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30/11/2015

Bill's Comedies

15 General Knowledge questions indexed by subject matter.  Each answer contains the name of a character from one of Shakespeare's comedies.  Make your choice.

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1.

Football grounds

The Redbrik Estate Agency stand at Sheffield United’s Bramall Lane Ground was known as what between 2012 and 2015?

The Jessica Ennis Stand

Jessica (Shylock’s daughter in The Merchant of Venice)

2.

Businesswomen

Who is this businesswoman, Chief Executive of Trinity Mirror between 2003 and 2012?

Sly Bailey

Christopher Sly (a tinker from The Taming of the Shrew)

3.

Nonsense poems

In a famous nonsense poem what did the eponymous characters eat after being “married next day by the turkey who lives on the hill”?

“….mince, and slices of quince….”

(in The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear)

Peter Quince (carpenter in A Midsummer Night’s Dream)

4.

1990s films

Starring actors Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston and Kerry Fox, in which film did Danny Boyle make his directorial debut?

Shallow Grave

Shallow (a country Justice in The Merry Wives of Windsor)

5.

US actresses

Who is this celebrated American film, TV and stage actress?

Viola Davis

Viola (heroine of Twelfth Night)

6.

TV theme tunes

To which 1990s TV show is this the theme?  (click to play)

Bottom

Nick Bottom (a weaver in A Midsummer Night’s Dream)

7.

Cricket

What is the modern term for a lower order batsman promoted up the order in one-day cricket to move the score along more rapidly?

Pinch hitter

Pinch (a schoolmaster in A Comedy of Errors)

8.

Ivor Novello award winners

What’s the name of the group performing this song that won the 2009 Ivor Novello award for Best Contemporary Song?  (click to play)

Elbow

(Grounds for Divorce)

Elbow (a simple constable in The Merchant of Venice)

9.

Logos

Of which popular product is this the brand logo?

Ariel detergent

Ariel (an airy spirit in The Tempest)

10.

Celebrity daughters

Who is this 12 year old daughter of a very famous father?

Beatrice McCartney

Beatrice (heroine of Much Ado About Nothing)

11.

Rudyard Kipling books

What is the name of the fantasy book written by Rudyard Kipling and published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of English history?

Puck of Pook’s Hill

Puck (a mischievous elf from A Midsummer Night’s Dream)

12.

Greenwich

What was on display to the public in a purpose built dry dock next to Cutty Sark at Greenwich between 1972 and 2006.  After renovation it is now to be seen upriver in St Katharine’s Dock?

Gypsy Moth IV

(yacht sailed round the world in 1966/7 by Sir Francis Chichester)

Moth (a page in Love’s Labours Lost)

13.

Soap operas

Which well known English character actor was a member of the cast of Coronation Street for 6 months in 2009 and 2010 playing the character of George Wilson, Peter Barlow’s late wife Lucy’s father?

Anthony Valentine

Valentine (one of the Two Gentlemen of Verona)

14.

Physical constants

What physical constant is commonly denoted as c and has a value of approximately 3.00 × 108 m/s?

Speed of light

Speed (Valentine’s servant in Two Gentlemen of Verona)

15.

Midlands cobblers

In 1823 a Midlands-based cobbler made something that was used by the local school.  It is now used across the globe and has been much in evidence recently.  What is it?

Rugby ball

(the cobbler was called William Gilbert and the local school was Rugby School)

Rugby (servant to Dr Caius in The Merry Wives of Windsor)