FREE! Click here to Join FunTrivia. Thousands of games, quizzes, and lots more!

Author Biography: londoneye98

Home : Quizzes
avatar

londoneye98 has been a FunTrivia author since Jun 27 11 and has written 17 quizzes. londoneye98 strongly focuses on quizzes in the fields of Literature, Sports, and Music, and has won 2 Editor's Choice awards on submitted quizzes.

  • has earned 247 excellent quiz ratings from quiz takers.
  • last seen online Apr 26 24, and most recent quiz went online Sep 27 19.
Bio: "One confirmed old bachelor by himself has rarely produced anything sensible." (Goethe, in Auden's translation)
"Solange ich singen kann, ist alles halbwegs okey baby!" (not Goethe but a more recent compatriot of his, who prefers to remain anonymous)
Hobbies: that would be telling
  Contact / Email Author Go to Player Profile
Quizzes / Other Works Authored by londoneye98
1.
  A Selection of Musical Insults editor best quiz   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
"The three greatest composers are Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. All the others are cretins." In the spirit of Hans von Bülow's words, this quiz covers a selection of insults and rude remarks from the classical music world, starting from around 1800.
Tough, 10 Qns, londoneye98, Jan 23 20
Category: Other Music
Tough
londoneye98
Jan 23 20
1081 plays
2.
  10 Questions about The Two Gentlemen of Verona editor best quiz    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
"Alas, how love can trifle with itself!" sighs Julia, the patient and put-upon heroine of this early and slightly rough-edged romantic comedy of Shakespeare's, which is as chock-full of little surprises as an Italian love story can be.
Tough, 10 Qns, londoneye98, Jan 07 15
Category: Two Gentleman of Verona
Tough
londoneye98
304 plays
3.
  Questions on Northanger Abbey   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
"The person, be it gentleman or lady who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid," declares the sensible Henry Tilney during the course of Jane Austen's undeniably good novel "Northanger Abbey".
Average, 10 Qns, londoneye98, Dec 03 15
Recommended for grades: 11,12
Category: Northanger Abbey
Average
londoneye98
243 plays
4.
  All's Well That Ends Well    
Multiple Choice
 20 Qns
"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together," remarks one of the minor characters in this teasingly complex and unlucky play of Shakespeare's, which ought to be better known than it is.
Average, 20 Qns, londoneye98, Nov 24 18
Category: Shakespeare
Average
londoneye98
Nov 24 18
396 plays
5.
  The Test Career of Geoffrey Boycott [2]   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This second quiz in the series follows Boycott's England fortunes through the mid-1970s, and includes anecdotes as well as facts and figures. I won't wish you good luck, because it's playing ability that counts!
Average, 10 Qns, londoneye98, Mar 11 13
Category: Geoffrey Boycott
Average
londoneye98
125 plays
6.
  The Comedy of Errors    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
"A conglomeration of improbabilities," it has been called - but this, the shortest and zippiest of Shakespeare's plays, is an ingenious and brilliant piece of theatre which even finds room for some serious elements in the midst of its zany action.
Tough, 10 Qns, londoneye98, Sep 09 16
Category: Comedy of Errors
Tough
londoneye98
232 plays
7.
  The Test Career of Geoffrey Boycott [1]   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Here are ten questions covering Boycott's earlier Test career from 1964 to 1971. In the spirit of the man himself, you are recommended to take your time and play every question on its merits.
Average, 10 Qns, londoneye98, Jan 09 13
Category: Geoffrey Boycott
Average
londoneye98
141 plays
8.
  The Test Career of Geoffrey Boycott [3]    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Boycott's swan song - some highlights from his later England career, with a few statistics at the end for good measure.
Average, 10 Qns, londoneye98, Jul 15 13
Category: Geoffrey Boycott
Average
londoneye98
110 plays
9.
  Thomas Gainsborough, Artist   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
"There is an English School, and Gainsborough is one of its brightest stars," the art critic William Vaughan has written. I've always loved Gainsborough's work, so here are some questions about this particular bright star of English painting and his art.
Average, 15 Qns, londoneye98, Mar 09 22
Category: People E-G
Average
londoneye98
Mar 09 22
155 plays
10.
  Henry VI, Part 2   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Not a wildly exciting title, perhaps, but this play is vintage early Shakespeare, utterly riveting on stage when well performed. Here are some questions about it.
Average, 10 Qns, londoneye98, Aug 15 14
Category: Henry VI
Average
londoneye98
157 plays
11.
  Silas Marner    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This story first came to George Eliot, she says, "quite suddenly, as a sort of legendary tale, suggested by my recollection of having once, in early childhood, seen a linen-weaver with a bag on his back".
Average, 10 Qns, londoneye98, Jul 02 19
Category: Eliot, George
Average
londoneye98
Jul 02 19
104 plays
12.
  London in Music   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Here's an invitation to explore some musical evocations, in different genres, of England's capital city.
Tough, 10 Qns, londoneye98, Nov 02 12
Category: Cities in Song
Tough
londoneye98
261 plays
13.
  The Taming of the Shrew Multiple Choice Quiz    
Multiple Choice
 20 Qns
Shakespeare's Christopher Sly, writes one commentator, "lives in a waking dream between falsehood and reality as he sits down to watch a play ... or has Sly dreamed up all the action that follows?" Welcome to "The Taming of the Shrew".
Average, 20 Qns, londoneye98, Sep 01 20
Category: Taming of the Shrew
Average
londoneye98
Sep 01 20
134 plays
14.
  Cymbeline Quiz for Experts    
Multiple Choice
 20 Qns
This is a quiz about a beautiful, but sometimes neglected, Shakespeare play.
Average, 20 Qns, londoneye98, Oct 08 12
Category: Cymbeline
Average
londoneye98
227 plays
15.
  Mona Lisa and Her Mysteries    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Some questions, suitably reverent I hope, about the world's most famous painting.
Average, 10 Qns, londoneye98, Nov 06 16
Category: Leonardo da Vinci
Average
londoneye98
475 plays
16.
  A Selection of Literary Insults    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Literary insults are often very entertaining (though not necessarily if one is on the receiving end).
Difficult, 10 Qns, londoneye98, Feb 18 13
Category: Specific Subjects & Themes
Difficult
londoneye98
334 plays
17.
  London Literary Allusions   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
You will need to know some literary history to do well in this quiz.
Difficult, 10 Qns, londoneye98, Apr 19 14
Category: British Literature
Difficult
londoneye98
447 plays