Language
Plural of mouse
mice
Who wrote Robinson Crusoe?
Daniel Defoe
The Magna Charta was signed by which King?
King John Lackland in 1215
The Preface to the Lyrical Ballads is widely considered the Manifesto of which literary momevemt?
Romanticism
Whose knee stiffens when they are walking up a hill?
Prof. Carpenedo
Create a sentence with the two types of mixed conditional
If I were more intelligent, I would have needed to study less.
If I had studied more, I would be less worried now.
"The Tragedy of Dr Faustus" was written by...?
Christopher Marlowe
In what year did the famous Battle of Hastings take place?
Which Shakespearean play is the longest?
Hamlet
Who went to Seychelles for their honeymoon?
Prof Ghilardi
What's the meaning of "to go the extra mile"?
to do more than what is expected or required of you
"Hard Times" is a famous novel written by...?
Charles Dickens
In what year did the King issue the Act of Supremacy?
1534
Where did Stevenson get inspiration for "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"?
Who tore their ACL as a teenager?
Why is "I am knowing the answer" incorrect?
Know is a stative verb
For oft when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude,
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the Daffodils.
Who wrote this poem?
William Wordsworth
Which battle in 1815 marked the final defeat of Napoleon and saw the Duke of Wellington become a national hero?
Battle of Waterloo
What is the name of the protagonist of "Portrait of an Artist as a young man"?
Leopold Bloom
Who threw a firecracker from the window of their middle school class?
Prof Paludetto
There are only three verbs in the entire English language that end in "-ceed." Two are succeed and exceed. What is the third?
Proceed
Who wrote this Meditation?
John Donne
After the fall of the monarchy in 1649, who ruled England not as a king, but under the title of "Lord Protector"?
Oliver Cromwell
Under what name did Mary Ann Evans publish her masterpieces like Middlemarch and Silas Marner to ensure her work was taken seriously?
George Eliot
Whose patron Saint of their home town is Saint Nicholas?
Prof Masini