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Quiz Questions
- "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" is a poem by which English poet?
- Which travel guide publisher was founded in Australia in 1973 and has printed over 150 million books?
- Who created the sleeve design for the Beatles' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band?
- "Lonely This Christmas" was a Christmas number one for Mud in which year?
- Published in 1959, "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner" is a short story by which writer?
- From which animated film does the following line come from: "They judge me before they even know me. That’s why I’m better off alone."?
- Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez is best known for which 1967 novel?
- Robinson Crusoe was the inspiration for which 2000 Tom Hanks’s film?
- Featuring a ranch close to the town of Soledad, loneliness is a major theme of which 1937 John Steinbeck novella?
- Which sci-fi writer once said: "Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."?
- Complete the title of a 1962 American black and white Western film starring Kirk Douglas: 'Lonely Are the....' what?
- Who was dubbed the "the loneliest man ever" and "the loneliest man in history"?
- Who is known for the quote: "I want to be alone"?
- "All the lonely people, where do they all come from?" is a line from which Beatle's song?
Answers
- William Wordsworth
- Lonely Planet
- Peter Blake, or Jann Haworth (the two co-creators)
- 1974
- Alan Sillitoe
- Shrek (2001)
- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Castaway
- Of Mice and Men
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Lonely Are the Brave
- Michael Collins (Apollo 11 astronaut - after passing through the dark side of the moon alone and losing contact with earth for over 40 minutes)
- Greta Garbo
- Eleanor Rigby