Our next Christmas quiz tests your knowledge of famous quotes: What European countries go into the spaces below?
e.g. The rain in ……… stays mainly in the plain. (anon)SPAIN
Please, insert a European country to complete the following quotes.
1. ………….. lies so low, they’re only saved by being dammed (Hood)
2. Fair stood the wind for ……………. (H.E. Bates)
3. From …………. with love (I. Fleming)
4. A man who has not been in ……….. is always conscious of an inferiority.
(Dr. Johnson)
5. Something is rotten in the state of …………… (W. Shakespeare)
6. To the glory that was ……………. (E.A. Poe)
7. ………………… is a nation of shopkeepers. (N. Bonaparte)
8. Strong gongs groaning as the guns boom far,
Don John of ……………….. is going to the war. (G.K. Chesterton)
9. Seeing …………., madam, is only seeing a worse England. (Dr. Johnson)
10. I look upon ……………….. as an inferior sort of Scotland. (Sydney Smith)
Solutions to yesterday’s quiz 3, on words originating in Bella Italia:
Each right answer scores one point, adding 10 towards the total score 50 for quiz 1-3.
- B
- E
- D
- D
- D
- B
- C
- D
- B
- C
