INQUIZITION QUIZ NO.98 POETIC
Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 5:51 pm1 Who did Andrew Motion succeed as Poet Laureate?
TED HUGHES
2 Who penned the poem, The Pied Piper of Hamelin?
ROBERT BROWNING
3 Which singer had a 60s chart topper with the song, “Poetry In Motion”?
JOHNNY TILLOTSON
4 Name any year in which the Scottish poet Robert Burns was alive?
1759 TO 1796
5 Name the two Poet Laureates that had the initials WW.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AND WILLIAM WHITEHEAD
6 According to the poet Milton what P was the capital of hell?
PANDEMONIUM
7 Which poem opens with the line, “Twas the night before Christmas”?
A VISIT FROM ST NICHOLAS
8 Who wrote the poem, Locksley Hall?
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
9 Who was the first person to be buried in Poet’s Corner?
GEOFFERY CHAUCER
10 Which expression for a devoted couple originated from a 1735 poem?
DARBY AND JOAN
11 What did Lewis Carroll describe in a poem as having, “jaws that bite, the claws that catch”?
JABBERWOCKY
12 Which bird proclaimed, “Nevermore” in a poem by Edgar Allan Poe?
THE RAVEN
13 What is the name of TS Eliot’s railway cat?
SHIMBLESHANKS
14 How many lines are there in a sonnet?
14
15 Which poem by Rupert Brooke opens with the line, “If I should die, think only this of me”?
THE SOLDIER
TED HUGHES
2 Who penned the poem, The Pied Piper of Hamelin?
ROBERT BROWNING
3 Which singer had a 60s chart topper with the song, “Poetry In Motion”?
JOHNNY TILLOTSON
4 Name any year in which the Scottish poet Robert Burns was alive?
1759 TO 1796
5 Name the two Poet Laureates that had the initials WW.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AND WILLIAM WHITEHEAD
6 According to the poet Milton what P was the capital of hell?
PANDEMONIUM
7 Which poem opens with the line, “Twas the night before Christmas”?
A VISIT FROM ST NICHOLAS
8 Who wrote the poem, Locksley Hall?
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
9 Who was the first person to be buried in Poet’s Corner?
GEOFFERY CHAUCER
10 Which expression for a devoted couple originated from a 1735 poem?
DARBY AND JOAN
11 What did Lewis Carroll describe in a poem as having, “jaws that bite, the claws that catch”?
JABBERWOCKY
12 Which bird proclaimed, “Nevermore” in a poem by Edgar Allan Poe?
THE RAVEN
13 What is the name of TS Eliot’s railway cat?
SHIMBLESHANKS
14 How many lines are there in a sonnet?
14
15 Which poem by Rupert Brooke opens with the line, “If I should die, think only this of me”?
THE SOLDIER
