May Quiz Questions

Again this year we’re beginning each month with five pub quiz style questions, with a different subject each month. They’re not difficult, but it is unlikely everyone will know all the answers, so hopefully you’ll learn something new, as well as have a bit of fun.

May Quiz Questions: Literature & Language

  1. What does the word conniption mean?
  2. What is regarded as the world’s oldest language which is still spoken?
  3. Who wrote Songs of Innocence and Visions of the Daughters of Albion?
  4. 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?
  5. 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”

Answers will be posted in 2 weeks time.