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Loony Literary Limericks
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Identify the author or literary character from these limericks. The harder examples will be multiple choice.
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Mixed Literature
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10 Q
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jeremyb
Mar 28 06
4863 plays
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A Bradshaw Guide
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Gillian Bradshaw writes some of the best historical fiction. Here is a quiz introducing some of her novels. You don’t need to have read the novels to answer this quiz.
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B
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Tough
10 Q
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jeremyb
Mar 06 05
72 plays
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The Riposte in "Pride and Prejudice"
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Touchstone in Shakespeare's "As You Like It" defines the quarrel by seven degrees. Here are some thrusts and counterthrusts from "Pride and Prejudice".
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Pride and Prejudice
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Average
15 Q
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jeremyb
Jun 11 04
3558 plays
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Shakespeare's Music
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Shakespeare uses music very cleverly to heighten moods or to change or dispel moods. I love his songs particularly when played on historic instruments. Let this quiz take you through some of his musical interludes.
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Shakespeare
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Average
10 Q
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jeremyB
Mar 25 04
300 plays
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Shakespeare's Riddles
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Many of Shakespeare's plays contain riddles or contests. This tricky quiz features several of the most famous scenes. Can you solve these questions on questions?
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Shakespeare
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Difficult
15 Q
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jeremyB
Nov 24 03
648 plays
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Shakespeare's Treasure Hunt
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Shakespeare uses jewels in his writing to point up beauty, strength or tragedy. Which jewels are missing from these quotations? Watch out for my CAPITAL hints.
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Shakespeare
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Average
10 Q
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jeremyb
Oct 01 04
654 plays
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Entrances and Exits
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We can often tell whether we will enjoy a novel by its first lines. Last lines should be in keeping with what we have read and leave us satisfied. Jane Austen chooses first and last words so well. What do you remember about them in her books?
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Austen, Jane
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Average
10 Q
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jeremyB
Mar 18 03
963 plays
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Through the Eyes of...Part 1
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The characters of "Sense & Sensibility" are described and illustrated by Jane Austen as author or seen through the eyes of other characters. Can you trust these assessments?
Contains spoilers.
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Sense and Sensibility
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Average
10 Q
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jeremyb
May 02 04
696 plays
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Shakespeare's Impostures
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The Comedies are full of Impostures. Girls pretending to be boys, masters as servants and servants as masters. Here are 20 questions on some of my favourite scenes.
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Shakespeare
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Tough
20 Q
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jeremyB
Nov 30 03
330 plays
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I Don't Know Him From Adam
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Here are a selection of Adams in books, films and television. Can you place them, by means of elimination and from the clues provided?
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Something in Common
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Tough
15 Q
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jeremyb
Jun 27 04
798 plays
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The Conundrum that is Emma
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The answers to these 15 questions form an acrostic on Emma,(4 and 9 letters), and the answer to Mr Weston’s conundrum (2 letters) “What two letters of the alphabet are there that express perfection?"
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Emma
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Average
15 Q
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jeremyb
Apr 22 05
489 plays
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Through the Eyes of...Part 2
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More characters from "Sense and Sensibility" as seen through the eyes of their author and characters in the novel. Do we believe the assessments? Contains spoilers.
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Sense and Sensibility
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Average
10 Q
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jeremyb
May 04 04
447 plays
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For CULTURE Vultures
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The sf novels of Iain M Banks are fascinating for their imagination and for the creation of the future civilisation "The Culture".
Try out your knowledge of both the Culture novels and his other sf novels in this easy introductory quiz.
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Banks, Iain M
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10 Q
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JeremyB
Mar 26 03
333 plays
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Degrees of Persuasion
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Persuasion ranges from tyrannical through bullying, tender, wise, and re-inforcing down to casual and inadvertent. It is met with equal degrees of resistance. Jane Austen’s “Persuasion” gives us many examples of both.
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Persuasion
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Average
10 Q
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jeremyb
Aug 16 06
351 plays
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