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100
What is a group of actors/crew working together cooperatively?
What is an Ensemble
100
What does it mean if you catch a falling leaf on the first day of autumn?
You will not catch a cold all winter.
100
What is an acting technique that uses no words to tell a story?
What is Pantomime
100
What is Shakespeare's first name?
What is William
100
What is Canada's most populous city?
The correct answer is... Toronto
200
The section of the theatre where the audience sits is called...?
What is the House
200
A Celtic tradition related to belief of wood spirits says you should do this when speaking of bad luck.
What is knock on wood.
200
The arrangement of incidents that take place in a play is called...?
What is the Plot
200
Shakespeare invented the word "assassination". True or False?
True
200
What Hard Rock group recorded the album Back in Black?
Who is AC/DC
300
A spontaneous style of theatre using unrehearsed and unscripted acting scenes is called...?
What is Improvisation.
300
What number is considered unlucky in many parts of Southeast/East Asia.
What is the number 4
300
Name 4 different crews for a theatre production.
Props, Sets, Lights, Sound, Publicity, MUCH
300
Shakespeare, one of literature’s greatest figures, never attended university. True or False?
True
300
Complete the following Mark Twain quote: "Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the... ".
What is Company
400
Peoples unconscious habbits or peculiarities are called?
What are Mannerisms.
400
Actors never say "good luck" before a performance. Instead they say.....?
What is Break a Leg!
400
What is the open space between the stage and the audience often called?
What is the 4th wall.
400
Aside from writing 37 plays and composing 154 sonnets, William was also an actor who performed many of his own plays as well as those of other playwrights. True or False?
True
400
What is the only letter that does not appear in the name of a US state?
What is Q
500
What is a characters inner drive that causes them to act a certain way?
What is Motivation.
500
In some places it is considered bad luck to put what object on the bed?
What is a hat
500
After the production the taking apart of the sets is called?
What is Strike.
500
Out of the 13 suicides in Shakespeare's plays name 2 of them.
It occurs in Romeo and Juliet where both Romeo and Juliet commit suicide, in Julius Caesar where both Cassius and Brutus die by consensual stabbing, as well as Brutus’ wife Portia, in Othello where Othello stabs himself, in Hamlet where Ophelia is said to have "drowned" in suspicious circumstances, in Macbeth when Lady Macbeth dies, and finally in Antony and Cleopatra where suicide occurs an astounding five times (Mark Antony, Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras and Eros).
500
What is the last word in the Declaration of Independence?
What is honor