Poetry Trivia Questions
In case you missed them, here are the past five Columbia Granger's World of Poetry trivia questions of the day.
December 20
Question:
What poem inspired Cole Porter's song "Always true to you, darlin', in my fashion"?
Answer
Ernest Dowson's (1867-1900) "Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae." ("I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.")
December 19
Question:
What long-running television series has featured guest appearances of both former Paris Review editor George Plimpton and former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky?
Answer
The Simpsons .
December 18
Question:
What poem provided the title for Humphrey Cobb's 1935 book Paths of Glory, which was made into a 1957 movie by Stanley Kubrick?
Answer
"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," by Thomas Gray. ("The paths of glory lead but to the grave. . .")
December 17
Question:
From what poem did Thomas Hardy take the title of his novel Far from the Madding Crowd ?
Answer
"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," by Thomas Gray. ("Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, / Their sober wishes never learned to stray . . .")
December 16
Question:
What two poems take as their subject Peter Brueghel's painting "The Fall of Icarus"?
Answer
William Carlos Williams's "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" and W.H. Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts."
