Trivial Pursuit

[Martin]

Sorry JR just on here a few times a day mostly at lunchtime strangely enough. Mr Lettuce is right.

[Big J R]

Come on Crispy. Your go !!

[Barry Scott]

bugger, now I must think....

 

what's the a.b.v. content of a can of normal carling lager?

[Martin]

4.0%?

[Barry Scott]

close...

[Martin]

I was tempted to say 4.1%

[Mark (Flag) Braintree]

4.2%

[Barry Scott]

you go martin

[Martin]

Which is the shortest Shakespeare play?

[chris blanc]

Comedy of errors?

[Martin]

 

Nope

[David Holden]

Hamlet

[Martin]

Not Hamlet.

[David Holden]

You are right, Hamlet is the longest Ooops <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

 

Mind you having checked I found this:

 

Quote:

Which of Shakespeare's plays has the most lines? Which is the shortest play?

 

According to research conducted by noted Shakespearean scholar Tucker Brooke, Hamlet has the most lines (3924 lines) and The Comedy of Errors has the fewest (1770 lines). Macbeth is the shortest tragedy (with 1993 lines).

[chris blanc]

So I was right?

[Martin]

Well you see when I am hard pressed for a question I take it from a newspaper in the office. The answer they gave was not The Comedy of Errors but I suppose this could be down to semantics. Is the shortest play the one with the fewest lines or the one with the shortest running time?

 

Anyway, the answer I had was Macbeth. But I will hand it over to Chris for the next question.

[David Holden]

Quote:

Is the shortest play the one with the fewest lines or the one with the shortest running time?

Wouldn't that depend on how fast they talk? <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/alk.gif" alt="" />

[Martin]

True. Given that they did the complete works of Shakespeare in a couple of hours....

 

Equally I suppose it could be to do with fewest words....

 

 

But anyway, we need a new question

[Big J R]

Waiting for Chris Blanc, then ?

[chris blanc]

OK, sorry about the wait.

 

Continueing the theme, What was the first name of the real Lady Macbeth?