is 1599?
300
Candles at funeral processions represented this.
What is life's uncertainties?
300
A brides father would give this as a provision to the groom.
What is a dowry?
300
This was considered appropriate schooling for females.
What is a tutor?
400
These are Shakespeare's three children.
Who are Suzanna, Hamnet, and Judith?
400
He owned the Globe.
Who is Burbage?
400
This was a forbidden burial custom.
What is cremation?
400
This was the most common time of the year to marry.
What is spring? SECRET BONUS!!! What Catholic event did the couple have to avoid during spring?
400
Brides began tossing this because the alternative got out of hand.
What is a bouquet of flowers?
500
Shakespeare's birth and death date.
What is April 23rd? AND/OR DOUBLE SURPRISE BONUS Name as many Shakespearean plays as members in your group (other than Romeo and Juliet).
500
These are three qualities other than acting that a player must posses.
What are fencing, tumbling, and musician?
500
DOUBLE!!! Most people who developed plague symptoms died within this many days. AND/OR This song was inspired by the Black Plague.
What is six? What is Ring Around the Rosie? TRIPLE BONUS-Your table sings the song (only applies to answering group)
500
This would be the correct order of these bridal procession elements: (musicians, parents, groom, ladies, bride, boys, boys with wine)
What is: bride, boys, boys with wine, musicians, ladies, groom, parents?
500
The type of clothing worn by Elizabethan women was dictated by these.
What are Sumptuary Laws?