Statistics for Six-Letter Shakespeare Chain

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
"To be or not to be." Arguably his most popular play.	Hamlet	100%
Shakespeare wrote 154 of these.	Sonnet	98%
The ___ of the Shrew	Taming	98%
The Comedy of ___	Errors	93%
The setting of Romeo and Juliet - "fair ___, where we lay our scene."	Verona	84%
Troilus and Cressida is set against the backdrop of this war.	{Trojan} War	80%
Nationality of Claudius, Gertrude and Horatio.	Danish	68%
Court jester whose skull is famously held aloft.	Yorick	68%
Juliet's hot-headed cousin, the Prince of Cats.	Tybalt	64%
City, one-time home to the manhater Timon.	Athens	63%
King of Scotland, killed by Macbeth.	Duncan	54%
The Two Noble Kinsmen is based on this one of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.	The {Knight}'s Tale	50%
Anonymous history play of 1596, thought by some to be Shakespeare's.	{Edward} III	48%
Country of Fortinbras.	Norway	45%
This Russian-born American sci-fi writer also published a two-volume guide to Shakespeare in 1970.	Isaac Asimov	41%
Illyrian countess. Loved by Orsino, loves Cesario, marries Sebastian.	Olivia	30%
Bastard son of Gloucester, half-brother of Edgar.	Edmund	29%
An archaic form of 'uncle' used frequently by Lear's fool.	Nuncle	25%
Identical servant twins, one from Syracuse and one from Ephesus.	Dromio	16%
One of the most popular alternative Shakespearean authorship candidates. He died in 1604, at least seven years before Shakespeare's last plays are thought to have been written.	Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of {Oxford}	16%
"Love and constancy is dead." Arguably his least popular poem.	The Phoenix and the {Turtle}	14%
Shakespeare's contemporary, who called him an "upstart crow" in his Groats-Worth of Wit.	Robert Greene	11%
In The Tempest, the King of Naples who aided Antonio in usurping Prospero's dukedom.	Alonso	9%
Lady of Milan, the unwilling object of inconstant Proteus's affections in The Two Gentlemen of Verona.	Silvia	7%