Streeeetch Your Mind!

Please read each question carefully and select the correct answer. The answer key will be provided in the upcoming issue.

LITERARY CHALLENGE

1. What famous literary character exclaimed “A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!”?

a) Hamlet
b) Sherlock Holmes
c) Richard III
d) David Copperfield

2. Who wrote “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”?

a) Ray Bradbury
b) F. Scott Fitzgerald
c) Virginia Wolf
d) Truman Capote

3. Who wrote the screenplay for “The Misfits”, starring Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable?

a) Arthur Miller
b) Oscar Wilde
c) John Huston
d) David Mamet

4. Who wrote “Les Miserables”?

a) Antoine de Saint-Exupйry
b) Victor Hugo
c) T.S. Eliot
d) William Faulkner

5. Who wrote a collection of autobiographical stories entitled “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog”?

a) James Joyce
b) Dylan Thomas
c) e.e.cummings
d) Mikhail Bulgakov

6. Bilbo Baggins was a character in which novel?

a) “Of Mice and Men”
b) “Black Beauty” Ъ
c) “The Yearling”
d) “The Hobbit”

7. What famous poet of the Romantic era wrote the following lines: “Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.”?

a) John Keats
b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c) William Blake
d) Percy Byshe Shelley

8. From which of Charles Dickens’ novels does this first line come: “My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.”?

a) “David Copperfield”
b) “Oliver Twist”
c) “Great Expectations”
d) “Hard Times”

9. “All children, except one, grow up.” What famous fictional child is being referred to in this line?

a) Oliver Twist
b) Peter Pan
c) Stuart Little
d) Pippy Longstocking

10. Where is Huckleberry Finn from?

a) St. Petersburg, Missouri
b) Shelter Island, Alabama
c) White Cross, Georgia
d) New Orleans, Louisiana

Key to No. 9

Answers:

Odd One Out

1. f (cash – all the others can be charged);
2. c (cheese – all the others can be dried);
3. f (haddock – all the others have shells);
4. b (television – all the others can be polished);
5. f (calculator buttons – all the others have both numbers and letters);
6. e (tissue – all the others can be changed);
7. a (liver – all the others can be broken);
8. f (CD’s – all the others come in different sizes);
9. b (CD – all the others can be flipped);
10. a (brush – all the others can be peeled)