Bible or Shakespeare?


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A popular online quiz topic is to present a bunch of quotations from Shakespeare and from the Bible, and see if people can tell them apart. It's eye-opening for sure. I believe it demonstrates that people don't really read the Bible (or Shakespeare) very much, present company very much not excepted. Here are the first five results of a Google search for "bible or shakespeare", with my scores:

https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/04/23/bible-or-bard/
Vort's score: 27/30 (90%) "Result: Well done!"

http://www.chicagonow.com/listing-beyond-forty/2014/04/quiz-shakespeare-or-the-bible-quotes/
Vort's score: 13/15 (87%) (No congratulatory result)

https://www.sporcle.com/games/bamachile/billy-shakes-was-no-prophet
Vort's score: 20/20 (100%) "I bet the teacher used your tests as the answer key in high school." [These were pretty easy]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zxsvk7h
Vort's score: 9/9 (100%) "Take a bow. You know your Macbeth from your Matthew." [These were very easy]

https://www.christiantoday.com/article/shakespeare-or-scripture-see-how-well-you-know-your-bard-from-bible-with-our-simple-quiz/85003.htm
Vort's score: 15/15 (100%) (No congratulatory result) [Surprisingly easy]

On the whole, I confess I'm not completely displeased with my scores; they are at least as good as I deserved, maybe better. I guessed more often than I care to admit, and most of my guesses were right, so I can't complain about bad luck. I would estimate that I firmly knew about 70-80% of the first two. The last three were all pretty easy, especially after having missed a couple on the first two that came up again.

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https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/04/23/bible-or-bard/

mordorbund: 28/30 · Scored 93% "Result: Astonishing!"

http://www.chicagonow.com/listing-beyond-forty/2014/04/quiz-shakespeare-or-the-bible-quotes/

mordorbund: score: 13/15 (87%) (No congratulatory result)

https://www.sporcle.com/games/bamachile/billy-shakes-was-no-prophet

mordorbund: 19/20 (95%) "I'm pretty sure I saw you on Jeopardy once."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zxsvk7h

mordorbund: score: 9/9 (100%) "Take a bow. You know your Macbeth from your Matthew."

https://www.christiantoday.com/article/shakespeare-or-scripture-see-how-well-you-know-your-bard-from-bible-with-our-simple-quiz/85003.htm

mordorbund: 13/15 (87%) (No congratulatory result) [I found the last 4 difficult but thought them through]

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https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/04/23/bible-or-bard/
86% -- admittedly, I did not know some of those that I got correct.  But some of the language really was fairly obvious.

http://www.chicagonow.com/listing-beyond-forty/2014/04/quiz-shakespeare-or-the-bible-quotes/
14/15 -- Again with the admissions.  I only got some right because I learned them from the first site.  They repeated.

https://www.sporcle.com/games/bamachile/billy-shakes-was-no-prophet
90% -- I'm a good guesser.  I swear I only knew about half of them.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zxsvk7h
9/9 -- I believe I knew all but one.  I must have guessed right on that one.

https://www.christiantoday.com/article/shakespeare-or-scripture-see-how-well-you-know-your-bard-from-bible-with-our-simple-quiz/85003.htm
12/15 -- Well, my luck couldn't hold out forever.

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2 hours ago, askandanswer said:

Is this further evidence that Shakespeare plagiarised? :)

But, clever plagiarist that he was, Shakespeare blatantly stole from a book that had not yet been published or in many cases even written. Shakespeare's Joseph Smith-like devilishness allowed him to steal from future works, just as Joseph Smith did.

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6 hours ago, Vort said:

But, clever plagiarist that he was, Shakespeare blatantly stole from a book that had not yet been published or in many cases even written. Shakespeare's Joseph Smith-like devilishness allowed him to steal from future works, just as Joseph Smith did.

Sounds like he was even more clever than  I thought!

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