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