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The bridge Eliot refers to several times throughout the poem "The Waste Land"
What is the London Bridge?
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The woman gossiped about in the pub who's taken abortion pills and had such bad teeth (III. "A Game of Chess")
Who is Lil?
100
According to Eliot, the cruelest month (I. The Burial of the Dead)
What is April?
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Eliot was a leader in this movement
What is Modernism?
100
"Tears on the mausoleum floor, blood stains the Colosseum doors"
What is rap? Jay Z raps these lines in the song, "No Church In The Wild"
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The city closest to the Starnbergersee (I. Burial of the Dead)
What is Munich?
200
She is "known to be the wisest woman in Europe, / With a wicked pack of cards" (I. The Burial of the Dead).
Who is Madame Sosostris, the fortune teller/clairvoyent?
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This phrase is called out by the bartender (or maybe by the Universe) at the end of the second section (II. "A Game of Chess").
What is "HURRY UP PLEASE, IT'S TIME"?
200
The T.S. in T.S. Eliot stands for this.
What is Thomas Stearns?
200
"The trilling wire in the blood, sings below inveterate scars, appeasing long forgotten wars?
What is Eliot? These lines come from Part II of Eliot’s "Burnt Norton", the first of his set of four poems, which collectively make up his "Four Quartets"
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The river the speaker is singing to (III. "The Fire Sermon")
What is the Thames River?
300
She is the cousin of the archduke (I. "Burial of the Dead")
Who is Marie?
300
The poem begins in this season (I. Burial of the Dead).
What is Spring?
300
Eliot moved to this country at age 25
Where is the United Kingdom?
300
"He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity"
What is Eliot? This line comes from Eliot's poem, "Macavity: The Mystery Cat"
400
Where civilization has been "undone by death" and zombies seem to walk the earth (I. The Burial of the Dead).
Where is the Unreal City?
400
The woman from Greek myth who was "forc'd" by King Tereus and then changed into a nightingale (I. Burial of the Dead).
Who is Philomel?
400
This is now "the Garden"
The single rose
400
Eliot was good friends and colleagues with this poet
Who is Ezra Pound?
400
"Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels, and sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells"
What is Eliot? These lines come from Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
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The narrator called to him while he was walking over the bridge at the end of "The Burial of the Dead"? (I. The Burial of the Dead)
Who is Stetson?
500
The tarot card of the Phoenician Sailor said he died in this way (I. Burial of the Dead).
What is drowning?
500
The bones sang underneath this type of tree
Juniper
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Eliot was born in this U.S. city
Where is St. Louis?
500
"Though things change, the future's still inside of me, we must remember that tomorrow comes after the dark"
What is rap? 2pac raps these lines in his song "Unconditional Love"
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