Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. "Oh, great land of desert and shrimp.
Continent of sand in an azure sea.
Uluru rises from your scarlet earth.
Breaching your heavens like a rock blancmange.
Your emerald trees, your sharp-toothed rivers.
Creatures with outsized feet and bulbous heads.
Would that I could surf your waves
Until the end of time."
2. "We watched you from the age of three,
You taught us at our mother's knee
Letters, language, pictures, words
Music, ethics, giant birds
The world's rich potpourri thou Learnest
Under the wings of Bert and Ernest"
3. "Whirring.
Chopping.
Transforming base legumes into a perfect melange.
Your flex a helix.
Your blades of sparkling steel.
Reminding me that I must never
Ever
Forget the safety guard."
4. "Tell me
Oh, blue-suited heroes
What beneficent hand guided your strings?
Were they a metaphor for the Almighty
Or were you merely puppets?
Five ... four ... three ... two ... one ...
Then you were "Go"
And now you are gone."
5. "Waves with mighty troughs and peaks
Extinct birds with strange hooked beaks
Two other oceans are greater by far
But they will never have Madagascar."
6. "Lamp in the Crimean dark
Caring uniform in an uncaring world
Gently tending the ungentle
Ready to soothe
Any suffering soul
With voice of honey
And an industrial strength bandage
Now your lamp has gone out
How shall we ever find our way again?"
7. "Hark.
What sound is this?
Piercing the iron silence
Of an October morning.
Beware miscreants.
For the sons of Robert Peel approach.
And the gauntlet of justice
bears down upon thee.
Woooh
Woooh
Woooh."
8. "Alone will I wash the floors
Alone shall I clear the gutters
Alone shall I dim the lamps at night
Alone will I close the shutters
And after the yellow children leave
Alone shall I sweep the room
A Caledonian groundsman
With his Caledonian broom."
9. "Odysseus of a stellar age.
The stars but steps in your great quest.
Your captain's journal turns a page
The galaxy parts at your behest
Space is barren, wide and airless.
The sum of all of mankind's fears.
But how your leader, brave and hairless
faces aliens with pointy ears.
Grim and serious, sharp and true
Great dangers must your actors face
Your writers humour they eschew
For there is no laughter in space."
10. "Mystical art
Arrangement of lines
combination of meter
with rhythms and rhymes
Eliot, Shakespeare,
Betjeman, Hughes
Sometimes your words rhyme
And sometimes they don't."
Source: Author
Islingtonian
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