Thursday Thirteen: How Well-Rounded Are You? A Quiz
How well-rounded are you? Here is a little quiz to test your knowledge on a variety of things. Answers are at the bottom—no cheating!
1. Who said “Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes”?
a. Mark Twain
b. Henry David Thoreau
c. Nathaniel Hawthorne
d. Paul Simon
2. Who worked in a family pencil factory?
a. Walt Whitman
b. Henry David Thoreau
c. Nathaniel Hawthorne
d. Emily Dickinson
3. Who invented the American novel of the sea?
a. Mark Twain
b. Edgar Allan Poe
c. Nathaniel Hawthorne
d. Herman Melville
4. Who said “Rebuke the devil and he will flee from you”?
a. the Bible: the book of James
b. the Bible: the book of Jude
c. Cotton Mather,
d. Nathaniel Hawthorne
5. Who believed that, to be truly in tune with nature, we must become like a “transparent eyeball”?
a. Walt Whitman
b. Emily Dickinson
c. Ralph Waldo Emerson
d. William Cullen Bryant
6. Have the Texas Rangers ever played in the World Series?
a. no, never
b. yes, by the skin of their teeth in 1995
c. yes, in 1993
d. yes, in 1988
7. True or false? The moon is 1,974, 907 miles away from us.
8. True or false? The bright morning and evening stars are both Venus.
9. One of the favorite foods of Monarch butterflies is _____.
b. milkweed
c. burberrry bush
d. mallowflowers
10. The first compilation of English property, the Domesday Book, was ordered by _____.
a.
b. William the Conqueror
c. Alfred the Great
d. the Venerable Bede
11. The first English king to convert to Christianity was _____.
a. Hrothgar
b. Alfred
c. Aethelberht
d. Waelred
a.
b. Shakespeare
c. Ben Jonson
d. Geoffrey Chaucer
a.
b. the English
c. love
d. jail
1. b; 2. b; 3. c; 4. a; 5. c; 6. a; 7. false; 8. true; 9. b; 10. b; 11. c; 12. b; 13. d
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