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Round up your friends and play a live Poets & Poetry trivia round right now. 36 questions in the bank, shuffled fresh every game. One person starts a room, everyone else joins with a 4 letter code from any phone or laptop. No signup, no app, no setup, and it is free for up to 20 players.
Sample questions
18 of 36- 01Who wrote The Raven?
- 02A traditional haiku has how many syllables in total?
- 03The poem 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud', about daffodils, is by which poet?
- 04Who wrote The Road Not Taken?
- 05Which reclusive Amherst poet published fewer than a dozen poems in her lifetime?
- 06How many lines does a sonnet have?
- 07The poem 'Ozymandias', about a ruined statue in the desert, was written by whom?
- 08'The Tyger' appears in Songs of Experience by which poet?
- 09The Iliad and the Odyssey are attributed to which ancient poet?
- 10Paradise Lost, the epic poem about the fall of man, is by whom?
- 11Walt Whitman's poem 'O Captain! My Captain!' mourns which president?
- 12'Kubla Khan', a poem famously born from an interrupted dream, is by whom?
- 13A limerick has how many lines?
- 14How many sonnets did Shakespeare write?
- 15'The Charge of the Light Brigade' by Tennyson commemorates a battle in which war?
- 16The nonsense poem Jabberwocky appears in which book?
- 17In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the sailor shoots which bird?
- 18Dante's Divine Comedy is divided into how many parts?
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- Answer fast. Speed and streaks both score, so the fastest right answer wins the round.
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