October+24,+2007


 * 1) The Raven is one of America’s most famous poems. Who wrote it? (//Edgar Allan Poe//)


 * 1) In Alice in Wonderland, Alice is heard repeating a line “I’m late, I’m late for a very important _________”. What must Alice not miss? (//date//)


 * 1) This musical was the longest-running show in Broadway history and was based on T.S. Eliot’s poems about his feline friends. What is the title of the musical? (//Cats//)


 * 1) William Blake did not write “Roca-a-bye-Baby’. Rather, his poem about a sleeping baby was entitled _________Song. //(Cradle//)


 * 1) Name the author of __Where the Sidewalk Ends.__ (//Shel Silverstein//)


 * 1) This famous poem by Lewis Carroll was inspired by a tree that grew in the garden of Christchurch College, Oxford where he lectured on mathematics. What is the title of the poem? (Hint: the tree was (and still is) very large with many twisted branches). (//The Jabberwocky//)


 * 1) Roald Dahl wrote an hilarious but crude rendition of many poems including Cinderella and Crockey-Wok the Crocodile. Name the title of his book of Rhymes. (//Revolting Rhymes//)


 * 1) Jack Prelutski did not write about raining cats and dogs. Instead, his poem is entitled It’s Raining Pigs and ____________”.(//noodles//)


 * 1) 19 Varieties of Gazelle is a collection of poems about the Middle East. What is the name of the poet? (//Naomi Shihab Nye//)


 * 1) “I’m making a pizza the size of the sun” is the first line of a poem by the same name. Who is the author of that poem” (//Jack Prelutski//)


 * 1) A collection of poetry centering on word play by Michael Rosen has as its title Walking the Bridge of Your ____________. What specific part of the body does the author refer to? (//Nose//)


 * 1) Who wrote the following lines? (//William Blake//)

TIGER, tiger, burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?


 * 1) Gary Soto, a well-known Hispanic poet refers to how much it will cost in his line, “Today its going to cost us __________________ dollars to live.” How many dollars will it cost? (t//wenty//)


 * 1) Dear Mother, Dear Daughter is a collection of poems focusing on problems that mother and daughters most often experience. It was written by a woman known as a modern-day Aesop. Who is this author? (//Jane Yolen//)


 * 1) Jane Yolen is a cat person. Her husband is a god person. Her poem in this collection of poetry is based on personal experience. The title depicts a certain expression describing wet weather. What is the title? (//Raining Cats and Dogs//)


 * 1) Two famous contemporary female poets for children share the same surname. Their family names, however, are Giovanni and Grimes. Spelled properly, what is their first names? (//Niki//)


 * 1) In this poem Robert Lee Frost is confronted with having to choose between two roads that converge in a yellow wood. What is the title of the poem? (//The Road not Taken//)


 * 1) //Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?// is the first verse of a famous love sonnet by a famous author, who was also nicknamed the Bard. What is the name of this poet? (//Shakespeare//)

How do I love thee? (//Let me count the ways//)
 * 1) Can you complete the following verse by Elizabeth Barrett Browning?


 * 1) 'On the Ning Nang Nong' was voted the UK's favourite comic poem in 1998. Who was its author? (//Spike Milligan//)

On the Ning Nang Nong Where the Cows go Bong! and the monkeys all say BOO! There's a Nong Nang Ning Where the trees go Ping! And the tea pots jibber jabber joo. On the Nong Ning Nang All the mice go Clang And you just can't catch 'em when they do! So its Ning Nang Nong Cows go Bong! Nong Nang Ning Trees go ping Nong Ning Nang The mice go Clang What a noisy place to belong is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong!!