Week 1 Answers
| Date | Season | Play |
Location [1] | Main Picture [2] | Secondary Picture [1] | Riddle / Rhyme [2] | First Anagram [2] | Second Anagram [2] |
| 1st | Spring | Hamlet | Elsinore | Maxine Peake / Plus many others to play Hamlet before her | Lion King partly based on Hamlet / Tragedy? Death of father by uncle (but Lion King ends happily?) | 1st Printed Copy (First Quarto): ‘To be or not to be, I there’s the point’ instead of 'that is the question' (Also appears at a different 'point' in the play.) | Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet | Kronborg Castle |
| 2nd | Spring | Henry V | Macedon | Enguerrand de Monstrelet / Saint Crispin's Day | Laurence Olivier Film Version | 'Pistol' tells of Falstaff's death / 'Gower' last speaks "Sir John Falstaff" | Hundred Years War | This Wooden O |
| 3rd | Spring | Tempest | Carthage | Sea Venture 1610 (Inspired 'The Tempest') | Ariel (Washing Liquid Logo) | (Ariel?), Miranda, Caliban, Sycorax, Prospero, Stephano, Trinculo, Francisco, Ferdinand, Setebos / Uranus moons | Prospera (Helen Mirren) | Duke of Milan |
| 4th | Spring | Othello | Venice | Catch My Soul (1974) directed by Patrick McGoohan | Iago (wears heart upon sleeve) | Mackaw called Iago / Red Lory Parrot | green eyed monster | Ira Aldridge (First black Othello) |
| 5th | Spring | Pericles | Mytilene | Marina (Mute mermaid character from Stingray) / Pericles' daughter? | John Gower | (Pericles is) missing from (the) First Folio / leading to persistent doubts about its authorship | Temple of Diana | Prince of Tyre |
| 6th | Spring | King John | Touraine | Peter Ustinov (Prince John) & Terry Thomas (Sir Hiss) | Richard Burton (as Philip the Bastard, Old Vic) | Philip the Bastard / Sir Richard Plantagenet | City of Angiers | Magna Carta |
| 7th | Spring | Henry VIII | Toledo | Stage canon & 29/06/1613 | Margerine of Aragon | John Fletcher / John Ryan (who wrote Captain Pugwash) / Both linked with Rye (East Sussex) | All Is True (Alternate Title) | Divorced Beheaded |