Statistics for Shakespeare's Life Quiz

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Answer Stats

Hint	Answer	% Correct
Queen	Elizabeth I	96%
Wife	Anne Hathaway	85%
Birth City	Stratford upon Avon	85%
Most Famous Playhouse	The Globe	85%
Genre of play which has a happy ending and a lighter tone	Comedy	81%
Genre of play which has a sad ending and a darker tone	Tragedy	81%
Death Year	1616	74%
England's former national religion, before Henry VIII	Catholicism	70%
King after 1603	James I	70%
Birth Year	1564	67%
Genre of play which emphasizes England's past	History	67%
Age at marriage	18	63%
Child who died early	Hamnet	63%
Preferred Poetic Meter	Iambic Pentameter	63%
Most famous Black character	Othello	63%
Preferred Poem Type	Sonnet	63%
A public health issue which often caused the playhouses to close	The plague	63%
Wife's age at marriage	26	59%
England's national religion after Henry VIII	Church of England	52%
Most overweight character	Falstaff	52%
Youngest lead character (13)	Juliet	52%
Most famous rival playwright	Christopher Marlowe	48%
Most famous magical (fairy) character	Robin Goodfellow (Puck)	48%
Most famous Jewish character	Shylock	44%
Most indecisive character	Hamlet	37%
Birthday (Assumed)	April 23	33%
Father	John Shakespeare	30%
Later Acting Company	King's Men	26%
Mother	Mary Arden	26%
Most famous magical (human) character	Prospero	26%
Item left to his wife in his will	Second best bed	26%
Firstborn child	Susanna	26%
Only Known Education	Grammar School	22%
Baptism Day	April 26	19%
Twin children	Hamnet and Judith	19%
Type of language in which lower-class characters often speak	Prose	19%
Place of burial	Holy Trinity	15%
Church	Holy Trinity	15%
"Poor playhouse attendees"	Groundlings	11%
Lead Company Actor	Richard Burbage	11%
Lost Years	1585-1592	7%
Wrote the Preface to this Publication	Ben Jonson	7%
Primary Acting Company	Chamberlain's Men	7%
Government official who censored plays	Master of the Revels	7%
Posthumous Publication	The First Folio	7%
Most famous portrait	Chandos	4%
Most famous candidate of "Authorship" debate	Edward de Vere (Earl of Oxford)	4%
First two words of the "curse" on his grave	Good Friend	4%
Original Playhouse, torn down and rebuilt in 1599	The Theatre	4%
Lead Comic Actor	William Kempe	4%