Poetry Trivia Questions
In case you missed them, here are the past five Columbia Granger's World of Poetry trivia questions of the day. .
April 28
April 27
Question:
Whose brain was dropped on the floor, once he had died and left it to science?
Answer
Walt Whitman's. Thomas Lux has written a poem about it "Walt Whiman's Brain Dropped on Laboratory Floor."
April 26
Question:
What poet and wit's epitaph reads, "When I am dead, I hope it may be said: / 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'"?
Answer
April 25
Question:
What poet's epitaph reads, "And alien tears will fill for him / Pity's long broken urn, / For his mourners will be outcast men, / And outcasts always mourn"?
Answer
Oscar Wilde. The lines are taken from his poem "Ballad of Reading Gaol."
April 24
Question:
Whose death occasioned this epitaph from Lord Byron: "Near this spot / are deposited the remains of one / who possessed Beauty without Vanity, / Strength without Insolence, / Courage without Ferocity, / and all the Virtues of Man without his Vices. / This praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery, / if inscribed over human Ashes, / is but a just Tribute to the memory of ..."
Answer
Boatswain, Byron's dog.
