Here are the answers to this month’s five quiz questions. If in doubt, all should be able to be easily verified online.
May Quiz Questions: Literature & Language
- What does the word conniption mean? A fit of rage or hysterics
- What is regarded as the world’s oldest language which is still spoken? Tamil
- Who wrote Songs of Innocence and Visions of the Daughters of Albion? William Blake
- Even with a small word list and simple structure it is possible to say almost anything in Basic English. How many words are in the lexicon of Basic English? 850
- In which play do the following lines occur?
“A lioness hath whelped in the streets;
And graves have yawn’d, and yielded up their dead”
Shakespeare; Julius Caesar; Act 2, Scene 2
Answers were correct when questions were compiled in late 2022.