First lines…Who wrote the following and what was the name of the poem?
1) ‘Go and catch a falling star’
2) ‘ Tis the middle of the night by the castle clock’.
3) ‘The sea is calm tonight’.
What the well-dressed character wears. Identify the characters and name the stories in which they appear.
1) Needing a new dress for a business trip, she made one out of some green velvet curtains.
2) He wore a red coat, blue trousers, and purple shoes with crimson soles and crimson linings.
3) He wore a beautiful cravat ( or was it a belt/) that had been given to him by the king as an un-birthday present.
Famous words by famous people. Can you identify who said them and where they appeared?
1) ‘ You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a Freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.’
2) ‘My soul ain’t yours ! It’s been bought and paid for by One that is able to keep it. Ye may kill my body but you can’t harm my soul.’
3) ‘ I chose my wife as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as should wear well.’
Gentlemen of the Cloth. Can you identify the clergymen described here and name the stories in which they appeared ?
1) After seven years of worrying about it, this minister publicly confessed his adultery.
2) After proposing three times to Elizabeth Bennet, this humourless and formal-mannered rector married her dearest friend.
3) During a famine this bishop assembled the poor people in a barn and burned them to death in order to have more food for the rich, and was presently punished when an army of rats swarmed into his tower and devoured him.
Favourite foods of famous people.
Do you recall the dietetic peculiarities of the well-known literary characters that are mentioned below ?
1) When Cock Robin proposed to Jenny Wren, he promised that she should dine on a) candied sunflower seeds b) curds and whey c) plum cake and sugar candy d) cherry pie and currant wine e) hot cross buns
2) During the three years that Ben Gunn was marooned on Treasure Island he dreamed of eating a) toasted cheese b) roast goose c) fish and chips d) stuffed celery e) plum pudding.
3) After Timon of Athens had squandered his fortune on fair weather friends, he invited them to a banquet and served nothing but a) bean soup b) burnt bread c) mashed potatoes d) meat bones e) luke-warm water.
Twenty Questions.
Just name the poets.
1) O Wind, if Winter comes, can Spring be far behind ?
2) Can storied urn or animated bust back its mansion call the fleeting breath?
3) Where are the snows of yesteryear ?
Fiction’s famous servants
Can you identify them?
1) Inspired by a couple of crooked lawyers, this landlady brought a suit for breach of promise against her gentleman lodger.
2) Though the villain pursued her and pursued her, her virtue was rewarded when he married her in the end.
3) A water-carrier in the service of Her Majesty’s Army in India, he was killed in action.
Answers in the next Jot.
To be continued…
R. M. Healey