Poetry Trivia Questions
In case you missed them, here are the past five Columbia Granger's World of Poetry trivia questions of the day.
February 19
Question:
What poet, grandfather to the most famous biologist of the nineteenth century, was known in his day for writing biological treatises in verse?
Answer
Erasmus Darwin. His Temple of Nature details the scientific discoveries of his age in heroic couplets. His grandson Charles Darwin wrote The Origins of the Species .
February 18
Question:
What two female poets, and rivals, were in the same poetry workshop at Boston University, taught by Robert Lowell?
Answer
Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.
February 17
Question:
What planet has two moons named after characters from Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock"?
Answer
Uranus. The two moons are Umbriel and Belinda.
February 16
February 15
Question:
William Faulkner, Harold Pinter, and Samuel Beckett all won a Nobel Prize in literature. Which of them began a career as a poet?
Answer
All of them.
