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Question 1 of 10
Who wrote the poem A Red Red Rose?
Question 2 of 10
What writer's work about a hookah-smoking caterpillar inspired Jefferson Airplane to write the psychedelic "White Rabbit"?
Question 3 of 10
Technically the first three words of Moby-Dick are "The pale Usher ...," since the book includes a background section called Etymology that comes before the text itself. However, as far as most people are concerned, what is that book's famous three-word opening?
Question 4 of 10
Poet Marianne Moore co-wrote "A Poem on the Annihilation of Ernie Terrell" in 1967 with what athlete?
Question 5 of 10
Who is the hero of the Indian epic the "Ramayana"?
Question 6 of 10
Which book begins with the line "The American handed Leamus another cup of coffee...." ?
Question 7 of 10
Normally, the deaths of such writers CS Lewis and Aldous Huxley would be big news, except that they happened to die on the same day as which US president?
Question 8 of 10
What name is given to the study of word origins and how words change over time?
Question 9 of 10
Ruth Plumly Thompson added 19 books of her own to the 14 that L Frank Baum had written about what land?
Question 10 of 10
In addition to writing about a mutiny on a minesweeper called the Caine, who served on a minesweeper himself during World War II?
Who Sang Quizzes
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Which artist performed these songs?
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Songs from the 60s!
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Who Sang These Songs?
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Who Sang These Songs?
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History Quizzes
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70s Nostalgia Quiz
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History Quiz
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History Quiz
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Quiz on historical events.
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Quiz on History
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Geography Quizzes
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10 Question About Planet Earth
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Geography Quiz
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Geography Quiz
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HARD Science Quiz
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Geography Quiz
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Music Quizzes
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Alternative Rock Music Quiz
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10 difficult questions about John Denver
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Barbra Streisand Quiz
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Science Quizzes
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Quiz on Science
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Who or what am I?
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