| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | DOUBLE LETTERS IN THE MIDDLE $200: Misquoting Shakespeare, a wise proverb tells us, "All that" does this "is not gold" glitters |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | A YEAR ENDING IN 4 $1000: Shakespeare turned 50 & the Globe Theatre reopened after it burned down a year earlier 1614 |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | SHORT SHAKESPEARE $400: Macduff's lordly title "of Fife" thane |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | SHORT SHAKESPEARE $800: Prospero's daughter Miranda |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | SHORT SHAKESPEARE $1200: He says, "Fly not, stand still: ambition's debt is paid" Brutus |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | SHORT SHAKESPEARE $1600: Half brothers who duel in "King Lear" Edgar & Edmund |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | SHORT SHAKESPEARE $2000: Saintly day of Henry V's stirring speech St. Crispin's Day |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | IAMB A POET $400: Bill Shakespeare here! Prithee complete my line, "Shall I compare thee to" this? a summer's day |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | COMPOSERS $1200: Felix Mendelssohn composed music to accompany this Shakespeare comedy, including the familiar "Wedding March" A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | NOTABLE NAMES $1600: A 1920 book by Thomas Looney & the movie "Anonymous" pushed the theory that this earl was the real Shakespeare the Earl of Oxford (Edward de Vere) |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | IN YOUR ELEMENT $2000: Sb:
A title name from Shakespeare Timon (in AnTimony) |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | HORRORS! $15,200 (Daily Double): The title of this 1962 Ray Bradbury novel is a Shakespeare line that rhymes with "by the pricking of my thumbs" Something Wicked This Way Comes |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | BOY GENIUS $2000: This French prodigy wrote his masterpiece "The Drunken Boat" at 16 & was called an "infant Shakespeare" Rimbaud |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | SHAKESPEARE FOR EVERYONE! $200: To sum things up, this title guy passes over a very vengeful dude for the chief Lt. gig & does not get to live to regret it Othello |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | SHAKESPEARE FOR EVERYONE! $400: This character says, "Make thick my blood; stop up the access & passage to remorse"; it's not her last experience with blood Lady Macbeth |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | SHAKESPEARE FOR EVERYONE! $600: Awaking, this weaver says, "I have had a dream... man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream" Bottom |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | SHAKESPEARE FOR EVERYONE! $1,000 (Daily Double): Her last speech includes "Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper... thy sovereign" Katherina |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | SHAKESPEARE FOR EVERYONE! $1000: This early play features Proteus & Valentine in the title roles (& it's not "Proteus & Valentine Take Manhattan") The Two Gentlemen of Verona |
| #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 |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | FAMOUS PAIRS $200: Act I, Scene v of a Shakespeare play finds this title pair meeting at a masked ball Romeo & Juliet |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | THAT'S JUST TEARABLE! $1000: Shakespeare plot twist! "Let the angel... tell thee" this man "was from his mother's womb untimely ripped" Macduff |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | START TALKING, SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER $200: Her first line in "Othello" is "My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty" Desdemona |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | START TALKING, SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER $400: Falstaff's first line in this non-history play is "Now, Master Shallow, you'll complain of me to the king?" The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | START TALKING, SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER $600: Her first speech is "What, jealous Oberon? Fairies, skip hence. I have forsworn his bed and company" Titania |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | START TALKING, SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER $800: The opening line of this play is Orsino's "If music be the food of love, play on" Twelfth Night |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | START TALKING, SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER $1000: Title character Antonio begins this play saying, "In sooth I know not why I am so sad" The Merchant of Venice |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | FAMOUS FORGERIES $400: Performed in London in 1796, "Vortigern and Rowena" was a newly discovered play supposedly by him Shakespeare |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | BOOK TITLES $1200: Shakespeare's Miranda salutes this Huxley title "that has such people in't!" Brave New World |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | ITALIAN LITERATURE $400: Matteo Bandello's short stories inspired a number of Shakespeare's plays, including this Verona-set tragedy Romeo and Juliet |
| #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 |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | URANUS, SHMURANUS $1000: Uranus was first discovered in the 18th century; Shakespeare wrote "Coriolanus" in this century the 17th century |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | TRIPLY ALLITERATIVE $1,000 (Daily Double): 4 young men of Navarre face off against 4 ladies in a game of courtship in this Shakespeare comedy Love's Labour's Lost |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | OPERA $15,200 (Daily Double): Macchiato means coffee spotted with milk & "Una Macchia" is a Verdi aria about a spot from this Shakespeare woman Lady Macbeth |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | AS EASY AS A-B-C $400: It describes Shakespeare's pentameter iambic |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY INITIALS $100: The title character utters the famous line, "Et tu, Brute?":
J.C. Julius Caesar |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY INITIALS $200: A mischievous fairy named Puck just can't stop pranking people:
A.M.N.D. A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY INITIALS $300: The title ruler is the father of Goneril, Regan & Cordelia:
K.L. King Lear |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY INITIALS $400: It opens with the famous line, "If music be the food of love, play on":
T.N. Twelfth Night |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY INITIALS $500: Valentine & Proteus are the guys that form this titular pair:
T.T.G.O.V. The Two Gentlemen of Verona |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | POEMS ABOUT POETRY $200: Of this type of poem, Shakespeare was keen / Its number of lines totals fourteen a sonnet |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | ETCHED IN STONE $400: The inscription on the London statue of this man seen here reads, "There is no darkness but ignorance" William Shakespeare |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | OLD NAMES FOR MEDICAL CONDITIONS $600: In "Julius Caesar", Shakespeare mentions "falling sickness", this disorder characterized by seizures epilepsy |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | SHAKESPEARE REWRITES THE BEATLES $400: "The lady is enamored of thee, verily, verily, verily" "She Loves You" |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | SHAKESPEARE REWRITES THE BEATLES $800: "Wilt thou still require me, wilt thou still provide sustenance unto me, roughly midway through my 7th decade?" "When I'm Sixty-Four" |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | SHAKESPEARE REWRITES THE BEATLES $1200: "Aid me if thou canst, I feel sorrow... & my gratitude is large for thy presence here" "Help!" |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | SHAKESPEARE REWRITES THE BEATLES $1600: "Dear gentleman or lady, wouldst thou peruse my volume? It hath taken me long to pen, wouldst thou peer at it?" "Paperback Writer" |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | SHAKESPEARE REWRITES THE BEATLES $2000: "I believe I shall be melancholy, I believe it shall be anon... the woman who disturbeth my temper is leaving hence" "Ticket To Ride" |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | THE REALLY OLD COLLEGE TRY $1000: I come to wive it wealthily at the university of this, founded in 1222 by ex-University of Bologna students Padua |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | BRITISH SPELLING BEE $200: Go to the famous Globe one to see a play by Shakespeare T-H-E-A-T-R-E |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $2000: "Super-Infinite" is a bio of this man of Shakespeare's time known for sexy poems & later, strongly moral sermons John Donne |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | SHAKESPEARE -LOGUES ON $200: "My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late!" Juliet |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | SHAKESPEARE -LOGUES ON $400: "Mark Antony, here, take you Caesar's body. You shall not in your funeral speech blame us" Brutus |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | SHAKESPEARE -LOGUES ON $600: "I know not that; but such a handkerchief--I am sure it was your wife's--did I today see Cassio wipe his beard with" Iago |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | SHAKESPEARE -LOGUES ON $800: Hamlet: "Shall we to th' court? For, by my fay, I cannot reason"; these 2: "We'll wait upon you" Rosencrantz & Guildenstern |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | SHAKESPEARE -LOGUES ON $1000: "When I did him at this advantage take, an ass's noll I fixed on his head" Puck |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | PLAY TIME $1200: This alliterative 3-word Shakespeare comedy begins with 4 friends swearing off women & romance Love's Labour's Lost |
| #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 |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | KISS & TELL $800: The musical "Kiss Me, Kate" was based on this Shakespeare play The Taming of the Shrew |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | SHAKESPEARE $200: Play-mates Portia, Antonio & Shylock live in & around this city Venice |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | SHAKESPEARE $400: In this play Puck has some handy juice that makes a sleeper fall in love with the next person he sees A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | SHAKESPEARE $600: Lines that nobody understands include this "Othello" villain calling Cassio "a fellow almost damned in a fair wife" Iago |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | SHAKESPEARE $1,000 (Daily Double): Speaker of the line "I prithee, good Prince Hal, help me to my horse, good king's son" Falstaff |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | SHAKESPEARE $1000: An arras is a curtain or wall hanging; in "Hamlet", this old man hides behind one & is stabbed through it Polonius |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | THE SONGS OF MAX MARTIN $200: "& Juliet" imagines the Shakespeare story had the heroine lived & here she is performing this song, Britney Spears' first hit
"I must confess, that my loneliness is killing me now..." "...Baby One More Time" |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | THE SONGS OF MAX MARTIN $600: Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway performs "That's The Way It Is", a Top 10 hit for this chanteuse in 2000
"Don't give up on your faith /
Love comes to those who believe it" Celine Dion |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | THE SONGS OF MAX MARTIN $800: The first musical number in "& Juliet" has William Shakespeare performing this Backstreet Boys song
"All you people can't you see, can't you see /
How your love's affecting our reality" "Larger Than Life" |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | NAMES IN HISTORY $400: The name of Shakespeare's acting troupe, the King's Men, honored this benefactor James I |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | SOME THOUGHTS ON THE BOOK $800: The title is cribbed from the best--Billy Shakespeare; y'all live in a hard-to-say county; Benjy the hunted The Sound and the Fury |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | VOWEL, VOWEL, CONSONANT, CONSONANT $600: Shakespeare's Caesar would not have made this cry, as in English it dates only to the 1830s ouch |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | FIRST SPEECHES IN SHAKESPEARE $400: "From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean" Romeo and Juliet |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | FIRST SPEECHES IN SHAKESPEARE $800: "Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, assume the port of Mars" Henry V |
| #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 |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | FIRST SPEECHES IN SHAKESPEARE $1600: "It did always seem so to us: but now, in the division of the kingdom, it appears not which of the dukes he values most" King Lear |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | FIRST SPEECHES IN SHAKESPEARE $2000: "My brother Jaques he keeps at school, & report speaks goldenly of his profit" As You Like It |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | FIRST & LAST NAME'S THE SAME $400: Mrs. Shakespeare & the portrayer of Viola in "Twelfth Night" in Shakespeare in the Park in 2009 Anne Hathaway |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: In "Hamnet", Maggie O'Farrell reimagines the life of this writer & his family, including his son, who may have died of bubonic plague William Shakespeare |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | SHAKESPEARE & HIS WORLD $400: Shakespeare wrote 3 main types of plays: comedies, tragedies & these, like "Henry IV, Part 1" histories |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | SHAKESPEARE & HIS WORLD $800: Without the 1623 publication of Shakespeare's plays, today known by this name, half might have been lost forever First Folio |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | SHAKESPEARE & HIS WORLD $1200: Similar to a monologue, Hamlet's "To be or not to be" speech is one of these given by an actor alone a soliloquy |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | SHAKESPEARE & HIS WORLD $1600: This 3-word nickname for Shakespeare is based in part on his place of birth in 1564 the Bard of Avon |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | SHAKESPEARE & HIS WORLD $2,000 (Daily Double): If you were part of this "earthy" group taking in a play at the Globe Theatre, you paid the lowest amount to stand in the pit & watch the groundlings |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | SWEET 1616 $400: On March 25 this playwright made his will, which would be needed in less than a month William Shakespeare |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | MASTERS OF LIT $400: Master Ford & Master Page are characters in this Shakespeare comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | 3-WORD PLACE NAMES $400: April 23 is an annual celebration of a local hero in this Warwickshire town--& by the way, that middle word has 4 letters Stratford-upon-Avon |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | MEDIEVAL LITERATURE $400: Long before Shakespeare, this tale-teller wrote the similar "Troilus & Criseyde" in the 14th century Chaucer |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | A SHAKESPEARE PLAY IN A FEW WORDS $200: Witches,
Dunsinane,
ghost,
blood?
Womb,
doom Macbeth |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | A SHAKESPEARE PLAY IN A FEW WORDS $400: Shipwreck,
Viola...
Cesario...
same?!
Romance Twelfth Night |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | A SHAKESPEARE PLAY IN A FEW WORDS $800: Magic,
monsoon,
misunderstanding,
men from Milan The Tempest |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | A SHAKESPEARE PLAY IN A FEW WORDS $1000: Navarre,
celibacy!
Rosaline?
Re-plan! Love's Labour's Lost |
| #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 |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | DUNCE, DUNCE $2000: Thersites in this Shakespeare play says Agamemnon "has not so much brain as earwax" Troilus and Cressida |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | CONFIDENCE $800: A Shakespeare character asks, "Does he not hold up his head, as it were, and" this 5-letter confident walk "in his gait?" strut |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | "F"IVE LETTER WORDS $1,500 (Daily Double): In its simplest form it's a sheet of paper folded in half to make 2 leaves or 4 pages; Shakespeare's had a lot more a folio |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | 5-LETTER LITERARY CHARACTERS $400: Shakespeare's Goneril kills herself after poisoning this sister Regan |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | 'TIS SHAKESPEARE $200: In Act 3 Hamlet tells this other character to "Get thee to a nunnery" Ophelia |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | 'TIS SHAKESPEARE $500 (Daily Double): These are Richard III's "beastly" last 5 words my kingdom for a horse |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | 'TIS SHAKESPEARE $600: This knight's first line in "Henry IV, Part 1" is asking what time it is, which leads to 100 lines of banter & trash talk Falstaff |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | 'TIS SHAKESPEARE $800: Trout tickling, a way of catching fish with the bare hands, is mentioned in this comedy subtitled "Or What You Will" Twelfth Night |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | 'TIS SHAKESPEARE $1000: This friar conducts the ill-fated marriage of Romeo & Juliet Friar Lawrence |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | CAN WE "DIS"CUSS? $400: This word ends the first line of Shakespeare's "Richard III" discontent |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | THERE'S A NAME IN THE TITLE $1200: The names of 2 lovers are in the title of this Shakespeare tragedy set during the Trojan War Troilus and Cressida |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | WE ARE PRO-ANTONYMS $1000: As Shakespeare put it so eloquently, "Parting is such sweet joy" sorrow |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | THE GOLDEN AGE $400: A golden age of literature is named for this queen who saw Shakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost" & "Merry Wives" first run Elizabeth I |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | STARTS & ENDS WITH THE SAME VOWEL $800: Brush up on your Shakespeare & name this board game Othello |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN $400: Before the start of the action of the play, she elopes with Othello; things don't end well for her Desdemona |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN $800: She has the famous "The quality of mercy is not strained" line in "The Merchant of Venice" Portia |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN $1200: In this comedy, Olivia loves Cesario, who is really Viola in disguise Twelfth Night |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN $1600: They're King Lear's 3 daughters; the youngest is virtuous, but the other 2, not so much Goneril, Regan & Cordelia |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN $2000: Pre-Juliet, Romeo is taken with this fair maiden; a 2022 film told things from her perspective Rosaline |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | A CRASH COURSE IN JOHN GREEN $200: (John Green presents the clue.) "The Fault in Our Stars" was largely inspired by a young friend, Esther Earl, who died of cancer at 16; & the title was inspired by a line in this Shakespeare play--"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves" Julius Caesar |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | CROSSWORD CLUES "T" $200: A storm--in Shakespeare or a teapot
(7 letters) a tempest |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | ACTORS PLAYING PLAYWRIGHTS $2000: In "Shakespeare in Love", Rupert Everett has an uncredited role as this contemporary of Shakespeare Marlowe |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | RANKS & TITLES $2000: This term for a medieval Scottish lord was the title Shakespeare's Macbeth held twice over before his act of regicide thane |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | LOVE $800: "Who can sever love from charity?" says this Shakespeare play with "Love" in the title Love's Labour's Lost |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | JASON CONCEPCION $1000: (Jason Concepcion presents the clue.) As co-host of the official podcast for HBO's "House of the Dragon", I shared my interview with this creator of Westeros who likened the struggle for the Iron Throne to Shakespeare tragedy (George R.R.) Martin |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | BESTSELLERS $800: The title of this heartbreaking young adult novel by John Green about Augustus & Hazel is based on a line from Shakespeare The Fault in Our Stars |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | SOUND $1000: Oresund, also called the Sound, features 2 big ports on the Danish side, Copenhagen & this one familiar to Shakespeare fans Elsinore |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | ALL ABOUT HAIR $600: Tiny muscles called arrector pili in our follicles make our hair literally do this, as a ghost in Shakespeare promises to do stand on end |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | THE SPEAKER IN SHAKESPEARE $400: "O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!" Cleopatra |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | THE SPEAKER IN SHAKESPEARE $800: "I come to wive it wealthily in Padua" Petruchio |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | THE SPEAKER IN SHAKESPEARE $1200: "O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-eyed monster" Iago |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | THE SPEAKER IN SHAKESPEARE $1600: "My Oberon! What visions have I seen! Methought I was enamoured of an ass" Titania |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | THE SPEAKER IN SHAKESPEARE $2000: "We are such stuff as dreams are made on" Prospero |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | SHAKESPEARE'S CONTEMPORARIES $400: The title character & kids are murdered in John Webster's "The Duchess of Malfi", considered one of the greatest plays of this type a tragedy |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | SHAKESPEARE'S CONTEMPORARIES $800: With 1587's "Tamburlaine the Great", Christopher Marlowe, not Shakespeare, set the stage for the use of this verse in drama iambic pentameter (blank verse) |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | SHAKESPEARE'S CONTEMPORARIES $1200: Ben Jonson wrote a play in which 4 characters represent the 4 these, medieval bodily fluids humors |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | SHAKESPEARE'S CONTEMPORARIES $1600: A Thomas Kyd play featuring a ghost & a play within a play is thought to have inspired this Shakespeare work published in 1603 Hamlet |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | SHAKESPEARE'S CONTEMPORARIES $2000: In Thomas Middleton's 1624 "A Game at Chess", the black pieces represented this country that threatened England Spain |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | THE HOUSE OF POWER $3,000 (Daily Double): Shakespeare's Richard III mentions "the clouds that lour'd upon our house"--this ruling house with a white rose symbol York |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | QUOTABLE SHAKESPEARE PLAYS $200: "A pound of that same merchant's flesh is thine" The Merchant of Venice |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | QUOTABLE SHAKESPEARE PLAYS $400: "She hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear" Romeo and Juliet |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | QUOTABLE SHAKESPEARE PLAYS $600: "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me" Macbeth |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | QUOTABLE SHAKESPEARE PLAYS $800: "As he was valiant, I honor him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him" Julius Caesar |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | QUOTABLE SHAKESPEARE PLAYS $1000: "How dost thou, Benedick, the married man?" Much Ado About Nothing |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | CONTRACTIONS $1000: It begins a 5-word Shakespeare title All's |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | EVERY MAN A KING $1600: The title subject of 2 Shakespeare plays, he was England's first king of the house of Lancaster Henry IV |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | YOU CAN QUOTE "ME" $4,000 (Daily Double): After hearing an orator speak in a foreign language, a Shakespeare character admits, "It was" these 3 words Greek to me |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | SHAKESPEARE JUST KILLS ME $200: Holding the dead Cordelia in his arms, he hears that Edmund is dead & is dead himself a few lines later Lear |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | SHAKESPEARE JUST KILLS ME $400: The last words this king hears are from Hamlet: "Is thy union here? Follow my mother" Claudius |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | SHAKESPEARE JUST KILLS ME $600: In "Romeo & Juliet", he gets the point from Tybalt, who makes worms' meat of him Mercutio |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | SHAKESPEARE JUST KILLS ME $800: In "Macbeth", it's not healthy for this man to be in a scene with first, second & third murderers but at least his son Fleance escapes Banquo |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | SHAKESPEARE JUST KILLS ME $1000: This title guy kills Lavinia, stabs Tamora, gets killed by Saturninus, who in turn is whacked by Lucius, the said title guy's son Titus Andronicus |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BALLET & OPERA $200 (Daily Double): The fate of these lovers from Shakespeare is no better in the ballet with music by Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $200: Paula Vogel re-imagined this Shakespeare wife in a work named for her & subtitled "A Play about a Handkerchief" Desdemona |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | HE DIRECTED THAT? $1200: A far cry from Shakespeare, he directed 2011's "Thor" & 2015's "Cinderella" Branagh |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | FIGURES OF SPEECH $600: I have no idea what you said--it was this language to me, a phrase used by Shakespeare Greek |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $200: The name of this insectivore has meant a scolding woman since before Shakespeare used it in a play title shrew |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | DANIEL RADCLIFFE COLLAGE $800: (Daniel Radcliffe presents the clue.) I played one of the two title characters who were just bit players in Shakespeare in a 50th anniversary West End production of this Tom Stoppard play that’s set against the backdrop of "Hamlet" Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | D.C.-AREA ATTRACTIONS $1600: This library has been known to host Renaissance music to honor Shakespeare's birthday the Folger |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | A MATTER OF WIFE & DEATH $200: At his death in 1616, he left 10 pounds to the poor of Stratford & his second best bed to wife Anne Shakespeare |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | SHAKESPEARE $200: I'm going over this guy's monologue for an audition... "To be, or not to be", OK... "bare bodkin"... "mortal coil"... I totally got this! Hamlet |
| #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 |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | SHAKESPEARE $600: This Scottish play--which you'll name & we'll see if that ends up jinxing you--has the title guy kill king Duncan, for starters Macbeth |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | SHAKESPEARE $800: In a history play a woman complains that this chubby knight "hath eaten me out of house and home" Falstaff |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | SHAKESPEARE $1000: After killing the King & the Prince of Wales in "Henry VI, Part 3", this king with body image issues gets his own play King Richard III |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | ALL THAT GLITTERS $2000: One of Portia's disappointed suitors learns that "All that glisters is not gold" in this Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | CLIFF NOTES $400: Looking out atop some cliffs, this Shakespeare ruler refers to himself as "Goneril with a white beard" King Lear |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | SHAKESPEARE'S KINGS & QUEENS $400: In "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Titania works her magic as queen of these creatures fairies |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | SHAKESPEARE'S KINGS & QUEENS $800: This Scottish king laments the whole ocean won't wash the blood from his hands but it will turn "the green one red" Macbeth |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | SHAKESPEARE'S KINGS & QUEENS $1200: The night before a fateful battle, the ghosts of the murdered Edward V & Henry VI appear to this king & curse him Richard III |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | SHAKESPEARE'S KINGS & QUEENS $1600: "O, my dear Hamlet!" cries this queen, who dies after drinking from a poisoned cup intended for her son Gertrude |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | SHAKESPEARE'S KINGS & QUEENS $2000: This title king's victory at Agincourt is followed by his awkward bilingual wooing of princess Katherine Henry V |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | A LITTLE HISTORY $1600: Many of Shakespeare's history plays were based on the "Lives" of this ancient Greek Plutarch |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | A.D. $1600: 1616 saw the death of William Shakespeare at New place, in this place where he was born Stratford-upon-Avon |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | FILL IN THE PLAY TITLE $800: From a line in Shakespeare:
____ & ____ are Dead" Rosencrantz and Guildenstern |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | SAN DIEGO: NEWS CLUES $1000: (Dagmar Midcap of NBC 7 in San Diego presents the clue.) In February 1983, Queen Elizabeth visited San Diego, stopping in Balboa Park to unveil a statue of William Shakespeare at this theater, named for the historic one in London where many of Shakespeare’s plays were first performed the Globe |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | PLAYS & PLAYWRITING $400: It's a coveted Shakespeare role for older actors, like Christopher Plummer on Broadway at age 74 King Lear |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | CHEERY-"O" $800: Shakespeare wrote, "Why, then the world's" my this "which I with sword will open"; hopeful indeed! oyster |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | FAMILIAL PHRASES $2000: This phrase from Shakespeare's "Henry V" now refers to any close-knit group, not just a military unit band of brothers |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | BE MERRY $1600: After Helena & Diana get some celebratory closure for their worries, well, this Shakespeare title says it all All’s Well That Ends Well |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | I SPEAK FOR THE TREES $600: It should please you that Amiens' rendition of "Under the Greenwood Tree" is in this Shakespeare comedy As You Like It |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | MY PERSONAL QUOTATION DEVICE $200: I need some Shakespeare & get her line "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet" Juliet |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | A BIT OF LIT $1200: Shakespeare's "Henry V" takes place before & after this decisive 1415 battle in France Agincourt |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | LIFE IN THE FAUST LANE $2,000 (Daily Double): Roll up, roll up for the history tour... "The Tragical History of doctor Faustus" is a play by this Shakespeare-era man (Christopher) Marlowe |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $200: "Shakespeare in 1606" is the subtitle of James Shapiro's book rhymingly titled "The Year of" this great tragic play King Lear |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | LITERATURE $1,200 (Daily Double): This Shakespeare character says, "When I was about thy years, Hal, I was not an eagle's talon in the waist" (Sir John) Falstaff |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | POETS $200: Annotations on a First Folio of Shakespeare were found to be in the handwriting of this "Paradise Lost" poet (John) Milton |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | BRISK LIT $600: Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 begins, "My mistress' eyes are nothing like" this object the sun |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY QUOTE $400: "Something wicked this way comes" Macbeth |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY QUOTE $800: "This above all: to thine own self be true" Hamlet |
| #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 |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY QUOTE $2000: "Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe" Richard III |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | WHINE $400: This tormented Shakespeare title character moans, "O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I" the Hamlet |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | THEATRICAL HAPPENINGS $200: In 2021, Shakespeare in the Park was back in this park with "Merry Wives", changing the Bard's setting to South Harlem Central Park |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | AIN'T NO CENTURY LIKE THE 17th CENTURY $800: This London theater most associated with Shakespeare was torn down in 1644, 2 years after the Puritans closed all the theaters the Globe |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | BRITISH WRITERS $1600: This playwright who wrote "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" also co-wrote the movie "Shakespeare in Love" Tom Stoppard |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | PLAYS $1600: Maxwell Anderson won a Pulitzer for a satire on Congress called this, finishing the Shakespeare quote "A plague on..." Both Your Houses |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | THE PICKLE BARREL $2000: In this Shakespeare play, Trinculo tells King Alonso, "I have been in such a pickle" (meaning drunk) "since I saw you last" The Tempest |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | LAST LINE OF A SHAKESPEARE ACT $200: Act II of this play ends, "My Regan counsels well; come out o' the storm" King Lear |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | LAST LINE OF A SHAKESPEARE ACT $600: Act I of this play concludes with, "The motion's good indeed and be it so, Petruchio, I shall be your Ben Venuto" The Taming of the Shrew |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | LAST LINE OF A SHAKESPEARE ACT $800: Fortinbras ends act V & this play with "Go, bid the soldiers shoot" Hamlet |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | LAST LINE OF A SHAKESPEARE ACT $1000: Stephano tells him, "O brave monster! Lead the way" Caliban |
| #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 |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | LIT-POURRI $1600: Shakespeare's sonnets 127 to 152 are addressed to a mysterious woman commonly called this, whose "eyes are raven black" the Dark Lady |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | ABRAHAM LINCOLN $200: (Doris Kearns Goodwin presents the clue.) Born in 1809 into a frontier family, young Abe Lincoln had only one year of schooling, but read the Bible, Shakespeare, & learned logic from "The Elements" of this ancient Greek mathematician Euclid |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | MILLENNIALS $2,000 (Daily Double): This actress born in 1982 shares her name with Mrs. Shakespeare, born circa 1556 Anne Hathaway |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | THE FUTURE'S NOT SO BRIGHT... $2,000 (Daily Double): In "Y: The Last Man" having a Y chromosome is a death sentence, save for the guy with this name from Shakespeare Yorick |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | IT'S THE ONLY VOWEL $2000: ...in the 2 title words of a Shakespeare comedy where we meet Sir Andrew Aguecheek (2 different vowels) E, I |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | I BRAIN RADIO $400: At 14 this future DNA double helix discoverer went on radio's "Quiz Kids" for 3 weeks, beaten by 8-year-old Ruth Duskin (James) Watson |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | OPERA $1200: Katharina's aria "My Strength Fails" is a highlight of Hermann Goetz' opera based on this Shakespeare comedy The Taming of the Shrew |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | 2-SYLLABLE WORDS $1000: In Sonnet 18, Shakespeare used this word before "thee to a summer's day" compare |
| #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 |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | SHAKESPEARE $800: In 1889 John Singer Sargent painted "Ellen Terry as" this ambitious character Lady Macbeth |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | SHAKESPEARE $1600: A Stratford-upon-Avon statue of the Bard is surrounded by four characters, including this young prince from the history plays Henry |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | SHAKESPEARE $2,000 (Daily Double): The first scene of this late play ends with the line "The wills above be done, but I would fain die a dry death" The Tempest |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | SHAKESPEARE $2000: This Roman tragedy premiered Jan. 24, 1594 & the stage blood has been flowing since Titus Andronicus |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | ANGELS & DEMONS & INSURANCE AGENTS $2000: A demon in early English folklore, it became the name of a character in a Shakespeare comedy Puck |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | E BEFORE I $1200: In Shakespeare it means fanciful or imaginative; in "con"temporary use, it means vain conceited |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | REAL PEOPLE ON FILM $800: Joseph Fiennes played the bard as a young playwright struggling to establish himself in this 1998 film Shakespeare in Love |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | HISTORY PLAYS $1600: In Shakespeare's take on the life of this monarch who died in 1216, he is fatally poisoned by a monk King John |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | SHAKESPEARE, YOU'RE DRUNK $200: This troubled title guy says the Danes are known as drunkards to other nations Hamlet |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | SHAKESPEARE, YOU'RE DRUNK $400: "The gentleman had drunk himself out of his five sentences" is in the first scene of this play, getting "merry" from the start The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | SHAKESPEARE, YOU'RE DRUNK $600: In "Othello", Cassio tells this man, "I have very poor & unhappy brains for drinking" & he replies, "I'll drink for you" Iago |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | SHAKESPEARE, YOU'RE DRUNK $800: A warning in "As You Like It": "Do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in" this intoxicant wine |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | SHAKESPEARE, YOU'RE DRUNK $1000: In this comedy Sir Toby Belch asks, "Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes & ale?" Twelfth Night |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | HEY SHAKESPEARE, WHO SAID THAT? $200: "Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: but Brutus says he was ambitious" Mark Antony |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | HEY SHAKESPEARE, WHO SAID THAT? $400: "Deny thy father and refuse thy name; or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love" Juliet |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | HEY SHAKESPEARE, WHO SAID THAT? $600: "I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of the island" Caliban |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | HEY SHAKESPEARE, WHO SAID THAT? $800 (Daily Double): "'Tis not to make me jealous to say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, is free of speech, sings, plays and dances well" Othello |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | HEY SHAKESPEARE, WHO SAID THAT? $1000: "I think there be six Richmonds in the field; five have I slain today instead of him" King Richard III |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | YIDDISH THEATER $400: David Moishele is an aging wealthy merchant with problematic children in the 1892 play "The Yiddish" this Shakespeare tragedy King Lear |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | ELBOW PATCHES $1000: Elbow is the name of an inept constable in this Shakespeare comedy with a repetitive title Measure for Measure |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | HISTORICAL FICTION $2000: "A Tip for the Hangman" tells of this aspiring playwright, recruited from Cambridge to spy for Queen Elizabeth I Marlowe |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | SHAKESPEARE PLAY SETTINGS $400: "Romeo & Juliet", is one of the plays that take place in what's now this country Italy |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | SHAKESPEARE PLAY SETTINGS $800: This tragedy has settings in Rome, Syria & fatefully in Alexandria, Egypt Antony and Cleopatra |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | SHAKESPEARE PLAY SETTINGS $1,000 (Daily Double): Once more into this play whose centerpiece is a 1415 battle in France Henry V |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | SHAKESPEARE PLAY SETTINGS $1600: Arden, Shakespeare's mother's maiden name, is the name of the forest where this comedy is set As You Like It |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | SHAKESPEARE PLAY SETTINGS $2000: This princely play is the only one that has a scene in Lebanon Pericles, Prince of Tyre |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | HISTORY'S MYSTERIES $2,000 (Daily Double): A real-life drama: this Shakespeare contemporary was killed under mysterious circumstances May 30, 1593 Marlowe |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | SHAKESPEARE'S INSULTS $400: This nephew-killing title monarch is off to a slow start courting Lady Anne, who calls him "thou lump of foul deformity" Richard III |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | SHAKESPEARE'S INSULTS $1200: In "Henry IV, Part 1" Falstaff disses a hostess: "There's no more faith in thee, than in a stewed" one of these fruits a prune |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | SHAKESPEARE'S INSULTS $1600: King Lear tells this treacherous eldest daughter, "Thou art a boil, a plague-sore" Goneril |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | SHAKESPEARE'S INSULTS $2000: A line in this play: "If Troy be not taken till" Ajax & Achilles "undermine it, the walls will stand till they fall of themselves" Troilus and Cressida |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | SHAKESPEARE'S INSULTS $3,000 (Daily Double): In "The Comedy of Errors", Dromio describes Nell: "Hip to hip: she is spherical, like" this name of Shakespeare's venue globe |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | HERE COMES THE SONNET $400: Shakespeare's Sonnet 153 notes the "love-kindling fire" of this Roman god & where he "got new fire--my mistress' eyes" Cupid |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | ALLITERATION $1200: To have fun, to enjoy oneself; a character in Shakespeare "must" do this "with the duchess' gold" make merry |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | NO. 5 $1000: Shakespeare liked to write in this, from the Greek for "5" & "measure" pentameter |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | NEW YORK: NEWS CLUES $600: (Hi, I'm Sade Baderinwa.) As part of a New York City tradition that began in 1962, many movie stars, including James Earl Jones as Othello, & Meryl Streep in "Henry V", have interpreted the Bard as part of this project Shakespeare in the Park |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | NAME THAT SHAKESPEARE PLAY $400: A literal fairy tale that gets to the bottom of things with a triple wedding A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | NAME THAT SHAKESPEARE PLAY $800: Laertes gets the short end of the (poisoned) stick Hamlet |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | NAME THAT SHAKESPEARE PLAY $1200: Mercutio says, "If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark" Romeo and Juliet |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | NAME THAT SHAKESPEARE PLAY $1600: Tragically, not giving a guy a promotion at work ends up inflaming a non-affair to remember Othello |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | NAME THAT SHAKESPEARE PLAY $2000: Demetrius is among the many, many casualties by the end & oh yeah... there's cannibalism! Titus Andronicus |
| #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 |
| #8443, aired 2021-07-14 | FEMALE LITERARY PROTAGONISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): Shakespeare wrote that the sails of her barge were "so perfumed that the winds were love-sick with them" Cleopatra |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | & I TOOK THAT PERSONALLY $200: In Act I this Shakespeare character is told to "revenge" his dad's "foul and most unnatural murder" & in Act V, he does Hamlet |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | LITERATURE $800: At a dinner party in Shakespeare, Banquo's ghost shows up to torment this title character Macbeth |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | 'TIS SHAKESPEARE $400: John Dryden & his brother-in-law revised this tragedy so everybody (well, not Tybalt) lives happily ever after Romeo and Juliet |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | 'TIS SHAKESPEARE $800: The movie "All Is True", about Shakespeare in retirement, begins with the fire that destroyed this theatre in 1613 the Globe Theatre |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | 'TIS SHAKESPEARE $1,000 (Daily Double): "Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have immortal longings in me", declares this character before taking her own life Cleopatra |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | 'TIS SHAKESPEARE $1200: The rousing "Band of Brothers" speech in this play takes place before the Battle of Agincourt Henry V |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | 'TIS SHAKESPEARE $1600: In a bit of payback for all the female roles taken by men, in 1899, this French actress played Hamlet Sarah Bernhardt |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $2000: Shakespeare put "cry" before this word, an order to soldiers to start looting & pillaging havoc |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | 5 NIGHTS $1600: Shakespeare knew that the Eve of the Epiphany also goes by this ordinal name Twelfth Night |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | POETIC BOOK TITLES $1,000 (Daily Double): From Sonnet 30 by Shakespeare: "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought / I summon up" this Marcel Proust title Remembrance of Things Past |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | NEW TO THE OED $2000: The Henriad refers to 4 plays by this man Shakespeare |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER FOOTBALL TEAM $200: Scouting report on this title guy: very indecisive hitting holes but has great vision--even of his own father's ghost Hamlet |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER FOOTBALL TEAM $400: At QB, she audibles to get her husband to commit murder & win the title but she literally sleepwalks through the 4th quarter Lady Macbeth |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER FOOTBALL TEAM $600: Starting at WR, as no one catches grief better than her, this Lear daughter does get benched from the play in Acts 2 & 3 Cordelia |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER FOOTBALL TEAM $800: After a big scramble, this guy "of Athens" retires to the wilderness & coaches Alcibiades on sacking the city Timon |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER FOOTBALL TEAM $3,400 (Daily Double): A very outside LB, this guy plays on an island; the son of a witch & a devil, he's a total beast out there! Caliban |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | CROSSWORD CLUES "C" $2000: Shakespeare king of ancient Britain
(9 letters) Cymbeline |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | A CATEGORY ABOUT NOTHING $1600: Claudio initially leaves Hero at the altar in this Shakespeare comedy Much Ado About Nothing |
| #8393, aired 2021-05-05 | SHAKESPEARE FAMILY TIES $200: Lady Capulet is his mother-in-law, briefly Romeo |
| #8393, aired 2021-05-05 | SHAKESPEARE FAMILY TIES $400: Brabantio is her dad & Othello's father-in-law Desdemona |
| #8393, aired 2021-05-05 | SHAKESPEARE FAMILY TIES $800: The son of Polonius, he seeks revenge against Hamlet for his father's murder Laertes |
| #8393, aired 2021-05-05 | SHAKESPEARE FAMILY TIES $1000: She's the impatient sister of the title shrew Bianca |
| #8393, aired 2021-05-05 | SHAKESPEARE FAMILY TIES $1,800 (Daily Double): This "Tempest"uous daughter of Prospero says, "O brave new world, that has such people in it!" Miranda |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | RECENT BOOKS $400: One letter off from "Hamlet", the title of this bestselling novel by Maggie O'Farrell honors Shakespeare's son Hamnet |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | STARTS WITH 3 CONSONANTS $800: Biblical writing; Shakespeare wrote that "The devil can cite" it "for his purpose" scripture |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | BILL OF WRITES $400: A sonnet of his ends, "So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee" Shakespeare |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | ENGLISH DRAMA THAT AIN'T SHAKESPEARE $400: Comic actor & playwright Richard Tarlton also served as the favorite of these court fools for Queen Elizabeth I a jester |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | ENGLISH DRAMA THAT AIN'T SHAKESPEARE $800: Every character in Ben Jonson's "Volpone" is based on an animal; Corvino on a crow & Volpone on this canine a fox |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | ENGLISH DRAMA THAT AIN'T SHAKESPEARE $1200: In a "tragical" play by Marlowe, 2 scholars named Cornelius & Valdes teach Doctor this how to summon demons Doctor Faustus |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | ENGLISH DRAMA THAT AIN'T SHAKESPEARE $1600: Richard Sheridan's 18th century comedies of manners include "The School for" this disgrace Scandal |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | ENGLISH DRAMA THAT AIN'T SHAKESPEARE $6,000 (Daily Double): This period of the returned monarchy featured plays known for bawdiness, like "The Country Wife" Restoration |
| #8365, aired 2021-03-26 | ENTERTAINMENT ADD A LETTER $2000: A Josh Hartnett Shakespeare reworking becomes an HBO prison series O & Oz |
| #8353, aired 2021-03-10 | I'VE WON AN OSCAR & AN EMMY $600: "Shakespeare in Love" & "Glee" Gwyneth Paltrow |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | SPORTS & GAMES IN SHAKESPEARE $200: Hamlet tells his mother she's been led around as if playing "hoodman-Blind"; we call it this game blind man's bluff |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | SPORTS & GAMES IN SHAKESPEARE $400: This king's fool berates him as a child, saying he's been playing "Bo-Peep", meaning peek-a-boo King Lear |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | SPORTS & GAMES IN SHAKESPEARE $600: In "Henry V" a French envoy insults the English king as a mere gamester by giving him a gift of these "courtly" balls tennis balls |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | SPORTS & GAMES IN SHAKESPEARE $800: Shakespeare is guilty of an anachronism when this ancient queen says to an attendant, let's play billiards Cleopatra |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | SPORTS & GAMES IN SHAKESPEARE $1,200 (Daily Double): Referred to in "Love's Labour's Lost", novum quinque is a dice game where the goal is to roll these 2 numbers 9 & 5 |
| #8342, aired 2021-02-23 | DUNCAN $400: Duncan is Malcolm's father in this Shakespeare play Macbeth |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | WHAT DOES NOT KILL US... $800: This Shakespeare character drinks a potion that imitates outward death, but the plan doesn't go as desired Juliet |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | POETRY $1200: In 2020 Patrick Stewart read these on social media starting with No. 116, "Let me not to the marriage of true minds" Shakespeare sonnets |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | AUTHORS $200: Toni Morrison wrote her play "Desdemona" as a response to a production of this Shakespeare play Othello |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | SEZ YOU, SHAKESPEARE! $200: "He hath a person and a smooth dispose to be suspected--framed to make women false. The Moor is of a free and open nature" Iago |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | SEZ YOU, SHAKESPEARE! $400: "I can be patient, I can stay with Regan, I and my hundred knights" King Lear |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | SEZ YOU, SHAKESPEARE! $600: "The potent poison quite o'ercrows my spirit. I cannot live to hear the news from England" (& a few words later, he's correct) Hamlet |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | SEZ YOU, SHAKESPEARE! $800: "What, will these hands ne'er be clean? No more O' that, my lord, no more O' that. You mar all with this starting" Lady Macbeth |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | SEZ YOU, SHAKESPEARE! $4,200 (Daily Double): "Here in this island we arrived; and here have I, thy schoolmaster, made thee more profit" Prospero |
| #8288, aired 2020-11-25 | AUTHORS $400: Virginia Woolf created Judith, this playwright's equally gifted sister, rejected by the London stage for being a woman Shakespeare |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | ALLUSIVE TITLES $1600: This Shakespeare play provided Agatha Christie with "by the pricking of my thumbs" Macbeth |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | WOMEN IN LITERATURE $1000: Rosalind from this comedy has the most lines of any of Shakespeare's women As You Like It |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | 1990s BEST PICTURE BY TAGLINE $1200: Set in the 16th century: "A comedy about the greatest love story almost never told" Shakespeare in Love |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | RUSSIAN OPERA $800: Stalin walked out of Shostakovich's opera called this ambitious Shakespeare lady "of the Mtsensk District" Lady Macbeth |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1000: This school in Annandale-on-Hudson in New York was named for a wealthy Episcopalian family, not for Shakespeare Bard |
| #8236, aired 2020-09-14 | ITALIAN OPERA $400: Vincenzo Bellini's "I Capuleti e i Montecchi" is based on this Shakespeare work Romeo and Juliet |
| #8235, aired 2020-06-12 | THE SPEAKER IN SHAKESPEARE $200: "A bloody deed--almost as bad, good mother as kill a king, and marry with his brother" Hamlet |
| #8235, aired 2020-06-12 | THE SPEAKER IN SHAKESPEARE $400: "Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble" the witches of Macbeth |
| #8235, aired 2020-06-12 | THE SPEAKER IN SHAKESPEARE $600: "Katherine, I charge thee, tell these headstrong women what duty they do owe their lords and husbands" Petruchio |
| #8235, aired 2020-06-12 | THE SPEAKER IN SHAKESPEARE $800: "I prithee, daughter, do not make me mad" King Lear |
| #8235, aired 2020-06-12 | THE SPEAKER IN SHAKESPEARE $1000: "How camest thou hither, tell me, and wherefore? The orchard walls are high and hard to climb" Juliet |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $200: It's the only play that Shakespeare set in Scotland Macbeth |
| #8222, aired 2020-05-26 | SHAKESPEARE $400: Desdemona's lady-in-waiting, Emilia is the wife of this villain Iago |
| #8222, aired 2020-05-26 | CANADIAN PLACES $1200: (Christopher Plummer presents the clue.) In the 1950s & '60s I played many parts at the Shakespeare Festival in this Ontario town; in 1993 I celebrated the festival's 40th anniversary with a one-man show which I call "A Word or Two" Stratford |
| #8222, aired 2020-05-26 | SHAKESPEARE $1200: King Lear's daughters are Regan, Cordelia & her Goneril |
| #8222, aired 2020-05-26 | SHAKESPEARE $1600: This cousin of Juliet kills Mercutio Tybalt |
| #8222, aired 2020-05-26 | SHAKESPEARE $2000: Dogberry is a constable in this comedy set in Messina Much Ado About Nothing |
| #8222, aired 2020-05-26 | SHAKESPEARE $5,000 (Daily Double): In "Henry IV, Part 2", Doll Tearsheet calls this knight a "sweet little rogue" Falstaff |
| #8219, aired 2020-05-21 | RUN ON SENTENCES $2000: In this Shakespeare comedy, Lysander says, "The course of true love never did run smooth" A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | GREEK, WEAK $600: In Shakespeare's play about him & Cressida, he says, "I am weaker than a woman's tear" Troilus |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | NOTE BOOKS $800: This reference series began in 1958 with 16 Shakespeare study guides CliffsNotes |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | NAME THE SPEAKER $400: In Shakespeare: "Lay on, Macduff, and damn'd be him that first cries, 'hold, enough!"' Macbeth |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | LABORS OF "LOVE" $400: This 1998 film about a certain playwright of note won 7 Oscars Shakespeare in Love |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | SHAKESPEARE MEANS SOMETHING ELSE $400: Claudius uses these to mean rumor-mongers, not a ring-in or time's-up device you press on a game show a buzzer |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | SHAKESPEARE MEANS SOMETHING ELSE $800: In home renovation it means hired by the general contractor; in "King Lear", it means promised in marriage subcontracted |
| #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 |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | SHAKESPEARE MEANS SOMETHING ELSE $1600: In "Cymbeline", it means something like "free use"; nowadays it refers to a sports team or the right to open a fast food outlet franchise |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | SHAKESPEARE MEANS SOMETHING ELSE $2000: In modern life this 8-letter word means "not having a romantic partner for the evening"; in "Richard II" it means "without end" dateless |
| #8179, aired 2020-03-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Shakespeare comedy that's cooked until all the red in the steak is gone & the meat is 170 degrees internally All's Well That Ends Well Done |
| #8172, aired 2020-03-03 | LITERARY TWINS $800: Each of the 2 sets of twins in this Shakespeare play have the same name but different home towns--what a mistake! A Comedy of Errors |
| #8147, aired 2020-01-28 | SHAKESPEARE BY NIGHT $400: In this play Oberon says, "Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania" A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #8147, aired 2020-01-28 | SHAKESPEARE BY NIGHT $800: "Romeo and Juliet": "Good night, good night!" these 5 words "that I shall say good night till it be morrow" "Parting is such sweet sorrow" |
| #8147, aired 2020-01-28 | SHAKESPEARE BY NIGHT $1200: Act II of this play ends with Cornwall saying, "'Tis a wild night. My Regan counsels well. Come out o' the storm" King Lear |
| #8147, aired 2020-01-28 | SHAKESPEARE BY NIGHT $1600: Speaking to Viola in this play, Olivia says, "Love's night is noon" Twelfth Night |
| #8147, aired 2020-01-28 | SHAKESPEARE BY NIGHT $2000: Marcellus asks this friend of Hamlet "to watch the minutes of this night, that if again this apparition come, he may...speak to it" Horatio |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | THE 11th CENTURY $800: In 1040 Scottish King Duncan I was slain in battle & this man known to readers of Shakespeare succeeded him Macbeth |
| #7, aired 2020-01-14 | STUMP TOWN $800: A 3-letter tree is in the name of this Oregon city known for a Shakespeare festival Ashland |
| #8134, aired 2020-01-09 | IT'S THE GIELGUD MOVIE OF THE YEAR $400: In 1991, 87-year-old Sir John played this "Tempest" magician, saying it was the only Shakespeare role he was the right age for Prospero |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY, & I QUOTE... $200: Tybalt,
Act I, scene v:
"Uncle" Romeo and Juliet |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY, & I QUOTE... $400: Ariel,
Act I, scene ii:
"No" The Tempest |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY, & I QUOTE... $600: Mustardseed,
Act III, scene i:
"Mustardseed" A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY, & I QUOTE... $800: Christopher Sly,
Act I, scene i:
"Yes" Taming of the Shrew |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY, & I QUOTE... $1000: Achilles,
Act II, scene i:
"What? What?" Troilus and Cressida |
| #8124, aired 2019-12-26 | WORDS SHAKESPEARE ONLY USED ONCE $400: In conspiring against Othello, this character utters the only instance of "favourably" Iago |
| #8124, aired 2019-12-26 | WORDS SHAKESPEARE ONLY USED ONCE $800: In this play Sir Toby belches out Shakespeare's only use of "implacable" Twelfth Night |
| #8124, aired 2019-12-26 | WORDS SHAKESPEARE ONLY USED ONCE $1200: This island play that involves a lot of sorcery is the only place he used "sorceries" The Tempest |
| #8124, aired 2019-12-26 | WORDS SHAKESPEARE ONLY USED ONCE $1600: This character complains to Antony about Cleopatra's "contestation" Octavius |
| #8124, aired 2019-12-26 | WORDS SHAKESPEARE ONLY USED ONCE $2000: In this character's fight with Hermia in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", she utters the bard's only use of "bashfulness" Helena |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | FROM O TO O $2000: Early Shakespeare poems & plays were sometimes printed in this format about 5x7 inches, smaller than a quarto octavo |
| #8120, aired 2019-12-20 | WORLD STAMP NEWS $400: Drawings of the head of a bearded man & of the skeleton are 2019 U.K. stamps commemorating the 500th anniv. of this artist's death da Vinci |
| #8120, aired 2019-12-20 | WRITERS GO WAY BACK $2,000 (Daily Double): This Shakespeare play is set in 44 B.C. Julius Caesar |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | USING WORLDLY ADJECTIVES $3,000 (Daily Double): Superstitious theater folks use this term to refer to Shakespeare's "Macbeth" the Scottish play |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | PLAY DOCTOR $400: A real historical person, Dr. William Butts (died 1545) appears in the Shakespeare play about this king Henry VIII |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | SETTING THE SCENE IN SHAKESPEARE $200: Act IV, scene i:
"A cavern and in the midst a boiling cauldron" Macbeth |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | SETTING THE SCENE IN SHAKESPEARE $400: Act III, scene i: "Before the Senate house; senators in session seen through open doors" Julius Caesar |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | SETTING THE SCENE IN SHAKESPEARE $600: Act I, scene ii:
"The island. The entrance of a cave" The Tempest |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | SETTING THE SCENE IN SHAKESPEARE $800: Act II, scene i:
"Portia's house at Belmont" The Merchant of Venice |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | SETTING THE SCENE IN SHAKESPEARE $1000: A tragedy, act I, scene ii: "The Earl of Gloucester's castle" King Lear |
| #8079, aired 2019-10-24 | SHAKE HANDS WITH SHAKESPEARE $100 (Daily Double): "Take me by the hand, and say 'Harry of England, I am thine'" is how this title king proposes to Katherine Henry V |
| #8079, aired 2019-10-24 | SHAKE HANDS WITH SHAKESPEARE $400: "First, Marcus Brutus, will I shake with you; next, Caius Cassius, do I take your hand", says Antony in this play Julius Caesar |
| #8079, aired 2019-10-24 | SHAKE HANDS WITH SHAKESPEARE $800: "I hold it fit that we shake hands and part", says Hamlet to this faithful buddy in act I Horatio |
| #8079, aired 2019-10-24 | SHAKE HANDS WITH SHAKESPEARE $1200: In the play about this title guy, Helicanus, a lord of Tyre, says, "Then you love us, we you, and we'll clasp hands" Pericles |
| #8079, aired 2019-10-24 | SHAKE HANDS WITH SHAKESPEARE $2000: "Time is like a fashionable host that slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand", says Ulysses in this Troy-set play Troilus and Cressida |
| #8074, aired 2019-10-17 | 4-WORD EXCHANGE $800: At the end of this Shakespeare play, Orlando & Rosalind tie the knot As You Like It |
| #8067, aired 2019-10-08 | MUNICIPAL BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Wisconsin city of "clear water" that has portrayed Temple Grandin & Shakespeare's Juliet Eau Claire Danes |
| #8061, aired 2019-09-30 | RECENT BROADWAY PLAYS $1600: Billed as a sequel to this first Shakespeare tragedy, the comedy "Gary" takes place after the climactic bloody Roman feast Titus Andronicus |
| #8057, aired 2019-09-24 | FESTIVALS $200: The Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada has been presenting the plays of this man since 1953 Shakespeare |
| #8055, aired 2019-09-20 | THE TECH WORLD $1000: News of another 10 million or so hacked accounts might have you paraphrase Shakespeare & say, "Once more unto the data" this breach |
| #8052, aired 2019-09-17 | SHAKESPEARE'S EXIT LINES $800: "My kingdom for a horse!" Richard III |
| #8052, aired 2019-09-17 | SHAKESPEARE'S EXIT LINES $1200: "O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die" Romeo |
| #8052, aired 2019-09-17 | SHAKESPEARE'S EXIT LINES $1600: "Then fall", me Caesar |
| #8052, aired 2019-09-17 | SHAKESPEARE'S EXIT LINES $2000: "I kiss'd thee ere I kill'd thee: no way but this; killing myself, to die upon a kiss" Othello |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | PROVERBS & EXPRESSIONS $400: Shakespeare noted that "all the world's" one of these a stage |
| #8036, aired 2019-07-15 | THEY'RE MY FRIENDS $200: In Shakespeare Mark Antony says of this deceased fellow, "He was my friend, faithful & just to me" Julius Caesar |
| #8035, aired 2019-07-12 | LET'S MAKE A NEW DEAL $400: The Federal Theater Project mounted an all-African-American version of this Shakespeare play set in Haiti instead of Scotland Macbeth |
| #8033, aired 2019-07-10 | "AINT", NECESSARILY SO $1000: A statement of dissatisfaction; Shakespeare wrote a poem called "A Lover's" one about a wronged woman a complaint |
| #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 |
| #8027, aired 2019-07-02 | LITERATURE FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE $3,000 (Daily Double): Unseen in the Shakespeare play, Rosaline gets her story told in the book titled this character's "Ex" Romeo |
| #8021, aired 2019-06-24 | SHAKESPEARE'S CONTEMPORARIES $400: Thomas Dekker's plays like "The Shoemaker's Holiday" portrayed daily life in this capital city London |
| #8021, aired 2019-06-24 | SHAKESPEARE'S CONTEMPORARIES $800: Thomas Kyd's "The Spanish Tragedy" started a trend in plays about this need to get even; a character in it is even named that revenge |
| #8021, aired 2019-06-24 | SHAKESPEARE'S CONTEMPORARIES $1200: Michael Drayton's "Since There's No Help, Come Let Us Kiss and Part" is a pretty good one of these 14-line poems a sonnet |
| #8021, aired 2019-06-24 | SHAKESPEARE'S CONTEMPORARIES $1,600 (Daily Double): A Christopher Marlowe guy makes a deal he can't back out of, as he's written in blood, "Faustus gives to thee" this soul |
| #8021, aired 2019-06-24 | SHAKESPEARE'S CONTEMPORARIES $2000: The oldest existing English translation of a tragedy from this language is Jane Lumley's "Iphigenia" Greek |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | YOUNG LOVE $800: In a Shakespeare play, Anne Page secretly marries Fenton, making her one of this place's merry wives Windsor |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | THE MADDEN CROWD $400: John Madden--no, not more football--directed her to the Best Actress Oscar in "Shakespeare in Love" Gwyneth Paltrow |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | QUOTING THE SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER $400: "Tell me, my daughters... which of you shall we say doth love us most" King Lear |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | QUOTING THE SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER $1200: "For Brutus is an honourable man; so are they all, all honourable men" Marc Antony |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | QUOTING THE SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER $1600: "Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'" Henry V |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | QUOTING THE SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER $2000: "Come unto these yellow sands, and then take hands" Ariel |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | QUOTING THE SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER $3,000 (Daily Double): "I see their knavery. This is to make an ass of me" Bottom |
| #8004, aired 2019-05-30 | FILL IN THEIR DATES $1600: William Shakespeare:
Traditionally, April ____, 1564 -
April ____, 1616 23rd |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | "B" SPOKE SHAKESPEARE $400: About his crime he says, "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more" Brutus |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | "B" SPOKE SHAKESPEARE $800: Macbeth tells him, "Your children shall be kings", to which he replies, "You shall be king" Banquo |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | "B" SPOKE SHAKESPEARE $1200: Before love conquers all in "Much Ado About Nothing", she calls Benedick "the prince's jester, a very dull fool" Beatrice |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | "B" SPOKE SHAKESPEARE $2000: Appropriately, this "Romeo & Juliet" character whose name means "good will" says, "I do but keep the peace" Benvolio |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | "B" SPOKE SHAKESPEARE $3,000 (Daily Double): She complains to the shrewish Kate, "Sister, content you in my discontent" Bianca |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | QUEEN VICTORIA $1200: After attending this Shakespeare comedy, the queen mentioned "Mendelssohn's beautiful overture" in her diary A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #7998, aired 2019-05-22 | DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK $1600: Shakespeare's Portia says, "How far that little" this "throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world" candle |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | COLORFUL SHAKESPEARE $400: In Sonnet 17, Shakespeare fears that his writings might turn to this color with age & "be scorn'd like old men of less truth" yellow |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | COLORFUL SHAKESPEARE $800: Pretending to dissuade Othello from jealousy, he calls the emotion "the green-eyed monster" Iago |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | COLORFUL SHAKESPEARE $1200: "Tellest thou me of black and blue?" says Falstaff in this comedy; "I was beaten myself into all the colors of the rainbow" The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | COLORFUL SHAKESPEARE $2,000 (Daily Double): At the end of a major battle in this play, the future Henry VII declares, "We will unite the white rose and the red" Richard III |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | COLORFUL SHAKESPEARE $2000: This doomed, sarcastic friend of Romeo's insists, "I am the very pink of courtesy" Mercutio |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | STOUT $1000: Here's Herbert Beerbohm Tree as this Shakespeare character Falstaff |
| #7963, aired 2019-04-03 | QUOTES FROM SHAKESPEARE $400: "Twelfth Night" gave us the maxim "Some are born" this, "some achieve" thisness "and some have" thisness "thrust upon them" great |
| #7963, aired 2019-04-03 | QUOTES FROM SHAKESPEARE $800: In "Richard III", "Now is" this 5-word season "made glorious summer by this sun of York" the winter of our discontent |
| #7963, aired 2019-04-03 | QUOTES FROM SHAKESPEARE $1200: Romeo uses this synonym for "druggist" before saying, "Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die" apothecary |
| #7963, aired 2019-04-03 | QUOTES FROM SHAKESPEARE $2000: He ends "Macbeth" by saying, "So thanks to all at once and to each one, whom we invite to see us crowned at Scone" Malcolm |
| #7963, aired 2019-04-03 | QUOTES FROM SHAKESPEARE $3,800 (Daily Double): King Lear complained, "How sharper than" this "it is to have a thankless child" a serpent's tooth |
| #7960, aired 2019-03-29 | PAINT ME AS YOU SEE ME $400: The so-called "Chandos" portrait may have served as the basis for the engraving of this author in the First Folio William Shakespeare |
| #7947, aired 2019-03-12 | FEELINGS $600: Shakespeare was the first to call it the "green-eyed monster" jealousy |
| #7945, aired 2019-03-08 | ARE YOU SHAKESPEARIENCED? $600: Listing the plays in the order they were written, "The Riverside Shakespeare" follows "Henry VI, Part 2" with this Henry VI, Part 3 |
| #7945, aired 2019-03-08 | ARE YOU SHAKESPEARIENCED? $1000: Around 1582 18-year-old Shakespeare took the plunge with this 26-year-old bride Anne Hathaway |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | COLD PLAY $200: This tragic Shakespeare title king has a cold night reflect on filial ingratitude King Lear |
| #7941, aired 2019-03-04 | ON BROADWAY $800: In 1900 Sarah Bernhardt played this Shakespeare guy; in 2018 Janet McTeer played Sarah playing this Shakespeare guy Hamlet |
| #7939, aired 2019-02-28 | GET YOUR GAME ON $600: Shakespeare used "the game is afoot" but it's more associated with this author who put it in a 1904 story (Sir Arthur Conan) Doyle |
| #7937, aired 2019-02-26 | JUST THE FACTS $1600: Shakespeare's shortest play is this twisted yarn with twins both named Antipholus The Comedy of Errors |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | BRITISH LITERATURE $400: "Love is blind", sighs Jessica, a nice Jewish girl in this Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | HERSHEY FELDER PRESENTS GREAT COMPOSERS $1600: (Hershey Felder presents from the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.) Russian composer Mily Balakirev suggested this Shakespeare play as a subject for Tchaikovsky, but the older musician's talk about being inspired by the love of a woman suggested that he didn't know Tchaikovsky very well Romeo and Juliet |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | PARIS POTPOURRI $800: In Shakespeare her parents want her to marry Paris, a nobleman & kinsman of the prince of Verona Juliet |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | TEXTBOOKS $800: This anthology of English lit is now in its 10th edition, supervised by Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt the Norton anthology |
| #7927, aired 2019-02-12 | QUOTED IN THE OED $800: With nearly 33,000 citations, he's the OED's most quoted individual Shakespeare |
| #7924, aired 2019-02-07 | I.M. $1200: He's done Shakespeare & supervillains & was knighted in 1991 Ian McKellen |
| #7918, aired 2019-01-30 | BRUSHED UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE $200: In a "seasonal" play, young Mamillius tells us, "A sad tale's best for" this season A Winter's Tale |
| #7918, aired 2019-01-30 | BRUSHED UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE $400: This villain says, "Now, sir, be judge yourself whether I in any just term am affined to love the Moor" Iago |
| #7918, aired 2019-01-30 | BRUSHED UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE $600: In "The Merry Wives of Windsor", this comic character courts both Mistress Ford & Mistress Page Falstaff |
| #7918, aired 2019-01-30 | BRUSHED UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE $800: These scaredy-cats "die many times before their deaths", says Julius Caesar a coward |
| #7918, aired 2019-01-30 | BRUSHED UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE $1000: In "Much Ado About Nothing", she & Benedick carry on a "merry war" Beatrice |
| #7915, aired 2019-01-25 | POETRY IN MOTION $400: Shakespeare rhymed, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" & "Rough winds do shake the darling buds of" this May |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | POET IDENTIFICATION, PLEASE $1200: "A book of verses underneath the bough, a jug of wine, a loaf of bread--and thou" Omar Khayyam |
| #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 |
| #7900, aired 2019-01-04 | SUMMING UP THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY $200: All heck breaks loose after the Puck drops; love is truly magic; ow! My Hermia! A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #7900, aired 2019-01-04 | SUMMING UP THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY $400: Equine issues; Clarence is sent to get his wings; I'll get away with it by killing those meddling kids! Richard III |
| #7900, aired 2019-01-04 | SUMMING UP THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY $600: It's time to play family feud! The fool is no fool; problems in the Regan administration King Lear |
| #7900, aired 2019-01-04 | SUMMING UP THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY $800: You need a hankie for this tragedy; a Cassio gets played; smother, may I? Othello |
| #7900, aired 2019-01-04 | SUMMING UP THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY $1000: When in Rome, revenge is a dish, all right; S-A/T-U-R/N-I-N/U-S! Oh, man, does everyone die Titus Andronicus |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | SOME FILLER $2000: Per Shakespeare, "what's past is ___" prologue |
| #7891, aired 2018-12-24 | LITERARY CHARACTERS BASED ON REAL PEOPLE $2000: Don Armado in "Love's Labour's Lost" may have been based on this soldier poet of Shakespeare's time Sir Walter Raleigh |
| #7883, aired 2018-12-12 | THE ARTS $7,000 (Daily Double): Here is Eugene Delacroix's depiction of the death of this Shakespeare character Ophelia |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | DESCRIBING THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $1,200 (Daily Double): 1996:
What they don't realize is that Ralph Fiennes' character is really Hungarian The English Patient |
| #7869, aired 2018-11-22 | '99 PROBLEMS $1200: 1599: Per the book "A Year in the Life of" him, his theater company parted ways with master clown Will Kemp Shakespeare |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | SHAKESPEARE GUYS $200: He seizes the crown of Scotland unlawfully but is done in by his ambition Macbeth |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | SHAKESPEARE GUYS $400: A comic sidekick who appears in 3 different plays; his death is mentioned in another Falstaff |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | SHAKESPEARE GUYS $600: This guy's tricked into thinking his spouse is unfaithful & then makes a murderous mistake Othello |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | SHAKESPEARE GUYS $800: Antonio is the title Italian businessman in this play The Merchant of Venice |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | SHAKESPEARE GUYS $1000: Valentine & Proteus are the title Italian friends in this comedy Two Gentlemen of Verona |
| #7856, aired 2018-11-05 | BAD ROMANCE $200: Petruchio deprives Kate of food & sleep in this play, which makes her grow to love him? That's messed up, Shakespeare! The Taming of the Shrew |
| #7853, aired 2018-10-31 | IT'S A WITCH $200: In this Shakespeare play, Hecate appears as queen of the witches Macbeth |
| #7851, aired 2018-10-29 | AT THE ARCADE $2000: This Atari game that shares its name with a Shakespeare play was known for its rotating dial used as a controller Tempest |
| #7849, aired 2018-10-25 | LONG MOVIES $400: In 1996 a Kenneth Branagh film fit this Shakespeare tragedy into just over 4 hours Hamlet |
| #7829, aired 2018-09-27 | POP CULTURE ADAPTS SHAKESPEARE $400: Fox' "Empire" has been seen as a hip-hop take on this play, with Jamal Lyon as a gender-swapped Cordelia King Lear |
| #7829, aired 2018-09-27 | POP CULTURE ADAPTS SHAKESPEARE $1200: Heath Ledger's Patrick Verona is the Petruchio of this film adaptation of "The Taming of the Shrew" 10 Things I Hate About You |
| #7829, aired 2018-09-27 | POP CULTURE ADAPTS SHAKESPEARE $1600: Amanda Bynes pretends to be a boy & plays soccer at Illyria Prep in "She's the Man", loosely based on this comedy Twelfth Night |
| #7829, aired 2018-09-27 | POP CULTURE ADAPTS SHAKESPEARE $2000: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are hosers, SCTV's Bob & Doug McKenzie, in this film very, very loosely based on "Hamlet" Strange Brew |
| #7829, aired 2018-09-27 | POP CULTURE ADAPTS SHAKESPEARE $4,200 (Daily Double): The 1950s sci-fi classic "Forbidden Planet" is based on this play, with Robby the Robot as Ariel The Tempest |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | HELP ME WITH THE TITLE $200: Shakespeare "Comedy" involving 2 pairs of twins The Comedy of Errors |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | READING $400: In a Shakespeare adaptation by Jo Nesbø, Duncan is chief of police & this title guy, a devious inspector Macbeth |
| #7814, aired 2018-07-26 | QUEENS OF THE LITERARY REALM $800: In "Henry VIII" Shakespeare has this Spanish-born queen die when Elizabeth is born; in fact, it was 3 years later Catherine of Aragon |
| #7810, aired 2018-07-20 | DEAD IN SHAKESPEARE $200: In "Hamlet" this character doth not get herself to a nunnery, but drowns Ophelia |
| #7810, aired 2018-07-20 | DEAD IN SHAKESPEARE $400: All his mighty words couldn't save the orator Cicero from execution in this play Julius Caesar |
| #7810, aired 2018-07-20 | DEAD IN SHAKESPEARE $600: The soon-to-be Henry VII kills this title monarch at Bosworth field Richard III |
| #7810, aired 2018-07-20 | DEAD IN SHAKESPEARE $800: In "Macbeth" the status quo for him (but not his son Fleance) was being murdered Banquo |
| #7810, aired 2018-07-20 | DEAD IN SHAKESPEARE $1000: Including the duke of Cornwall, many end up dead in this royal play, by poison, suicide, hanging & causes unknown King Lear |
| #7796, aired 2018-07-02 | SHAKESPEAREAN MENAGERIE $2000: In a Shakespeare poem, this bird of fable is paired with a turtle(dove) the phoenix |
| #7778, aired 2018-06-06 | LITERARY OOPS! $2,000 (Daily Double): Shakespeare's King John says, "The thunder of my" this big gun "shall be heard", 200 years before its invention a cannon |
| #7768, aired 2018-05-23 | IT WILL SERVE YOU WELL! $600: Stephano is the drunken butler of the shipwrecked king Alonso of Naples in this Shakespeare play The Tempest |
| #7760, aired 2018-05-11 | SHAKESPEARE'S PEOPLE $400: He is the last to stab Julius Caesar Brutus |
| #7760, aired 2018-05-11 | SHAKESPEARE'S PEOPLE $800: Ariel is this magician's assistant Prospero |
| #7760, aired 2018-05-11 | SHAKESPEARE'S PEOPLE $1600: In "The Merchant of Venice", she gives the "quality of mercy" speech Portia |
| #7760, aired 2018-05-11 | SHAKESPEARE'S PEOPLE $2,000 (Daily Double): He calls himself "his Moorship's ancient" Iago |
| #7760, aired 2018-05-11 | SHAKESPEARE'S PEOPLE $2000: He is told, "If I be waspish best beware my sting" Petruchio |
| #7759, aired 2018-05-10 | QUOTES ABOUT MUSIC $1200: In this Shakespeare comedy Duke Orsino delivers the line "if music be the food of love, play on" Twelfth Night |
| #7746, aired 2018-04-23 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN $200: She continues to get thousands of letters each year addressed to her in Verona Juliet |
| #7746, aired 2018-04-23 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN $400: In "The Taming of the Shrew", she's the shrew tamed by Petruchio Katherine (or Kate) |
| #7746, aired 2018-04-23 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN $600: Placed under a magic spell by her husband, this queen falls in love with the donkey-headed Nick Bottom Titania |
| #7746, aired 2018-04-23 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN $800: Though King Lear disinherited her, she was the only one of his 3 daughters who remained faithful to him Cordelia |
| #7746, aired 2018-04-23 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN $1000: After pledging her love to King Priam's son, she betrays him & takes up with Diomedes Cressida |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | HAMLET $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from Kronborg Castle in Denmark.) The legendary Danish hero Amleth inspired Shakespeare's "Tragedy of Hamlet", & the castle at Kronborg inspired this setting for nearly every scene of the play Elsinore |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | HAMLET $3,000 (Daily Double): Shakespeare may have gotten the names of these courtiers from 2 members of Danish nobility who visited London in the 1590s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern |
| #7735, aired 2018-04-06 | ANCIENT STUFF $1000: Subject of a lesser-known Shakespeare play, he was a 1st-century king of Britain & father of Caractacus Cymbeline |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | SHAKESPEARE IN GOV $400: Underage couples in love are often protected by laws named for this pair Romeo and Juliet |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | THAT'S SO CLICHE $600: Shakespeare's King Claudius says something "smells to" this; today, we put "high" before it heaven |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | SHAKESPEARE IN GOV $800: Abraham Lincoln repeatedly used the word "spot" from this play to imply the U.S. had blood on its hands in the Mexican War Macbeth |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | SHAKESPEARE IN GOV $1200: John F. Kennedy memorized the "St. Crispin's Day" speech from this play & would often quote it Henry V |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | SHAKESPEARE IN GOV $1600: This embattled government organization was faulted for funding a wordless production of "Twelfth Night" National Endowment for the Arts |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | SHAKESPEARE IN GOV $2000: Roll Call said no one in Congress quoted the bard as often as this long, longtime West Virginia senator (Senator Robert) Byrd |
| #7712, aired 2018-03-06 | "HORSE" TALK $800: In Shakespeare, Richard III's last line is "A horse! A horse!" These 5 words! my kingdom for a horse |
| #7712, aired 2018-03-06 | NAME THAT POET! $1000: "I love thee freely, as men strive for right; I love thee purely, as they turn from praise" Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #7698, aired 2018-02-14 | NAME GAME $1200: A Shakespeare sprite & a recent Israeli PM had this first name that means "lion of God" Ariel |
| #7695, aired 2018-02-09 | SHAKESPEARE, & I QUOTE $200: "Shake it off. Come on, we'll visit Caliban my slave, who never yields us kind answer" The Tempest |
| #7695, aired 2018-02-09 | SHAKESPEARE, & I QUOTE $400: "You shall have me assisting you in all. But will you woo this wild-cat?" The Taming of the Shrew |
| #7695, aired 2018-02-09 | SHAKESPEARE, & I QUOTE $600: "People and senators, be not affrighted; fly not; stand still: ambition's debt is paid" Julius Caesar |
| #7695, aired 2018-02-09 | SHAKESPEARE, & I QUOTE $1000: "Why, there they are, both baked in this pie; whereof their mother daintily hath fed" Titus Andronicus |
| #7695, aired 2018-02-09 | MEALS $1000: Shakespeare's Falstaff asks, "Will you" do this "with me", a verb meaning "to eat the evening meal" sup |
| #7695, aired 2018-02-09 | SHAKESPEARE, & I QUOTE $2,000 (Daily Double): "His horse is slain, and all on foot he fights" Richard III |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | JEOPARDY! WRITERS' ONLINE GO-TOs $1600: The Tech, a newspaper at this eastern college, maintains the first online edition of Shakespeare's works & we love it MIT (or Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| #7663, aired 2017-12-27 | SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK $400: Naturally, Act V, Scene ii of this play is set in Windsor Park Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #7663, aired 2017-12-27 | SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK $800: The princess of France must be admitted into the king of Navarre's park in this comedy where romance is actually found Love's Labour's Lost |
| #7663, aired 2017-12-27 | SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK $1600: Dunsinane Castle is a few miles away from this wood, the royal forest in the witches' prediction Birnam Wood |
| #7663, aired 2017-12-27 | SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK $2000: In this revenge play, Marcus says he found Lavinia "straying in the park, seeking to hide herself, as doth the deer" Titus Andronicus |
| #7663, aired 2017-12-27 | SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK $5,000 (Daily Double): This pastoral place is the setting for most of "As You Like It" the Forest of Arden |
| #7653, aired 2017-12-13 | SHAKESPEARE PLAY BY GRADUALLY EASIER CHARACTER $200: Bianca,
Roderigo,
Desdemona Othello |
| #7653, aired 2017-12-13 | SHAKESPEARE PLAY BY GRADUALLY EASIER CHARACTER $400: Baptista Minola,
Gremio,
Lucentio,
Hortensio,
Petruchio The Taming of the Shrew |
| #7653, aired 2017-12-13 | SHAKESPEARE PLAY BY GRADUALLY EASIER CHARACTER $600: Doctor,
Duke of Cornwall,
Goneril King Lear |
| #7653, aired 2017-12-13 | SHAKESPEARE PLAY BY GRADUALLY EASIER CHARACTER $800: Snug,
Helena,
Oberon A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #7653, aired 2017-12-13 | SHAKESPEARE PLAY BY GRADUALLY EASIER CHARACTER $1000: Flavius,
Cicero,
Calpurnia Julius Caesar |
| #7643, aired 2017-11-29 | SPOT CHECK $600: This Shakespeare character cries, "Out, damned spot! Out, I say!" Lady Macbeth |
| #7627, aired 2017-11-07 | SWIPE WRITE $800: "As" this play by Shakespeare says, "Let's meet as little as we can" & "I do desire we may be better strangers" As You Like It |
| #7625, aired 2017-11-03 | AN EXCELLENT QUESTION $2000: "Shall I" hear from you this 8-word question that begins Shakespeare's sonnet 18? Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? |
| #7623, aired 2017-11-01 | IT'S A "LOCK" $600: In Shakespeare he asks, "If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh?" Shylock |
| #7621, aired 2017-10-30 | AVENGERS $200: The dad of this Shakespeare guy says, "Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder" but that does not go well Hamlet |
| #7619, aired 2017-10-26 | OLD POETS' NICKNAMES $400: "The English Terence"--oh, & also "The Swan of Avon" Shakespeare |
| #7598, aired 2017-09-27 | KILLER SHAKESPEARE $200: He kills & beheads Macbeth, who had wiped out his whole family Macduff |
| #7598, aired 2017-09-27 | KILLER SHAKESPEARE $400: The slave Pindarus helps the assassin Cassius take his own life in this play Julius Caesar |
| #7598, aired 2017-09-27 | KILLER SHAKESPEARE $600: After Tybalt kills this friend of Romeo's in a duel, Romeo takes out Tybalt Mercutio |
| #7598, aired 2017-09-27 | KILLER SHAKESPEARE $800: The death of the Greek warrior Patroclus at the hands of Hector in this play spurs Achilles to resume fighting Troilus and Cressida |
| #7598, aired 2017-09-27 | KILLER SHAKESPEARE $1000: Saturninus kills this man, but only after that man has cooked his stepsons into a pie Titus Andronicus |
| #7597, aired 2017-09-26 | "O" YES, OPERA! $400: Rossini operized this Shakespeare play about a jealous lover Othello |
| #7592, aired 2017-09-19 | SONNETS $600: Shakespeare wrote, "My mistress' eyes are nothing like" this heavenly body the sun |
| #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 |
| #7581, aired 2017-07-24 | FAKE NEWS $1200: In 1796 "Vortigern and Rowena", purportedly by this man, was laughed off the stage of a London theatre Shakespeare |
| #7572, aired 2017-07-11 | ALSO IN THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY $200: Anne Bullen; secretaries to Wolsey Henry VIII |
| #7572, aired 2017-07-11 | ALSO IN THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY $400: Fortinbras, prince of Norway; two clowns, listed as gravediggers Hamlet |
| #7572, aired 2017-07-11 | ALSO IN THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY $600: Casca; Cinna; a soothsayer Julius Caesar |
| #7572, aired 2017-07-11 | ALSO IN THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY $800: Escalus, prince of Verona; an apothecary Romeo and Juliet |
| #7572, aired 2017-07-11 | ALSO IN THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY $2,000 (Daily Double): Sir Robert Brakenbury, lieutenant of the tower Richard III |
| #7566, aired 2017-07-03 | WE "LOVE" TO READ $4,000 (Daily Double): The only Shakespeare play that fits the bill is this comedy Love's Labour's Lost |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | SHAKESPEARE BUFFS $400: These "star-crossed lovers" performed in the buff for a production by the Russian National Ballet Theatre Romeo and Juliet |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | SHAKESPEARE BUFFS $800: "It felt really second nature", said Reanna Roane playing Ariel in an all-nude production of this Bard play The Tempest |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | SHAKESPEARE BUFFS $1600: London's Theatre N16 did "Gertrude-The Cry", a reworking, with some nudity, of this play Hamlet |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | SHAKESPEARE BUFFS $2000: Nudity abounds in "Sleep No More", a version of this tragedy Macbeth |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | SHAKESPEARE BUFFS $2,200 (Daily Double): Before her Oscar for playing a 20th century queen, she scandalized as a nude Cleopatra with the Royal National Theatre (Dame) Helen Mirren |
| #7540, aired 2017-05-26 | OPERA & BALLET $400: "The Dream" is a one-act ballet that uses Felix Mendelssohn's music & is based on this Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #7530, aired 2017-05-12 | WHERE YOU AT, SHAKESPEARE? $400: This tragedy is Dunsinane in the membrane with the "sound & fury" speech within the walls Macbeth |
| #7530, aired 2017-05-12 | WHERE YOU AT, SHAKESPEARE? $800: On an island in his first scene, this guy explains to his daughter, "Twelve year since, thy father was the Duke of Milan" Prospero |
| #7530, aired 2017-05-12 | WHERE YOU AT, SHAKESPEARE? $1200: Here's Laurence Olivier as Henry V, inspiring his troops in this country France |
| #7530, aired 2017-05-12 | WHERE YOU AT, SHAKESPEARE? $2000: The very first scene in Venice has the villain complaining about not getting a promotion at work in this play Othello |
| #7530, aired 2017-05-12 | WHERE YOU AT, SHAKESPEARE? $3,000 (Daily Double): 2 ladies in this tragedy, playing rough in Gloucester's castle: "Hang him instantly"--"Pluck out his eyes" King Lear |
| #7523, aired 2017-05-03 | NAME'S EXACTLY THE SAME $200: Shakespeare's wife & an actress who has won both a Emmy & an Academy Award Anne Hathaway |
| #7522, aired 2017-05-02 | WRITERS ON FILM $200: In "Shakespeare in Love", she was a writer's love interest; in "Sylvia" she was the poet Gwyneth Paltrow |
| #7514, aired 2017-04-20 | MASTERS OF DISGUISE $1600: In this Shakespeare play, Rosalind disguises herself as Ganymede & counsels Orlando As You Like It |
| #7513, aired 2017-04-19 | REAL-LIFE PEOPLE IN SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS $400: Owen Glendower bedeviled Henry IV on stage & in real life as a leader of rebel forces in this U.K. country Wales |
| #7513, aired 2017-04-19 | REAL-LIFE PEOPLE IN SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS $600: In the play "Julius Caesar" & in real life, this man & Brutus led the assassination conspiracy Cassius |
| #7513, aired 2017-04-19 | REAL-LIFE PEOPLE IN SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS $800: Sir James Tyrrell was a henchman of Richard III; in the play, he arranges the deaths of the 2 princes imprisoned here the Tower of London |
| #7513, aired 2017-04-19 | REAL-LIFE PEOPLE IN SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS $1000: Dear friends, this king's army won a decisive battle in France in 1415 Henry V |
| #7508, aired 2017-04-12 | SHAKESPEARE IS KILLING ME! $400: Ophelia:
possible suicide by this method drowning |
| #7508, aired 2017-04-12 | SHAKESPEARE IS KILLING ME! $800: Juliet:
suicide by this method a knife to the heart (or stabbing) |
| #7508, aired 2017-04-12 | SHAKESPEARE IS KILLING ME! $1600: Cordelia:
murder by this method hanging |
| #7508, aired 2017-04-12 | SHAKESPEARE IS KILLING ME! $2,000 (Daily Double): Desdemona:
Murder by this method smothering with a pillow |
| #7508, aired 2017-04-12 | SHAKESPEARE IS KILLING ME! $2000: Chiron & Demetrius from "Titus Andronicus": made part of this treat a pie |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | KING ME $1000: This ineffectual 15th century king still got his name on not 1, not 2, but 3 Shakespeare plays Henry VI |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | BIG SCREEN LITERARY ADAPTATIONS $2000: Loosely based on Shakespeare's "Henry IV" plays, this 1991 film starred Keanu Reeves & River Phoenix My Own Private Idaho |
| #7493, aired 2017-03-22 | PROFILE PICTURES $400: This Shakespeare character is seen here before her watery end Ophelia |
| #7488, aired 2017-03-15 | THE 1940s $1200: This Shakespeare-sourced Cole Porter classic won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1949 Kiss Me, Kate |
| #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 |
| #7485, aired 2017-03-10 | 5 KNIGHTS $1000: Shakespeare immortalized Sir Henry Percy, called this for his readiness to charge foes; the foes mortalized him Hotspur |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $400: This Shakespeare comedy set in Illyria is said to have first been performed on January 6 Twelfth Night |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | BRITISH GEOGRAPHY $400: Nine UK rivers bear this name, including the one seen here; oh, that's the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in the background Avon |
| #7474, aired 2017-02-23 | STRAIT TALK $800: The shortest distance across this strait lies between Cap Gris Nez in France & Shakespeare Beach in Britain Dover Strait |
| #7444, aired 2017-01-12 | BEASTLY WORDS & PHRASES $2000: Shakespeare gave us the line "Cry 'havoc', and let slip" these beasts the dogs of war |
| #7437, aired 2017-01-03 | 16th CENTURY BOOKSHELF $800: A story of revenge, Thomas Kyd's play "The Spanish Tragedy" influenced this Shakespeare play from 1600 Hamlet |
| #7432, aired 2016-12-27 | OUR OWN SHAKESPEAREAN RHYMES $600: A dressing gown for the theatre Shakespeare helped build in 1599 a Globe robe |
| #7432, aired 2016-12-27 | OUR OWN SHAKESPEAREAN RHYMES $1000: A special hat for reading one of the 154 of a certain type of work that Shakespeare penned a sonnet bonnet |
| #7430, aired 2016-12-23 | GOOD WILL $400: Of the few known portraits of William Shakespeare, one is the engraving that adorns this 1623 publication the First Folio |
| #7430, aired 2016-12-23 | GOOD WILL $800 (Daily Double): This man enjoyed good Will Shakespeare & his actors so much, he made them Grooms of the King's Chamber King James I |
| #7430, aired 2016-12-23 | GOOD WILL $1200: Shakespeare was a master of this poetic pattern, unrhymed iambic pentameter, & even used the term in "Hamlet" blank verse |
| #7430, aired 2016-12-23 | GOOD WILL $1600: William Shakespeare's mother's maiden name, it's also the name of the forest in "As You Like It" Arden |
| #7430, aired 2016-12-23 | GOOD WILL $2000: Written around 1589, this history "Part One" is generally agreed to be Shakespeare's first play Henry VI |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | SHAKESPEAREAN SHORTIES $1000: Think fast! Shakespeare's "Henry IV" plays boast a hostess called Mistress this Mistress Quickly |
| #7409, aired 2016-11-24 | 1990s MOVIE QUOTES $400: "How do you write women so well?"--
"I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability" As Good as It Gets |
| #7403, aired 2016-11-16 | THE QUEEN $400: She was queen when William Shakespeare was born, & died when he was almost 40 Elizabeth I |
| #7399, aired 2016-11-10 | THAT'S MESSED UP, SHAKESPEARE! $400: This tragedy has it all! Poison in the ear, on a sword & in some wine, & the title guy giving his royal mom advice about her sex life! Hamlet |
| #7399, aired 2016-11-10 | THAT'S MESSED UP, SHAKESPEARE! $800: In this play why does a friar have a potion that can simulate death? Romeo and Juliet |
| #7399, aired 2016-11-10 | THAT'S MESSED UP, SHAKESPEARE! $1600: This play gets a huge body count all because Cassio got the promotion the villain desired Othello |
| #7399, aired 2016-11-10 | THAT'S MESSED UP, SHAKESPEARE! $2000: 3 creepy ladies say a guy'll be king, so he has to kill the top dog & order a hit on his pal in this play? That's. messed. up. Macbeth |
| #7399, aired 2016-11-10 | THAT'S MESSED UP, SHAKESPEARE! $2,400 (Daily Double): 2 lines, back to back in this play:
Regan: "Hang him instantly";
Goneril: "Pluck out his eyes";
'nuff said King Lear |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN $200: In Ambroise Thomas' opera version, you'll need a mezzo-soprano to play this queen & mother of Hamlet Gertrude |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN $400: Cordelia refuses to flatter Dad just to get a bigger inheritance, unlike these 2 siblings Regan & Goneril |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN $600: She's pictured here in the lawyer's disguise she wears to save the Merchant of Venice Portia |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN $1000: After being banished, Rosalind runs off to the Forest of Arden dressed like a man in this play As You Like It |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN $1,500 (Daily Double): Bianca must wait for this bad-tempered older sister to wed before she can Katherine |
| #7380, aired 2016-10-14 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAL QUOTATIONS $1,500 (Daily Double): Bartlett's cites the lines "O my prophetic soul! My uncle!" from this Shakespeare play Hamlet |
| #7346, aired 2016-07-18 | MAN-AGRAMS $200: A great playwright, but:
I AM A WEAKISH SPELLER William Shakespeare |
| #7346, aired 2016-07-18 | A MOUSE IN THE HOUSE $800: In this Shakespeare play, the title character refers to a play-within-the-play as "The Mousetrap" to catch the guilty Hamlet |
| #7339, aired 2016-07-07 | THE WRITE STUFF $600: Mark Twain didn't think Shakespeare wrote the famous plays, wondering why this 1616 document mentions no books his will |
| #7336, aired 2016-07-04 | A SHAKESPEARE"M" CATEGORY $200: Title adjective describing the wives of Windsor merry |
| #7336, aired 2016-07-04 | A SHAKESPEARE"M" CATEGORY $400: A ghost tells Hamlet it is "most foul" murder |
| #7336, aired 2016-07-04 | A SHAKESPEARE"M" CATEGORY $600: Romeo is Mr. this to you Montague |
| #7336, aired 2016-07-04 | A SHAKESPEARE"M" CATEGORY $800: "If" it "be the food of love, play on" music |
| #7336, aired 2016-07-04 | A SHAKESPEARE"M" CATEGORY $1000: 3-letter fairy queen described by Mercutio as a bringer of dreams Mab |
| #7334, aired 2016-06-30 | CENTRAL PARK $800: In 2015 this beloved summer event at the Delacorte Theater featured "The Tempest" & "Cymbeline" Shakespeare in the Park |
| #7333, aired 2016-06-29 | "LOST" & "FOUND" $400: In this Shakespeare play, the king of Navarre & his friends say, bros before ladies Love's Labour's Lost |
| #7330, aired 2016-06-24 | LATER IN THE SHAKESPEARE SPEECH $200: The light breaks through yonder window, uh huh... "Her vestal livery is but sick and green"... How romantic! Romeo and Juliet |
| #7330, aired 2016-06-24 | LATER IN THE SHAKESPEARE SPEECH $400: Yadayadayada dagger before me... "It is the bloody business which informs thus to mine eyes" Macbeth |
| #7330, aired 2016-06-24 | LATER IN THE SHAKESPEARE SPEECH $600: Yorick is toast, ba-ba-ba... "Where be your gibes now? Your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment" Hamlet |
| #7330, aired 2016-06-24 | LATER IN THE SHAKESPEARE SPEECH $800: Something about "the quality of mercy", going into "It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes" The Merchant of Venice |
| #7330, aired 2016-06-24 | LATER IN THE SHAKESPEARE SPEECH $1000: Jealousy is a b--no, no, a monster, got it-- "That cuckold lives in bliss who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger" Othello |
| #7329, aired 2016-06-23 | LITERARY NICKNAMES $200: One of Shakespeare's nicknames was this bird "of Avon" the Swan |
| #7325, aired 2016-06-17 | WHICH BRITISH MONARCH'S REIGN? $2000: Shakespeare dies James I |
| #7314, aired 2016-06-02 | OF COURSE $1000: Add an "R" to the end of "course" & you get a word Shakespeare used to mean this animal a horse |
| #7312, aired 2016-05-31 | DRAMA $400: Actors John Heminge & Henry Condell brought together Shakespeare's plays into this 1623 collection the First Folio |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | ARE YOU FEELING LUCKY? $600: Shakespeare began a sonnet, "When in disgrace with" this synonym for luck "and men's eyes" fortune |
| #7301, aired 2016-05-16 | SHAKESPEARE'S SETTINGS $200: "A plain near to a port in Denmark" is a setting in this play Hamlet |
| #7301, aired 2016-05-16 | SHAKESPEARE'S SETTINGS $400: It's the first country mentioned in "Macbeth" Scotland |
| #7301, aired 2016-05-16 | SHAKESPEARE'S SETTINGS $600: "The isle is full of noises", says Caliban in this play The Tempest |
| #7301, aired 2016-05-16 | SHAKESPEARE'S SETTINGS $800: This "Tale" takes place in Sicilia & Bohemia The Winter's Tale |
| #7301, aired 2016-05-16 | SHAKESPEARE'S SETTINGS $1000: Part of "The Taming of the Shrew" is set at this tamer's country house Petruchio |
| #7295, aired 2016-05-06 | PRONUNCIATION $400: Shakespeare's First Folio spells this day of the week as it's said, without the first "D" Wednesday |
| #7295, aired 2016-05-06 | MY FAVORITE BURRO $1200: The painting seen here depicts Bottom, a character in this Shakespeare comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #7295, aired 2016-05-06 | LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION MOVIE! $2000: This Shakespeare & "Shackleton" actor directed 2011's "Thor" (Kenneth) Branagh |
| #7292, aired 2016-05-03 | GIVING EVERY "THING" $600: This Shakespeare comedy fits the category Much Ado About Nothing |
| #7282, aired 2016-04-19 | SHAKESPEARE'S FIRST LINES $400: "Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona, where we lay our scene" begins this play Romeo and Juliet |
| #7282, aired 2016-04-19 | SHAKESPEARE'S FIRST LINES $800: A member of this trio asks "When shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain?" the three witches |
| #7282, aired 2016-04-19 | SHAKESPEARE'S FIRST LINES $1200: He's the aging subject of the line "I thought the king had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall" King Lear |
| #7282, aired 2016-04-19 | SHAKESPEARE'S FIRST LINES $1600: Antonio, this title Italian, says, "In sooth I know not why I am so sad, it wearies me, you say it wearies you" the merchant of Venice |
| #7282, aired 2016-04-19 | SHAKESPEARE'S FIRST LINES $2000: One midsummer night, this Duke of Athens declares, "Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour draws on apace" Theseus |
| #7265, aired 2016-03-25 | PLAYTIME WITH SHAKESPEARE $200: "The M of V" The Merchant of Venice |
| #7265, aired 2016-03-25 | PLAYTIME WITH SHAKESPEARE $400: "M for M" Measure for Measure |
| #7265, aired 2016-03-25 | PLAYTIME WITH SHAKESPEARE $600: With action at Agincourt, "H the F" Henry V |
| #7265, aired 2016-03-25 | PLAYTIME WITH SHAKESPEARE $800: "A Y L I" As You Like It |
| #7265, aired 2016-03-25 | PLAYTIME WITH SHAKESPEARE $1000: "T of A" Timon of Athens |
| #7264, aired 2016-03-24 | OPERA AT THE MET $1200: (I'm Placido Domingo.) The role I've performed the most at the Met--40 times since 1979--is this title one that Verdi based on a tragedy by Shakespeare Otello |
| #7259, aired 2016-03-17 | ONE-VOWEL WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): Sir Toby Belch is a character in this Shakespeare comedy with a 2-word, 2-vowel title Twelfth Night |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | DETAILS ON THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER $800: Let's playhouse; the Bard fiddles with Viola Shakespeare in Love |
| #7247, aired 2016-03-01 | FOUNDERS $1200: In 1914 Lilian Baylis founded a Shakespeare company at this "Old" London theatre the Old Vic |
| #7239, aired 2016-02-18 | MUSEUMS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1856, the painting seen here became the first one in the collection of this London gallery the National Portrait Gallery |
| #7234, aired 2016-02-11 | TERM: PAPER $800: This term for a large sheet of paper is used in the name of the first complete Shakespeare play collection folio |
| #7226, aired 2016-02-01 | REQUIRED READING $400: For Shakespeare II at Notre Dame: This play in which Romans are asked to "Lend me your ears" Julius Caesar |
| #7225, aired 2016-01-29 | PO PRESENTS UNCONVENTIONAL WARRIORS $800: (Po delivers the clue.) I'm a big fan of this Shakespeare knight but Prince Hal ends up telling him, "the grave doth gape for thee thrice wider"--c'mon, that's not what you say to an old buddy Sir John Falstaff |
| #7223, aired 2016-01-27 | AIR QUOTES $1,000 (Daily Double): "These our actors, as I foretold you, were all spirits and are melted into air" in this island-set Shakespeare play The Tempest |
| #7214, aired 2016-01-14 | I'M THE KING OF THE WORLD $400: This Shakespeare king says he's "a very foolish fond old man" & asks his daughter to "forget and forgive" Lear |
| #7213, aired 2016-01-13 | "M" IS FOR SHAKESPEARE $200: The full title calls Othello one of these people "of Venice" a Moor |
| #7213, aired 2016-01-13 | "M" IS FOR SHAKESPEARE $400: Portia disguises herself as a lawyer in this play The Merchant of Venice |
| #7213, aired 2016-01-13 | "M" IS FOR SHAKESPEARE $600: She's seen here with her father Prospero in a 19th-century production Miranda |
| #7213, aired 2016-01-13 | "M" IS FOR SHAKESPEARE $1,000 (Daily Double): Frank Ford is a jealous husband while George Page is a trusting one in this play The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #7213, aired 2016-01-13 | "M" IS FOR SHAKESPEARE $1000: This son of Duncan gets the last word in "Macbeth" Malcolm |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | LODGE PODGE $1000: Thomas Lodge's "Rosalynde" was the source material for this Shakespeare comedy As You Like It |
| #7206, aired 2016-01-04 | WHAT A CHARACTER! $1,000 (Daily Double): Make no mistake, a character named Dr. Pinch is a quack physician & teacher in this Shakespeare play A Comedy of Errors |
| #7196, aired 2015-12-21 | I HATE QUOTES $2000: In this Shakespeare play, Viola says "I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness", etc. Twelfth Night |
| #7193, aired 2015-12-16 | PARROT CULTURE $2000: Benedick calls Beatrice a "rare parrot" for the way she teases & mocks him in this Shakespeare play Much Ado About Nothing |
| #7191, aired 2015-12-14 | SOMETHING TO READ $3,000 (Daily Double): The Greek general Agamemnon is a character in this Shakespeare play Troilus and Cressida |
| #7190, aired 2015-12-11 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN SPEAK $400: "Is Tybalt dead? My dearest cousin, and my dearer lord? Then, dreadful trumpet, sound the general doom" Juliet |
| #7190, aired 2015-12-11 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN SPEAK $800: "Go get some water, & wash this filthy witness from your hand. Why did you bring these daggers from the place?" Lady Macbeth |
| #7190, aired 2015-12-11 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN SPEAK $1,000 (Daily Double): "I never did offend you in my life; never loved Cassio but with such general warranty of heaven as I might love" Desdemona |
| #7190, aired 2015-12-11 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN SPEAK $1600: "Love well our father; to your professed bosoms I commit him... So farewell to you both" Cordelia (in King Lear) |
| #7190, aired 2015-12-11 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN SPEAK $2000: "O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!... O, woe is me! To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!" Ophelia |
| #7188, aired 2015-12-09 | EGOT-ISTS $2000: A Grammy & Tony came for Shakespeare, but this man's Oscar was for his supporting role in "Arthur" Sir John Gielgud |
| #7181, aired 2015-11-30 | 2 FOR THE LITERARY TAKING $400: Valentine & Proteus are the pair of fellows in this Shakespeare title Two Gentlemen of Verona |
| #7176, aired 2015-11-23 | WELL-SEASONED BOOKS $2,000 (Daily Double): Shakespeare was hot & cold with these 2 plays that have seasons in the title A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Winter's Tale (A Winter's Tale accepted) |
| #7173, aired 2015-11-18 | RARELY QUOTED SHAKESPEARE LINES $400: Prospero,
Act IV, Scene i:
"Hey, mountain, hey!" The Tempest |
| #7173, aired 2015-11-18 | RARELY QUOTED SHAKESPEARE LINES $800: Malcolm,
Act II, Scene iii:
"O, by whom?" Macbeth |
| #7173, aired 2015-11-18 | RARELY QUOTED SHAKESPEARE LINES $1200: Regan,
Act IV, Scene v:
"Himself in person there?" King Lear |
| #7173, aired 2015-11-18 | RARELY QUOTED SHAKESPEARE LINES $1600: Mercutio,
Act I, Scene iv:
"And so did I" Romeo and Juliet |
| #7173, aired 2015-11-18 | RARELY QUOTED SHAKESPEARE LINES $2000: Dromio of Syracuse,
Act II, Scene ii:
"Basting" The Comedy of Errors |
| #7172, aired 2015-11-17 | TOUGH BALLET $1200: (I'm Blaine Hoven.) Male ballet dancers rarely are called upon to dance en pointe, except when playing the part of the donkey named Bottom in the ballet based on this Shakespeare fantasy A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #7166, aired 2015-11-09 | QUOTATIONS BY THE NUMBER $2000: Shakespeare:
"And one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being ____ ages" 7 |
| #7163, aired 2015-11-04 | BATTLES $800: In Shakespeare, before this battle Henry V rallies his troops, calling them "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers" Agincourt |
| #7158, aired 2015-10-28 | OLIVIA $1200: Nothing is ordinary for Olivia in this Shakespeare comedy: she loves Cesario, who is Viola in disguise Twelfth Night |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | SHAKESPEARE $400: Puck says, "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" in Act III of this play A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | SHAKESPEARE $800: He was passed over for promotion in favor of Cassio, giving him a motive for revenge Iago |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | SHAKESPEARE $1200: In Act I the witches describe him as "lesser than Macbeth, and greater" Banquo |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | SHAKESPEARE $2000: The most memorable part of this play might be the stage direction "exit, pursued by a bear" The Winter's Tale |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | SHAKESPEARE $2,200 (Daily Double): Tamora eats a pie in this play; problem is that the pie was made with the heads of Demetrius & Chiron, her sons Titus Andronicus |
| #7149, aired 2015-10-15 | REORDERING THE NOTED PAIR $400: We rewrite Shakespeare! It's now lady first, please, in this nifty new title of a 1597 tragedy Juliet and Romeo |
| #7123, aired 2015-07-29 | DEAD PEOPLE $400: This Shakespeare prince asks if a ghost he sees is a "spirit of health or goblin damn'd" Hamlet |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | THE BEGINNING OF THE PLAY $800: Act I, scene i of this Shakespeare play: a "noise of thunder and lightning heard. Enter a ship-master and a boatswain" The Tempest |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | D.C.-AREA LANDMARKS $800: A statue of Puck graces this Shakespeare library the Folger |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $200: It's believed that Shakespeare introduced this phrase meaning a hopeless quest a wild-goose chase |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | SHAKESPEARE IN ART $200: In Sir John Everett Millais' painting, this heroine is depicted in her final moments Ophelia |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | SHAKESPEARE IN ART $400: The painting seen here by Henry Fuseli depicts the three witches from this play Macbeth |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | SHAKESPEARE IN ART $600: The future Lady Hamilton posed as Miranda from this play for a series of studies by George Romney The Tempest |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | SHAKESPEARE IN ART $800: This comic character pictured in a lithograph appears in several Shakespeare plays Falstaff |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | SHAKESPEARE IN ART $1000: In a painting by James Barry, King Lear is weeping over the body of this daughter Cordelia |
| #7073, aired 2015-05-20 | NEW TWISTS ON JEOPARDY! FAVORITES $200: In more than 500 clues about this Shakespeare play, it's never come up that one of its sources was "Gesta Danorum" Hamlet |
| #7068, aired 2015-05-13 | QUOTES FROM SHAKESPEARE $400: The first words spoken by this title Scot are "So foul and fair a day I have not seen" Macbeth |
| #7068, aired 2015-05-13 | QUOTES FROM SHAKESPEARE $800: After being wounded by Othello, this villain says, "I bleed, sir, but not killed" Iago |
| #7068, aired 2015-05-13 | QUOTES FROM SHAKESPEARE $1200: His dying words are "Caesar, now be still. I killed not thee with half so good a will" Brutus (or Brute) |
| #7068, aired 2015-05-13 | QUOTES FROM SHAKESPEARE $2000: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" contains the line "The course of" these 2 words "never did run smooth" true love |
| #7068, aired 2015-05-13 | QUOTES FROM SHAKESPEARE $5,000 (Daily Double): Her barge "like a burnished throne, burned on the water; the poop was beaten gold" Cleopatra |
| #7060, aired 2015-05-01 | NICE ENDING, SHAKESPEARE! $400: Lucentio:
"'Tis a wonder, by your leave, she will be tamed so" The Taming of the Shrew |
| #7060, aired 2015-05-01 | NICE ENDING, SHAKESPEARE! $800: "Give me your hands, if we be friends: And Robin shall restore amends" A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #7060, aired 2015-05-01 | NICE ENDING, SHAKESPEARE! $1600: Benedick:
"Strike up, pipers!" Much Ado About Nothing |
| #7060, aired 2015-05-01 | NICE ENDING, SHAKESPEARE! $2000: Lucius:
"As for that ravenous tiger, Tamora... Her life was beastly... And being dead, let birds on her take pity" Titus Andronicus |
| #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 |
| #7059, aired 2015-04-30 | THINGS TO DO ON A RAINY DAY $800: Brush up your Shakespeare & read one of his comedies, like this one about twins Viola & Sebastian Twelfth Night |
| #7051, aired 2015-04-20 | ANATOMICAL QUOTES $800: Shakespeare's Richard III says, "Let us to it pell-mell, If not to heaven, then" this in this "to hell" hand in hand |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | SHAKESPEARE SETS THE PLAY $200: Denmark Hamlet |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | SHAKESPEARE SETS THE PLAY $400: Scotland & (in 4.3) England Macbeth |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | SHAKESPEARE SETS THE PLAY $600: An island, population until recently: 1 The Tempest |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | SHAKESPEARE SETS THE PLAY $800: Troy & the Greek camp before it Troilus and Cressida |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | SHAKESPEARE SETS THE PLAY $1000: Venice & Cyprus (a tragedy) Othello |
| #7032, aired 2015-03-24 | EVERYBODY'S TALKIN' 'BOUT THEM $800: William Dean Howells called him "sole, incomparable, the Lincoln of our literature" Mark Twain |
| #7029, aired 2015-03-19 | THE 16th CENTURY $2,000 (Daily Double): This British poet, playwright & contemporary of Shakespeare was killed in a fight in 1593, allegedly over a bill Christopher Marlowe |
| #7027, aired 2015-03-17 | SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES $400: Cobweb & Mustardseed are 2 of the fairies in this play A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #7027, aired 2015-03-17 | SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES $1200: Shakespeare introduced the English name Jessica for a character in this play The Merchant of Venice |
| #7027, aired 2015-03-17 | SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES $1600: Christopher Sly has the first line of this comedy The Taming of the Shrew |
| #7027, aired 2015-03-17 | SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES $2,000 (Daily Double): All the words start with the same letter in the title of this play from around 1595 Love's Labour's Lost |
| #7027, aired 2015-03-17 | SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES $2000: Act I, scene i of this play is set before Master Page's house; the title tells you where the house is The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #7023, aired 2015-03-11 | WOMEN'S CLOTHING $800: Fitted over the forearm, this type of sleeve shares its name with a Shakespeare character a Juliet sleeve |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | BAD POETRY ABOUT POETS $1,600 (Daily Double): My big number is 600 / Somehow I rhymed it with "blunder'd" / As a rhyme, not very cool / But they teach my stuff in school! Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #6999, aired 2015-02-05 | SHAKING UP SHAKESPEARE $400: With a happy ending:
"YOU SAIL KITE" As You Like It |
| #6999, aired 2015-02-05 | SHAKING UP SHAKESPEARE $800: It is a fairy tale:
"RUMMAGE MASTERMIND DISH" A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #6999, aired 2015-02-05 | SHAKING UP SHAKESPEARE $1200: It's a funny one:
"FORESTRY CHEER DOOM" The Comedy of Errors |
| #6999, aired 2015-02-05 | SHAKING UP SHAKESPEARE $1600: It's got murders, rape & heads baked in a pie:
"CUSTODIAN NUT SIR" Titus Andronicus |
| #6999, aired 2015-02-05 | SHAKING UP SHAKESPEARE $2000: One of its characters really is a hero:
"GOD BOA HATH CONTINUUM" Much Ado About Nothing |
| #6997, aired 2015-02-03 | QUOTABLE PLAYS $400: From Shakespeare: "Kiss me, Kate, we will be married o' Sunday" The Taming of the Shrew |
| #6989, aired 2015-01-22 | ALL THINGS CONSIDERED $400: "Much ado" about this Shakespeare woman whose name means "she who blesses" & she blesses Benedick with her presence Beatrice |
| #6987, aired 2015-01-20 | PROVERBIAL 4‑LETTER WORDS $800: From Shakespeare, one of these "by any other name would smell as sweet" a rose |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | DESCRIBING THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY $200: 3 gals predict big things for the title guy; he's iffy but his wife has big plans; both learn to be careful what you wish for Macbeth |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | DESCRIBING THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY $400: Title guy denies a promotion to his aide; aide gets revenge-y; title guy gives new meaning to the term "death bed" Othello |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | DESCRIBING THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY $800: Buckingham gets the boot from the palace, as does a wife; title guy is not a cardinal fan; on to wife 2! Henry VIII |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | DESCRIBING THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY $1000: It's totally goth; act I, scene 1 sees the title Roman kill his son & the deaths don't stop; ends with the worst dinner ever Titus Andronicus |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | DESCRIBING THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY $2,000 (Daily Double): The plot? Potters plot; mid-March gets dangerous; main plotter ends up committing Strato-cide Julius Caesar |
| #6965, aired 2014-12-19 | THE PLAYWRIGHT WRITES $2000: "Show to all in Thebes his father's murderer" Sophocles (in Oedipus Rex) |
| #6960, aired 2014-12-12 | MASTERS OF SIX $1000: Shakespeare refers to it as "Priam's six-gated city"; Dardan & Timbria were 2 of them Troy |
| #6940, aired 2014-11-14 | SHAKESPEARE'S FOOLS $400: Trinculo in this play is a follower of Stephano & Caliban in a murder plot--not so funny The Tempest |
| #6940, aired 2014-11-14 | SHAKESPEARE'S FOOLS $800: The 2 gravediggers in "Hamlet" argue whether her drowning was a suicide Ophelia |
| #6940, aired 2014-11-14 | SHAKESPEARE'S FOOLS $1200: This play's title characters have corresponding fools: Valentine's servant Speed & Proteus' servant Launce The Two Gentlemen of Verona |
| #6940, aired 2014-11-14 | SHAKESPEARE'S FOOLS $1600: In "Troilus & Cressida", Thersites says this commander of the Greek Forces "has not so much brain as ear-wax" Agamemnon |
| #6940, aired 2014-11-14 | SHAKESPEARE'S FOOLS $4,000 (Daily Double): "The more fool I", says Touchstone on arriving at his new forest home in this comedy As You Like It |
| #6934, aired 2014-11-06 | "DOO" OR "DI" $1600: Shakespeare, in "Julius Caesar": "Run, as it were" this time for the end of the world doomsday |
| #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 |
| #6930, aired 2014-10-31 | A MATTER OF WIFE & DEATH $200: A grave in Stratford says, "Heere lyeth interred the body of Anne wife of" him "who departed" August 6, 1623 Shakespeare |
| #6922, aired 2014-10-21 | THE FESTIVE CARIBBEAN $2000: The Shakespeare Mas in this "Spice Isle" country is a battle of wits using only lines from the Bard's plays Grenada |
| #6919, aired 2014-10-16 | H _ _ E $1000: A costume combo mentioned in Shakespeare was "doublet &" this hose |
| #6912, aired 2014-10-07 | MEN OF FEW WORDS $1000: In Shakespeare this phrase follows "We few, we happy few, we..." band of brothers |
| #6900, aired 2014-09-19 | FILL IN THE SHAKESPEARE QUOTE $400: "Beware the Ides of ____" March |
| #6900, aired 2014-09-19 | FILL IN THE SHAKESPEARE QUOTE $800: "Double, double, toil and trouble, fire burn and ____ bubble" cauldron |
| #6900, aired 2014-09-19 | FILL IN THE SHAKESPEARE QUOTE $4,400 (Daily Double): "Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair ____, where we lay our scene" Verona |
| #6881, aired 2014-07-14 | SHAKESPEARE'S ENDINGS $400: "Gratiano, keep the house, and seize upon the fortunes of the Moor, for they succeed on you" Othello |
| #6881, aired 2014-07-14 | SHAKESPEARE'S ENDINGS $800: "We will unite the white rose and the red, smile heaven upon this fair conjunction" Richard III |
| #6881, aired 2014-07-14 | SHAKESPEARE'S ENDINGS $1,000 (Daily Double): "With the help of your good hands, gentle breath of yours my sails must fill, or else my project fails" The Tempest |
| #6881, aired 2014-07-14 | SHAKESPEARE'S ENDINGS $1600: "Take up the bodies. such a sight as this becomes the field, but here shows much amiss" Hamlet |
| #6881, aired 2014-07-14 | SHAKESPEARE'S ENDINGS $2000: "As for that ravenous tiger Tamora... being dead, let birds on her take pity" Titus Andronicus |
| #6877, aired 2014-07-08 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $200: How fitting that she starred in "Twelfth Night" in 2009--she has the same name as Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway |
| #6877, aired 2014-07-08 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $800: In 1993 Lynn Redgrave premiered her 1-woman show "Shakespeare for My Father", dedicated to this man Michael Redgrave |
| #6873, aired 2014-07-02 | IM-PASTORS $2000: In this Shakespeare play, Viola dresses as a man & Feste masquerades as clergyman Sir Topas Twelfth Night |
| #6870, aired 2014-06-27 | THE FEMALE PERSUASION $600: Basically, this Shakespeare character tells her husband, kill the king as he sleeps; we'll set up his staff for it! Lady Macbeth |
| #6870, aired 2014-06-27 | FURNITURE $2000: In his will, Shakespeare left "my wife my second best" this "with the furniture" bed |
| #6858, aired 2014-06-11 | THE HULK, SHAKESPEARE SCHOLAR $400: Society expectations doom all in this play; when girl say, "this is thy sheath" & stabs self, Hulk bawl like baby! Romeo and Juliet |
| #6858, aired 2014-06-11 | THE HULK, SHAKESPEARE SCHOLAR $800: Hulk feel return trip to Milan perhaps imply world rebirth at end of this island play The Tempest |
| #6858, aired 2014-06-11 | THE HULK, SHAKESPEARE SCHOLAR $1200: Hulk disturbed by Hal's digs at this knight like "how long...since thou sawest thine own knee?" Hulk has own size issues! Falstaff |
| #6858, aired 2014-06-11 | THE HULK, SHAKESPEARE SCHOLAR $2000: Gloucester blindness symbolic in how he deal with Edgar; Hulk reflect on own family after this play King Lear |
| #6858, aired 2014-06-11 | THE HULK, SHAKESPEARE SCHOLAR $4,000 (Daily Double): Hulk relate to trust issues of this title guy, but calling his wife "a strumpet" over line for Hulk! Wife is angel figure! Othello |
| #6853, aired 2014-06-04 | THE THEATRE $1600: In June 2012 this NYC series celebrated its 50th anniversary with an outdoor production of "As You Like It" Shakespeare in the Park |
| #6848, aired 2014-05-28 | PIN THE TALE ON THE DONKEY $800: Titania says "Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful" to this Shakespeare character recently made an ass Bottom |
| #6834, aired 2014-05-08 | SHAKESPEARE $200: Joss Whedon directed a movie version of this comedy with quarreling lovers Beatrice & Benedick Much Ado About Nothing |
| #6834, aired 2014-05-08 | SHAKESPEARE $400: This "Tempest" character is described as "savage and deformed" Caliban |
| #6834, aired 2014-05-08 | SHAKESPEARE $600: Most of "Othello" is set on this island Cyprus |
| #6834, aired 2014-05-08 | SHAKESPEARE $800: I'm talkin' Shakespeare, Claudio & Isabella... talkin' Pompey... Lucio & the Duke, say hey! to this play Measure for Measure |
| #6834, aired 2014-05-08 | SHAKESPEARE $1000: Aptly, this name of the long-lost daughter in "The Winter's Tale" is from the Latin for "lost" Perdita |
| #6826, aired 2014-04-28 | A PIG $1200: In this Shakespeare play, Stanley dreams about being attacked by a boar, the title royal's heraldic symbol Richard III |
| #6815, aired 2014-04-11 | SHAKESPEARE WITH SPOILER ALERTS $200: A soothsayer tells him to beware the ides of March; (spoiler alert) he doesn't & ends up on the pointy end of a knife Julius Caesar |
| #6815, aired 2014-04-11 | SHAKESPEARE WITH SPOILER ALERTS $400: He loves Desdemona but (spoiler alert) smothers her, believing her unfaithful Othello |
| #6815, aired 2014-04-11 | SHAKESPEARE WITH SPOILER ALERTS $800: He starts off as a wide-eyed lover but (spoiler alert) kills some folks including Paris before dying Romeo |
| #6815, aired 2014-04-11 | SHAKESPEARE WITH SPOILER ALERTS $1,000 (Daily Double): King Lear has 3 daughters; (spoiler alert) this youngest one lasts the longest but is finally hanged Cordelia |
| #6815, aired 2014-04-11 | SHAKESPEARE WITH SPOILER ALERTS $1000: (Spoiler alert) the reason there's no this king "Part 4" is he gets killed near the end of "Part 3" Henry the Sixth |
| #6813, aired 2014-04-09 | FLOWERS $400: In a sonnet, Shakespeare calls this purplish flower a "sweet thief" for stealing its fragrance from his love's breath the violet |
| #6813, aired 2014-04-09 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: This "Volpone" author admired his contemporary Shakespeare but did find the Bard sometimes "full of wind" (Ben) Jonson |
| #6810, aired 2014-04-04 | "V" IS IN THE MIDDLE $400: To Shakespeare, "The soul of wit" brevity |
| #6804, aired 2014-03-27 | SHAKESPEARE REWRITES THE BEATLES $400: "The lady is enamored of thee, verily, verily, verily" "She Loves You" |
| #6804, aired 2014-03-27 | SHAKESPEARE REWRITES THE BEATLES $800: "Wilt thou still require me, wilt thou still provide sustenance unto me, roughly midway through my 7th decade?" "When I'm Sixty-Four" |
| #6804, aired 2014-03-27 | SHAKESPEARE REWRITES THE BEATLES $1200: "Aid me if thou canst, I feel sorrow... & my gratitude is large for thy presence here" "Help!" |
| #6804, aired 2014-03-27 | SHAKESPEARE REWRITES THE BEATLES $2,000 (Daily Double): "I believe I shall be melancholy, I believe it shall be anon... the woman who disturbeth my temper is leaving hence" "Ticket To Ride" |
| #6804, aired 2014-03-27 | SHAKESPEARE REWRITES THE BEATLES $2000: "Assemble forth, all ye jesters, speak thusly... Hark! Thou must conceal thy amorousness" "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away" |
| #6803, aired 2014-03-26 | LET'S GO "C" A PLAY $400: Caius Marcius' victory at Corioli earns him this name, the title of a Shakespeare tragedy Coriolanus |
| #6802, aired 2014-03-25 | MOVIE SOURCE MATERIAL $1600: This Shakespeare play was updated to a high school in 1999 & hit cinemas as "10 Things I Hate About You" Taming of the Shrew |
| #6798, aired 2014-03-19 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Eugene Delacroix made several lithographs depicting this Shakespeare play--here's the graveyard scene Hamlet |
| #6795, aired 2014-03-14 | PONY EXPRESSIONS $800: In Shakespeare he says, "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!" Richard III |
| #6791, aired 2014-03-10 | LITERARY TITLE PAIRS $200: In Shakespeare, a Trojan guy & an unfaithful gal Troilus & Cressida |
| #6774, aired 2014-02-13 | NAME THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY $400: The rightful Duke of Milan has been stranded for many years on an island The Tempest |
| #6774, aired 2014-02-13 | NAME THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY $1200: A misplaced handkerchief leads to murderous suspicion Othello |
| #6774, aired 2014-02-13 | NAME THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY $1600: It's 1415 & England is invading France Henry V |
| #6774, aired 2014-02-13 | NAME THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY $2000: A woman disguised as a man is loved by a woman who ends up marrying her brother Twelfth Night |
| #6774, aired 2014-02-13 | NAME THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY $4,000 (Daily Double): 2 young royal brothers go missing, never to be seen again Richard III |
| #6773, aired 2014-02-12 | NO DISRESPECT TO BEN AFFLECK $1600: As Ned, Ben agrees to play Mercutio in this film but does have an irritated question for the play's author... "He dies?" Shakespeare in Love |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | SHAKESPEAREAN SPELLING BEE $600: In the Cambridge Shakespeare text, title word between "Love's" & "Lost" (don't forget the apostrophe) L-A-B-O-U-R-'-S |
| #6757, aired 2014-01-21 | MUSICAL RAP SHEET $2000: Cher, not Shakespeare, shot this title New Orleans fortune teller after catching her with her man "Dark Lady" |
| #6751, aired 2014-01-13 | THE MOOR YOU KNOW $400: According to the Shakespeare title, Othello is "The Moor of" this place Venice |
| #6733, aired 2013-12-18 | THAT'S BRAVE TALK $400: Shakespeare used this 3-word phrase in "The Tempest" 320 years before Aldous Huxley used it as a title brave new world |
| #6728, aired 2013-12-11 | AUDIO BOOK PERFORMERS $400: Monty Python's Terry Jones says of this pre-Shakespeare poet, "Once you get past the spelling, he speaks so clearly" Geoffrey Chaucer |
| #6712, aired 2013-11-19 | MAKING A BEE LINE $1600: In "Henry V" Shakespeare mentions "the lazy yawning" this bee that dies after mating drone |
| #6702, aired 2013-11-05 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATRE $1200: (Ben Brantley gives the clue.) When it comes to Shakespeare, I must have seen at least a dozen productions of this tragedy, with everyone from Liev Schreiber to Jude Law as the prince Hamlet |
| #6698, aired 2013-10-30 | CULTURE AROUND THE WORLD $1200: In 1953 the Shakespeare Festival in this Ontario, Canada city held its first performance Stratford |
| #6697, aired 2013-10-29 | GNOME, SWEET GNOME $1200: Shakespeare got a credit on this 2011 animated movie Gnomeo and Juliet |
| #6687, aired 2013-10-15 | LIBRARIES $1600: This Washington, D.C. library boasts "the world's largest and finest collection of Shakespeare materials" the Folger Shakespeare Library |
| #6686, aired 2013-10-14 | A JUDI DENCH FILM FESTIVAL $400: Judi played Queen Elizabeth I in a brief but Oscar-winning performance in this film Shakespeare in Love |
| #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 |
| #6641, aired 2013-07-01 | AGELESS QUOTES $400: About this queen, Shakespeare wrote, "age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety" Cleopatra |
| #6639, aired 2013-06-27 | SHAKESPEARE--ACT II, SCENE 1 $200: "Is not tomorrow, boy, the Ides of March?" Julius Caesar |
| #6639, aired 2013-06-27 | SHAKESPEARE--ACT II, SCENE 1 $600: "You lie, in faith, for you are called plain Kate, and bonny Kate, and sometimes Kate the curst" The Taming of the Shrew |
| #6639, aired 2013-06-27 | SHAKESPEARE--ACT II, SCENE 1 $800: "He's coming hither; now i' the night, i' the haste, and Regan with him" King Lear |
| #6639, aired 2013-06-27 | SHAKESPEARE--ACT II, SCENE 1 $1000: "...at least into a jealousy so strong that judgment cannot cure" Othello |
| #6639, aired 2013-06-27 | SHAKESPEARE--ACT II, SCENE 1 $1,200 (Daily Double): "Prospero my lord shall know what I have done...
so king, go safely on to seek thy son" The Tempest |
| #6636, aired 2013-06-24 | READING BY THE NUMBERS $400: This Shakespeare title character is only 13 years old Juliet |
| #6627, aired 2013-06-11 | SHAKESPEAREAN BEFORE & AFTER $400: Ding dong! Shakespeare's hometown gets house visits from a cosmetics saleslady using a familiar slogan Stratford-on-Avon calling |
| #6610, aired 2013-05-17 | YOU GOT AN "F" PLUS! $800: Shakespeare was the first to put this word before "conclusion" to mean an inevitability foregone |
| #6607, aired 2013-05-14 | SHAKESPEARE $400: In Act II this character says, "Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love" Juliet |
| #6607, aired 2013-05-14 | SHAKESPEARE $800: It's no mistake: this early gagfest is set in Ephesus A Comedy of Errors |
| #6607, aired 2013-05-14 | SHAKESPEARE $1200: Baptista's daughters are Kate & her Bianca |
| #6607, aired 2013-05-14 | SHAKESPEARE $1600: We never tire of this Prince of Tyre Pericles |
| #6607, aired 2013-05-14 | SHAKESPEARE $2000: Son of a gun! Pistol is married to this mistress (perhaps swiftly) in "Henry V" Mistress Quickly |
| #6605, aired 2013-05-10 | THEY ARE THE CHAMPIONS $1000: Yusuke Takanashi:
This board game named for a Shakespeare character Othello |
| #6593, aired 2013-04-24 | NOT BY SHAKESPEARE $400: Shakespeare never put this comical knight's name in a title, but Verdi did Falstaff |
| #6593, aired 2013-04-24 | NOT BY SHAKESPEARE $800: A "holistic guide to stopping compulsive eating" is punningly titled "The Taming of" this the Chew |
| #6593, aired 2013-04-24 | NOT BY SHAKESPEARE $1200: In a 2008 film Steve Coogan is a drama teacher putting on a sequel titled this Hamlet 2 |
| #6593, aired 2013-04-24 | NOT BY SHAKESPEARE $2000: Feste the Fool is a character in this Alan Gordon novel that one-ups a bard comedy Thirteenth Night |
| #6593, aired 2013-04-24 | NOT BY SHAKESPEARE $3,000 (Daily Double): After III, the only King Henry with no Shakespeare title is him, the subject of a 2007 Sean Cunningham biography Henry VII |
| #6574, aired 2013-03-28 | 4 LETTERS, 2 Ns $1200: Soon, Shakespeare, soon anon |
| #6562, aired 2013-03-12 | DEVILISH EXPRESSIONS $1600: In this Shakespeare play, Antonio tells Bassanio, "the devil can cite scripture for his purpose" The Merchant of Venice |
| #6554, aired 2013-02-28 | SHAKESPEARE $200: Shakespeare wrote a spoiler in the prologue of this play: "a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life" Romeo and Juliet |
| #6554, aired 2013-02-28 | SHAKESPEARE $400: This play is set in part in Padua, home to a single girl named Katherina The Taming of the Shrew |
| #6554, aired 2013-02-28 | SHAKESPEARE $600: Prince Hal says to him, "thou art so fat-witted with drinking of old sack" Falstaff |
| #6554, aired 2013-02-28 | SHAKESPEARE $800: The hilarity of this Shakespeare play involves 2 sets of twin brothers & lots of mistaken identity The Comedy of Errors |
| #6554, aired 2013-02-28 | SHAKESPEARE $1000: Her dad Brabantio dies of grief over her marriage to Othello Desdemona |
| #6547, aired 2013-02-19 | BRIDES OF SHAKESPEARE $400: Katharina Petruchio |
| #6547, aired 2013-02-19 | BRIDES OF SHAKESPEARE $800: Calpurnia (Julius) Caesar |
| #6547, aired 2013-02-19 | BRIDES OF SHAKESPEARE $1200: Emilia Iago |
| #6547, aired 2013-02-19 | BRIDES OF SHAKESPEARE $1600: Octavia Mark Antony |
| #6547, aired 2013-02-19 | BRIDES OF SHAKESPEARE $2000: Hippolyta Theseus |
| #6545, aired 2013-02-15 | LET'S MAKE THEM SCOTTISH $800: Woman in a Kiss song, I hear you calling, but you've become this title Shakespeare guy Macbeth |
| #6545, aired 2013-02-15 | AN IMPORTANT QUESTION $1000: In "As You Like It", Shakespeare quoted this contemporary's "who ever loved that loved not at first sight?" Christopher Marlowe |
| #6538, aired 2013-02-06 | SO CALL ME $200: The Bard of Avon & also the Swan of Avon: either way, he told a few tales Shakespeare |
| #6527, aired 2013-01-22 | I'M DYING HERE! $400: In April 1616 Shakespeare shuffled off the ol' mortal coil in this hometown Stratford-on-Avon |
| #6523, aired 2013-01-16 | POP $2,200 (Daily Double): This Shakespeare royal tells his youngest child, "Pray you now, forget and forgive: I am old and foolish" King Lear |
| #6516, aired 2013-01-07 | IT'S PLAY TIME $1200: "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" in the first scene tells us things are not as they should be in this Shakespeare tragedy Macbeth |
| #6514, aired 2013-01-03 | MEASURED LANGUAGE $200: Shakespeare: "Ay, every ____ a king " inch |
| #6476, aired 2012-11-12 | BRUSH UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE $200: Play in which a magician endures hardships as an exiled ruler on an island The Tempest |
| #6476, aired 2012-11-12 | BRUSH UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE $400: It's the name of the father of the title prince of Denmark Hamlet, Sr. |
| #6476, aired 2012-11-12 | BRUSH UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE $500 (Daily Double): It's the last word spoken by Richard III horse |
| #6476, aired 2012-11-12 | BRUSH UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE $800: In "Henry V", he's the swaggering soldier named for a weapon Pistol |
| #6476, aired 2012-11-12 | BRUSH UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE $1000: Rosalind flees to the Forest of Arden in this play As You Like It |
| #6474, aired 2012-11-08 | CLEOPATRA $400: Shakespeare is among those who say Cleopatra killed herself with one of these, a symbol of divine royalty an asp |
| #6472, aired 2012-11-06 | A YEAR IN THE LIFE $600: 1669:
This Englishman stops writing in his diary because of deteriorating vision Samuel Pepys |
| #6467, aired 2012-10-30 | LITERARY LOVERS $200: Shakespeare wrote about these 2, "Never was a story of more woe" Romeo and Juliet |
| #6465, aired 2012-10-26 | THANKS FOR THE TITLE, SHAKESPEARE $400: A sonnet says "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up" this, the English title of a Proust work Remembrance of Things Past |
| #6465, aired 2012-10-26 | THANKS FOR THE TITLE, SHAKESPEARE $800: The title of this 2011 novel about the 3 daughters of a Shakespeare professor gets its title from a trio in "Macbeth" The Weird Sisters |
| #6465, aired 2012-10-26 | THANKS FOR THE TITLE, SHAKESPEARE $1200: This collection of Hawthorne "Tales" probably got its title from a line in "King John": "Life is as tedious as" these Twice-Told Tales |
| #6465, aired 2012-10-26 | THANKS FOR THE TITLE, SHAKESPEARE $2000: This title of David Foster Wallace's second novel comes from Hamlet's description of Yorick Infinite Jest |
| #6465, aired 2012-10-26 | THANKS FOR THE TITLE, SHAKESPEARE $3,200 (Daily Double): Steinbeck didn't have to read much of "Richard III" to get the title of this 1961 novel The Winter of Our Discontent |
| #6459, aired 2012-10-18 | CLICHES $2000: "Lay on" this man, a line from Shakespeare, means "do your damnedest" Macduff |
| #6455, aired 2012-10-12 | RUMORS $2,000 (Daily Double): This mischievous Shakespeare character says, "I jest to Oberon... and sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl" Puck |
| #6448, aired 2012-10-03 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: Shakespeare is credited with the first use of this term for political murder assassination |
| #6446, aired 2012-10-01 | MONOLOGUES $1200: A Shakespeare tragic hero:
"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day" Macbeth |
| #6441, aired 2012-09-24 | KISS ME KATE WINSLET $1200: 1996:
Kenneth Branagh in Shakespeare Hamlet |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | GIVING A PUP TALK $600 (Daily Double): This Shakespeare play includes the line "Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war" Julius Caesar |
| #6434, aired 2012-08-02 | WHAT KIND OF MOVIE? $600: "Zookeeper"; Shakespeare wrote one "of Errors" a comedy |
| #6429, aired 2012-07-26 | SHAKESPEARE $200: For most of Shakespeare's life, this monarch ruled England Queen Elizabeth I |
| #6429, aired 2012-07-26 | SHAKESPEARE $400: Will paid part of the cost of building this theater that opened in late 1599 the Globe |
| #6429, aired 2012-07-26 | SHAKESPEARE $800: Alliterative 2-word name for the 1623 volume of Shakespeare's collected plays the First Folio |
| #6429, aired 2012-07-26 | SHAKESPEARE $1,000 (Daily Double): Shakespeare's 37 plays are traditionally classified into 3 groups: comedies, tragedies & these histories |
| #6429, aired 2012-07-26 | SHAKESPEARE $1000: Whether play or poem, blank verse or rhymed, the majority of Shakespeare's works are written in this meter iambic pentameter |
| #6425, aired 2012-07-20 | INSIDE SHAKESPEARE $200: To sneak a look peek |
| #6425, aired 2012-07-20 | INSIDE SHAKESPEARE $400: There are tiger & nurse varieties of this critter a shark |
| #6425, aired 2012-07-20 | INSIDE SHAKESPEARE $600: Biblically, it was a box as well as a boat an ark |
| #6425, aired 2012-07-20 | INSIDE SHAKESPEARE $800: We "play for" these, the large, strong towers in the centers of castles keeps |
| #6425, aired 2012-07-20 | INSIDE SHAKESPEARE $1000: There are strings attached to this musical instrument, & they're stretched over a large upright frame a harp |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | SHAKESPEARE, SHAKESPEARE, FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT! $400: Though the prince "hath forbid this bandying in Verona streets", Tybalt & Mercutio go at it in this drama; doesn't end well Romeo and Juliet |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | SHAKESPEARE, SHAKESPEARE, FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT! $800: This title guy goes after Laertes--at a funeral!--but ends up saying, "I prithee take thy fingers from my throat" Hamlet |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | SHAKESPEARE, SHAKESPEARE, FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT! $1,000 (Daily Double): Bad stuff will go down when guys are named 1, 2 & 3 murderer, as Fleance & his dad discover in this play Macbeth |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | SHAKESPEARE, SHAKESPEARE, FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT! $1200: Cassio, a man who did not commit adultery, gets his leg maimed anyway by this aide to Othello Iago |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | SHAKESPEARE, SHAKESPEARE, FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT! $1600: In this play Oberon says, "thou see'st these lovers seek a place to fight: hie therefore, robin, overcast the night" A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #6413, aired 2012-07-04 | TITLE CHARACTERS $2000: In a Shakespeare play, Mistress Page & Mistress Ford The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #6408, aired 2012-06-27 | MY BIG FAT GREEK LIT CATEGORY $1600: Shakespeare used Sir Thomas North's translation of this Greek's "Lives" for some material in his plays Plutarch |
| #6400, aired 2012-06-15 | OPERA LOVERS $1200: At the end of a Berlioz opera inspired by Shakespeare, she & Benedict admit their love for one another Beatrice |
| #6397, aired 2012-06-12 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN $200: In the balcony scene, she is called "the sun" & is told to "Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon" Juliet |
| #6397, aired 2012-06-12 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN $400: While sleepwalking she yells, "Out, damned spot! Out, I say!" Lady MacBeth |
| #6397, aired 2012-06-12 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN $600: Othello calls her an "excellent wretch!" Desdemona |
| #6397, aired 2012-06-12 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN $800: When Petruchio asks her to kiss him, she replies, "What, in the midst of the street?" Kate |
| #6397, aired 2012-06-12 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN $1000: In "The Tempest", she says, "How beauteous mankind is!" (She's been on an island a long time) Miranda |
| #6388, aired 2012-05-30 | OED TOP SOURCES $1,400 (Daily Double): William Shakespeare is second; this historical novelist with the same initials is third Sir Walter Scott |
| #6384, aired 2012-05-24 | 50 YEARS AGO--1962 $1200: We've had enough Shakespeare for one game; in 1962 this playwright's festival began at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario George Bernard Shaw |
| #6359, aired 2012-04-19 | THE HAZARDS OF DUKES $1200: The Duke of Clarence was executed in the Tower of London in 1478; Shakespeare said he was drowned in this Malmsey wine (a tub of Malmsey accepted) |
| #6358, aired 2012-04-18 | CHARACTERS BASED ON REAL PEOPLE $200: Shakespeare based these 2 characters on a certain Miss Cappelletti & a Mr. Montecchi Romeo & Juliet |
| #6346, aired 2012-04-02 | CRITIQUING SHAKESPEARE $200: This evolutionary scientist found Shakespeare "so intolerably dull that it nauseated me" Darwin |
| #6346, aired 2012-04-02 | CRITIQUING SHAKESPEARE $400: This Russian writer & noble didn't have much use for the Bard, saying his works were immoral, vulgar & senseless Tolstoy |
| #6346, aired 2012-04-02 | CRITIQUING SHAKESPEARE $600 (Daily Double): When he described "Hamlet"' as "a vulgar and barbarous drama", this French author was quite candid Voltaire |
| #6346, aired 2012-04-02 | CRITIQUING SHAKESPEARE $600: Of "A Midsummer Night's Dream", this 17th c. diarist wrote that it was "the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw" (Samuel) Pepys |
| #6346, aired 2012-04-02 | CRITIQUING SHAKESPEARE $1000: This 3-named Irish dramatist despised Shakespeare so much he wanted "to dig him up and throw stones at him" George Bernard Shaw |
| #6341, aired 2012-03-26 | MOVIES BASED ON SHAKESPEARE $400: "West Side Story" Romeo and Juliet |
| #6341, aired 2012-03-26 | MOVIES BASED ON SHAKESPEARE $1,000 (Daily Double): "Throne of Blood" Macbeth |
| #6341, aired 2012-03-26 | MOVIES BASED ON SHAKESPEARE $1200: "Forbidden Planet" The Tempest |
| #6339, aired 2012-03-22 | RECENT MOVIES $2000: "Anonymous" posits that this Earl of Oxford is the real author of Shakespeare's plays Edward de Vere |
| #6330, aired 2012-03-09 | '90s FILM QUOTES $1000: "Let us have pirates, clowns and a happy ending, or we shall send you back to Stratford to your wife" Shakespeare in Love |
| #6310, aired 2012-02-10 | POETIC CHARACTERS $1200: Shakespeare wrote about Adonis; Shelley portrayed Keats as this "gentle child" Adonaïs |
| #6306, aired 2012-02-06 | FAMOUS PAIRS $3,000 (Daily Double): Title Trojan lovers in a Shakespeare play Troilus & Cressida |
| #6297, aired 2012-01-24 | NAME'S THE SAME $400: This star of "Bride Wars" & "The Princess Diaries" shares her name with Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway |
| #6294, aired 2012-01-19 | A SHAKESPEARE PLAY, FOR OPENERS $200: This play opens on the battlements of the castle at Elsinore as Barnardo asks, "who's there?" Hamlet |
| #6294, aired 2012-01-19 | A SHAKESPEARE PLAY, FOR OPENERS $400: "Othello" opens with Roderigo addressing this villain: "Tush, never tell me; I take it much unkindly" Iago |
| #6294, aired 2012-01-19 | A SHAKESPEARE PLAY, FOR OPENERS $600: The chorus of "Romeo & Juliet" tells us it's in this city "where we lay our scene" Verona |
| #6294, aired 2012-01-19 | A SHAKESPEARE PLAY, FOR OPENERS $800: Completes the opening sentence "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of..." York |
| #6294, aired 2012-01-19 | A SHAKESPEARE PLAY, FOR OPENERS $1000: This play opens most dramatically with thunder & lightning. A ship is seen. Then a cry of "bos'n!" The Tempest |
| #6282, aired 2012-01-03 | THE NUMBER AFTER 1: LITERARY EDITION $800: Proteus loves Julia, but another woman catches his eye in this Shakespeare play The Two Gentlemen of Verona |
| #6272, aired 2011-12-20 | HAVE A WONDERFUL WEDDING $2000: A popular wedding march comes from music Mendelssohn wrote for this magical Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #6268, aired 2011-12-14 | SHAKESPEARE $400: Paris calls this character a "banished haughty Montague" Romeo |
| #6268, aired 2011-12-14 | SHAKESPEARE $800: This lover of Bassanio disguises herself as a lawyer & saves Antonio Portia |
| #6268, aired 2011-12-14 | SHAKESPEARE $1200: Nahum Tate's 1681 adaptation of this play omitted the Fool & added a love affair between Edgar & Cordelia King Lear |
| #6268, aired 2011-12-14 | SHAKESPEARE $1600: Act I of this tragedy is set in Venice; Act II, in Cyprus Othello |
| #6268, aired 2011-12-14 | SHAKESPEARE $2000: Some believe this comedy was written to be performed during Epiphany festivities, hence its name Twelfth Night |
| #6263, aired 2011-12-07 | CLUE: THE SHAKESPEARE VERSION $400: It was Casca, then a bunch of other guys & lastly him, stabbing Julius Caesar, on the Senate floor Brutus |
| #6263, aired 2011-12-07 | CLUE: THE SHAKESPEARE VERSION $800: It was Othello, perhaps with a pillow, smothering her in her bedroom Desdemona |
| #6263, aired 2011-12-07 | CLUE: THE SHAKESPEARE VERSION $1600: It was this Thane of Fife, with a sword, on the battlefield, who killed Macbeth Macduff |
| #6263, aired 2011-12-07 | CLUE: THE SHAKESPEARE VERSION $2000: It was Romeo, in a public place, with a sword, killing this relative of Juliet Tybalt |
| #6263, aired 2011-12-07 | CLUE: THE SHAKESPEARE VERSION $5,000 (Daily Double): It was Hamlet, in the Queen's chamber, stabbing this man through a curtain Polonius |
| #6256, aired 2011-11-28 | A TALE OF ONE CITY $1200: William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" Verona |
| #6253, aired 2011-11-23 | OBSESSIONS $200: Delia Bacon was obsessed with the idea that other Elizabethans wrote the works attributed to this man Shakespeare |
| #6251, aired 2011-11-21 | NICKNAMES $1600: Shakespeare was "the Bard of Avon"; this Scotsman was "the Bard of Ayrshire" Robert Burns |
| #6249, aired 2011-11-17 | SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGIC MEN $400: The porter &
Duncan Macbeth |
| #6249, aired 2011-11-17 | SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGIC MEN $800: Benvolio &
Friar Laurence Romeo and Juliet |
| #6249, aired 2011-11-17 | SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGIC MEN $1200: The fool &
the Dukes of Cornwall & Albany King Lear |
| #6249, aired 2011-11-17 | SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGIC MEN $1600: Brabantio &
Cassio Othello |
| #6249, aired 2011-11-17 | SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGIC MEN $2000: Octavius &
Philo Antony and Cleopatra |
| #6246, aired 2011-11-14 | 20 FOR DUMMIES $800: Chapter 1 of "Beekeeping for Dummies" has this question for a title, playing on a line from Shakespeare "To bee or not to bee?" |
| #6229, aired 2011-10-20 | CONJUNCTIONS $800: It's the conjunction in the phrase immediately preceding Shakespeare's "that is the question" or |
| #6205, aired 2011-07-29 | BOOK TITLES $400: A book subtitled "Who wrote Shakespeare?" is punningly titled "Contested" this Will |
| #6204, aired 2011-07-28 | JULIUS CAESAR SALAD $2,300 (Daily Double): This 5-word line spoken by the soothsayer is a quote from Shakespeare's "Julius Caeser" "Beware the ides of March" |
| #6201, aired 2011-07-25 | "W"HAT? $800: Shakespeare used this word for a tunnel made by an invertebrate; he didn't know it would come up in astrophysics a wormhole |
| #6200, aired 2011-07-22 | STORY WITHIN A STORY $1200: Shakespeare: "we few, we happy few, we" this Stephen Ambrose book & miniseries Band of Brothers |
| #6194, aired 2011-07-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATER $800: The Times said of a 2011 production of his "Cymbeline", "the comedy, poignancy & unlikely magic... surface gently" Shakespeare |
| #6191, aired 2011-07-11 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: This university that hosts the Georgia Shakespeare festival is named for Georgia's colonial founder Oglethorpe |
| #6177, aired 2011-06-21 | MUSICAL THEATER $400: In "Kiss Me, Kate", the characters, as actors, perform this Shakespeare play at Ford's Theatre in Baltimore The Taming of the Shrew |
| #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 |
| #6176, aired 2011-06-20 | SHAKESPEARE CHARACTERS' DYING WORDS $400: "Lay on, Macduff, and damned be him that first cries, 'hold, enough"' Macbeth |
| #6176, aired 2011-06-20 | SHAKESPEARE CHARACTERS' DYING WORDS $600: "The rest is silence" Hamlet |
| #6176, aired 2011-06-20 | SHAKESPEARE CHARACTERS' DYING WORDS $800: "I kissed thee ere I killed thee. no way but this, killing myself, to die upon a kiss" Othello |
| #6164, aired 2011-06-02 | HAIR LINES $400: This dramatist wrote in one of his many sonnets, "if hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head" Shakespeare |
| #6157, aired 2011-05-24 | ACT I, SCENE 1 $200: Act I, Scene 1 of this Shakespeare play takes place atop the castle at Elsinore Hamlet |
| #6150, aired 2011-05-13 | WELL, IT'S NOT SHAKESPEARE $400: Last name of David, the screenwriter who wrote "Speed-the-Plow", a play about greedy producers Mamet |
| #6150, aired 2011-05-13 | WELL, IT'S NOT SHAKESPEARE $800: Sure & 'tis the name of playwright John Casey, after he changed it to its Irish form Sean O'Casey |
| #6150, aired 2011-05-13 | WELL, IT'S NOT SHAKESPEARE $1200: Last name of playwriting twins Anthony & Peter, who gave us "Sleuth" & "Amadeus" Shaffer |
| #6150, aired 2011-05-13 | WELL, IT'S NOT SHAKESPEARE $1600: It's the last name of German dramatist Bertolt, who lived in the U.S. from 1941 to 1947 Brecht |
| #6150, aired 2011-05-13 | WELL, IT'S NOT SHAKESPEARE $2000: Last name of Daphne, who in addition to novels wrote plays like "September Tide" du Maurier |
| #6148, aired 2011-05-11 | TAILS FROM SHAKESPEARE $400: "O, thereby hangs a tail", says the clown shortly before this villain's entrance in Act 3 of "Othello" Iago |
| #6148, aired 2011-05-11 | TAILS FROM SHAKESPEARE $800: "Henry VI, Part II" describes an animal that "clapp'd his tail between" these his legs |
| #6148, aired 2011-05-11 | TAILS FROM SHAKESPEARE $1200: "Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting? In his tail", says Petruchio in this play The Taming of the Shrew |
| #6148, aired 2011-05-11 | TAILS FROM SHAKESPEARE $1600: In "Henry VI, Part I" , Joan of Arc says, "Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while and like" this bird "sweep along his tail" the peacock |
| #6148, aired 2011-05-11 | TAILS FROM SHAKESPEARE $2000: "My father compounded with my mother under the dragon's tail", laments Gloucester's son in this play King Lear |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | WHERE'S OSCAR? $200: Gwyneth Paltrow keeps her 1998 Oscar for this film in storage, saying, "I don't want that thing in my house" Shakespeare in Love |
| #6141, aired 2011-05-02 | LIT STUDENTS $1000: This title Shakespeare guy attended school in Wittenberg & 2 of his mates there are later brought into the plot Hamlet |
| #6127, aired 2011-04-12 | A CAPITAL IDEA? $200: Mentioning a Mediterranean city, it's the only Shakespeare play with a national capital in the title Timon of Athens |
| #6125, aired 2011-04-08 | BABY NAMES A LA SHAKESPEARE $200: Knowing it's from the Greek for "serpent" might turn you off this name of a doomed lass in "Hamlet" Ophelia |
| #6125, aired 2011-04-08 | BABY NAMES A LA SHAKESPEARE $400: Name a girl this after the "Merchant of Venice" heroine & she'll probably grow up to like fast sports cars Portia |
| #6125, aired 2011-04-08 | BABY NAMES A LA SHAKESPEARE $600: If you give your son this villainous 4-letter name from "Othello", you're just asking for trouble Iago |
| #6125, aired 2011-04-08 | BABY NAMES A LA SHAKESPEARE $800: I'd think twice about naming your daughter this; she might turn into a shrew like in the play Katherine |
| #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 |
| #6113, aired 2011-03-23 | OLD NAMES FOR MEDICAL CONDITIONS $600: In "Julius Caesar", Shakespeare mentions "falling sickness", this disorder characterized bv seizures epilepsy |
| #6112, aired 2011-03-22 | WHOLE LOTTA "LOVE" $1600: This Shakespeare play was published in quarto form in 1598 Love's Labour's Lost |
| #6110, aired 2011-03-18 | SHAKESPEARE, FOR STARTERS $400: Roderigo & Iago enter at the start of this tragedy Othello |
| #6110, aired 2011-03-18 | SHAKESPEARE, FOR STARTERS $800: The first direction in this play:
"Enter Kent, Gloucester, and Edmund" King Lear |
| #6110, aired 2011-03-18 | SHAKESPEARE, FOR STARTERS $1200: To start this play, Theseus says, "Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour draws on apace" A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #6110, aired 2011-03-18 | SHAKESPEARE, FOR STARTERS $2000: Antonio, the title character of this play, gets its first line:
"In sooth I know not why I am so sad" The Merchant Of Venice |
| #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 |
| #6107, aired 2011-03-15 | JULIUS CAESAR $400: In Shakespeare's" Julius Caesar", this man begins his eulogy of Caesar, "Friends, Romans, countrymen..." Mark Antony |
| #6104, aired 2011-03-10 | THE SHAPE OF "THING"s TO COME $500 (Daily Double): This Shakespeare comedy is set in Messina Much Ado About Nothing |
| #6089, aired 2011-02-17 | TEENS & POETRY $400: Capulet, her father, says this Shakespeare heroine "hath not seen the change of fourteen years" Juliet |
| #6080, aired 2011-02-04 | VI PACK $800: Shakespeare wrote not 1, not 2, but 3 plays about this guy Henry VI |
| #6078, aired 2011-02-02 | OSCAR WINNER BEFORE & AFTER $1200: A 1953 musical based on a Shakespeare play becomes an actress who won as a literature-loving Nazi Kiss Me Kate Winslet |
| #6071, aired 2011-01-24 | SAG AWARD FOR MOVIE CAST $800: 1997:
A British tale & a tease of burly burlesque The Full Monty |
| #6065, aired 2011-01-14 | SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGIC ENDINGS $400: Lines from the Prince of Verona end this story of woe Romeo and Juliet |
| #6065, aired 2011-01-14 | SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGIC ENDINGS $800: Lodovico speaks last in this play, addressing Iago as a "Spartan dog" Othello |
| #6065, aired 2011-01-14 | SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGIC ENDINGS $1200: Fortinbras gets the last line in this play: "Go, bid the soldiers shoot" Hamlet |
| #6065, aired 2011-01-14 | SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGIC ENDINGS $1600: Albany, Kent & Edgar are the last speakers in this tragedy King Lear |
| #6065, aired 2011-01-14 | SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGIC ENDINGS $2000: Richmond kills the title king & ends this play saying, "Peace lives again: that she may long live here, God say amen!" Richard III |
| #6064, aired 2011-01-13 | BELOW THE BELT $800: Shakespeare used this term derived from the German to speak to a man's stockings, not a garden device hose |
| #6055, aired 2010-12-31 | LOST $2000: King Ferdinand of Navarre vows to basically set up a 3-year He-Man Woman-Haters Club in this Shakespeare play Love's Labour's Lost |
| #6031, aired 2010-11-29 | SHAKESPEAREAN PORTMANTEAU $400: Shakespeare writes the 11th sequel to the Freddy Krueger horror films Twelfth Nightmare on Elm Street |
| #6031, aired 2010-11-29 | SHAKESPEAREAN PORTMANTEAU $800: Shakespeare believes that there will be an answer for why the prince of Denmark sings a Beatles classic Hamlet It Be |
| #6031, aired 2010-11-29 | SHAKESPEAREAN PORTMANTEAU $1200: Shakespeare tells how a Roman & an Egyptian queen learn to bounce up & down on their new lawn toy Antony and Cleopatrampoline |
| #6031, aired 2010-11-29 | SHAKESPEAREAN PORTMANTEAU $1600: Shakespeare's comedy about a chef who tells a customer it's best to cook steaks until they're like shoe leather All's Well That Ends Well Done |
| #6017, aired 2010-11-09 | COLLEGE HANGOUTS $800: Bring your sonnets to the Rye Bar in Athens, Georgia on Mondays-- it's this "night" for unscheduled performers open mic night |
| #6015, aired 2010-11-05 | 2 OF THE 7 $800: The schoolboy & the soldier, according to Shakespeare the seven ages of man |
| #6007, aired 2010-10-26 | SAD LINES $800: Shakespeare wrote, "a sad tale's best for" this season winter |
| #6000, aired 2010-10-15 | DE METER $400: The meter of Shakespeare's sonnets, it's 10 syllables, unstressed-stressed-unstressed-etc. iambic pentameter |
| #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" |
| #5995, aired 2010-10-08 | SHAKESPEARE'S SETTINGS $200: This play begins at a queen's palace in Alexandria Antony and Cleopatra |
| #5995, aired 2010-10-08 | SHAKESPEARE'S SETTINGS $400: This happy play is set in Athens & a nearby wood where fairies cast their spells A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #5995, aired 2010-10-08 | SHAKESPEARE'S SETTINGS $600 (Daily Double): The courtyard of Inverness is the setting for Act I, Scene vii of this masterpiece Macbeth |
| #5995, aired 2010-10-08 | SHAKESPEARE'S SETTINGS $800: Most of "Hamlet" takes place within this castle Elsinore |
| #5995, aired 2010-10-08 | SHAKESPEARE'S SETTINGS $1000: Most of "As You Like It" takes place in this forest Arden |
| #5985, aired 2010-09-24 | WHO SAID IT, SHAKESPEARE? $200: "Soft you now, the fair Ophelia--nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered" Hamlet |
| #5985, aired 2010-09-24 | WHO SAID IT, SHAKESPEARE? $400: "O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick, thus with a kiss I die" Romeo |
| #5985, aired 2010-09-24 | WHO SAID IT, SHAKESPEARE? $600 (Daily Double): "Here's the smell, of the blood still; all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand" Lady Macbeth |
| #5985, aired 2010-09-24 | WHO SAID IT, SHAKESPEARE? $600: "Thou must be married to no man but me, for I am he am born to tame you, Kate" Petruchio |
| #5985, aired 2010-09-24 | WHO SAID IT, SHAKESPEARE? $800: "Signior Antonio, many a time and oft in the Rialto you have rated me about my moneys and my usances" Shylock |
| #5983, aired 2010-09-22 | POPULAR POETS $800: As Shakespeare was the Sweet this bird of Avon, Anna "Elegy on Captain Cook" Seward was this bird of Lichfield Swan |
| #5981, aired 2010-09-20 | BLARNEY $200: Now applied to Shakespeare, this word referred originally to Celtic minstrel poets bard |
| #5980, aired 2010-09-17 | REALITY SHOWS A LA SHAKESPEARE $200: Heroes & villains abound! Colby, Coach & Rupert doth return to the fray but Boston Rob, the tribe hath spoken Survivor |
| #5980, aired 2010-09-17 | REALITY SHOWS A LA SHAKESPEARE $400: In truth, Rod Blagojevich, thou displeasest me mightily & thy hair scares even me... thou art fired! The Apprentice |
| #5980, aired 2010-09-17 | REALITY SHOWS A LA SHAKESPEARE $600: Rudy, though thou sheddeth 213 lbs. in our 8th season, I am sorry to inform thee, thou art not... The Biggest Loser |
| #5980, aired 2010-09-17 | REALITY SHOWS A LA SHAKESPEARE $800: DJ Pauly D! Arise from thy tanning bed! Ronnie hath come to blows on the boardwalk! Do not tarry! "The Situation" is dire! Jersey Shore |
| #5980, aired 2010-09-17 | REALITY SHOWS A LA SHAKESPEARE $1000: Rogues! Fugitives! Hear me! The Chapmans will track & capture thee from Hawaii to Colorado! This is our (A&E) quest! Dog the Bounty Hunter |
| #5974, aired 2010-07-29 | WHO KILLED ME, SHAKESPEARE? $400: Banquo--this guy who sent the hitmen, though he also got his own hands bloody Macbeth |
| #5974, aired 2010-07-29 | WHO KILLED ME, SHAKESPEARE? $800: Tybalt, who shouldn't have mouthed off Romeo |
| #5974, aired 2010-07-29 | WHO KILLED ME, SHAKESPEARE? $1200: Hamlet Sr., who for a dead guy, is still pretty spry as the ghost Claudius |
| #5974, aired 2010-07-29 | WHO KILLED ME, SHAKESPEARE? $1600: Emilia--her husband, also pretty much responsible for the title guy's suicide Iago |
| #5974, aired 2010-07-29 | WHO KILLED ME, SHAKESPEARE? $2000: Lavinia & Tamora, among others; he's also quite the cook Titus Andronicus |
| #5967, aired 2010-07-20 | BIG "BROTHER" $1000: The title of this WWII-set miniseries is also a phrase from Shakespeare's "Henry V" Band of Brothers |
| #5961, aired 2010-07-12 | WAGES $1000: The BLS says the average annual U.S. wage is $42,270; for these folks, it's $124,750 (first thing, let's kill 'em) lawyers |
| #5958, aired 2010-07-07 | BOOK WORMS $2,000 (Daily Double): It's really a snake, but this Shakespeare queen asks for "the pretty worm of Nilus, that kills and pains not" Cleopatra |
| #5948, aired 2010-06-23 | LITERARY TALES $600: Shakespeare:
"The ____ Tale" Winter's |
| #5932, aired 2010-06-01 | ETCHED IN STONE $200: The inscription on the London statue of this man seen here reads, "There is no darkness but ignorance" Shakespeare |
| #5931, aired 2010-05-31 | PROPHET REPORT $1,000 (Daily Double): Cassandra, a prophetess of Greek myth, also appears in this Shakespeare play Troilus and Cressida |
