14 September 2017

Quiz

by Boffles

Do you know?

1. To which Pre-Raphaelite painter was Evelyn Waugh related?

 

2. Why did The Loom of Youth written by Evelyn’s brother Alec Waugh cause a scandal?

 

3. Why did Einstein come to regard a letter he wrote to President Roosevelt in 1939 as the one great mistake of his life?

 

4. Where does the word ‘emoji’ come from?

 

5. Who wrote

“There’s a whisper down the field where the year has shot her yield,

And the ricks stand grey to the sun,

Singing:-‘Over then, come over for the bee has quit the clover,

and your English summer’s done.” ?

 

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