Show:
Death Becomes Them
Relationship Status
The Devil is in the Details
The Plot Thickens
Fight Club
100
This character drowns herself in the river after she goes mad with grief.
Who is Ophelia? Double points if you can say why she went mad.
100
This character is a complicated love interest of Prince Hamlet.
Who is Ophelia?
100
This is where the play takes place.
What is Elsinore, Denmark?
100
This is what the sealed letters that Claudius gave Rosencrantz and Guildenstern asked England to do?
What is execute Hamlet?
100
This is the amount of time between when King Hamlet died and when Queen Gertrude remarried to his brother/Hamlet's uncle, Claudius.
What is two months?
200
This is how Claudius meets his end.
What is stabbed with a poisoned sword and forced to drink poisoned wine?
200
This is Horatio's relation to Hamlet.
What is a friend?
200
This character is the only one with whom the ghost will speak.
Who is Prince Hamlet?
200
When Claudius sees the actor playing the nephew pour poison into the ear of actor playing Gonzago, this is how he reacts.
He panics and calls for light. Double points if you can say what Hamlet thinks this proves.
200
This is the reason the ghost wants Claudius dead.
What is he murdered him and stole his wife and throne?
300
This character meets an untimely end by drinking the poisoned wine intended for her son.
Who is Queen Gertrude?
300
This character murdered his brother, the former King, and married Hamlet's mother.
Who is Claudius?
300
This is the reason that the King and Queen called for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
What is to spy on Prince Hamlet and cheer him up?
300
This is what happens to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern when Hamlet switches the letters they were carrying to England.
What is sentenced death?
300
When they plot to get revenge on Hamlet, these are the two methods Claudius and Laertes devise to kill him.
What is a duel with a poisoned sword, and a poisoned cup of wine if Laertes cannot strike Hamlet?
400
This is how Claudius killed his brother, King Hamlet.
What is pouring poison in his ear whilst sleeping?
400
A rival to Hamlet who wants revenge because Hamlet killed his father.
Who is Laertes?
400
Initially, this is what Polonius suspects is the reason for Hamlet's madness.
What is love for his daughter, Ophelia?
400
This is Hamlet's reaction when he finds out that Ophelia died.
What is jump into her grave and declare his love for her?
400
These two former rivals forgive each other before they die.
Who are Laertes and Prince Hamlet?
500
This is how Laertes ends up being stabbed by a poisoned sword.
What is a switching of swords during a scuffle?
500
This man serves the royal family and dies spying on Hamlet. He is also the father of Hamlet's love interest.
Who is Polonius?
500
This is the phrase for the silent enactment of the performance before the players performed the full play within the play.
What is a dumbshow?
500
This is the warning that Laertes gives his sister Ophelia before he leaves for France.
What is to stay away from Hamlet?
500
When the ghost appears a second time in Queen Gertrude's chamber, this is what he tells Hamlet?
What is to refocus his efforts on revenge against Claudius and not Gertrude?