General Knowledge Questions
(Literature)
1. Whose favourite cat was drowned in a tub of goldfish ?
2. In whose verses were the following celebrated ? Delia, Celia, Stella, Julia.
3. Who are or were the Ettrick Shepherd, the Immortal Bard, the Ploughboy Poet, the Boy who sang on Duncton the Marvellous Boy, the Shropshire Lad ?
4. Whose was the face that launched a thousand ships ? Whose eyes were twin portable baths ? Whose skin was white as leprosy ? Whose pure and eloquent blood spoke in her cheeks ' and so distinctly wrought That one might almost say her body thought Y Whose hair went three times round her little neck ?
5. Who " killed John Keats " ?
.0. Who wrote " The Song of the Shirt," " The Ballad of Minepit Shaw " " A Sweet Song Sung Not Yet to any Man," " Lines to a bon " ?
7: One of the longest poems in English Literature is written round a murder trial. What is it 8. Who were the originals of the following ? Robinson Crusoe, Lycidas, Squire Allworthy, Beetle, Sir Fretful Plagiary.
9. Who were the Big Enders and the Little Enders ?
10. Where does one read of the following ? Smike, Smee, Scrub, Tabitha Bramble, Will Wimble, Miss Bates.
11. In what poems did the following express their wishes on the subject of their own death, or what were their wishes ? Stevenson, Henley (2), Tennyson. 12. What do you know of the following ? The Sons of Bella!, the Houyhnhnms, the Polacks, the Kit-Cats, the Mohoeks, the Slithy 'roves..
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