1. What is the traditional syllable pattern of a limerick?

2. How many of Emily Dickinson’s nearly 1,800 poems were published while she was alive?

3. Which famous artist sold only one painting during his entire lifetime—yet that same painting style later sold for $111 million?

4. From which book or play do we get the line “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”?

5. Who was the first female Poet Laureate?

6. Who sculpted The Thinker?

7. From which book or play do we get the quotation: “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”?

8. Which Nobel Prize-winning author lost an entire suitcase containing all his unpublished early manuscripts at a Paris train station?

9. In what year was the first book of crosswords published in New York?

10. In what year did popular children’s author and creator of “The Famous Five” and “The Secret Seven”, Enid Blyton die, aged 71?