Past Lit
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife" is the first line of...
Pride and Prejudice
Spell the noun of "strong"
strength
Bloody Mary
To get the hang of it
Get used to something, become better at (prenderci la mano)
Utilitarianism was introduced by...
Jeremy Bentham
"Ozymandias" was written by...
P.B. Shelley
Pronounce the word "colonel"
"kernel"
The English settlers who travelled to North America on the ship Mayflower in 1620...
Pilgrim Fathers
fall in love
The man who trained young pickpockets in "Oliver Twist"
Fagin
When did Shakespeare die?
1616
Spell the English for "burocrazia"
bureaucracy
On November 5, 1605 a plot was organised to kill...
King James I of England (VI of Scotland)
To rain check
promise to postpone offer until later (rimandare l'invito)
Nigeria
The name of the woman who commits suicide in "Hamlet" is...
Ophelia
Pronounce the word: to gauge (misurare)
/ˈgeɪdʒ/ gheig
The man who led the only republic in English history...
Oliver Cromwell
To dodge a bullet
avoid [sth] unpleasant (scampare, evitare)
James Joyce had two children named..., with a woman named...
Giorgio and Lucia (children), wife (Nora)
The pre-Romantic trend focused on the creation of a Scottish epic, deloped by Macpherson...
Ossianic Poetry
The plurals of "criterion" and "analysis" are...
"criteria" and "analyses"
Who signed Magna Carta? When?
King John Lackland in 1215
To steal sb's thunder
take attention from [sb] (rubare la scena)
Virginia Woolf commited suicide drowning herself in the river...
River Ouse