Who Said It?
What does it mean?
Who is Shakespeare?
The Shakespearean Sonnet
Misc. 1500s Facts
100

Who said: Nay, bigger. Women grow by men. 

Who is the Nurse?

100

What does disposition mean?

What is liking?
100

Where was Shakespeare born?

What is Stratford-Upon-Avon

100

What is the rhyme scheme of the sonnet? 

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

100

How many people died from the Bubonic Plague? 

What is 50 million? 

200

Who said: But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart;

Who is Capulet?

200

What does How Now mean?

What is an exclamation of surprise?

200

How many plays did Shakespeare write? 

38

200

What is the meter of a Shakespearean sonnet?

What is Iambic pentameter?

200

What type of silverware wasn't invented until after the 1500s? 

What is the fork?
300

Who said: My noble uncle, do you know the cause? 

Who is Benvolio?

300

What does Well-Seeming mean?

What is attractive in appearance?

300

What did Shakespeare's son die of?

What is the Bubonic Plague? 
300

How many of the sonnets actually specified gender of the recipient? 

What is 25?

300

What math symbol that is used very often was invented in 1557? 

What is the equals sign?

400

Who said: care keeps his watch in every old man's eye

Who is Friar Lawrence?

400

What does O'erperch mean?

What is fly over?
400

Shakespeare's father had the profession of making what?

What is Gloves?

400

What are the groups of four called? 

What is Quatrains?
400

When were tomatoes introduced to Italy?

What are the 1540s?

500

Who said: Speak but one rhyme and I am satisfied

Who is Mercutio?

500

What does light mean?

What is unchaste or frivolous?
500
What did Shakespeare almost go to jail for?

What is tax evasion?

500

Who originally invented the Shakespearean sonnet?

Who is Henry Howard? 

500

What is the name of the servant that holds the king's hunted birds?

What is a Codge?