Arts & Culture and Poetry Trivia Quiz

Q1: Who wrote the epic poem 'The Odyssey'?

Answer: Homer

Q2: Which poet wrote 'Do not go gentle into that good night'?

Answer: Dylan Thomas

Q3: What Japanese poetry form consists of 5-7-5 syllables?

Answer: Haiku

Q4: Who wrote the famous line 'To be or not to be'?

Answer: William Shakespeare

Q5: Which American poet wrote 'The Road Not Taken'?

Answer: Robert Frost

Q6: What is the term for a poem of fourteen lines?

Answer: Sonnet

Q7: Who was the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for poetry?

Answer: Gwendolyn Brooks

Q8: Which ancient Greek philosopher wrote 'The Republic' and founded the Academy?

Answer: Plato

Q9: What is the name of the poetic meter with alternating unstressed and stressed syllables?

Answer: Iambic meter

Q10: Who wrote the epic poem 'Paradise Lost'?

Answer: John Milton

Q11: Which poet is known for the collection 'Leaves of Grass'?

Answer: Walt Whitman

Q12: What literary device is a direct address to an absent person or abstract concept?

Answer: Apostrophe

Q13: Who wrote the poem 'Howl' controversial in the 1950s?

Answer: Allen Ginsberg

Q14: Which Romantic poet wrote 'Kubla Khan' after waking from an opium dream?

Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Q15: What is the traditional Welsh poetic form with strict rules about alliteration and rhyme?

Answer: Cywydd

Q16: Who became the United States Poet Laureate in 2023?

Answer: Ada Limón

Q17: Which poet wrote 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'?

Answer: Maya Angelou

Q18: What is the name for a poem that tells a story and often has characters?

Answer: Narrative poem

Q19: Who wrote the epic 'The Divine Comedy' while in exile from Florence?

Answer: Dante Alighieri

Q20: What poetic term describes words that sound like what they mean, such as 'buzz'?

Answer: Onomatopoeia