QuizMe

1: When John Milton composed Paradise Lost he was...

hiding out from a paternity lawsuit

drunk

a college student

blind

2: Henry David Thoreau left Harvard without a...

all of the above

diploma

clue

degree

3: Ezra Pound gave T.S. Eliot the nickname:

Dickhead

Old Possum

Britheart

Spanky

4: William Shakespeare invented the words ‘puke’ and ‘eyeball’

True

False

5: Whose aphorism is 'Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate?'

Julia Childs

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Emily Dickinson

Ernest Hemingway

6: Ernest Hemingway's nickname for F. Scott Fitzgerald was...

None of the above

Spanky

Stinky

Scooter

7: According to Julia Child, the secret to a happy marriage is...

indifference

alcohol

tolerance

finding the right person

8: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice was originally titled...

In the Beginning

First Impressions

Truth Universally Acknowledged

Arrogance and Intolerance

9: Mary Shelley once called the Monster in Frankenstein...

Gimpy

Adam

Blockhead

Percy

10: The best selling book written in English is...

J. R. R. Tolkien's 'The Lord and the Rings'

Mark Twain's 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'

Charles Dickens’ 'A Tale of Two Cities'

Anonymous' 'The Bible'