Act I
Act II
Act III
Act IV
Act V
100
The name of the castle where the play takes place.
What is Elsinore?
100
Polonius thinks this is the reason for Hamlet's madness.
What is his love for Ophelia?
100
Hamlet contemplates this during his famous "to be, or not to be..." speech.
What is suicide?
100
Who will accompany Hamlet to England?
Who is Rosencrantz & Guildenstern?
100
Hamlet holds his skull.
Who is Yorick?
200
In scene i, the guards have asked him to keep watch with them.
Who is Horatio?
200
They have been asked by Claudius to befriend Hamlet and report what they know to the King.
Who are Rosencrantz & Guildenstern?
200
Ophelia returns these to Hamlet.
What are letters?
200
He arrives home from France, and he's very angry.
Who is Laertes?
200
Hamlet and Laertes fight here.
What is in Ophelia's grave.
300
The ghost reveals that this character murdered him.
Who is Claudius?
300
Hamlet knows Rosencrantz & Guildenstern from this place.
What is Wittenberg (school)?
300
He is killed, hiding behind an arras, by Hamlet.
Who is Polonius?
300
Hamlet sees him and his army marching across Denmark to invade Poland.
Who is Fortinbras?
300
She drinks from the poisoned cup.
Who is Gertrude; The Queen?
400
The city that Hamlet wants to return to and finish his schooling.
What is Wittenberg?
400
Hamlet tells Rosencrantz & Guildenstern that he thinks that Denmark is this.
What is a prison?
400
He rises during the play within a play, screaming: "Give me some light!"
Who is Claudius?
400
In act IV, this character goes crazy and drowns.
Who is Ophelia?
400
He becomes King of Denmark at the end of the play.
Who is Fortinbras?
500
In his first soliliquy, Hamlet compares this person to a Hyperion and this person to a satyr.
Who is his father (King Hamlet) and his Uncle (Claudius)?
500
The name of the play that Hamlet asks the players to enact for the court.
What is "The Murder of Gonzago?"
500
Hamlet tells Rosencratz & Guildenstern that lying is as easy as this.
What is playing a pipe?
500
According to Hamlet, Polonius' is here.
What is "at supper" (Not where he eats, but where he is eat'n)?
500
These characters all die in the last scene.
Who is Gertrude, Claudius, Laertes, and Hamlet?