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Tired of being losing out on all the Star Wars & Star Trek quizzes? Give your friends this one.
Question 1: Which is the correct author and spelling for the novel "Persuasion?"
Jane Austin
Emily Bronte
Jane Austen
Charlotte Bronte
Question 2: Which Civil War battlefield was the site of two major battles, fought roughly a year apart?
Antietam
Manassas/Bull Run
Vicksburg
Gettysburg/Chambersburg
Question 3: Which King of England was beheaded? (Hint: this was before the French Revolution)
Henry VII
Richard III
Charles I
Charles II
Question 7: "...my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything for
to go against conscience is neither right nor safe." Who said this?
Menno Simons
Martin Luther
John Calvin
William Penn
Question 11: Which of these titles was not written by Charles Dickens?
Old Curiousity Shop
Our Mutual Friend
Daniel Deronda
Hard Times
Question 12: "Rosemary, that's for remembrance." - which Shakespeare play is this from?
King Lear
Hamlet
Much Ado about Nothing
Richard III
Twelfth Night
Question 13: Why is Richard III supposed to have been such a nasty person?
raising taxes to support an unpopular war
killing his nephews to overtake the throne
killing his uncle to overtake the throne
Question 19: "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a large fortune
must be in want of a wife." - Opening line from what novel?
Emma
Vanity Fair
Pride and Prejudice
War and Peace
Mansfield park
Question 20: "If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is
forever England." - Who wrote these lines?
Wilfred Owen
Rupert Brooke
Robert Louis Stevenson
Daniel Deronda
Joyce Kilmer
Question 21: Who is the "father of the essay?"
Locke
Montaigne
Pascal
Bacon
Voltaire
Question 22: Shipwrecked Twins. Viola/Cesario. Count Orsino. Malvolio. --- which play?
Midsummer Night's Dream
Twelfth Night
Merchant of Venice
Cyrano de Bergerac
Question 24: Early in his reign, King Henry VIII published a defense of what?
war with France
dancing
the Catholic church
divorce
Question 25: "Do not send for whom the bell tolls...it tolls for thee," - who said this?
Milton
Hobbes
Bunyan
Donne
Churchill
Question 27: In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales we are told of several pilgrims on their way to Canterbury
Cathedral. What famous event happened at Canterbury?
Thomas Becket's murder
first royal British marriage ceremony
first report of Virgin Mary's appearance in Britain
William the Conqueror's coronation
Question 29: Two of the signers of the Declaration of the Independence died on the 50th anniversary of
its signing. Who were they?
John Hancock, William Penn
Charles Carroll, George Washington
John Adams, Thomas Jefferson
James Madison, Samuel Adams