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Today’s Answers
Another five questions: still a variation on a theme.
One
… Town’s in Brunswick,
By famous Hanover city;
The river Weser, deep and wide,
Washes its wall on the southern side;
A pleasanter spot you never spied;
But, when begins my ditty,
Almost five hundred years ago,
To see the townsfolk suffer so
From vermin, was a pity
The opening verse of what poem is shown above? Who wrote the poem; and what place name is missing from the start of the first line?
Two
Called both ‘The Bard of the Yukon’ and ‘The Canadian Kipling’, this poet and writer is best known for poems written during the Klondike Gold Rush. Who was he, and what names complete the titles of these poems: The Shooting of … and The Cremation of …?
Three
What author originally said, ‘The female of the species is more deadly than the male’, and in what work did he originally say it?
Four
Who is the British author of Treasure Island, and where did he die?
Five
Who authored the initial three novels in ‘The Bourne’ series? The three volumes share three-word titles starting with The Bourne …: which three words complete these titles?
Good luck! I’ll post the answers later.
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