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 23

    Question:

    What was the pen name of the French Surrealist poet Eugène Grindel?

    Answer ->

    Paul Éluard.

  • February 22

    Question:

    What was the pen name of mathematician / logician / poet Charles Lutwidge Dodgson?

    Answer ->

    Lewis Carroll.

  • February 21

    Question:

    Which poem did W.H. Auden consider the most perfect in the English language?

    Answer ->

    Pope's The Rape of the Lock.

  • February 20

    Question:

    What 1854 military action, described by a French observer as "C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre" (It is magnificent, but it is not war), was immortalized in a famous poem by Lord Alfred Tennyson)?

    Answer ->

    "The Charge of the Light Brigade."

  • 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 .

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