#9007, aired 2024-01-02 | ALL THE WORLD'S A SHAKESPEARE STAGE $400: This city of "Hamlet" is on the northeast tip of a Danish island just a few miles across the water from Sweden Elsinore |
#9007, aired 2024-01-02 | ALL THE WORLD'S A SHAKESPEARE STAGE $800: In Act I of this ordinal play, a ship captain informs Viola, "This is Illyria", which is in the Balkans Twelfth Night |
#9007, aired 2024-01-02 | ALL THE WORLD'S A SHAKESPEARE STAGE $1200: "Pericles" is partly set in a palace in this ancient Phoenician seaport, now a World Heritage Site in Lebanon Tyre |
#9007, aired 2024-01-02 | ALL THE WORLD'S A SHAKESPEARE STAGE $1,400 (Daily Double): "The Winter's Tale" alternates between Sicily & this Czech region that gave us a word for an unorthodox, often arty person Bohemia |
#9007, aired 2024-01-02 | ALL THE WORLD'S A SHAKESPEARE STAGE $2000: This wood in eastern Scotland is about 12 miles from the peak of Dunsinane, to which it "comes" in "Macbeth" Birnam Wood |
#8941, aired 2023-10-02 | ARE YOU SHAKESPEARIENCED? $1000: "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players" As You Like It |
#4, aired 2022-10-16 | SHAKESPEARE $400: In "As You Like It", Jaques says, "All the world's a" this, "& all the men & women merely players", so what say thee, players? a stage |
#2, aired 2022-02-08 | SHAKESPEARE $400: In a metaphor close to Will's heart, "All the world's" this, "and all the men and women merely players" a stage |
#8048, aired 2019-09-11 | PROVERBS & EXPRESSIONS $400: Shakespeare noted that "all the world's" one of these a stage |
#7791, aired 2018-06-25 | ADVERBS $1600: "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women ____ players" merely |
#7295, aired 2016-05-06 | FINISH THE LITERARY LINE $800: "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women..." merely players |
#6931, aired 2014-11-03 | WHAT A WONDERFUL "WORLD" $200: Line that begins Shakespeare's "Seven Ages of Man" speech from "As You Like It" All the world's a stage |
#6680, aired 2013-10-04 | WORLDS & PHRASES $1200: Shakespeare wrote, "All the world's" this place he knew well, "and all the men and women merely players" a stage |
#6384, aired 2012-05-24 | ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE $200: In the 1100s Joachim of Fiore divided history into stages of the father, the son & coming soon--this the holy spirit |
#6384, aired 2012-05-24 | ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE $400: The history of the formation of these culminates in the megalopolitan stage cities |
#6384, aired 2012-05-24 | ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE $600: Also called Old English, it's the hyphenated term for the first stage in the development of our language Anglo-Saxon |
#5998, aired 2010-10-13 | METAPHORS BE WITH YOU $400: In a Shakespeare quote, the 5-word metaphor that precedes "and all the men and women merely players" "All the world's a stage" |
#4959, aired 2006-03-16 | SHAKESPEARE $800: The line "All the world's a stage" may have been a reference to this theatre, home to Shakespeare's acting co. in 1599 the Globe Theatre |
#4890, aired 2005-12-09 | ARE YOU SHAKESPEARIENCED? $1000: "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players" As You Like It |
#4838, aired 2005-09-28 | ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE $400: This national theatre of Ireland celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2004 the Abbey Theatre |
#4838, aired 2005-09-28 | ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE $1,200 (Daily Double): It's believed that Nicomaco, a character in this famous Florentine's 1525 play "Clizia", is a self-portrait Niccolo Machiavelli |
#4838, aired 2005-09-28 | ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE $1200: The audience for this Russian's play "A Month in the Country" should always include some "Fathers and Sons" Turgenev |
#4838, aired 2005-09-28 | ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE $1600: His 2004 play "Exits and Entrances" made its entrance onto the world stage in L.A., not in his native South Africa Athol Fugard |
#4838, aired 2005-09-28 | ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE $2000: He's the Belgian playwright who gave us the bird--"The Blue Bird" Maurice Maeterlinck |
#4717, aired 2005-02-22 | THEY COME IN SEVENS $1000: In "As You Like It" the speech that starts off "All the world's a stage" deals with these 7 periods the Seven Ages of Man |
#3745, aired 2000-12-08 | FILL IN THE SHAKESPEARE $200: "All the world's" this, "and all the men and women merely players" a stage |
#3217, aired 1998-09-08 | SHAKESPEARE PLAIN & SIMPLE $300: "All the world's a stage" is from "As You Like It", the first comedy Shakespeare wrote for this theater the Globe Theater |
#3184, aired 1998-06-04 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: A speech from "As You Like It" compares our planet to a New York restaurant at 7th & 54th "All the World's a Stage Delicatessen" |
#3175, aired 1998-05-22 | ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE $200: This city's famed "Art Theatre" opened in 1898 with a production of "Czar Fyodor Ivanovich" Moscow |
#3175, aired 1998-05-22 | ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE $400: The 2-letter name of this form of Japanese drama means "talent" or "skill" no |
#3175, aired 1998-05-22 | ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE $600: Several of his plays, including "Long Day's Journey Into Night", had their world premieres in Stockholm Eugene O' Neill |
#3175, aired 1998-05-22 | ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE $800: This existentialist's play "The Flies", or "Les Mouches", debuted in Nazi-occupied Paris in 1943 Jean-Paul Sartre |
#3175, aired 1998-05-22 | ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE $1000: The Abbey Theatre is so-named because it's located on lower Abbey Street in this capital city Dublin |
#2986, aired 1997-09-01 | OUR "WORLD" (& WELCOME TO IT) $200: In Shakespeare, the 5 words that precede "And all the men and women merely players" "All the world's a stage" |
#2110, aired 1993-11-05 | SHAKESPEARE $800: This comedy's "All the world's a stage" speech compares an unwilling schoolboy to a creeping snail As You Like It |
#2073, aired 1993-09-15 | SHAKESPEARE $400: In "As You Like It", Jaques says, "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely" these players |
#1484, aired 1991-01-31 | SHAKESPEARE $600: In "As You Like It", this line precedes, "And all the men and women merely players" "all the world's a stage" |
#663, aired 1987-06-24 | SNAILS $1000: Shakespeare compares a whining schoolboy to a snail in this play's "All the world's a stage" speech As You Like It |
#308, aired 1985-11-13 | SHAKESPEARE $500: The lines "And thereby hangs a tale" & "All the world's a stage" come from this comedy As You Like It |
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