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Limericks and Anagrams - Famous Figures Quiz

Some limericks now I will try - Anagrams of the famous - I'm sly - Check the CAPITALS out - That's what it's all about - Rhyming clues will then flow and you'll fly.

A multiple-choice quiz by Nannanut. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
Nannanut

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
193,761

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

Plays
6992

Awards
Top 5% quiz!

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Question 1 of 10

1. A talented man FANNER BLINK
Was a printer and worked much with ink
With bi-focals and kites
Keys and lightning filled nights
He made swim fins so he wouldn't sink.

Answer: (2 words - 3 letters and 8 letters)

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Question 2 of 10

2. ANGRY ME is an actress quite rare
She's got mail, Proof of Life and blonde hair
She's helped "sleepless" to sleep
Leopold she can keep
And in restaurant scenes she has flair.

Answer: (2 words - 3 letters and 4 letters)

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Question 3 of 10

3. SLIP SEVERELY the king of them all
Got all shook up and answered the call
As a GI with blues
He was oft in the news
Girls, Girls, Girls - he was having a ball.

Answer: (2 words - 5 letters and 7 letters)

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Question 4 of 10

4. PENNA LOO was quite short so they say
And one arm he kept hidden away
Shopkeepers reviled
'Twas seldom he smiled
Waterloo. What a very sad day.

Answer: (1 word - 8 letters - first name only)

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Question 5 of 10

5. CHASED EMIR had a bath one fine day
Emerged naked and bolted away
With his principle found
He kept running around
"Eureka" was all he could say.

Answer: (1 word - 10 letters)

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Question 6 of 10

6. ANESE JAUNT wrote quite well it's believed
Heroes, heroines - loved and deceived
With persuasion and pride
And some prejudice tried
Great success in her field she achieved.

Answer: (2 words - 4 letters and 6 letters)

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Question 7 of 10

7. TERCEL POOR wrote with style so serene
He began to Begin the Beguine
He toiled Night and Day
Writing songs sad and gay
"He's the top" was the word on the scene.

Answer: (2 words - 4 letters and 6 letters)

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Question 8 of 10

8. AVID INC was a painter to start
Though inventions then played a big part
While he wrote in reverse
To confound - most perverse
La Gioconda had stolen his heart.

Answer: (2 words - 2 letters and 5 letters - last name only)

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Question 9 of 10

9. LILA EGO climbed high in the tower
He was testing out gravity's power
Objects dropped from his hand
Watch - together they land
'Twas decidedly his finest hour.

Answer: (1 word - 7 letters - first name only)

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Question 10 of 10

10. HORD FERNY loved automobiles
Designed engines, some steering and wheels
With Tin Lizzie on show
Basic black was the go
The assembly line gave folks cheap deals.

Answer: (2 words - 5 letters and 4 letters)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. A talented man FANNER BLINK Was a printer and worked much with ink With bi-focals and kites Keys and lightning filled nights He made swim fins so he wouldn't sink.

Answer: Ben Franklin

Ben Franklin (1706 - 1790) worked as a printer as a young man. He had a prolific mind and soon turned to inventing. He developed bi-focals and swim fins. He experimented with electricity using a kite with a key on its string in a lightning storm.

2. ANGRY ME is an actress quite rare She's got mail, Proof of Life and blonde hair She's helped "sleepless" to sleep Leopold she can keep And in restaurant scenes she has flair.

Answer: Meg Ryan

Meg Ryan (1961) has had a series of movie hits including "You've Got Mail"(1998), "Proof of Life"(2000), "Kate & Leopold" (2001) and "Sleepless in Seattle" (1993).
Possibly her most talked about movie scene took place in a restaurant - "I'll have what she's having" - in "When Harry Met Sally"(1989).

3. SLIP SEVERELY the king of them all Got all shook up and answered the call As a GI with blues He was oft in the news Girls, Girls, Girls - he was having a ball.

Answer: Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977) was dubbed the King of Rock 'n' Roll and had many song hits including "All Shook Up" (1957). Elvis was inducted into the army in 1958 and served a tour of duty in Germany. The song - "GI Blues" was released in 1960 to capitalise on what many fans considered a disastrous situation.
"Girls! Girls! Girls!" (1962) was one of Presley's many movies.

4. PENNA LOO was quite short so they say And one arm he kept hidden away Shopkeepers reviled 'Twas seldom he smiled Waterloo. What a very sad day.

Answer: Napoleon

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821). Napoleon I - emperor of France - was not a tall man and some of his most famous images show him with one arm tucked from view. He caustically referred to the English as a "nation of shopkeepers" but was finally defeated by Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

5. CHASED EMIR had a bath one fine day Emerged naked and bolted away With his principle found He kept running around "Eureka" was all he could say.

Answer: Archimedes

Archimedes (287 - 212 BC) was a Greek mathematician and inventor. He purportedly discovered his principle while taking a bath. In essence it states "When a body is wholly or partly immersed in a fluid, it experiences an upthrust or buoyant force equal to the weight of fluid it displaces." *
The story claims he was so excited at the discovery that he leapt naked from his bath and ran through the streets shouting "Eureka".
*http://physics.about.com/cs/fluiddynamics/g/archimedes.htm

6. ANESE JAUNT wrote quite well it's believed Heroes, heroines - loved and deceived With persuasion and pride And some prejudice tried Great success in her field she achieved.

Answer: Jane Austen

Jane Austen (1775 - 1817) wrote six insightful and witty novels. They include "Pride and Prejudice" (1813) and "Persuasion" (1818).

7. TERCEL POOR wrote with style so serene He began to Begin the Beguine He toiled Night and Day Writing songs sad and gay "He's the top" was the word on the scene.

Answer: Cole Porter

Cole Porter (1893 - 1964) was a composer and lyricist. "Begin the Beguine" was from the play "Jubilee" (1935). "Night and Day" featured in "The Gay Divorcee" (1932) and "You're the Top" was a hit from "Anything Goes" (1934).

8. AVID INC was a painter to start Though inventions then played a big part While he wrote in reverse To confound - most perverse La Gioconda had stolen his heart.

Answer: da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519). Besides his painting - da Vinci was a prolific inventor and engineer. To preserve some secrecy in his written work - da Vinci used mirror writing - totally reversed script that reads correctly in a mirror. La Gioconda, wife of Francesco del Giocondo was the real name of Mona Lisa - the subject of his most famous portrait.

9. LILA EGO climbed high in the tower He was testing out gravity's power Objects dropped from his hand Watch - together they land 'Twas decidedly his finest hour.

Answer: Galileo

Galileo (1564 - 1642) studied the laws of falling bodies by dropping objects of different weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa. He disproved Aristotle's theory that the rate of fall is proportional to the weight, when his objects landed at exactly the same time.

10. HORD FERNY loved automobiles Designed engines, some steering and wheels With Tin Lizzie on show Basic black was the go The assembly line gave folks cheap deals.

Answer: Henry Ford

Henry Ford (1863 - 1947). After founding Ford Motors in 1903, Ford released the Model T or "Tin Lizzie" in 1908. He insisted buyers could have the car in any colour - as long as it was black. Ford also introduced the conveyor belt assembly line in 1913.

Source: Author Nannanut

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