A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word.
What is a Pun?
100
Viola is called this when she pretends to be a man.
Who is Cesario?
100
Birthplace of Shakespeare; City ninety minutes from London.
What is Stratford-Upon-Avon?
100
The ruler of England during the Elizabethan time period.
Who was Queen Elizabeth I?
100
The shape of The Globe Theatre.
What is Circular/Ovular?
200
A type of humor involving physical actions such as falling down or hitting people.
What is Slapstick?
200
Viola's brother.
Who is Sebastian?
200
April 23, 1564
When was Shakespeare born?
200
London's population was roughly this in 1600.
How much is 200,000?
200
Bankside, Southwark, London.
Where was The Original Globe Theatre?
300
When confusing a character’s identity becomes part of the humor of a situation in a story.
What is Mistaken Identity?
300
The setting of the Shakespearean play "The Twelfth Night".
What is Illyria?
300
Shakespeare liked to spend his free time here. (Not where he lives)
What is London?
300
This social class was most likely to have an arranged marriage in Elizabethan England.
What is Upper Class?
300
This famous individual attended Shakespeare's plays at The Globe Theatre.
Who was Queen Elizabeth I?
400
When what a person says is the opposite of what he or she intends. One form of this is sarcasm.
What is Verbal Irony?
400
The fictional home country of Sebastian and Viola
What is Messaline?
400
Shakespeare's Wife.
Who was Anne Hathaway?
400
Every woman in Elizabethan England is expected to be this.
What is married?
400
Shakespeare paid this much for the original Globe Theatre.
How much is Ten Pounds?
500
Situations in which there is a difference between what a character in a story believes to be true, and what the better-informed reader or audience of the story knows to be true.
What is Dramatic Irony?
500
These three characters form a love triangle in "The Twelfth Night"
Who are Viola, Olivia, and Orsino?
500
Number of kids that Shakespeare had.
How many is Three?
500
Two problems that London faced in 1599 due to its size.
What are Thieves and the Plague?
500
There were three of these in The Globe Theatre. The higher that these got, the economic status of the people there also got higher.