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  Which one of these poems was NOT written by Lewis Carroll? see if you know the answer
Answered: 253 times
Correct: 124 times (31.2%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 129 times (32.5%)
Skipped: 144 times (36.3%)
  What is the answer Lewis Carroll gave to the question, "Why is a raven like a writing desk," in the preface to the 1896 edition of Alice in Wonderland? see if you know the answer
Answered: 721 times
Correct: 284 times (31.1%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 437 times (47.8%)
Skipped: 193 times (21.1%)
  Which Lewis Carroll work describes a map drawn at actual size (1 mile = 1 mile), which has never been unfolded because it would shade the farmers' crops from the sun? see if you know the answer
Answered: 199 times
Correct: 58 times (17.4%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 141 times (42.3%)
Skipped: 134 times (40.2%)
  Who, in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, informs Alice, "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less"? see if you know the answer
Answered: 667 times
Correct: 216 times (27.5%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 451 times (57.5%)
Skipped: 118 times (15.0%)
  Which of these words was not coined by Lewis Carroll? see if you know the answer
Answered: 203 times
Correct: 86 times (32.6%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 117 times (44.3%)
Skipped: 61 times (23.1%)
  What is the pen name of Edward Irving Wortis? see if you know the answer
Answered: 20979 times
Correct: 6393 times (22.2%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 14586 times (50.7%)
Skipped: 7802 times (27.1%)
  Which Pulitzer prize-winning musical play includes a song entitled "A Secretary is Not a Toy"? see if you know the answer
Answered: 2551 times
Correct: 2097 times (59.5%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 454 times (12.9%)
Skipped: 974 times (27.6%)
  In the French translation of Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky", what does the made-up word lubricilleux mean? see if you know the answer
Answered: 145 times
Correct: 87 times (36.6%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 58 times (24.4%)
Skipped: 93 times (39.1%)
  The play Jabberwock is based on the adolescent memories of whom? see if you know the answer
Answered: 181 times
Correct: 32 times (13.9%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 149 times (64.5%)
Skipped: 50 times (21.6%)
  Which animal appears as one of the main characters in Lewis Carroll's THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK? see if you know the answer
Answered: 224 times
Correct: 77 times (12.4%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 147 times (23.6%)
Skipped: 399 times (64.0%)
  Which of these poems did Lewis Carroll NOT write? see if you know the answer
Answered: 1214 times
Correct: 1043 times (70.8%)
Difficulty: easy
Incorrect: 171 times (11.6%)
Skipped: 260 times (17.6%)
  Which character in Through the Looking Glass is dreaming of Alice looking at him, believing that when he awakens she will cease to exist? Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There see if you know the answer
Answered: 428 times
Correct: 223 times (31.3%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 205 times (28.8%)
Skipped: 285 times (40.0%)
  Words in what unusual shape can be found in a Lewis Carroll book? see if you know the answer
Answered: 268 times
Correct: 118 times (22.1%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 150 times (28.0%)
Skipped: 267 times (49.9%)
  Which author was also a famous mathematician? see if you know the answer
Answered: 26289 times
Correct: 16901 times (52.5%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 9388 times (29.2%)
Skipped: 5874 times (18.3%)
  What was Lewis Carroll's other passion, besides writing and mathematics? see if you know the answer
Answered: 443 times
Correct: 290 times (43.9%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 153 times (23.2%)
Skipped: 217 times (32.9%)
  Which singer owes a big "Thank You" to Lewis Carroll? see if you know the answer
Answered: 399 times
Correct: 267 times (41.0%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 132 times (20.3%)
Skipped: 252 times (38.7%)
  "It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility."

This passage is from a book by which author? 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 632 times
Correct: 311 times (33.9%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 321 times (35.0%)
Skipped: 286 times (31.2%)
  In Wicked Lovely what poem does Keenan read to the class whist staring at Aislinn? see if you know the answer
Answered: 175 times
Correct: 70 times (27.6%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 105 times (41.3%)
Skipped: 79 times (31.1%)
  According to Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky and Other Poems, how does the protagonist of "Jabberwocky" kill the Jabberwock? see if you know the answer
Answered: 608 times
Correct: 512 times (61.3%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 96 times (11.5%)
Skipped: 227 times (27.2%)
  "______ was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought ______ 'without pictures or conversation?'"

... is the beginning of ... 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 812 times
Correct: 740 times (84.3%)
Difficulty: easy
Incorrect: 72 times (8.2%)
Skipped: 66 times (7.5%)
  Which of these writers is NOT pictured on the cover of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper album? see if you know the answer
Answered: 107 times
Correct: 32 times (21.8%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 75 times (51.0%)
Skipped: 40 times (27.2%)
  What connects the titles of works by Paul Auster, Simon Mawer, Hermann Hesse, Tennessee Williams, Catherine Cookson, Lewis Carroll and Roald Dahl? see if you know the answer
Answered: 222 times
Correct: 138 times (54.8%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 84 times (33.3%)
Skipped: 30 times (11.9%)
  Who wrote The Brothers Lionheart? see if you know the answer
Answered: 61 times
Correct: 42 times (51.9%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 19 times (23.5%)
Skipped: 20 times (24.7%)
  Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
What did Alice try to do while falling down the rabbit hole? 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 102 times
Correct: 34 times (27.4%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 68 times (54.8%)
Skipped: 22 times (17.7%)
  Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Who says: "We are all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad"? 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 119 times
Correct: 43 times (32.6%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 76 times (57.6%)
Skipped: 13 times (9.8%)
  The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon

Name the quoted poet:

And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise. 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 158 times
Correct: 84 times (39.6%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 74 times (34.9%)
Skipped: 54 times (25.5%)
  From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:

Name the quoted poet:

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back. 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 55 times
Correct: 53 times (85.5%)
Difficulty: easy
Incorrect: 2 times (3.2%)
Skipped: 7 times (11.3%)
  Under what name did Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett publish most of his writing? see if you know the answer
Answered: 43 times
Correct: 24 times (33.8%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 19 times (26.8%)
Skipped: 28 times (39.4%)

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