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Name the Poet From the Line Trivia Quiz

Name the poet from the line. There is of course a catch. I have put the poem in the words of famous actors and you know they have a tendency to ad lib.

A multiple-choice quiz by professorjon. Estimated time: 6 mins.
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Author
professorjon
Time
6 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
89,457
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Difficult
Avg Score
5 / 10
Plays
1507
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Question 1 of 10
1. Woody Allen: "How do I love thee. Let me count the ways. There is love between a man and a woman, between a mother and a son, between a boy and his dog, and my favorite, between two women". The poet? Hint


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Question 2 of 10
2. Peter Falk: "Under the spreading chestnut tree, the village smithy stands. Thank you. Ah just one more thing. The smith a mighty man is he, with large and sinewy hands. I'll be going now. I just have one more question. And the muscle of his brawny arms are strong as iron bands". The poet? Hint


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Question 3 of 10
3. John Cleese: "I wandared lonely as a cloud . . . I mean I wandered lonely as a cloud". The poet? Hint


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Question 4 of 10
4. W.C. Fields: "Curses are like young children. They always come back home to roost". The poet? Hint


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Question 5 of 10
5. Rodney Dangerfield: "Oh Lord forgive my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive, boy I'll tell you, I'll forgive that great big one on me. Man, I'll tell you, I don't get no respect". The poet? Hint


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Question 6 of 10
6. Arnold Schwarzeneggar: "To err is humane, to forgive divine". The poet? Hint


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Question 7 of 10
7. Don Adams: "For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are: "Missed it by that much". The poet? Hint


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Question 8 of 10
8. Bob Hope: "Some people are born great, some achieve greatness and others have greatness thrust upon them. As for me, well, (huff) when you got it, you got it". The poet? Hint


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Question 9 of 10
9. Groucho Marx: "If you don't like my joke, get out of the airplane. On second thought, I don't like my joke, I'll get out of the airplane". The poet? Hint


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Question 10 of 10
10. We finish (perhaps not a moment too soon) with Bob Hope again. Bob: "Water water eveywhere and all the boards did shrink. Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink. I'll tell you we're done for". Bing Crosby: "What are you talking about? New York is right there and we'll be rescued in a few minutes". Bob: "Teriffic, my one good scene in the picture and you had to go and ruin it". The poet? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Woody Allen: "How do I love thee. Let me count the ways. There is love between a man and a woman, between a mother and a son, between a boy and his dog, and my favorite, between two women". The poet?

Answer: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

 The poem is from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Sonnets From the Portugese". Woody Allen's adlib comes from the 1975 movie "Love and Death" in a scene where he and Diane Keaton are talking about the different types of love.
2. Peter Falk: "Under the spreading chestnut tree, the village smithy stands. Thank you. Ah just one more thing. The smith a mighty man is he, with large and sinewy hands. I'll be going now. I just have one more question. And the muscle of his brawny arms are strong as iron bands". The poet?

Answer: Henry W. Longfellow

 The poem is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Village Blacksmith". Peter Falk's adlib is from his persona as the homicide detective from L.A. named Columbo.
3. John Cleese: "I wandared lonely as a cloud . . . I mean I wandered lonely as a cloud". The poet?

Answer: William Wordsworth

 William Wordsworth: "I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o'er vales and hills when all at once I saw a crowd of golden daffodils". John Cleese wrote and starred in the 1988 movie "A Fish Called Wanda". Cleese plays a lawyer who falls in love with Wanda (played by Jamie Lee Curtis) and while he is questioning her on the stand he accidentally calls her by name, but he is able to recover by changing the 'Wanda' to wonder.
4. W.C. Fields: "Curses are like young children. They always come back home to roost". The poet?

Answer: Robert Southey

 Robert Southey (1774-1843) wrote "The Curse of Kehama" around 1810. The line from the poem is "Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost". However, W.C. Fields was a comic known for his dislike of children. He was famous for the line "Anybody who hates dogs and small children can't be all bad".

There have also been numerous stories that he spiked his young co-star Baby Leroy's bottle with whiskey.
5. Rodney Dangerfield: "Oh Lord forgive my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive, boy I'll tell you, I'll forgive that great big one on me. Man, I'll tell you, I don't get no respect". The poet?

Answer: Robert Frost

 The line is from "In the Clearing, Cluster of Faith". Robert Frost (1874-1963) wrote "Forgive Oh Lord, my little joke's on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me". Rodney Dangerfield is great stand-up comic known for his "I don't get no respect" routine.
6. Arnold Schwarzeneggar: "To err is humane, to forgive divine". The poet?

Answer: Alexander Pope

 The poem does't change much for Arnie. The line by Pope (1688-1744) is "To err is human, to forgive divine". I love Arnie, and had to include him somewhere because the image of him trying to be serious and read poetry cracks me up.
7. Don Adams: "For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are: "Missed it by that much". The poet?

Answer: John Greenleaf Whittier

 John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)wrote "For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been". Don Adams played secret agent 86 of Control in the television series "Get Smart". One of his regular gags throughtout the run of the show was that when something came really close he would form his fingers in the shape of an inch and say, "Missed me by that much".
8. Bob Hope: "Some people are born great, some achieve greatness and others have greatness thrust upon them. As for me, well, (huff) when you got it, you got it". The poet?

Answer: William Shakespeare

 The line is from William Shakespeare's "The Twelfth Night". Bob Hope's movie persona of the forties was usually the cowardly hero who was easily flattered, either by his female co-star (usually Dorothy Lamour) or by his other co-star, that Bing fellow. Whenever Dorothy needed something, she mislead him with flattery about how handsome he was and he would fall for it every time.
9. Groucho Marx: "If you don't like my joke, get out of the airplane. On second thought, I don't like my joke, I'll get out of the airplane". The poet?

Answer: James Joyce

 Kilmer, Owen and Brooke were all British poets who were killed in World War I. James Joyce (1882-1941) wrote in "Finnegan's Wake" the line, "If you don't like my story, get out of the punt".
10. We finish (perhaps not a moment too soon) with Bob Hope again. Bob: "Water water eveywhere and all the boards did shrink. Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink. I'll tell you we're done for". Bing Crosby: "What are you talking about? New York is right there and we'll be rescued in a few minutes". Bob: "Teriffic, my one good scene in the picture and you had to go and ruin it". The poet?

Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 The poem is from Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner". The Hope and Crosby routine is from the 1942 movie "The Road to Morocco". I hope you enjoyed this quiz, cuz it was hard to come up with all this material. The poems were all taken from "The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, Third Edition", except for the one by Shakespeare, which I quoted from memory.
Source: Author professorjon

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