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The Lyrics of Noel Coward
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For his devotees, Coward is "the Master," but he seems to have been overlooked so far on Fun Trivia. So here are a few questions, mainly about his better known songs.
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C
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Tough
10 Q
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TabbyTom
Dec 16 06
1194 plays
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Title Characters
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A literary work is often named after its main character. Some titles are descriptions of characters, not names. For example, in John Fowles' novel, Sarah Woodruff is "The French Lieutenant's Woman." How many of these title characters can you identify?
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Literary Titles
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Tough
10 Q
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TabbyTom
Feb 01 04
5997 plays
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French Literature 842 - 1980
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When I took some of the quizzes in the "Literature by Region" sub-category, I was surprised to see that there was very little material on French literature. So I've tried to produce a quiz, if only to encourage someone else to do better.
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French Literature
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Tough
20 Q
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TabbyTom
Nov 24 02
1677 plays
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È La Solita Storia (It's The Same Old Story!)
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According to some literary critics, there are only a tiny number of really different dramatic plots. So if you go to the opera often, you will probably find a lot of similarities between the stories.
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Opera
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Tough
10 Q
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TabbyTom
Feb 02 13
78 plays
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Literary Fatties
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Having been overweight for most of my life, I tend to feel sympathetic towards generously proportioned literary figures. Can you identify these literary references?
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Specific Subjects & Themes
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Tough
10 Q
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TabbyTom
Feb 09 13
264 plays
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Let's All Go Down The Strand
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The title of this quiz is from the chorus of an old music-hall song. But what will you see if you follow this advice, walking from west to east along one of London's most famous streets, in 2013?
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London
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Average
10 Q
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TabbyTom
Feb 08 13
192 plays
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Hogarth
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Beef-eating, beer-swilling Englishmen like me feel an affinity for Hogarth; but I hope he's more widely appreciated. Here are a few questions on his life and work. All the pictures mentioned are on the web, though the originals are nearly all in London.
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Art World Figures
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Difficult
10 Q
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TabbyTom
Feb 07 04
438 plays
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Poetic Parodies
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Verse parody in English is as least as old as Chaucer, but this quiz deals with the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Can you identify the poets who are the authors or targets of ten parodies?
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Poetry
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Average
10 Q
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TabbyTom
Jul 20 05
675 plays
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London Alphabeticals No 2
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For anyone who enjoyed my first "London Alphabetical" quiz, here is a second on the same theme. Again, the main source of information is the London Encyclopaedia compiled by Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert and published by Macmillan.
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London
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Average
25 Q
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TabbyTom
Sep 17 03
6477 plays
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London Alphabeticals
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I've had a few compliments on my "UK Alphabeticals" quiz, so here is a similar quiz restricted to London. Non-Brits may find it difficult. My main source of information is Weinreb and Hibbert's London Encyclopaedia, published by Macmillan.
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By Country
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Average
25 Q
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TabbyTom
Aug 29 03
5781 plays
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Author Anagrams
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Fifteen British and American authors introduce themselves with anagrams of their names (in capitals) and a few more clues (usually references to their works). Many anagrams were generated by Anagram Genius software. Fill in the blanks with the names.
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Writers & Authors
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Difficult
15 Q
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TabbyTom
Jan 01 05
1779 plays
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Private Eye
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Founded in 1961, "Private Eye" has become Britain's best known satirical periodical. This quiz deals with some of its main features through the years.
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Newspapers & Magazines
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Tough
10 Q
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TabbyTom
Nov 26 07
303 plays
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"Done into English": 1,000 Years of Translation
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Translation is an under-appreciated art. Much of it may be hackwork, but for a thousand years the best translators have been enabling readers of English to understand and enjoy the world's masterpieces in that language.
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Mixed Literature
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Tough
10 Q
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TabbyTom
Nov 24 07
798 plays
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Operatic Aliases and Disguises
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Opera plots frequently revolve around intrigue and deception, and so it's not surprising that characters sometimes assume false names or appearances. Can you solve these questions of operatic identity?
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Opera
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Average
10 Q
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TabbyTom
Oct 06 11
147 plays
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UK Alphabeticals
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I enjoyed Jim_in_Oz's quiz "Aussie Alphabeticals", and so I've tried to create an alphabetical quiz for the UK, with a question for every letter except X.
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By Country
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Average
25 Q
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TabbyTom
Aug 24 03
6183 plays
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The UK According to Whitaker: 1900
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I've recently bought a facsimile reprint of Whitaker's Almanac (a British reference book) for 1900. From it I've culled the following ten questions about the UK at the end of the nineteenth century.
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UK History
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Average
10 Q
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TabbyTom
Nov 04 07
2169 plays
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Guilding the Stone - June
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The Quiz Makers Guild monthly birthstones series reaches June - the pearl, according to the American Gem Society. This quiz explores some of the cultural associations of the pearl.
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Gems and Birthstones
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Difficult
10 Q
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TabbyTom
May 23 09
576 plays
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London In Literature
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Naturally enough, a lot of English literature is concerned with the capital, and many authors are intimately associated with the city. Here is a quiz on London in literature from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries.
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British Literature
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Tough
15 Q
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TabbyTom
Nov 20 02
2184 plays
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Victorian and Edwardian Music Hall
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The British music hall has gone the way of the bustle, the gas mantle and the hansom cab, but a few snatches of its songs live on in the folk memory. This quiz covers some of the best known.
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1930s Music and before
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Average
10 Q
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TabbyTom
Oct 20 06
492 plays
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The Wallace Collection
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People called Wallace have distinguished themselves in many fields. How much do you know about these Wallaces?
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Same Surname
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Tough
10 Q
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TabbyTom
Sep 17 08
501 plays
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My True Love Guild To Me - 7th Day
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Quiz Maker Guild author Tabby Tom has wrapped a Christmas quiz gift of "Seven Swans A-Swimming." See how much you know about swans, swimmers and heptads (groups of seven).
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Twelve Days of Christmas
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Tough
10 Q
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TabbyTom
Dec 31 08
6531 plays
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Early Days of ITV
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Independent (i.e. commercial) television came to Britain in 1955, and soon gained the biggest share of the rapidly expanding TV audience. This quiz covers some of its best known programmes from the 1950s.
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UK Classic TV
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Tough
10 Q
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TabbyTom
Feb 09 04
1563 plays
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Art Under Attack
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This quiz is a response to a challenge from kevinatilusa. Many of us know little about art, but we know what we don't like. Can you answer these questions on critical condemnation over two centuries?
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Art History
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Tough
10 Q
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TabbyTom
Dec 11 09
504 plays
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Eponymous Noblemen
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Many things are named after their discoverers or inventors. If these were British noblemen, the name that's used may be the title, not the surname. Can you work out the titles of the following nobs who have left their mark on the language?
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Eponyms (Words from Names)
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Average
10 Q
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TabbyTom
Aug 30 03
2898 plays
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Written in Prison
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Throughout the ages, writers have fallen foul of the law, sometimes because of their writings and sometimes for other reasons; so it's not really surprising that many works of literature were written in prison. This quiz deals with a few of them.
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Specific Subjects & Themes
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Average
10 Q
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TabbyTom
Apr 23 06
510 plays
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Authors' Dedications
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Authors use the device of the dedication to express all kinds of feelings for others. This quiz takes ten dedications from the "Bloomsbury Dictionary of Dedications" by Adrian Room. The dedication itself often gives some kind of clue to the answer.
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Authors and their Works
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Tough
10 Q
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TabbyTom
Jan 28 05
450 plays
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British Reference Books
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Dedicated trivia buffs need to be acquainted with reference books. This quiz deals with some of the better known British works.
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Non-Fiction
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Average
10 Q
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TabbyTom
Jun 02 06
615 plays
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Historic Hastings
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Every Brit knows about the Battle of Hastings, but the town has also made a few other contributions to British history. This quiz calls for a general knowledge of British history and life rather than a detailed knowledge of Hastings.
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British Local History
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Tough
10 Q
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TabbyTom
Apr 18 07
1092 plays
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Kipling's British History
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Inspired by LilahDeDah's "Kipling World Tour," I've attempted a quiz on British history in Kipling's verse. My main source is "Kipling's English History" by Marghanita Laski, based on a BBC radio series. I haven't retained Kipling's Cockney spellings.
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Kipling, Rudyard
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Average
10 Q
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TabbyTom
Dec 28 04
354 plays
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Guild-y as Sin: Sloth
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In 1321, Dante climbed the terraces of Purgatory and saw a new deadly sin on each level. Now the Quiz Makers' Guild is making the same trip, and seeing things Dante never dreamed of. The fourth level is Sloth. Coming soon: Greed, by patricck.
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Thematic 10Q Tough
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Tough
10 Q
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TabbyTom
Oct 21 09
231 plays
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