Comments on: Weekend Quiz: A Man Walks into a Bard

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:04:21 +0000

I missed three, all from Othello. Well, I guess it is time to pick up Othello again. I don’t mean to be a total nebbish (did, I use that phrase correctly?) but I must say, I wouldn’t consider most of these phrases to be a part of common parlance. How about: “I know which way the wind blows”; “hoisted by your own petard”; “methinks the lady doth protest too much”; “nothing comes from nothing”; “sound and fury”; “what’s done is done”; the “green eyed monster”; wear your “heart on your sleeve”. (By the way, I know that I have parapharsed the quotes, but you get the idea.) These phrase all came from those four plays.

By: Dennis M

Dennis M — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:03:56 +0000

Retired English teacher : 100%

For Quotes I didn’t remember verbatim, the plots and themes helped match the quote to the correct play.

By: Brett

Brett — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 15:42:05 +0000

At the risk of sounding both presumptuous and self-promotional, I’m going to comment on my own quiz:

Am I the only one that would kill to see Johnny Depp’s Hamlet? If Mel Gibson can do it (poorly) at 44, Johnny’s still got time.

Two other actors I would have LOVED to have seen play Hamlet- Gene Wilder and Peter Sellers.

Kay- It’s perfectly acceptable to throw a “methinks” around now and again…sometimes it just FEELS right, methinks.

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 05:03:17 +0000

I didn’t know any of the phrases, but I got 70% by just thinking of which play they would make the most sense in.

By: Abby

Abby — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:12:59 +0000

I have been unable to do anything right today,except for this quiz! So, I don’t feel at all bad for bragging: I got a perfect score!! Suck it Trebeck!! Thank you Mental Floss for making my day a bit brighter.

By: Taylor S.

Taylor S. — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:17:43 +0000

i did horrible (30%) but loved reading the explanations. good stuff!!

By: Manny

Manny — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:16:07 +0000

Great quiz! Love to see Bill Shakespeare on here. Brett Savage has covered two of my loves in his last two quizzes- The Bard and 1980’s cinema. I’m an enigma.

By: mri

mri — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:14:30 +0000

only 50%

at least i did better than the current average of 39%, but sheesh!!!

By: kay

kay — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 19:11:41 +0000

is it bad that i actually DO resort to the occasional “methinks” in everyday speech?
…i’m kind of a shakespeare nut.(although marlowe, ford, webster, & co. get short shrift when it comes to discussing elizabethan and jacobean/carolinean theatre…)