The title of this quiz is based on a quote from Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" and refers to an impossibility - like the verbose statements in this quiz that need to be matched to their original phrasing.
For this quiz, answer these 10 questions about songs, singers, and musical characters related to a Roman god or goddess (or the celestial object named after him or her).
People imagine George V of the United Kingdom as always being at home--shooting animals or working on his stamp collection, but he did travel to a number of places. With this quiz try to place the travels of George in chronological order.
In 1969, a new musical, "1776", took Broadway by storm. In 1972, this same musical appeared on movie screens. This quiz asks 10 questions about the movie.
Arrange the novels of Charles Dickens in order of the start of their publication in serialized form. (This excludes short stories and his "Christmas" novellas.)
I am going really old school with this quiz about ten traditional board games. Most of the games have existed for hundreds of years and some of them have existed for thousands of years.
Just as in the stage musical, the movie "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" opens with the song "Science Fiction/Double Feature". Match the person/character mentioned in the song and the motion picture or other reference.
Sometimes a song makes a very memorable appearance in a movie. Based on the movie, identify the song that, even if not the theme song, makes a very memorable appearance.
Some television theme songs have a title different than the title of the show. Match these theme songs with the show on which they appeared. Note: Some of these theme songs may have been replaced partway through the run of these shows.
Historian Daniel Boorstin described a celebrity as "a person who is known for his well-knownness." Let's take a look at these ten people who are well-known for a variety of reasons.
I'm sorry to contradict myself, but sometimes they are and sometimes they aren't. See if you can answer these ten questions that include a word that is the name of a moon in our Solar System.
Match the song with the popular theatrical musical of the 1940s. There's no musical flops here. All ten shows ran for at least several hundred performances and many ran for over 1,000 performances.
Each of the songs has a title that includes a body of water. (Strictly speaking, not every body of water is tropical, but they are closer to the Equator than the Poles). Match the song with the artist.
It's not my fault if Queen didn't have a song about "Ten Seas". See if you can find the names of large world seas hidden in the sentences of this quiz.
Match the song with the popular theatrical musical of the 2000s. There aren't any musical flops here. Nearly all of these shows ran for hundreds of performances.
Match the song with the popular theatrical musical of the 1950s. There aren't any musical flops here. All ten shows ran for at least several hundred performances and many ran for over 1,000 performances.