#8957, aired 2023-10-24 | THE METROPOLITAN OPERA $400: The Met's home in this complex opened in 1966 with Samuel Barber's "Antony and Cleopatra" Lincoln Center |
#8923, aired 2023-07-26 | DUAL BIOGRAPHIES $4,000 (Daily Double): In this book with the same title as a Shakespeare play, Adrian Goldsworthy says the 2nd person was "not really that important"--ourch! Antony and Cleopatra |
#8896, aired 2023-06-19 | FIRST SPEECHES IN SHAKESPEARE $1,000 (Daily Double): "Take but good note & you shall see in him the triple pillar of the world transformed into a strumpet's fool" Antony and Cleopatra |
#5, aired 2023-05-10 | A SHAKESPEARE PLAY IN A FEW WORDS $2,800 (Daily Double): Octavia,
Octavius,
battle,
snake,
figs,
finis Antony and Cleopatra |
#8823, aired 2023-03-08 | FAMOUS PAIRS $400: The Battle of Actium saw Octavian defeat the forces of this pair, a Roman general & an Egyptian queen Antony & Cleopatra |
#8784, aired 2023-01-12 | THE SPEAKER IN SHAKESPEARE $400: "O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!" Cleopatra |
#8756, aired 2022-12-05 | HISTORY ON THE DOUBLE $2,000 (Daily Double): Prophetically, around 30 B.C., these 2 lovers founded a club called Those Who Will Die Together Antony & Cleopatra |
#4, aired 2022-10-16 | DRAMA QUEENS $1000: In a lavish 1963 spectacle, Richard Burton played Mark Antony & she was Cleopatra Elizabeth Taylor |
#8637, aired 2022-05-10 | SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY QUOTE $1200: "I kissed thee ere I killed thee. No way but this, killing myself, to die upon a kiss" Othello |
#8637, aired 2022-05-10 | SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY QUOTE $2,000 (Daily Double): "The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, burned on the water" Antony and Cleopatra |
#8585, aired 2022-02-25 | LAST LINE OF A SHAKESPEARE ACT $2,500 (Daily Double): This title character declares, "He shall have every day a several greeting, or I'll unpeople Egypt" Cleopatra |
#8503, aired 2021-11-03 | SHAKESPEARE PLAY SETTINGS $800: This tragedy has settings in Rome, Syria & fatefully in Alexandria, Egypt Antony and Cleopatra |
#8450, aired 2021-07-23 | LITERARY GEOGRAPHY $4,000 (Daily Double): Part of Act 3 of this Shakespeare tragedy unfolds at Actium Antony and Cleopatra |
#8384, aired 2021-04-22 | "A" PLACE IN HISTORY $1200: Cleopatra & Mark Antony fought a doomed naval battle against Octavian at this Greek promontory Actium |
#8181, aired 2020-03-16 | SHAKESPEARE MEANS SOMETHING ELSE $1200: In "Antony and Cleopatra" this word doesn't mean an available motel room; it means one's leisure time vacancy |
#8134, aired 2020-01-09 | IT'S THE GIELGUD MOVIE OF THE YEAR $800: For this 1953 film Gielgud coached a nervous Marlon Brando, playing Mark Antony, on how to read The Bard's lines Julius Caesar |
#8124, aired 2019-12-26 | WORDS SHAKESPEARE ONLY USED ONCE $1600: This character complains to Antony about Cleopatra's "contestation" Octavius |
#8029, aired 2019-07-04 | BRITISH LITERATURE $400: "All for Love" by John Dryden looks at the tragic lives of this ancient couple Shakespeare also wrote about Antony and Cleopatra |
#7903, aired 2019-01-09 | THE BOOK'S CENSORED EDITIONS $200: 1807's "The Family Shakespeare" changed some text & omitted this tale of 2 frisky lovers in ancient Egypt as unsuitable Antony and Cleopatra |
#7737, aired 2018-04-10 | B.C.-ING YOU $400: Just before dying in Cleopatra's arms, he urged her to make peace with Octavian Antony |
#7707, aired 2018-02-27 | "X" IN THE CITY $1,000 (Daily Double): Antony & Cleopatra died there in 30 B.C. Alexandria |
#7580, aired 2017-07-21 | ANCIENT COINS $400: A tiny silver denarius coin from around 32 B.C. depicts both Mark Antony & her Cleopatra |
#7486, aired 2017-03-13 | FULL OF QUESTIONS $3,000 (Daily Double): "Where's my serpent of old Nile?" is a line from this Shakespeare play Antony and Cleopatra |
#7452, aired 2017-01-24 | PLAY SETTINGS $800: From around 1606 (Act III, Scene viii):
a plain near Actium Antony and Cleopatra |
#7060, aired 2015-05-01 | NICE ENDING, SHAKESPEARE! $3,600 (Daily Double): Caesar:
"No grave upon the earth shall clip in it A pair so famous... see High order in this great solemnity" Antony and Cleopatra |
#6925, aired 2014-10-24 | LIBRARIES $400: He gave Cleopatra, as a wedding gift, the Library of Pergamum, which contained about 200,000 scrolls Antony |
#6791, aired 2014-03-10 | LITERARY TITLE PAIRS $200: In Shakespeare, a Trojan guy & an unfaithful gal Troilus & Cressida |
#6369, aired 2012-05-03 | BARD GAMES $1200: Cleopatra learns of Antony's marriage while playing this game of which pool is the "pocket" type billiards |
#6249, aired 2011-11-17 | SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGIC MEN $2000: Octavius &
Philo Antony and Cleopatra |
#6176, aired 2011-06-20 | SHAKESPEARE CHARACTERS' DYING WORDS $200: "As sweet as balm, as soft as air, as gentle--O Antony!--nay I will take thee too Cleopatra |
#6125, aired 2011-04-08 | BABY NAMES A LA SHAKESPEARE $1000: For an eighth child, preferably a daughter, this name from "Antony and Cleopatra" would be fitting Octavia |
#6110, aired 2011-03-18 | SHAKESPEARE, FOR STARTERS $9,000 (Daily Double): Philo's first speech in this play includes the line "The triple pillar of the world transformed into a strumpet's fool" Antony and Cleopatra |
#6056, aired 2011-01-03 | ROMANS $400: He took his own life after receiving a false report that Cleopatra was already dead--oops! Mark Antony |
#5995, aired 2010-10-08 | SHAKESPEARE'S SETTINGS $200: This play begins at a queen's palace in Alexandria Antony and Cleopatra |
#5930, aired 2010-05-28 | GETTING TICKED OFF $400: He gave his kids by Cleopatra much of the land once ruled by Alexander the Great; his co-rulers & rivals were not pleased Mark Antony |
#5856, aired 2010-02-15 | CLEO $400: In 31 B.C. a huge Roman fleet led by Augustus & Agrippa defeated the fleets of Cleopatra & this man at Actium Mark Antony |
#5847, aired 2010-02-02 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN $200: One of the last things that she says before dying: "O Antony!" Cleopatra |
#5729, aired 2009-07-02 | MARK ANTONY $1,500 (Daily Double): Defeated in his quest to rule Rome, Mark Antony committed suicide in this country in 30 B.C. Egypt |
#5711, aired 2009-06-08 | THAT'S HISTORIC $400: Following a military victory in 34 B.C., she dressed up as Isis & he dressed up as Dionysus Mark Antony & Cleopatra |
#5683, aired 2009-04-29 | NAME THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY $800: "He shall have every day a several greeting, or I'll unpeople Egypt" Antony & Cleopatra |
#5680, aired 2009-04-24 | THAT'S MY KID! $800: 40 B.C.:
Cleopatra
(don't think again) Mark Antony |
#5633, aired 2009-02-18 | CAN'T GET ENOUGH OPERA $200: Samuel Barber's "Antony and Cleopatra" was commissioned for the 1966 opening of this company's new opera house The Metropolitan Opera |
#5543, aired 2008-10-15 | THEY BLEW US OUT OF THE WATER $400: Marcus Agrippa's triremes proved too much for this couple's naval forces at Actium in 31 B.C. Antony & Cleopatra |
#5246, aired 2007-06-04 | "C" IN SHAKESPEARE $1200: In "Julius Caesar", this man "has a lean and hungry look"; in "Antony and Cleopatra", he's "lean and wrinkled" Cassius |
#5092, aired 2006-10-31 | RELAX, IT'S MY TREATY $400: A 40 B.C. treaty called for Mark Antony to marry the sister of this Roman, the future Emperor Augustus Octavius |
#5017, aired 2006-06-06 | DUOS $200: Octavius Caesar is the last to speak in Shakespeare's play about this duo Antony & Cleopatra |
#4899, aired 2005-12-22 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $2000: In 1677 this poet wrote "All for Love", a play adapted from Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" John Dryden |
#4879, aired 2005-11-24 | PLAY $200: Shakespeare:
An Egyptian & a Roman fall in love Antony and Cleopatra |
#4762, aired 2005-04-26 | REDUCED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY $1000: "I will fight at sea!"
"I'll help you!"
"Huh? Oh, kill me."
"Augh."
"Aah! I can no more! Ow!"
"I have immortal longings! Ow. Ow! Aughh." Antony and Cleopatra (Anthony and Cleopatra accepted) |
#4689, aired 2005-01-13 | WORLD HISTORY $200: This pair fled the Battle of Actium soon after fighting began, & their forces surrendered to Marcus Agrippa Antony and Cleopatra |
#4683, aired 2005-01-05 | REIGN CHECK $200: After they killed themselves, she & Mark Antony were buried together, as both of them wished Cleopatra |
#4647, aired 2004-11-16 | SHAKESPEARE $3,000 (Daily Double): Act I of this tragedy begins in a palace in Alexandria Antony and Cleopatra |
#4581, aired 2004-07-05 | CLEOPATRA $200: Her last husband Marc Antony |
#4439, aired 2003-12-18 | ARE YOU SHAKESPEARIENCED? $600: "I am dying, Egypt, dying" Antony and Cleopatra |
#4410, aired 2003-11-07 | SOLDIER OF MISFORTUNE $200: In 31 B.C. the combined forces of Cleopatra & this Roman were crushed by Octavian's in the Battle of Actium Mark Antony |
#4382, aired 2003-09-30 | THE METROPOLITAN OPERA $400: The Met's home in this complex opened in 1966 with Samuel Barber's "Antony & Cleopatra" Lincoln Center |
#4360, aired 2003-07-11 | WHO ARE YOU TALKING TO? $400: Cleopatra:
"Leave the fishing-rod...to us poor sovereigns of Pharos...your game is cities, provinces & kingdoms" Mark Antony |
#4233, aired 2003-01-15 | ROME-ANTIC MOVIES $400: When she played this title role, Claudette Colbert barged in on Mark Antony & let Caesar seize her Cleopatra |
#4055, aired 2002-03-29 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $800: Ben Brantley's 2000 review of this musical in The New York Times was headlined "Destiny and duty, Nile style" Aida |
#4050, aired 2002-03-22 | THE 3 $1,200 (Daily Double): The 3 Shakespeare plays whose titles are the names of famous couples Romeo and Juliet, Troilus and Cressida & Antony and Cleopatra |
#4016, aired 2002-02-04 | DIALOGUE BY SHAKESPEARE $400: Antony: "I must from this enchanting queen break off" Antony and Cleopatra |
#3788, aired 2001-02-07 | WE LEARNED IT FROM SHAKESPEARE $200: If you want to impress a guy like Mark Antony, barge in on a barge, like this queen Cleopatra |
#3751, aired 2000-12-18 | ROYAL FEMALE NICKNAMES $300: Mark Antony called her "The Queen of Queens" Cleopatra |
#3739, aired 2000-11-30 | SHAKESPEAREAN BEFORE & AFTER $800: A Roman statesman desires the ear of a female martial artist from a blaxploitation film Antony and Cleopatra Jones |
#3608, aired 2000-04-19 | SHAKESPEARE $900 (Daily Double): Octavius speaks last in these 2 plays "Julius Caesar" & "Antony and Cleopatra" |
#3573, aired 2000-03-01 | SHAKESPEAREAN DYING WORDS $200: "O Antony! Nay, I will take thee too...what, should I stay--" Cleopatra |
#3545, aired 2000-01-21 | BRITISH POETS LAUREATE $400: John Dryden also wrote plays; his "All for Love" was based on this Roman tale by Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra |
#3501, aired 1999-11-22 | TELEVISION $1000: Like Burton & Taylor, Billy Zane & Leonor Varela had a romance when they played these lovers (in a 1999 miniseries) Antony & Cleopatra |
#3443, aired 1999-07-21 | YOUR CHEATIN' HEART $200: Though he was married to Octavia, he caroused with Cleopatra Mark Antony |
#3369, aired 1999-04-08 | MOVIE ACTORS & ACTRESSES $200: Jean Marsh of "Upstairs/Downstairs" played Antony's wife Octavia in this Taylor-&-Burton epic Cleopatra |
#3324, aired 1999-02-04 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $500 (Daily Double): Rumor has it that Cleopatra hatched plots against this king of Judea after she tried to seduce him & failed Herod the Great |
#3236, aired 1998-10-05 | ODD NAMES IN SHAKESPEARE $1000: An officer with the silly name of Silius shows up in the play named for these historic lovers Antony & Cleopatra |
#3193, aired 1998-06-17 | THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA $200: To make up for damage Julius Caesar did to the library, this man gave Cleopatra 200,000 manuscripts Mark Antony |
#3185, aired 1998-06-05 | WOMEN RULE! $200: Mark Antony's "marriage" to her wasn't exactly legal; he already had a wife in Rome Cleopatra |
#3143, aired 1998-04-08 | SMOOCHING IN SHAKESPEARE $500: "We have kiss'd away kingdoms and provinces" says Scarus in the play about this title couple Antony & Cleopatra |
#3091, aired 1998-01-26 | ANCIENT ROME $200: At the 31 B.C. Battle of Actium, this pair commanded the combined Roman-Egyptian fleets Antony & Cleopatra |
#3070, aired 1997-12-26 | DIRECT FROM THE GLOBE $100: Of Antony's suicide, she says, "So it should be that none but Antony should conquer Antony" Cleopatra |
#3055, aired 1997-12-05 | CLEOPATRA $100: Cleo disguised herself as a slave to carouse with Antony in the streets of this city, her capital Alexandria |
#3055, aired 1997-12-05 | CLEOPATRA $200: When Cleo barged into Tarsus to seduce Antony, she was suitably dressed as this Roman goddess Venus |
#3055, aired 1997-12-05 | CLEOPATRA $500: To impress Antony with her extravagance, Cleo dropped 2 of these mollusk gems in wine & drank them Pearls |
#3035, aired 1997-11-07 | SHAKESPEARE $600: This queen likes to play billiards when she's not playing around with Antony Cleopatra |
#2907, aired 1997-04-01 | SHAKESPEAREAN FOOLS $400: Though this historical play contains a clown, it's the heroine who makes an asp of herself Antony and Cleopatra |
#2810, aired 1996-11-15 | DYSFUNCTIONAL ROYAL FAMILIES $400: This seductive queen convinced Mark Antony to execute her hostile younger sister, Arsinoe Cleopatra |
#2752, aired 1996-07-16 | SHAKESPEARE $400: Her dying words are "O Antony, nay I will take thee to; what, should I stay?" Cleopatra |
#2669, aired 1996-03-21 | MUSICAL THEATRE $800: "Her First Roman" was a musical adaptation of Shaw's play about these historic lovers Caesar & Cleopatra |
#2667, aired 1996-03-19 | SHAKESPEAREAN LAST SCENES $1,000 (Daily Double): These 2 plays end with Octavius discussing funerals Julius Caesar & Antony and Cleopatra |
#2600, aired 1995-12-15 | THE ROMAN EMPIRE $200: She met Mark Antony in Cilicia in 41 B.C. & they became lovers Cleopatra |
#2577, aired 1995-11-14 | HISTORIC NAMES $200: As requested, she was buried at Mark Antony's side in 30 B.C. Cleopatra |
#2562, aired 1995-10-24 | THE ROMAN EMPIRE $300: Until Augustus reclaimed it, she owned Cyprus; it was a gift from Mark Antony Cleopatra |
#2560, aired 1995-10-20 | SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS $200: She's Mark Antony's "Egyptian dish" Cleopatra |
#2519, aired 1995-07-13 | ART $200: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's frescoes of Antony & this queen are in the Palazzo Labia in Venice Cleopatra |
#2432, aired 1995-03-14 | SHAKESPEARE $200: Enobarbus says Antony won't leave her because "Age cannot wither her, not custom stale her infinite variety" Cleopatra |
#2423, aired 1995-03-01 | MILITARY MEN $400: In 31 B.C. Marcus Agrippa, in command of Octavian's fleet, beat the forces of this Roman & this Egyptian Antony & Cleopatra |
#2414, aired 1995-02-16 | SHAKESPEARE $200: The queen who says, "Go tell him I have slain myself; say that the last I spoke was 'Antony'" Cleopatra |
#2377, aired 1994-12-27 | SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS $200: A lieutenant-general to Octavius in "Antony and Cleopatra", or a "bullish" sign of the zodiac Taurus |
#2362, aired 1994-12-06 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $1,000 (Daily Double): Christopher Plummer has played Mark Antony in both of these Shakespeare plays Antony & Cleopatra & Julius Caesar |
#2338, aired 1994-11-02 | SHAKESPEAREAN SETTINGS $400: "Antony and Cleopatra" begins & ends in this Egyptian city Alexandria |
#2328, aired 1994-10-19 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $100: Mark Antony's marriage to her wasn't legal in Romeāhe was already married to Octavian's sister Cleopatra |
#2273, aired 1994-06-22 | SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS $200: Cleopatra says of him, "Realms and Islands were as plates dropped from his pocket" Antony |
#2228, aired 1994-04-20 | ANCIENT EGYPT $1,000 (Daily Double): On Sept. 2, 31 B.C., Antony & Cleopatra lost the Battle of this Greek promontory to Octavian Actium |
#2213, aired 1994-03-30 | SHAKESPEARE $200: Antony calls her "My Serpent of Old Nile" Cleopatra |
#2183, aired 1994-02-16 | HISTORIC NAMES $200: Mark Antony declared her "Queen of Queens" Cleopatra |
#2094, aired 1993-10-14 | TWINS $200: He was the father of Cleopatra's twins Mark Antony |
#2075, aired 1993-09-17 | MOVIE NOSTALGIA $100: Elizabeth Taylor's dying words in this film are "Antony, wait" Cleopatra |
#2024, aired 1993-05-27 | NAVAL BATTLES $200: A 400-ship Roman fleet led by Octavian & Agrippa defeated the fleets of these 2 lovers at Actium in 31 B.C. Antony & Cleopatra |
#1971, aired 1993-03-15 | SALAD DAYS $200: The phrase "salad days", meaning youth, comes from his "Antony and Cleopatra" William Shakespeare |
#1915, aired 1992-12-25 | ANCIENT HISTORY $200: After his death, the children of this man & Cleopatra were raised by his former wife Octavia Marc Antony |
#1806, aired 1992-06-08 | RULERS $1,700 (Daily Double): This cousin of Julius Caesar committed suicide in August, 20 B.C. at Alexandria, Egypt Marc Antony |
#1768, aired 1992-04-15 | ANTONY & CLEOPATRA $200: At the end Cleopatra took 2 of these & called the country into morning asps |
#1768, aired 1992-04-15 | ANTONY & CLEOPATRA $400: According to Enobarbus, its poop was beaten gold Cleopatra's barge |
#1768, aired 1992-04-15 | ANTONY & CLEOPATRA $600: In Act 2, scene 3 the soothsayer warns Antony to leave this city Rome |
#1768, aired 1992-04-15 | ANTONY & CLEOPATRA $800: This Caesar, not Julius, appears in the play Augustus |
#1768, aired 1992-04-15 | ANTONY & CLEOPATRA $1000: Cleopatra refers to these days "when I was green in judgment" her salad days |
#1591, aired 1991-07-01 | FAMOUS BATTLES $800: Soon after this pair fled from the Battle of Actium,
their forces surrendered Cleopatra & Mark Antony |
#1589, aired 1991-06-27 | MOVIE QUOTES $400: "Pinch me, Rosie, here we are going down the river like Antony and Cleopatra on that barge" The African Queen |
#1570, aired 1991-05-31 | THEATRE $500: Shaw play that takes place "towards the end of the XXXIII dynasty" Caesar and Cleopatra |
#1561, aired 1991-05-20 | SHAKESPEARE $200: His 1st line, "There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned", is spoken to Cleopatra Antony |
#1560, aired 1991-05-17 | TWINS $400: Their children were the twins Alexander Helios & Cleopatra Selene, & Ptolemy Philadelphos Antony & Cleopatra |
#1523, aired 1991-03-27 | THE ROMAN EMPIRE $200: Hearing a false report that she had committed suicide, Mark Antony stabbed himself & died in her arms Cleopatra |
#1514, aired 1991-03-14 | SHAKESPEARE $200: Mark Antony called her Egypt Cleopatra |
#1475, aired 1991-01-18 | SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS $800 (Daily Double): Octavia Caesar appears as a character in these 2 plays Julius Caesar & Antony and Cleopatra |
#1432, aired 1990-11-20 | FINAL RESTING PLACES $200: Octavian honored her dying wish and she was laid to rest with Mark Antony Cleopatra |
#1355, aired 1990-06-22 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): When Mark Antony gave Roman lands to his children by Cleopatra, this man made war on her Augustus Caesar (Octavius) |
#1296, aired 1990-04-02 | ANCIENT HISTORY $400: Cleopatra had 4 children out of wedlock, 3 fathered by this Roman Marc Antony |
#1224, aired 1989-12-21 | FAMOUS PAIRS $800: Camille Saint-Saens composed an opera set in Gaza about this pair Samson & Delilah |
#1105, aired 1989-05-26 | SHAKESPEARE $800: In "Antony and Cleopatra", Marc Antony commits suicide by doing this falling on his blade |
#1075, aired 1989-04-14 | SHAKESPEAREAN TRIVIA $500: Mark Antony's brother-in-law, he's the last to speak in both "Antony & Cleopatra" & "Julius Caesar" Octavius |
#979, aired 1988-12-01 | SHAKESPEAREAN TRIVIA $400: Title couple of whom it's said "No grave upon the earth shall clip in it a pair so famous" Antony & Cleopatra |
#946, aired 1988-10-17 | TRANSPORTATION $300: When Cleopatra 1st met Antony, she dressed as Aphrodite & entertained him on board this type of ship barge |
#817, aired 1988-03-08 | HEROES & HEROINES $1,900 (Daily Double): 2 of the 3 Shakespearean plays which have the name of a female character in the title (2 of) Antony and Cleopatra, Romeo and Juliet & Troilus and Cressida |
#771, aired 1988-01-04 | MORTAL MATTERS $600: About 30 B.C., these 2 lovers founded a club prophetically called "The Soc. of Those Who Die Together" Antony & Cleopatra |
#768, aired 1987-12-30 | "A" IN SHAKESPEARE $1,100 (Daily Double): 2 of the 4 Shakespeare plays whose titles start with "A" (2 of) All's Well That Ends Well, As You Like It (or A Midsummer Night's Dream & Antony & Cleopatra) |
#763, aired 1987-12-23 | SHAKESPEAREAN LAST LINES $200: She said, "O Antony!--Nay, I will take thee too; What should I stay--" Cleopatra |
#737, aired 1987-11-17 | SHAKESPEAREAN LAST LINES $800: "And then to Rome--Come, Dolabella, see high order in this great solemnity" Antony and Cleopatra |
#714, aired 1987-10-15 | THE HUSBAND MARRIED $800: His 3rd, 4th & "5th" wives were Fulvia, Octavia & Cleopatra (Marc) Antony |
#700, aired 1987-09-25 | MOVIE ROYALTY $200: Racy Rhonda Fleming role in "Serpent of the Nile", opposite Raymond Burr's Mark Antony Cleopatra |
#645, aired 1987-05-29 | SHAKESPEARE'S SETTINGS $500 (Daily Double): This play opens in a palace in Alexandria Antony and Cleopatra |
#613, aired 1987-04-15 | FAMOUS PAIRS $300 (Daily Double): 2 of the 3 pairs of lovers named in the titles of Shakespeare's plays (2 of) Romeo & Juliet, Troilus & Cressida, & Antony & Cleopatra |
#491, aired 1986-10-27 | FAMOUS PAIRS $600: According to Dryden,
they gave their all for love; you bet your asp they did Cleopatra & Marc Antony |
#167, aired 1985-04-30 | SHAKESPEARE $200: Shakespeare described her as Antony's "Egyptian dish" Cleopatra |