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Champion(s):

RoseM
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Runner(s)-Up:

PerryS

Quiz Description

I give you the title and author of a science fiction work. You provide the name of the POET (not the poem) whose work the title was borrowed from.

Full Results:

Rank	Player	Total	%ile	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
Money Value (% Incorrect):				34	67	45	67	67	78	12	89	89	56	78	78
1	RoseM	507	94	15	15 67	15	15	15	15 78	15	00	00	15 56	15 78	15 78
2	PerryS	466	83	15	15 67	15 45	00	15 67	00	15	00	15 89	15	15 78	00
3	SchroederS	385	72	15 34	15	15 45	15 67	00	15 78	15	00	00	15 56	00	00
4	LinB	158	61	00 00	00	15 45	00 00	00	00	15 12	00	00	15 56	00	00
5	KlothA	146	50	00	00	00	00	15	00	15 12	15 89	00 00	00	00 00	00 00
6	JordanG	124	38	15	00	00 00	15 67	00	00	15 12	00 00	00 00	00	00	00
7	WareD	102	27	15	00	15 45	00	00	00	15 12	00	00	00 00	00 00	00 00
8	MatthewsP	49	16	15 34	00 00	00 00	00	00	00	00 00	00 00	00	00	00	00
9	LaudermithM	42	5	00 00	00	00 00	00	00	00	15 12	00	00	00 00	00 00	15

Questions:

Question 1

“To Sail Beyond the Sunset”, novel by Robert A. Heinlein

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ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON (“Ulysses”)

Question 2

“Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang”, novel by Kate Wilhelm

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (“Sonnet 73”)

Question 3

“Down to a Sunless Sea”, novelette by Cordwainer Smith

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SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (“Kubla Khan”)

Question 4

“Consider Phlebas” or “Look to Windward”, novels by Iain M. Banks

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T.S. ELIOT (“The Waste Land”)

Question 5

“The Golden Apples of the Sun”, collection by Ray Bradbury

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W.B. YEATS (“The Song of Wandering Aengus”)

Question 6

“For a Breath I Tarry”, novelette by Roger Zelazny -- the inspiration for this quiz (or “The Wind’s Twelve Quarters”, collection by Ursula K. LeGuin)

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A.E. HOUSMAN (“A Shropshire Lad”, XXXII)

Question 7

“Dying of the Light”, novel by George R.R. Martin

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DYLAN THOMAS (“Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”)

Question 8

“A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows”, novel by Poul Anderson

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EDGAR ALLAN POE (“Eldorado”)

Question 9

“Light of Other Days”, story by Bob Shaw (or “The Light of Other Days”, novel by Clarke & Baxter)

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THOMAS MOORE (“The Light of Other Days”)

Question 10

“His Dark Materials”, trilogy by Philip Pullman

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JOHN MILTON (“Paradise Lost”)

Question 11

“A Swiftly Tilting Planet”, novel by Madeleine L’Engle

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CONRAD AIKEN (“Morning Song of Senlin”)

Question 12

“Great Work of Time”, novella by John Crowley

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ANDREW MARVELL (“Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland”)