Multiple Choice Trivia Questions

1. What kind of hyphenation is used in the phrase "six- to eight-foot waves"?
   A. sequential hyphenation
   B. successive hyphenation
   C. suspensive hyphenation
    

2. The narrative poem Eugene Onegin, that was made into a ballet by John Cranko, was authored by whom?
   A. Jacques Brel
   B. Lord Byron
   C. Archibald MacLeish
   D. Alexander Pushkin
   

    

3. Who was the author of the 1988 book, Being a Woman, Fulfilling Your Femininity and Finding Love?
   A. Dr. Joyce Brothers
   B. Dr. Toni Grant
   C. Ann Landers
   D. Dr. Ruth Westheimer
    

4. What kind of note are you writing when you write a "bread-and-butter" note?
   A. I'm sorry
   B. Thank you
   C. We've moved
   D. You're invited for dinner
    

5. The last letter of the Greek alphabet is what?
   A. alpha
   B. omega
   C. upsilon
   D. zeta
    

6. Charles Dickens did not write which one of the following books?
   A. Barchester Towers
   B. Dombey and Son
   C. Great Expectations
   D. Hard Times
    

7. Which author wrote the poem that begins with "When I was one-and-twenty/I heard a wise man say"?
   A. Robert Browning
   B. Lewis Carroll
   C. A. E. Housman
   D. Rudyard Kipling
    

8. Of these four poets, which one was male.
   A. Emily Dickinson
   B. Joyce Kilmer
   C. Amy Lowell
   D. Alice Duer Miller
    

9. According to the poem The Iliad, who or what was inside the Trojan Horse?
   A. Greek Soldiers
   B. Trojan soldiers
   C. horses
   D. nothing
    

10. Where did the original Jezebel (shameless hussy) first appear?
    A. the Bible
    B. a Charles Dickens story
    C. a Shakespearean play
    D. a silent film
     

11. Who was the author of the 1978 bestseller The Ends of Power?
    A. John Dean
    B. John Ehrlichman
    C. H. R. Haldeman
    D. Gordon Liddy
     

12. Robert Herrick dedicated his poem that begins, "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may", to whom?
    A. farmers
    B. his wife
    C. the king of England
    D. virgins
     

13. Who was Hannibal Hamlin?
    A. a character in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    B. a character on the TV series The A Team
    C. a vice president under Abraham Lincoln.
    D. the Pied Piper" of a children's story
     

14. Which of these titles were not a book written by Dr. Seuss?
    A. The Cat in the Hat
    B. The Frog in the Bog
    C. Hop on Pop
    D. Hunches in Bunches
     

15. "Life is real! Life is earnest!" was the beginning of a poem written by whom?
    A. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    B. Walt Whitman
    C. William Wordsworth
     

16. In At the Earth's Core and other novels, what is the name of the underground continent 500 miles beneath the earth's surface?
    A. Morlock
    B. Ozymandia
    C. Pellucidar
     

17. "A Jug of Wine,  a Loaf of Bread--and Thou" was a line written by whom?
    A. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    B. Edward Fitzgerald
    C. William Wordsworth
     

18. Which of the following books would introduce you to the crafty pirate Long John Silver?
    A. Captains Courageous
    B. Kidnapped
    C. Treasure Island
    D. Robinson Caruso
     

19.  "All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds" is a line from what?
    A. Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice
    B. Beckett's Waiting for Godot
    C. Voltaire's Candide
    D. none of the above
     

20. What was the real name of the Hunchback of Notre Dame?
    A. Jean Valjean
    B. Quasimodo
    C. Vincent

ANSWERS

1. C. suspensive hyphenation
2. A. Jacques Brel
3. B. Dr. Toni Grant
4. B. Thank you
5. B. omega
6. A. Barchester Towers
7. C. A. E. Housman
8. B. Joyce Kilmer
9. A. Greek Soldiers
10. A. the Bible
11. D. Gordon Liddy
12. D. virgins
13. D. the Pied Piper" of a children's story
14. B. The Frog in the Bog
15. A. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
16. C. Pellucidar
17. B. Edward Fitzgerald
18. C. Treasure Island
19. C. Voltaire's Candide
20. B. Quasimodo
21. A. Jacques Brel