Quick pop quiz!

[conuly]

Just off the top of your head, and without double checking, how many Shakespeare quotes can you recite?

Determining how many words constitute "a quote" is an exercise I'll leave to the reader, as well as the question of "where does one end and another begin".

I'm leaving comments screened for the show-offs, of which I actually totally am one, so no judgment. I'll unscreen them when I get around to it, so probably in a day or two.

Poll #27751 Shakespeare quotes

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So, approximately how many?

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Mean: 29.70 Median: 11 Std. Dev 40.57

1		2 (8.7%)
11		11 (47.8%)
21		3 (13.0%)
31		2 (8.7%)
41		1 (4.3%)
51		2 (8.7%)
61		0 (0.0%)
71		0 (0.0%)
81		0 (0.0%)
91		0 (0.0%)
101		1 (4.3%)
111		0 (0.0%)
121		0 (0.0%)
131		0 (0.0%)
141		0 (0.0%)
151		0 (0.0%)
161		0 (0.0%)
171		0 (0.0%)
181		0 (0.0%)
200		0 (0.0%)

Comments

[pauamma]

Assuming you mean from plays only, and that mangled quotes count.

[conuly]

Hey, you got sonnets, toss 'em in!

[pauamma]

I would need to think about these - which probably means, per "off the top of your head", that they don't qualify.

[foms]

I experienced that difficulty, too. Even reciting them in my head takes enough time that, by the time I reach over a small few, I'm not sure whether it counts as off the top of my head.