poetry
might be poetry (might also not be poetry! gambling!!)
Lore/Going D1
Lit lit
100

The Folger Library, located on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., is home to large collection of printed works by what Bard of English poetry and plays?

Who is William Shakespeare?

100

What 20th-century Welsh poet is perhaps best remembered for his poem “Do not go gentle into that good night,” as well as stories such as “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog?”

Who is Dylan Thomas?

100
Number of teams in March Madness

What is 68?

100

Literary technique where characters might discuss another creator's work so as to remind the reader they are reading

What is metafiction?

200

"Black, lesbian, warrior, mother, poet" was the self-description of what poet who said "I am Black because I come from the earth's inside" in her poem "Coal?"

Who is Audre Lorde?

200

How do you do time warp?

What is "it's just a jump to the left...and a step to the right! Put your hands on your hips...and bring your knees in ti~ight! And it's the pelvic thrust that really drives you insa-a-a-ne...Let's do the time warp again!"

200

Eliot's "Cruellest month"

What is April?

200

“Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes,” is the first line in what famous Leo Tolstoy book?

What is War and Peace?

300

What epic John Milton poem, first published in 1667, concerns the fall of Lucifer from Heaven, and Adam and Eve’s expulsion from the Garden of Eden?

What is Paradise Lost?

300

Used in ancient times by the poet Tibullus, "The Eternal City" is a nickname given to what European capital?

What is Rome?

300

This is the first secular university founded in the United States by Benjamin Franklin

What is the University of Pennsylvania?

300

Incredibly prolific 1922 poem by T.S. Eliot featuring a "Burial of the Dead" and a "Chess Game"

What is The Waste Land?

400

While he was better known for his macabre poetry, who also wrote some of the first “detective mysteries,” which starred one C. Auguste Dupin?

Who is Edgar Allan Poe?

400

This is the name of Brr Brr Patapim's cousin; its first syllable could be used to describe Big Gabrila

What is Bum Bum Patapim

400

bear with a hijab...

what is "ITS ALL AB THE BERK"

400

Containing the famous line "Give me your tired, your poor," what is the "monumental" name of the 1883 Emma Lazarus sonnet that appears on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty?

What is The New Colossus?

500

Lauded for ruling during this empire's "golden age," Suleiman the Magnificent was an accomplished poet and goldsmith. Suleiman was the tenth and longest-ruling sultan of what empire?

What is the Ottoman Empire?

500

City on the Hudson River and home of Frank Sinatra

What is my goat Hoboken NJ

500

The squeakers are not this, but Franz Kafka was

What are Jews?

500

1988 novel by Salman Rushdie, inspired by the life of the prophet Muhammad, that made him a target of many Islamic countries

What is The Satanic Verses?

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