Love in literature
Great Speeches and Extremism
The Romantic Age and The Victorian Age
Williams
Common knowledge about Great Britain
100
The probably most famous writer about love - and other things - in British literature.
Who is William Shakespeare?
100
The subject matter over which some American doctors have been attacked.
What is abortion?
100
The one who painted the Romantic painting "The Cornfield"
Who is John Constable?
100
The one who stated that poetry is "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings recollected in tranquility"
Who is William Wordsworth?
100
The second biggest city in Great Britain.
What is Birmingham?
200
The one who plays the leading female role in the film "Shakespeare in love"
Who is Gwyneth Paltrow?
200
The three appeal forms.
What is logos, pathos and ethos?
200
What Darwin "discovered" during the Victorian Age.
What is the theory of evolution, the origin of species, the concept of natural selection?
200
At least three plays written by William Shakespeare.
What is (e.g.) Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Much Ado about Nothing, etc. etc.
200
The highest mountain in Great Britain.
What is Ben Nevis (Scotland)?
300
At least three texts dealing with the concept of marriage.
What is "What We Talk about When We Talk about Love", "Happy Endings", "Pride and Prejudice", "Romeo and Juliet"
300
The name of the book that inspired Timothy McVeigh to do the Oklahoma City Bombings.
What is "The Turner Diaries"?
300
What Romantic Age poet Keats said is "a joy forever".
What is "a thing of beauty"?
300
The name of Prince William and Kate's newborn daughter.
What is Princess Charlotte?
300
The number of members of the Commonwealth.
What is 53?
400
The first four lines in Auden's poem "Stop All The Clocks"
What is "Stop all the clocks / cut off the telephone / prevent the dog from barking / with a juicy bone"
400
At least two US presidents and famous quotes they have said.
What is (for instance) Kennedy: "Ich bin ein Berliner" Obama: "Yes we can!" Clinton: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky" Bush: "Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists"
400
The fictional character who says the words, "I had voluntarily stripped myself of all those balancing instincts by which even the worst of us continues to walk with some degree of steadiness among temptations"
Who is Dr Jekyll?
400
The one who wrote "Piper pipe that song again".
Who is William Blake?
400
The name and party of the British Prime Minister.
What is David Cameron and The Conservative Party?
500
The characteristics of a sonnet.
What is fourteen lines in iambic pentametre, organized in certain rhymes; Petrachan sonnet:abba abba cde cde (or something like that); English sonnet: abab cdcd efef gg (or something like that)
500
At least three examples of rhetorical tools.
What is repetition, contrasts, examples, parallels, symbols, rhetorical questions?
500
The big differences between Kipling's "The White Man's Burden", and Olive Senior's "Colonial Girls' School"
What is the fact that the former defends colonialism and explains why it is a burden, yet a duty, for the white man to civilize the heathens, whereas the latter criticizes colonialism seeing it from the point of view of the colonized people.
500
The name of William Butler Yeats' poem in which he states that "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold".
What is "The Second Coming"?
500
The year the British Constitution was written?
What is "never"? It is a trick question since there is no such thing as a British Constitution....
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