What do most people say for “Name a Shakespeare play”?

The usual first answers are Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and A Midsummer Nights Dream. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.

How many answers are there to “Name a Shakespeare play”?

40 in all: 5 on The Tip, 11 Below the Surface, 14 in The Deep, 9 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.

Which answers to “Name a Shakespeare play” are the shortest and the longest?

The shortest accepted answer is “Hamlet” and the longest is “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”.

Culture trivia

Name a Shakespeare play

Everyone has a first answer to “Name a Shakespeare play”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 40 answers are accepted, ranked by how rarely people think of them.

The obvious answers

These are the answers most people give first. They count, but they barely move you: 10 points each.

Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Macbeth
Othello
A Midsummer Nights Dream

The next answers people reach for

These 11 are known, but not the first thing people say. 25 points each:

King Lear
The Tempest
Julius Caesar
Much Ado About Nothing
Twelfth Night
The Merchant of Venice
The Taming of the Shrew
As You Like It
Antony and Cleopatra
Richard III
Henry V

How deep does “Name a Shakespeare play” go?

Level	Accepted answers	Points
The Tip	5	10
Below the Surface	11	25
The Deep	14	50
The Abyss	9	85
Below the Iceberg	1	100

The Deep holds 14 answers starting with A, C, H, L, M, R and T. The Abyss has 9 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.

Inside the answer list

40 answers in total, 33 of them longer than one word.
Shortest: “Hamlet”. Longest: “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”.
T, A and H are the most common first letters; together they start 55% of the answers.
20 answers can be typed more than one way: “All Well That Ends Well” counts as Alls Well That Ends Well.

Getting below the surface

Start with T: 12 of the answers begin with it.
Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Macbeth are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
Art movements and architectural styles have many lesser-known names.

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Quick answers

What do most people say for “Name a Shakespeare play”?: The usual first answers are Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and A Midsummer Nights Dream. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
How many answers are there to “Name a Shakespeare play”?: 40 in all: 5 on The Tip, 11 Below the Surface, 14 in The Deep, 9 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
Which answers to “Name a Shakespeare play” are the shortest and the longest?: The shortest accepted answer is “Hamlet” and the longest is “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”.

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