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Wistful and Nostalgic Trivia Quiz

The Beatles sang about "Yesterday" and Archie Bunker sang about the days when "girls were girls and men were men" - but, plenty of others have longed to recapture the good old days.

A multiple-choice quiz by robert362. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
robert362

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
90,840

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
4 / 10

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1650

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Question 1 of 10

1. Thomas Wolfe wrote "You Can't Go Home Again". Why was that true of the protagonist in that novel? Hint

He had been suspected of being involved in a crime

He had had a drinking problem

He had been involved in a romantic scandal

He had written about his hometown and its residents

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Question 2 of 10

2. Who had a hit with a song that observed that "you don't know what you've got till it's gone"? Hint

Joni Mitchell

Helen Reddy

Linda Rosntadt

Petula Clark

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Question 3 of 10

3. What poet longed to "sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept"? Hint

Robert Browning

Alexander Pope

William Blake

John Clare

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Question 4 of 10

4. In an episode of "The Twilight Zone", this fellow wanders back to his childhood home - and encounters himself as a young boy. Hint

James Daly

Gig Young

William Windom

Mickey Rooney

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Question 5 of 10

5. Who said that "youth is wasted on the young"? Hint

William Shakespeare

George Bernard Shaw

Eugene O'Neill

George S. Kaufman

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Question 6 of 10

6. Who said that "youth is the only thing worth having"? Hint

Charles Dickens

Ernest Hemingway

Oscar Wilde

Victor Hugo

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Question 7 of 10

7. What poet wrote about "the tender grace of a day that is dead"? Hint

William Wordsworth

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Robert Frost

Henry David Thoreau

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Question 8 of 10

8. Roy Clark had a huge hit with "Yesterday When I Was Young". Who was the composer? Hint

Henry Mancini

Errol Garner

George Gershwin

Charles Aznavour

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Question 9 of 10

9. In "Taxi", Harry Chapin reminisces when he encounters an old girl friend from the past. Things hadn't quite worked out for either of them. What were his and her dreams in the old days? Hint

Pilot, Actress

Lawyer, Singer

Writer, Artist

Doctor, Musician,

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Question 10 of 10

10. What poet wistfully reflected on his youth in "I Remember, I Remember"? Hint

Emily Dickinson

Thomas Hood

Elizabth Barrett Browning

Alexander Pope

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Thomas Wolfe wrote "You Can't Go Home Again". Why was that true of the protagonist in that novel?

Answer: He had written about his hometown and its residents

Wolfe's protagonist, George Webber, burned his bridges (so to speak) when he wrote his book.

2. Who had a hit with a song that observed that "you don't know what you've got till it's gone"?

Answer: Joni Mitchell

"Big Yellow Taxi". "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone". How very, very true.

3. What poet longed to "sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept"?

Answer: John Clare

The poem is usually entitled "I Am". For all his talent - he's often referred to as an English Burns - Clare lived a life of poverty and hardship, culminating in institutionalization.

4. In an episode of "The Twilight Zone", this fellow wanders back to his childhood home - and encounters himself as a young boy.

Answer: Gig Young

All four of these starred in episodes of the "Twilight Zone", but Gig Young is the person who journeys back.

5. Who said that "youth is wasted on the young"?

Answer: George Bernard Shaw

If anyone ever wants to know how to be profound and obvious at the same time, refer him (or her) to this quote. Simple, yet brilliant.

6. Who said that "youth is the only thing worth having"?

Answer: Oscar Wilde

Perhaps a bit of an over-statement ... but Wilde was definitely on the right track. (See preceding question and comment.)

7. What poet wrote about "the tender grace of a day that is dead"?

Answer: Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"Break, Break, Break". "The tender grace of a day that is dead will never come back to me".

8. Roy Clark had a huge hit with "Yesterday When I Was Young". Who was the composer?

Answer: Charles Aznavour

Magnificent song, superbly done by Clark. Great lyrics.

9. In "Taxi", Harry Chapin reminisces when he encounters an old girl friend from the past. Things hadn't quite worked out for either of them. What were his and her dreams in the old days?

Answer: Pilot, Actress

"She was gonna be an actress - and I was gonna learn to fly ..."
Well-done by Chapin. Interesting song to listen to.

10. What poet wistfully reflected on his youth in "I Remember, I Remember"?

Answer: Thomas Hood

"I remember, I remember the house where I was born/the little window where the sun came peeking in at dawn/it never came a bit too soon nor brought too long a day/but now I often wish the night would steal my breath away".

Source: Author robert362

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