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

1. What does the word conniption mean? A fit of rage or hysterics
2. What is regarded as the world’s oldest language which is still spoken? Tamil
3. Who wrote Songs of Innocence and Visions of the Daughters of Albion? William Blake
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? 850
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”
   Shakespeare; Julius Caesar; Act 2, Scene 2

Answers were correct when questions were compiled in late 2022.