House and Home
W"arm"ing
Celebrity Portmanteau
Poetical Forms
200
Dr. Gregory House was played by this actor.
Who is Hugh Laurie?
200
Flat cap worn by Jewish men (8 letters)
What is a yarmulke?
200
16th century Genevan theologian
+ designer famous for male underwear ad campaigns
Who is John Calvin Klein?
200
The "octave" and "sestet" are the two main parts of this type of 14-line poem.
What is a sonnet?
400
The 1943 movie adaptation of "Lassie Come Home" included in the cast this 10-year-old actress who became famous, among other reasons, for her violet eyes.
Who is Elizabeth Taylor?
400
Synonym for asphalt (6 letters)
What is tarmac?
400
Author of "Death on the Nile"
+ supermodel who appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated in 1979, 1980, and 1981
Who is Agatha Christie Brinkley?
400
"Amazing Grace," and many poems of Emily Dickinson, are exemplars of this metre.
Common metre OR ballad metre
600
"Home" was the follow-up novel to "Gilead," which won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, by this author.
Who is Marilynne Robinson?
600
Singing in parts, for example (7 letters)
What is harmony?
600
Protagonist of "Les Miserables"
+ composer of "Finlandia"
Who is Jean Valjean Sibelius?
600
Unrhymed iambic pentameter is also called this.
What is blank verse?
800
"House of Mirth" was the second novel published by this female author.
Who is Edith Wharton?
800
Horrifying yeast-based spread popular in Britain (7 letters)
What is Marmite?
800
Author of "Screwtape Letters"
+ author of "Jabberwocky"
+ creator of the AC Cobra sports car
Who is C.S Lewis Carroll Shelby?
800
Old English poetry, including "Beowulf," is not rhymed but written in this kind of verse.
What is alliterative verse?
1000
The song "Brick House" was released in 1977 by this group.
Who are The Commodores?
1000
This weird tiny monkey (8 letters)
What is a marmoset?
1000
Pitcher after whom an elbow surgery is named
+ star of the original "True Grit"
+ lead singer of the Flaming Lips
Who is Tommy John Wayne Coyne?
1000
Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey" are written in this meter.
What is hexameter or dactylic hexameter?