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What's My Flaw
What a Tragedy!
To be or not to be...(famous lines)
To be or not to be... (famous deaths)
Sonnets
100

Polonius

What is being nosey/interferring or what is being obsequious

100

Tragic Hero

What is a person of influence whose actions impact the lives of many others?

100

"Good night, Sweet Prince."

Who is Horatio after Hamlet dies. 

(Horatio's role in story)

100

Stabbed through an arras

Who is Polonius - when he was spying/eavesdropping (again)

100

Number of lines

What is fourteen?

200

King Claudius

What is overweening ambition and greed for power; hubris

200

Fatal Flaw

What is a character defect that leads to poor decision making/taking action, etc.

200

"What form of prayer can serve my turn? Forgive me my foul murder?"

Who is Claudius -- who feels guilty, but is unwilling to admit it or relinquish his ambition, his crown, his queen.
200

Poisoned in the ear

Who is King Hamlet - poisoned while he slept by his brother who had ambitions to be king.

200

Stanza of four lines 

What is a quatrain?

300

Queen Gertrude

What is being gullible/disloyal/easily manipulated?

300

Downfall

What is the collapse of a character due to mistakes they make inherent to their character, pulling others with them.

300

"Frailty, the name is woman!"

Who is Hamlet about his mother's quick switch from his noble father to the "inferior" brother.
300

Couldn't swim

Who is Ophelia - who drowned while singing ditties as she sunk beneath the water.

300

Final two lines

What is a rhyming couplet?

400

Ophelia

What is compliant/lack of agency?

400

Death

What is death of many kinds and LOTS of it

(Body count in Hamlet?)

400

"Neither a borrower or lender be."

Who is Polonius - giving extensive advice to Laertes before he heads back to Paris.

(contrast with treatment of Ophelia)

400

Poisoned wine

Who is Gertrude - inadvertently drank poisoned wine intended for Hamlet by King Claudius. 

(What did he do to stop her/help her?)

400

Rhyme scheme of Petrarchan

What is "abba, abba, etc.)?

500

Hamlet

What is lack of action/paralysis/indecisiveness

500

Comedic Relief

What is some point of levity to create even more emotional tension/roller-coaster (examples...)

500

"Sweets for the sweet."

Who is Queen Gertrude - as she strews flowers on the grave of Ophelia.

500

Stabbed accidentally by a poisoned sword

Who is Laertes - when his sword was swapped in the scuffle and he got hit.

500

Rhyme scheme of English/Shakespearean

What is abab, cdcd, efef, gg (and variants)?