Four-letter answers to this themed word ladder Quiz

Clue	Answer
First word of a Shakespeare play title
Endures pain
French son
'____ 'er up!'
Shakespeare's first name, for short
Second word of the play
Unconscious action that gives away your poker hand
Greenish-blue
What a baby is weaned from
Third word of the play
Holier ____ thou
Common Vietnamese surname
Sci-fi Disney film of 1982
Ren or Stimpy e.g.
Hardware store purchase

Clue	Answer
Pocket billiards
Type of deck on a ship
Object on stage
Opposite of cons
Cupid's equivalent in Greek mythology
Baseball hall-of-famer Slaughter
Fourth word of the play
Historic St. Louis bridge
Has dinner
Wrestling surfaces
Lauer or LeBlanc
Light bulb unit
Poet Whitman
Evidence of a spanking, perhaps
Last word of the play

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Word Ladder: Shakespeare Play Quiz

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Created Apr 14, 2011 in Just For Fun
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	jkoper:	May 23rd, 2011 at 05:04 GMT		3 points
	I finished the quiz ok, so I guess I can't complain.

	Nos13:	May 23rd, 2011 at 05:49 GMT		1 point
	One of my favorite movies! Oh, I guess the Shakespeare play was okay, too.

	NY_MOB:	May 23rd, 2011 at 07:45 GMT		7 points
	Well constructed. Had a few stumpers (French word, Vietnamese name) but it was possible to work around them. Time was good too.

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	Pit_trout:	May 23rd, 2011 at 10:32 GMT		24 points
	As @THEJMAN said in archived comments, the first clue would be a lot clearer as eg “First word of a Shakespeare title”.

	chiefyratain:	May 23rd, 2011 at 12:44 GMT		7 points
	I've lived in St. Louis my whole life and know of the Eads bridge but have no idea which one it is, I'm guessing most people will get that one from the clues around it

	kop:	May 23rd, 2011 at 13:30 GMT		1 point
	The exclamation point on "" 'er up" screwed me up

	TAR2:	May 23rd, 2011 at 14:00 GMT		-4 points
	This might be the toughest word ladder to date. Thanks for the challenge!

	benmud:	May 23rd, 2011 at 14:11 GMT		20 points
	You mean you don't get poon at a hardware store?

	Pogues:	May 23rd, 2011 at 14:58 GMT		5 points
	Quiz was way outside my comfort zone of knowledge, but still muddled my way through it. I second the comments on specifying "title"...though for me it was irrelevant. I didn't even know that was a Shakespeare play! Rest of the clues were solid.

	MrClea13:	May 23rd, 2011 at 15:33 GMT		1 point
	nice touch adding in enos slaughter! im from his hometown (:

	Q_Pheevr:	May 23rd, 2011 at 17:03 GMT		5 points
	@benmud: No, but you might get hard at a... oh, never mind.

	ari18:	May 23rd, 2011 at 21:29 GMT		4 points
	I thought you were looking for the first line of a play, not the title. Got it eventually, but still, the wording is very poor.

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	jkoper:	May 24th, 2011 at 01:17 GMT		2 points
	It looks like subtlety is lost on the average Sporcle comment rater. I hope at least some of you enjoyed my joke.

	PhiloKGB:	May 24th, 2011 at 21:11 GMT		4 points
	There's probably a better clue for "ails" than "endures pain," which had me thinking of a word that describes someone in agony but not complaining. Something like, "feels sick" or "suffers from illness."

	mjakasper:	May 25th, 2011 at 01:00 GMT		1 point
	couldn't get tran! phan and thao but no tran lol

	deugea:	May 25th, 2011 at 17:17 GMT		1 point
	@chiefyratain: It's the steel arch bridge north of the Poplar Street and south of the MLK. The Metrolink runs across it now between the Casino Queen and Laclede's Landing. Between that and Enos Slaughter (famous St. Louis Cardinal) this quiz made my day as a St. Louis area resident.

	Volante:	May 31st, 2012 at 23:36 GMT		1 point
	Hmm, first word of play title...four letters...KING. king? king. king. No? Okay...go to the end, last word. Lear! lear? lear lear lear. Oh, John. John john john. glares FINE THEN!! I'll start from the middle and work my way out! /facepalms after seeing what they did there.