| Hint | Person |
| 1) Actor who was 24 when he played a truant high school student | |
| 2) Girl who hooks up with a swan in Greek mythology (or in a Yeats poem) | |
| 3) Protagonist of one Best Picture winner and author of the play on which another was based | |
| 4) World leader recently portrayed by Meryl Streep | |
| 5) Harry Potter character who collects plugs | |
| 6) Most recent U.S. president to be a close relative of another president | |
| 7) Egyptian ruler who appears in a play by #3 | |
| | Hint | Person |
| 8) Speaker of the line “The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am” | |
| 9) Biblical character born when his father was 100 | |
| 10) Orphan who finds “scope for imagination” on Prince Edward Island | |
| 11) Creator of Henry Huggins and Ramona Quimby | |
| 12) Actor who appeared in a Civil War film with #1, and played a prince in a film adaptation of a play by #3 | |
| What do these twelve people have in common? | |
| You knew I wouldn't be able to write a quiz without Shakespeare in it, right? | |
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