For 'tis the sport to have the Telegraph hoist with its own petard...

Jock — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:30:00 +0000

There's been some moaning in the Telegraph recently about how school kids do not know their Shakespeare. So they published a quiz for their readers. Okay, so I didn't do too badly, but I didn't get fourteen out of fifteen, but I certainly got one less, according to their answers, than I should have done:

Last Updated: 10:40am BST 07/10/2007

Test yourself on your knowledge of Shakespeare:

Questions

5. Who says: “Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry”?

Answers

5. Hamlet

Oops! Still, it's not terribly relevant fatherly advice in these days of student loans is it!

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