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Death by Shakespeare

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Death by Shakespeare game quiz
""Exeunt severally..."Famous Shakespearean characters and their famous deaths. Do you recall how these characters died in the plays?"

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1. An easy one first. The star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet found it impossible to get past the family feuds of the Montagues and Capulets. Finally, both killed themselves, but by what means?
    Self-asphyxiation and poison
    Both jump off the balcony
    Drinking poison and stabbing
    Stabbing and death by fire


2. We all know how Julius Caesar was killed - he was stabbed 33 times on the Ides of March. But Brutus, surely the true protagonist of the play, dies too, before the end. How?
    Swallowing hot coals
    Running onto his sword
    Killed by Mark Antony in revenge
    Catching typhoid and succumbing to it


3. "The Tragedy of King Richard III" tells of the wily and villainous ways of Richard III, and the lengths to which he goes to get the throne. But how does he die?
    Killed in battle by the Earl of Richmond
    Smothered by the Duke of Buckingham
    Killed in his bed by his wife, Queen Anne
    Stabbed in the Tower by the Duke of Norfolk


4. "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark", being a play all about revenge, is bound to have more than a few dead bodies strewn around. Polonius, Lord Chamberlain and father of Ophelia, dies rather unfortunately. How?
    His son Laertes kills him, mistaking his shadow for Hamlet
    Drowning in the stream
    Hamlet kills him, mistaking him for a rat behind the curtain
    He drinks the poisoned cup meant for Queen Gertrude, by mistake


5. And what about Hamlet himself?
    Killed by Fortinbras
    Given a poisoned drink by the King
    Nicked by Laertes' poisoned rapier and killed
    Stabbed by Ophelia


6. Macbeth, arguably Shakespeare's most famous and complex tragic protagonist, commits innumerable murders to get himself to the coveted throne. He's finally killed - how?
    Cursed to death by the three witches
    Stabbed by Lady Macbeth
    Slain in battle by Macduff
    Beheaded by Malcolm


7. "Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale/Her infinite variety," which would perhaps explain Mark Antony's obsession for Cleopatra. But in the end she dies rather famously, too:
    Slain by Octavius Caesar
    Letting herself be stung by killer bees
    Commits suicide by being bitten by an asp
    Swallowing poison


8. "Othello, the Moor of Venice" is also a distrustful and jealous husband, who kills his beloved wife by smothering her. But how does Othello himself die?
    Stabs himself to death
    Killed by Iago, by poison
    Starves himself to death
    Slain in a duel by Cassio


9. "Troilus and Cressida" Shakespeare's rendition of the Trojan War shows different and unusual aspects of the famous Greek heroes Ulysses, Hector, Achilles, Agamemnon... In the play, how does Hector die?
    Beaten to death by Ajax
    Beheaded by Troilus
    Slain by Ulysses
    Ambushed and killed by Achilles and his Myrmidons


10. Finally, in "Antony and Cleopatra", how does Mark Antony die?
    Poisoned by Agrippa
    Killed in battle by Octavius Caesar
    Stabbed by Eros
    Falls on his sword


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Compiled Apr 02 13