Q 01/05

Which character in As You Like It, a gloomy exile who weeps over a wounded deer, delivers 'All the world's a stage'?

A) Touchstone

B) Duke Senior

C) Jaques

D) Orlando

Answer · why

C) Jaques

Jaques is a hanger-on of the banished duke who takes no part in the plot and simply comments on it. When the others head back to court at the end, he ...

Q 02/05

A moon named after Rosalind from As You Like It, spotted by Voyager 2 in 1986, orbits which planet?

A) Neptune

B) Saturn

C) Jupiter

D) Uranus

Answer · why

D) Uranus

Uranus counts Rosalind among a group of small inner moons with similar orbits, alongside Juliet, Portia and Desdemona.

Q 03/05

Charles, a court champion in As You Like It, says the banished duke lives in the forest like which English outlaw?

A) Robin Hood

B) Dick Turpin

C) Hereward the Wake

D) Fulk FitzWarin

Answer · why

A) Robin Hood

Robin Hood is invoked in the opening scene, where young gentlemen are said to flock to the duke's merry men and pass the time without a care.

Q 04/05

Kenneth Branagh's 2006 film of As You Like It moves the action to a 19th-century European colony in which country?

A) India

B) Japan

C) Kenya

D) Brazil

Answer · why

B) Japan

Japan after the Meiji Restoration is the backdrop, though filming took place at Shepperton Studios and in the gardens of Wakehurst Place.

Q 05/05

In the 'All the world's a stage' speech from As You Like It, all the men and women are merely what?

A) Shadows

B) Puppets

C) Dreamers

D) Players

Answer · why

D) Players

Players was the Elizabethan word for actors, and the speech goes on to give each person exits, entrances and many parts in a single lifetime.