Q 01/05

Which teen film starring Julia Stiles resets The Taming of the Shrew in an American high school?

A) Fast Times at Ridgemont High

B) 10 Things I Hate About You

C) Save the Last Dance

D) Never Been Kissed

Answer · why

B) 10 Things I Hate About You

10 Things I Hate About You gave Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger and Joseph Gordon-Levitt their breakthrough roles, with Stiles as the sharp-tongued Kat Str...

Q 02/05

Which Cole Porter musical about actors staging The Taming of the Shrew takes its title from Petruchio's words?

A) Kiss Me, Kate

B) Anything Goes

C) Can-Can

D) Silk Stockings

Answer · why

A) Kiss Me, Kate

Kiss Me, Kate won the first Tony Award for Best Musical. Its plot follows a divorced pair of actors who feud backstage while playing the leads, and it...

Q 03/05

Which famous married couple played Katherina and Petruchio in the 1967 film of The Taming of the Shrew?

A) Leigh and Olivier

B) Woodward and Newman

C) Taylor and Burton

D) Bacall and Bogart

Answer · why

C) Taylor and Burton

Taylor and Burton were both nominated for BAFTAs for their performances. Elizabeth Taylor, who had never acted in Shakespeare before, also helped to p...

Q 04/05

In which Italian university city do Katherina and Bianca live with their father in The Taming of the Shrew?

A) Bologna

B) Venice

C) Milan

D) Padua

Answer · why

D) Padua

Padua is praised by the newly arrived Lucentio as a nursery of arts. He has come there to study, but falls for Bianca on sight instead.

Q 05/05

In The Taming of the Shrew, what does Petruchio force Katherina to call the sun shining overhead?

A) The moon

B) A star

C) A comet

D) A lantern

Answer · why

A) The moon

The moon it is, she says at last, and when he changes his mind she agrees it is the sun again, promising that whatever he names it shall be so for her...