Monday, March 21, 2011

Tuesday Trivia



Match the authors in column A and their famous characters who die in Column B.

Column A
  • Louisa May Alcott
  • Pearl S. Buck
  • Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Virginia Woolf
  • Charles Dickens
  • Kate Chopin
  • Thornton Wilder
  • Aldous Huxley
  • Toni Morrison
  • Arthur Miller
Column B
  • John
  • Willie
  • Nell Trent
  • Beth
  • O-Lan
  • Troilus
  • Pilate Dead
  • Septimus Warren Smith
  • Emily
  • Edna Pontellier



Last Week's Answers




Which poem remains unfinished because the author could not remember the dream about which he had begun writing?




Samuel Taylor Coleridge was in the midst of writing down his dream when someone knocked on the door. The interruption caused him to forget the rest of the dream, which is why "Kubla Khan" remains unfinished.





What does the "R" in Dean R. Koontz's name stand for?




Ray





Which winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature was born in a ladies’ room during a dance?




Winston Churchill





Of all the words in the English language, which has the most definitions?




The word “set.”




1 comment:

zoozli said...

nice trivia question