| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | LITERARY GROUPS $2000: The early 20th c. Stratford-on-Odéon literary circle hung out at this bookstore run by Sylvia Beach in Paris' Left Bank Shakespeare & Company |
| #8120, aired 2019-12-20 | WRITERS GO WAY BACK $2,000 (Daily Double): This Shakespeare play is set in 44 B.C. Julius Caesar |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | LET'S ALL GO TO THE LIBRARY $1600: Have a cup of coffee before taking in this D.C. Shakespeare library's 255,000 books & 55,000 manuscripts Folger |
| #5908, aired 2010-04-28 | WHERE THERE'S A WILL SHAKESPEARE $1,000 (Daily Double): Right on, Willy! The phrase "right on" appears in Act III of this Shakespeare play that takes place in 44 B.C. Julius Caesar |
| #5902, aired 2010-04-20 | SHAKESPEARE RETOOLED $400: Kurosawa's "Ran", an adaptation of this play, is set in 16th c. Japan & deals with 2 treacherous sons & one good one King Lear |
| #5499, aired 2008-07-03 | "C" IN SHAKESPEARE $400: In "Henry VIII", Thomas Cranmer is the Archbishop of this Canterbury |
| #5499, aired 2008-07-03 | "C" IN SHAKESPEARE $800: The Dauphin known by this first name appears in "Henry VI, Part I" Charles |
| #5499, aired 2008-07-03 | "C" IN SHAKESPEARE $1200: In Act II, Scene I of "Othello", Othello says, "Come, Desdemona, once more well met at" this island Cyprus |
| #5499, aired 2008-07-03 | "C" IN SHAKESPEARE $1600: It's the play in which a herald says, "Know, Rome, that all alone Marcius did fight within Corioli gates" Coriolanus |
| #5499, aired 2008-07-03 | "C" IN SHAKESPEARE $2000: Imogen is the daughter of this title King of Britain Cymbeline |
| #5398, aired 2008-02-13 | A, B, C, D THEN F $800: In Shakespeare's "Richard III" the title character opens the play by saying, "Now is the winter of our" this discontent |
| #5246, aired 2007-06-04 | "C" IN SHAKESPEARE $400: At the end of "As You Like It", Rosalind says "when I make" this respectful movement, "bid me farewell" curtsy |
| #5246, aired 2007-06-04 | "C" IN SHAKESPEARE $800: You don't need a university education to know that the Earl of this appears in "Henry V" Cambridge |
| #5246, aired 2007-06-04 | "C" IN SHAKESPEARE $1,000 (Daily Double): Twin brothers named Dromio are servants to twin brothers named Antipholus in this highly confusing play The Comedy of Errors |
| #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 |
| #5246, aired 2007-06-04 | "C" IN SHAKESPEARE $2000: He's the brutish character who says, "This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother, which thou tak'st from me" Caliban |
| #5011, aired 2006-05-29 | "C" IN SHAKESPEARE $400: In "Romeo and Juliet", Juliet's mother is known as Lady this Capulet |
| #5011, aired 2006-05-29 | "C" IN SHAKESPEARE $800: Most of "Othello" is set on this island that was part of the Ottoman Empire when the play was written Cyprus |
| #5011, aired 2006-05-29 | "C" IN SHAKESPEARE $1200: Sounds corny, but in "King Lear" Regan is married to the duke of this place Cornwall |
| #5011, aired 2006-05-29 | "C" IN SHAKESPEARE $1600: Act I, Scene VII of this play takes place at the gates of Corioli Coriolanus |
| #5011, aired 2006-05-29 | "C" IN SHAKESPEARE $2000: Shaw wrote a new Act V for the play about this title king of Britain, & staged it as a play by itself Cymbeline |
| #4763, aired 2005-04-27 | "C" IN SHAKESPEARE $400: "Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides", warns this woman in Act I of "King Lear" Cordelia |
| #4763, aired 2005-04-27 | "C" IN SHAKESPEARE $800: He calls Gertrude "Our sometime sister, now our Queen" Claudius |
| #4763, aired 2005-04-27 | "C" IN SHAKESPEARE $1200: In "Troilus and Cressida", King Priam says that this daughter of his "doth foresee" (yes, but does anyone listen?) Cassandra |
| #4763, aired 2005-04-27 | "C" IN SHAKESPEARE $1600: A rather confused Macbeth says, "The Thane of" this place "lives: why do you dress me in borrowed robes?" Cawdor |
| #4763, aired 2005-04-27 | "C" IN SHAKESPEARE $2000: In "Richard III", Richard's brother George is the doomed duke of this Clarence |
| #3713, aired 2000-10-25 | MILLERS OUTPOST $200: 18th c. English comedian Josias Miller won lasting comic fame as first gravedigger in this play by Shakespeare Hamlet |
| #2797, aired 1996-10-29 | SHAKESPEARE $300: This play that takes place in Rome in 44 B.C. was first performed in 1599 "Julius Caesar" |
| #2771, aired 1996-09-23 | LIBRARIES $800: While known for its Shakespeare collection, this D.C. library is rich in other Renaissance works as well the Folger |
| #2751, aired 1996-07-15 | WORLD LITERATURE $1000: Shakespeare's "Cymbelline" is based in part on a story from this 14th c. work by Bocaccio "The Decameron" |
| #2073, aired 1993-09-15 | SHAKESPEARE $300: The great 19th c. actor Sir Henry Irving was noted for his portrayal of Shylock in this play The Merchant of Venice |
| #1986, aired 1993-04-05 | WILL SHAKESPEARE $800: Appropriately, a fine portrait of Will hangs in this Washington, D.C. Shakespeare library the Folger Library |
| #1085, aired 1989-04-28 | MYTHS & LEGENDS $1000: In 15th C. English & Welsh legend, she's queen of the fairies; Shakespeare mentions her in "Romeo & "Juliet" Queen Mab |
| #1037, aired 1989-02-21 | LIBRARIES $1000: This Wash., D.C. library has the most important collection of Shakespeare's works in the world the Folger Library |
| #945, aired 1988-10-14 | "C" IN SHAKESPEARE $100: Juliet's maiden name Capulet |
| #945, aired 1988-10-14 | "C" IN SHAKESPEARE $200: Tragic tramp who two-timed Troilus Cressida |
| #945, aired 1988-10-14 | "C" IN SHAKESPEARE $300: Co-conspirator who says, "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves..." Cassius |
| #945, aired 1988-10-14 | "C" IN SHAKESPEARE $400: In "Hamlet", he's the king of Denmark Claudius |
| #945, aired 1988-10-14 | "C" IN SHAKESPEARE $500: This play about a king of Britain contains the famous poem "Hark, hark! the lark..." Cymbeline |
| #635, aired 1987-05-15 | PIRATES $800: Though Shakespeare didn't tell us so, in 75 B.C. pirates kidnapped this man & held him for ransom Julius Caesar |
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