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Hamlet Trivia

Hamlet Trivia Quizzes

'The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark' is Shakespeare's longest play, and contains more than its fair share of quotable quotes. Both on stage and on screen, the role of Hamlet has drawn the finest actors like moths to a flame.

21 Hamlet quizzes and 252 Hamlet trivia questions.

Alas Poor Yorick popular trivia quiz

Fun Fill-It

12 Qns

A Monologue from Hamlet

Anyone who knows Shakespeare will have heard at least the opening line from Hamlet's monologue.

Very Easy, 12 Qns, Luckycharm60, Apr 16 24

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Luckycharm60

Apr 16 24
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To Blank or Not to Blank popular trivia quiz

Fun Fill-It

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The 'to be or not to be' speech from 'Hamlet' is one of the most famous lines in literature but how well do you know the rest of the speech? In this quiz see if you can fill in the missing words from opening section.

Very Easy, 10 Qns, Stoaty, Jun 27 23

Very Easy
Stoaty

Jun 27 23
577 plays

"Hamlet" Do you know the text ? best quiz

Multiple Choice

25 Qns

All the questions in this quiz are based upon the characters and the action in Shakepeare's most famous tragedy "Hamlet".

Average, 25 Qns, Philian, Aug 31 21

Recommended for grades: 10,11,12

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Philian
Aug 31 21
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Easy Hamlet Quiz popular trivia quiz

Multiple Choice

10 Qns

An easier quiz on the play Hamlet.

Easier, 10 Qns, ladymacb29, Aug 22 02

Recommended for grades: 10,11,12

Easier
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Hamlet - Bodies, bodies, everywhere... popular trivia quiz

Multiple Choice

10 Qns

If 'body count' is the measure of a 'tragedy,' "Hamlet" scores an A+. How well do you know the Shakespearean 'unliving?'

Average, 10 Qns, rblayer, Nov 04 11

Recommended for grades: 10,11,12

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9 for 10 - Hamlet best quiz

Multiple Choice

10 Qns

Here are nine quotes from Shakespeare's "Hamlet". Most of them are spoken by Hamlet himself. The first letters of the answers to questions one to nine spell the answer to the last question.

Average, 10 Qns, minch, Sep 13 06

Recommended for grades: 10,11,12

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Hamlet

Multiple Choice

10 Qns

This is about one of my favorite Shakespearian plays, 'Hamlet' Good luck.

Average, 10 Qns, PearlQ19, Aug 03 13

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Shakespeare's Hamlet

Multiple Choice

15 Qns

"Hamlet" is considered by many to be William Shakespeare's finest work. It not only builds drama and tension until the last scene, but exhibits a mature understanding of the human psyche.

Average, 15 Qns, Bernstein, Jul 21 16

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What Did Hamlet Say? top quiz

Multiple Choice

10 Qns

Hamlet's the one who said "To be or not to be / That is the question" and "Alas, poor Yorick"--right? But, that's not the question or the answer in this quiz. What did Hamlet say in these situations, taken in the order they appear?

Average, 10 Qns, nannywoo, Nov 27 12

Recommended for grades: 10,11,12

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To Be or not to Be? What a question!

Multiple Choice

15 Qns

This quiz is on the Shakespeare play, "Hamlet". The questions range from quote identification to general questions about the play. The last one is for Simpsons fans!

Average, 15 Qns, fairy75, Sep 07 08

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Quick Question

Who was responsible for Gertrude's death?

From Quiz "Hamlet - Bodies, bodies, everywhere..."

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Good Night Sweet Prince great trivia quiz

Multiple Choice

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So, you think Shakespeare is boring? Why not try reading 'Hamlet' - a play full of people dying in a variety of ways. This quiz will test your memory on how the characters meet their demise.

Average, 10 Qns, Bethannieh, Jun 24 13

Recommended for grades: 10,11,12

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Quotes from Hamlet great trivia quiz

Multiple Choice

10 Qns

You all had to read it in school, let's see if you can remember who said what!

Tough, 10 Qns, ladymacb29, Apr 16 07

Recommended for grades: 10,11,12

Tough
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6486 plays

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"Goodnight, Sweet Prince "- A Hamlet Quiz

Multiple Choice

25 Qns

How well do you know "Hamlet"? Take this quiz and find out.

Average, 25 Qns, Fiachra, Aug 31 21

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Fiachra
Aug 31 21
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The Melancholy Dane great trivia quiz

Multiple Choice

10 Qns

This quiz is all about Hamlet. You know his famous lines, but do you know to whom these lines are spoken? That is the real question.

Average, 10 Qns, gumbysgal, May 01 09

Recommended for grades: 10,11,12

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"Hamlet" Scenes

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Think you may know "Hamlet?" But how familiar are you with the play's acts and scenes?

Average, 10 Qns, shs05, Jun 05 12

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Who Said It In "Hamlet" popular trivia quiz

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I hope you know your "Hamlet"!

Tough, 10 Qns, fife4, Jul 25 18

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Eminently Quotable Hamlet popular trivia quiz

Multiple Choice

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Hamlet must have had too many cups of mead at the Wedding feast and has forgotten his lines. Can you find the missing word at the end of these famous quotations?

Average, 10 Qns, MadBee, Oct 21 09

Recommended for grades: 10,11,12

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MadBee
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"Hamlet": To be or not to be?

Multiple Choice

10 Qns

I just finished reading "Hamlet" for the first time for my AP English class and I believe that it is definitely one of Shakespeare's best plays.

Average, 10 Qns, goldenmelody, Nov 02 10

Recommended for grades: 10,11,12

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Hamlet: The Minor Characters

Multiple Choice

10 Qns

Everyone knows about Shakespeare's famous melancholy Danish prince and other main characters who populate his play. But did you know that the play holds over thirty roles at minimum? Test your knowledge on some of the play's forgotten characters!

Average, 10 Qns, Miles2Go, Sep 15 12

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One on One with Hamlet

Multiple Choice

10 Qns

Stretch your "Hamlet" knowledge by recalling the lines Hamlet traded with another character in the play.

Average, 10 Qns, shs05, Apr 01 10

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Finish the quote: "Hamlet"

Multiple Choice

10 Qns

I love, love, love "Hamlet"! And Kenneth Branagh? Whoa boy! That's a good movie experience. This is just a simple test of "Hamlet" knowledge... well, maybe not *simple.*

Average, 10 Qns, Bloom-girl, Apr 29 03

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Hamlet Trivia Questions

1. At the start of the play, Hamlet meets the ghost of his father - who is also called Hamlet. How did King Hamlet die?

From Quiz Good Night Sweet Prince

Answer: Poison was poured in his ear

Hamlet Senior was murdered. Whilst he was sleeping, poison was poured into his ear. His ghost asks Prince Hamlet to avenge his murder by Claudius - setting in motion the course of the tragedy and the long list of deaths that follow.

2. In Act 1 of "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, when King Claudius calls Hamlet his cousin and his son, what is Hamlet's reply?

From Quiz What Did Hamlet Say?

Answer: "A little more than kin and less than kind."

Act 1, Scene 2, line 65. When Hamlet cryptically says "less than kind" he is using a pun, because in Early Modern English "kind" could mean "natural" or "lawful" in addition to the meanings we would take from the phrase in Modern English. Hamlet feels the marriage of his mother and his paternal uncle is unnatural, as is being "kin" in two ways. Once alone, Hamlet speaks the line "My father's brother, but no more like my father / Than I to Hercules" (1.2.152-153) but does so in a soliloquy, not to the king's face. The other quotations are from Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" (2.2.73) and "A Midsummer's Night's Dream" (1.1.61).

3. Everyone knows that Hamlet is visited by the ghost of his father-- what is that ghost's name?

From Quiz Hamlet: The Minor Characters

Answer: Hamlet

Hamlet's father- the ghost- is also named Hamlet. Some have even argued that the play's title might refer to the ghost rather than the main character.

4. In Act 1, Scene 2, Hamlet replied "A little more than kin, and less than kind" when which character greeted him?

From Quiz One on One with Hamlet

Answer: Claudius

Claudius did not realize how resentful Hamlet truly was about the marriage to his mother, Queen Gertrude. Hamlet acknowledged the forced connection Claudius tried to make about Hamlet being his son and established the reigning angry attitude towards Claudius throughout the play.

5. In Act 1, Scene 1 what are the names of the guard on duty?

From Quiz "Hamlet" Scenes

Answer: Bernardo and Francisco

Bernardo and Francisco open the play with their guard scene. They are the first to see the ghost of Hamlet's father. They are trusted and held in regard by Hamlet, considering ghost sighting isn't that common an occurrence.

6. 'Frailty, thy name is _____.'

From Quiz Eminently Quotable Hamlet

Answer: Woman

Act 1, scene 2. Hamlet is lamenting the fact that his Mother has married his Uncle in such haste, seeing it as a sign of moral weakness.

7. Hamlet speaks this quotation to which character? Hamlet: "Come, come and sit you down; you shall not budge; you go not until I set up a glass where you may see the inmost part of you."

From Quiz The Melancholy Dane

Answer: Gertrude

This quotation comes from Act III, scene iv, the closet scene, in which Hamlet confronts his mother Gertrude about her behavior with the king.

8. What was Hamlet's father's name?

From Quiz "Hamlet": To be or not to be?

Answer: Hamlet

As the play begins, Hamlet's father has recently died.

9. Who, in "Hamlet" said: "I cannot choose but weep."?

From Quiz Who Said It In "Hamlet"

Answer: Ophelia

This quote occurs during Ophelia's mad confrontation with Gertrude.

10. What is Polonius's official title?

From Quiz Shakespeare's Hamlet

Answer: Lord Chamberlain

A tip to novice Shakespearians: always read "Dramatis Personae" before delving into the text.

11. Does the play open in the day or night?

From Quiz "Goodnight, Sweet Prince "- A Hamlet Quiz

Answer: Night

There is a tangible tension. Guards are edgy on the battlements, glad to be relieved of duty in the biting cold. A very skeptical Horatio has joined them or, as he puts it himself, "A piece of him" is there. Why is he skeptical? He doubts the appearance of a ghost.

12. Which two of the guards on the battlements at Elsinore were together when they saw the ghost that they tell Horatio about?

From Quiz "Hamlet" Do you know the text ?

Answer: Bernado and Marcellus

Francisco has just gone off duty. It was during the hours when Bernardo and Marcellus kept watch that the ghost had started to appear.

13. Who are the two guards on patrol in the very beginning of Act I, scene one?

From Quiz To Be or not to Be? What a question!

Answer: Francisco and Bernardo

Francisco and Barnardo are later joined by Horatio and Marcellus. Barnardo: "Well, good night. If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, the rivals of my watch, bid them make haste."

14. "Oh, day and _____, but this is wonderous strange!"

From Quiz Finish the quote: "Hamlet"

Answer: night

Said by Horatio, the only character not to die.

15. What are the first words Hamlet speaks in the play?

From Quiz Hamlet

Answer: "A little more than kin and less than kind"

Hamlet shows his disapproval of Claudius' marriage with his mother and expresses that he doesn't feel like a 'cousin' of Claudius at all.

16. Who is Hamlet (the main character)?

From Quiz Easy Hamlet Quiz

Answer: Prince of Denmark

His parents were the King and Queen.

17. Who said the following: 'Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue'?

From Quiz Quotes from Hamlet

Answer: Hamlet

Act III, scene 4

18. Polonius is a courtier. How does he die?

From Quiz Good Night Sweet Prince

Answer: He is stabbed while hiding behind a curtain.

Hamlet sees someone hiding behind a curtain. When the figure speaks, he thinks it is his Uncle Claudius, and stabs at the figure with his sword. Unfortunately it turns out to be Polonius, who has been sneakily eavesdropping. Polonius does not only spy on Hamlet. He also spies on his own daughter, Ophelia and has a servant spy on his son, Laertes.

19. When Shakespeare's Hamlet and his friend Horatio discuss the hasty marriage of Hamlet's mother to his Uncle Claudius soon after his father's funeral, what does Hamlet ironically propose as the reason?

From Quiz What Did Hamlet Say?

Answer: thrift

Act 1, Scene 2, line 147. "Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral baked meats / Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables." In other words, they did it so they could use the leftovers. Drunkenness, revenge, and impending war all are discussed in the play, but in this scene Hamlet and Horatio are joking bitterly about the unseemliness of the hasty wedding, and Hamlet is being sarcastic.

20. The minor character of Fortinbras invades Denmark from Norway. Much like Hamlet, his father- a king- has just died. What was Fortinbras' father's name?

From Quiz Hamlet: The Minor Characters

Answer: Fortinbras

Fortinbras is also named after his father- another similarity that Fortinbras and Hamlet share.

21. Hamlet greeted which person as being a "fishmonger?"

From Quiz One on One with Hamlet

Answer: Polonius

Polonius and Claudius wondered if Hamlet was acting crazy or truly was crazy, so Polonius walked in on Hamlet and asked him, "Do you know me?" Hamlet replied, "Excellently well. You are a fishmonger." Ian Holm and Mel Gibson handled this scene quite well in the 1990 movie version.

22. In Act 2, Scene 2 with whom does Hamlet discuss "words, words, words?"

From Quiz "Hamlet" Scenes

Answer: Polonius

Polonius seeks Hamlet out to determine if Hamlet is truly mad or simply acting out a pretense. Shakespeare shows his aptitude for subtle humor with this exchange, "What do you read, my lord?" "Words, words, words." Hamlet delights in messing with the old man's brains in this scene by twisting and turning words and phrases during their exchange, making them so nonsensical they are logical.

23. 'To sleep, perchance to _____?'

From Quiz Eminently Quotable Hamlet

Answer: Dream

Act 3, scene 1. This is of course from the 'To be, or not to be...' soliloquy - probably the best known of all of Shakespeare's speeches. Hamlet is contemplating death and wondering if it is a kind of sleep - but if so, are there dreams in the afterlife?

24. Driving the plot of the entire play, to whom does Hamlet speak this quotation? Hamlet: "Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift as meditation or the thoughts of love, may sweep to my revenge."

From Quiz The Melancholy Dane

Answer: Ghost

A famous line from Act I, scene v, when Hamlet finds out that his father has been murdered by his uncle and he implores the ghost to tell him more so that he may get revenge on his uncle.

25. Who says this memorable line: "Something's rotten in the state of Denmark"?

From Quiz "Hamlet": To be or not to be?

Answer: Marcellus

Marcellus is a guard of the royal castle in Denmark.

26. Who, in "Hamlet" said: "I am more an antique Roman than a Dane. Yet here's some liquor left."?

From Quiz Who Said It In "Hamlet"

Answer: Horatio

Said by Horatio during Hamlet's death scene.

27. Who speaks the first line of the play?

From Quiz Shakespeare's Hamlet

Answer: Bernardo

Yes, Act I, Scene I. Enter Bernardo and Francisco, two sentinels. Bernardo: "Who's there?"

28. Which character went mad before drowning?

From Quiz Hamlet - Bodies, bodies, everywhere...

Answer: Ophelia

Hamlet's brief love interest, Ophelia was the recipient of the famous rejection, "Get thee to a nunnery."

29. Apart from the careful watch that is now kept each night what other sign of impending war with Young Fortinbras of Norway has Marcellus noted?

From Quiz "Hamlet" Do you know the text ?

Answer: Men working on ships by both day and night.

Marcelleus talks about the "impress of shipwrights" - suggesting continuous forced labour. There is no mention of gunpowder, though we are told that new cannon are being cast. Generally there is a feeling that there is no difference between a week day and a Sunday and there is little difference between day and night - the war-work goes on.

30. Whom does Prince Hamlet see on the ramparts and what does it tell him?

From Quiz To Be or not to Be? What a question!

Answer: His father; King Claudius murdered him.

"O wicked wit and gifts that so have the power so to seduce!" Old King Hamlet was murdered by King Claudius with poison in the ear. The people of Denmark were told that Old King Hamlet died of a snake bite.

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