Are you clever enough to watch a Tom Stoppard play? - Quiz

[ColinJ]

I am clever enough to know that I don't want to watch plays that I'd have to be really clever to understand!

 

[subaqua]

5/7. and I knew the answers rather than guessed.

looks like I had a better English edumacation than I thought I did. just goes to show not passing the "o level/GCSE " didn't actually matter.

 

[accountantpete]

5/7 - Guesses apart from Syd and Turgenev

 

[ACS]

5/7 which surprises me considerably as I have never really progressed much beyoned the Beano

 

[KEEF]

7 I am Tom Stoppard

 

[Mrs M]

3

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

6/7
It would have been 7/8 if there had been a supplementary question of "Is Tom Stoppard a nobber?"

 

[PaulSecteur]

I`ld like to flip this round a little.

Tom Stoppard, do you know...

1- The correct torque to apply to a cassette lock ring?
2- The technique to remove tyres without tyre levers?
3- Which side has the pedal with the unusual thread direction?
4- How to adjust a headset?
5- Rule 5?
6- How much float you get with yellow SPD-SL cleats?
7- The correct length of sock to create that pro cyclist look?

 

[Profpointy]

6/7
It would have been 7/8 if there had been a supplementary question of "Is Tom Stoppard a nobber?"

Just idle curiosity, but do you have a reason, or just random flippancy?

 

[Slioch]

3/7. But who's Tom Stoppard and is it important?

 

[rich p]

I saw Jumpers, and Rosencrantz and Guildernstern, many moons ago at the National. Loved 'em, you fecking bunch of two-wheeled philistines

 

[Profpointy]

I saw Jumpers, and Rosencrantz and Guildernstern, many moons ago at the National. Loved 'em, you fecking bunch of two-wheeled philistines

I loved the film of Rosencrantz & Guilderstern - even though I'd not then seen Hamlet, so I didn't follow exactly what was happening. Saw it again on stage in an excellent production in town - this time after seeing Hamlet. Maybe Stoppard is a bit on the "clever" side, but so what when it's so entertaining; it's perfectly "accessible" ? I particularly enjoyed a TV play I saw in the 70s - professional foul, about philosophers at a conference in eastern Europe (during the cold war). Various antics ensue, whilst the lead character is treating it as an excuse to bunk off to a football game. I've never seen a Stoppard I've not thoroughly enjoyed. Arcadia's another great one.

 

[jayonabike]

I didn't even read the questions and got 5/7!

 

[Crackle]

I may have read Rosenpoop and wotsit as part of doing Hamlet but I don't recall. Alas poor memory.....

 

[Profpointy]

I may have read Rosenpoop and wotsit as part of doing Hamlet but I don't recall. Alas poor memory.....

get the dvd, it's great !