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How much do you really know about the great Dane? Find out here.
1) What is the name of the Danish castle where Hamlet is set?
Dunsinane
Elsinore
Fredensborg
Rosenborg
2) Who is Hamlet mourning at the start of the play?
His father
His brother
Yorick
His sister
3) Which character speaks the following lines in the play? - 'This above all, to thine own self be true, / And it must follow as the night the day / Thou canst not then be false to any man'
Claudius
Horatio
Polonius
Gertrude
4) Which of the following actors has never starred as Hamlet in a film version of the play?
Mel Gibson
Laurence Olivier
Kenneth Branagh
Michael Caine
5) How many characters die in the final scene of Hamlet?
Two
Three
Four
Five
6) What characteristic is generally considered to be Hamlet's 'fatal flaw'?
Greed
Procrastination
Envy
Ambition
7) How did Hamlet's uncle murder his father?
In a sword fight
By pouring a vial of poison into his ear
By pushing him from a battlement
By poisoning his drink
8) Complete the famous quote from Hamlet, spoken by Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern: 'I am but mad north-northwest. When the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a.... '
Handsaw
Herring
Pigeon
Hippopotamus
9) Who wrote the play 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead', based on the two minor characters from Hamlet?
William Shakespeare
Alan Bennett
Samuel Beckett
Tom Stoppard
10) What are Hamlet's last words before he dies?
'Go, bid the soldiers shoot'
'The rest is silence'
'To be or not to be, that is the question'
'The King, the King's to blame'
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