William Shakespeare

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# Clue Answer As Given Value Round Category Air Date Show
"The English Terence"--oh, & also "The Swan of Avon" Shakespeare $400 DJ OLD POETS' NICKNAMES 2017-10-26 #7619
His sonnet No. 19 begins, "Devouring time, blunt thou the lion's paws" Shakespeare $400 DJ POETRY TIME 2009-10-20 #5772
One of his sonnets begins,"Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments" Shakespeare $400 DJ WAXING POETIC 2008-12-22 #5591
"So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee" Shakespeare $1,600 DJ NAME THE POET 2007-02-19 #5171
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" Shakespeare $400 J NAME THAT POET 2007-02-12 #5166
A rural legend says he wrote a nasty ballad about Sir Thomas Lucy after being caught poaching on Lucy's land William Shakespeare $1,200 DJ POETIC LICENSE 2002-05-06 #4081
In 1630 John Milton wrote a sonnet honoring this other famous sonneteer William Shakespeare $200 J POETS & POETRY 1999-06-11 #3415
One reason he is not buried in Westminster Abbey is his epitaph, which concludes, "Curst be he that moves my bones" William Shakespeare (he's buried at Stratford) FJ POETS' CORNER 1999-01-28 #3319
His first of 154 sonnets begins "From fairest creatures we desire increase" Shakespeare $200 DJ POETRY 1995-09-29 #2545
The Bard who asked, "Who is Silvia? What is she, that all our swains commend her?" Shakespeare $200 DJ POETRY 1993-10-21 #2099
This playwright's 1593 poem "Venus and Adonis" is called "Ovidian" because it was inspired by Ovid Shakespeare $1,000 DJ ENGLISH POETRY 1993-01-15 #1930
One of his sonnets begins, "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" William Shakespeare $600 DJ POETS & POETRY 1991-10-04 #1630
Author of "Take, O Take Those Lips Away", "Hark. Hark! the Lark!" & "Shall I Compare Thee" William Shakespeare $1,000 DJ POETRY 1990-03-07 #1278
Generations of scholars have yet to figure out the identity of the "Mr. W.H." to whom he dedicated his sonnets Shakespeare $800 DJ POETRY 1985-05-20 #181
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