The summer format featuring poems and music. troubadour sessions Facebook page, search @MoncktonCove. This weeks music: The Stearns. Musical performance and poetry writing and performance covered by © Raymond Stearn. The answers to the quiz week 11: 1.In which year and city was Fernando Pessoa born? A.1888 Lisbon 2.How many novels did Charles Dickens write? A.15 3. In Martin Rattler, which country do Martin and Barney find themselves in after escaping from the pirates? A.Brazil 4. In which year did Lord Tennyson die? A.1892 5. Who was the British Poet Laureate after Lord Tennyson? A.Alfred Austin 6. In which year did Percy Shelley die? A.1822 7. In which year and in which Sussex town was Percy Shelley born? 1792, Horsham 8. In which year did John Keats die? A.1821 9. In which country did John Keats die? A.italy 10. In which year did Lord Byron die? A.1824 11 Who was the British Poet Laureate before William Wordsworth? A: Robert Southey 12 RM Ballentine was a Scottish author who wrote among other books Martin Rattler, what are his Christian names? A: Robert Michael 13 Martin Rattler was published in which year? A:1858 14 Where did RM Ballentine die? A: Italy 15 Who wrote the Raffles books? A: EW Hornung

The summer format featuring poems, music and our Just for Fun Quiz, the answers are published on the following Friday on troubadour sessions Facebook page, search @MoncktonCove. This weeks music: Brandenburg Concerto no. 3 J S Bach Music: https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Favourites from Monckton Cove Quiz Answers Week 10: 1 Thomas Campbell wrote the poem The River of Life, in which year was he born? A 1777 2 Where did Thomas Campbell die? A Boulogne- Sur- Mer 3 Where is Thomas Campbell buried? A Westminster Abbey 4 In which year did poet William Johnson he change his name to William Johnson Cory? A 1872 5 Hartley Coleridge is the son of which poet? A Samuel Taylor Coleridge 6 From whom does Hartley Coleridge take his Christian name? A David Hartley 7 In which year and which West Yorkshire town was David Hartley born? A 1705, Halifax 8 In which year did Australian poet Les Murray die? A 2019 9 In which year did Les Murray become an Officer of the Order of Australia? A 1989 10 Mathew Arnold's father Thomas Arnold was the headmaster of which English public school? A Rugby. 11. If I should die, think only this of me, is the first line of the Sonnet The Soldier by Rupert Brooke, what is the last line? A In hearts at peace, under an English heaven. 12 Poet Abraham Cowley was educated at Cambridge University, which college did he attend? A Trinity College 13 Sir Walter Scott was born in which year? A 1771 14 What event in 1825 cause Sir Walter Scott financial ruin? UK banking crisis caused the collapse of his printing concern. 15 Mathew Arnold died from heart failure, what brought this on? A running to meet a train.

The summer format featuring poems, music and our Just for Fun Quiz, the answers are published on the following Friday on troubadour sessions Facebook page, search @MoncktonCove. This weeks music: Melody of Nature by GoodBMusic | https://soundcloud.com/goodbmusic-zakhar-valaha Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Mozart Piano Concerto no. 21 in C major, K. 467 - II. Andante by Markus Staab https://musopen.org/music/2635-piano-concerto-no-21-in-c-major-k-467/ Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Music promoted on https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Favourites from Monckton Cove Quiz week 9 answers: This weeks theme is Shakespearian Sonnet's 1 How many Sonnets did William Shakespeare write? A: 154 For questions 2 to 15 give the nineth line for each of the following Sonnets 2 Sonnet 1 A: Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament 3 Sonnet 10 A: O change thy thought, that I may change my mind! 4 Sonnet 12 A: Then of they beauty do I question make 5 Sonnet 15 A: Then the conceit of this inconstant stay 6 Sonnet 22 A: O therefore, love, be of thyself so wary 7 Sonnet 34 A: Nor can they shame give physic to my grief 8 Sonnet 44 A: But ah! thought kills me, that I am not thought 9 Sonnet 55 A: 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity 10 Sonnet 74 A: So then thou hast but lost the dregs of life 11 Sonnet 88 A: And I by this will be a gainer too; 12 Sonnet 100 A: Rise, resty Muse, my love's sweet face survey 13 Sonnet 107 A: Now with the drops of this most balmy time 14 Sonnet 118 A: Thus policy in love, to anticipate 14 Sonnet 154 A: This brand she quenched in a cool well by

The summer format featuring poems, music and our Just for Fun Quiz, the answers are published on the following Friday on troubadour sessions Facebook page, search @MoncktonCove. This weeks music: Marathon by Sapajou https://soundcloud.com/sapajoubeats​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ A Time Forgotten by Darren Curtis | https://www.darrencurtismusic.com/ Music promoted on https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Wintersong by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Quiz answers Favourites from Monckton Cover Week 8 1 In which year was David Copperfield by Charles Dickens published? A: 1849 2 In which year was Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens published? A: 1837 3 Where was world war two poet Alun Lewis born? A: Aberdare 4 Alun Lewis studied at two Universities, name both? A: Aberystwyth and Manchester. 5 To which school did Hamish Henderson win a scholarship? A: Dulwich College 6 In which year was Jamaican writer Marlon James born? A: 1970 7 My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip. Is the first paragraph from which novel by Charles Dickens? A: Great Expectations 8 What is the name of the Cunard Steamship in which Charles Dickens sailed to America in 1842? A: Britannia 9 'Flood-Tide below me!' Are the first three words of which poem by Walt Whitman? A: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 10 What is the first line of the poem ' To The Man-Of-War-Bird by Walt Whitman'? A: Thou who hast slept all night upon the storm. 11 'Hail to thee blithe spirit!' Is the first line of which poem by P B Shelley? A: To A Skylark 12 What is the first line from To Eva by Ralph Waldo Emerson? A: O fair and stately maid, whose eyes 13 'This is a spray the bird clung to,' is the first line from which poem by Robert Browning A: Misconceptions 14 'Dear Master in our classic town,' is the first line from which poem by Lord Alfred Tennyson? A: To The Master of Balliol 15 Who wrote the book The Colditz Story? A: Pat Reid

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The summer format featuring the Road to Portsmouth travelogue, 3 poems from Walt Whitman, music and our Just for Fun Quiz, the answers are published on the following Friday on troubadour sessions Facebook page, search @MoncktonCove. This weeks music: The Smiler Percey Wenrich Music: https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ | The Entertainer Scott Joplin https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ | Red Hot Mama Sophie Tucker Music: https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ The answers to Quiz week 7: 1 Where and in which year was Walt Whitman born? A: West Hills, 1819 2 Where and in which year was Edgar Allan Poe born? A: Boston, 1809 3 Who wrote 'The Mayor of Casterbridge'? A: Thomas Hardy 4 Who wrote 'The Moon and Sixpence'? A: William Somerset Maugham 5 Which English author wrote 'The Rainbow'? A: D H Lawrence 6 Which literature prize did Irish writer Samuel Beckett win in 1969? A: Nobel Prize 7 Which Colombian author wrote 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'? A: Gabriel Garcia Marquez 8 Published in 2003 who wrote 'The Kite Runner'? A: Khaled Hosseini 9 Virgil was a Roman poet born in 70 BC, when did he die? A: 19BC 10 In which year did influential American poet Robert Frost die? A: 1963 11 Published in 1816, who wrote 'Emma'? A: Jane Austen 12 Who wrote 'Women in the Nineteenth Century' published in 1845? A: Margaret Fuller 13 Harriet Beecher Stowe was a life long anti slavery campaigner and author, which of her novels was published in 1852? A: Uncle Tom's Cabin 14 Who was the influential India author, independence activitist and poet sometimes referred to as the Nightingale of India who died in 1949? A: Sarojini Naidu 15 Who was the first Latin American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature and in which year? A: Gabriela Mistral, 1945

The summer format featuring poems, music and our Just for Fun Quiz, the answers are published on the following Friday on troubadour sessions Facebook page, search @MoncktonCove. This weeks music: Bliss by Luke Bergs | https://soundcloud.com/bergscloud/ Creative Commons - Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Summer Nights by LiQWYD | https://soundcloud.com/liqwyd/ Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Psalms by Miguel Johnson | https://soundcloud.com/migueljohnsonmjmusic Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Answers to the Week 6 Quiz: 1 All in the town were still asleep A: The Little Dog's Day | 2 Here, where love's stuff is body, arm and side. A: Town and Country | 3 I dreamt I was in love again A: The One Before Last | 4 Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! A: The Dead | 5 Is it the hour? We leave this resting place A: The Wayfarers | 6 Through my heart's palace Thoughts unnumbered throng A: Day and Night | 7 Today I have been happy. All the day A: One Day | 8 Before thy shrine I kneel, an unknown worshipper, A: Ante Aram | 9 The damned ship lurched and slithered. Quiet and quick A: A Channel Passage | 10 How should I know? The enormous wheels of will A: Lust 11 When the white flame in us is gone A: Dust | 12 Here in the dark, O heart A: Second Best | 13 Your hands, my dear, adorable A: The Chilterns | 14 Warm perfumes like a breath from vine and tree A: Waikiki | 15 In your arms was still delight A: Retrospect

The summer format featuring poems, music and our Just for Fun Quiz, the answers are published on the following Friday on troubadour sessions Facebook page, search @MoncktonCove. This weeks music: Bhangra Bass by Punch Deck | https://soundcloud.com/punch-deck Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US Happy Whistling Ukulele by LesFM | https://lesfm.net/happy-background-music/ Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ The Road Home by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | The poems Unlawful Death © Mark Hales, The Mast © Mark Hales Old Age © Mark Hales | Quiz Answers Week 5 1 Until the great Hereafter. Mourn in hope! Is the last line from which poem by Lord Tennyson? A: The Death of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale | 2 Charles Sorley was a Scottish poet who died at the of 20, in which World War 1 battle did he lose his life? A: Battle of Loos | 3. Which Military award did Edmund Blunden receive during World War One? A: Military Cross | 4 When did Edmund Blunden resume his studies and at which college? A: 1919, Queens College, Oxford | 5 In which year did Edmund Blunden win the Queen's medal for poetry? A: 1956 | 6 Alan Seeger fought with the Foreign Legion during WW1, which date did he die? A: July 4th 1916 | 7 Alan Seeger's most famous was a favourite of John F Kennedy, what is it called? A: I have a rendezvous with death | 8 Alan Seeger is the Uncle to which folk musicians? Mike Seeger, Peggy Seeker, Pete Seeger | 9 John McCrae was a physician, during which battle did he serve as a surgeon in world war one? A: Second Battle of Ypres | 10 What is the title of John McCrae's most famous poem? A: In Flanders Fields | 11 " It was a little island where he dwelt, Or rather a lone rock, barren and bleak" is the first lines from which poem by Robert Southey? A: Henry the Hermit | 12 "Oh! give me the strength of the Lion," is the first line of which poem by George Orwell? A: Awake! Young Men of England | 13 What is the first line of the poem Her Passing by William Henry Drummond? A: The beauty and the life | 14 In which year and which country was William Henry Drummond born? A: 1854, Ireland | 15 In which year and which country did William Henry Drummond die? A: 1907, Canada.

The summer format featuring poems, music and our Just for Fun Quiz, the answers are published on the following Friday on troubadour sessions Facebook page, search @MoncktonCove. This weeks music: Little Wooden Church Music: https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ White Petals by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Hallelujah Chorus Handel Music: https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Quiz answers MfMC Week 4: 1 In which year was Ella Wheeler Wilcox born? A: 1850 | 2 "I knew that a baby was hid in the house" is the first line from which poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox? A: A Baby In The House | 3 "Achievements yet undreamed of shall be thine." Is the last line from which poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox? A: Luck | 4 "Angels and archangels" is the first line of the fourth verse of which famous poem by C G Rossetti? A: A Christmas Carol | 5 " A boat amid the ripples, drifting, rocking," is the first line from which poem by C G Rossetti? A: Pastime | 6 "Missing or lost, last Sunday night," is the first line from which poem by Thomas Moore? A: Advertisement | 7 In which year was Thomas Moore born? A: 1779 | 8 What is the first line of the poem Love's Victory, by Thomas Moore? A: "Sing to Love--for, oh, 'twas he" | 9 "For now he haunts his native land" is the first line of verse | 8 of which poem by HW Longfellow? A: Robert Burns | 10 What is the first line of The Phantom Ship, by H W Longfellow? A: "In Mather's Magnalia Christi," | 11. in which year did Thomas Hood die? A: 1845 | 12 Archibald Lampman died aged just 37, where is he buried? A: Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa. | 13 "If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet," is the first line from which poem by Rudyard Kipling? A: A Smuggler's Song | 14 "From Harrison's down to the Park!" Is the last line from which Rudyard Kipling poem? A: Belts | 15 " You may talk o' gin and beer" is the first line from which Rudyard Kipling poem? A: Gunga Din

The summer format featuring poems, music and our Just for Fun Quiz, the answers are published on the following Friday on troubadour sessions Facebook page, search @MoncktonCove. This weeks music One Bard Band by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | Market Day RandomMind Music: https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ | I do like to be beside the seaside J H Glover Kind Music: https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ | Quiz FfMC week 3 1 Which poem by Rupert Brooke written in 1913 ends "All night I could not sleep? A: Home 2 Which poem written by Rupert Brooke in April 1915, begins " As the wind, and as the wind"? A: A Song 3 Which poem by Lord Tennyson was written in the dialect current in his youth in the area around Spilsby? A: The Church Warden and The Curate 4 Sydney Thompson Dobell was born in which year and where? A: 1824, Cranbrook 5 Sydney Dobell family moved to Cheltenham when he was 12, where was he educated? A: At home. 6 The murmur of the morning ghost, is the first line from which poem by Sydney Dobell? A: Keith of Ravelston 7 1066 and all that was written by which Poet, Script writer and comic novelist? A: Reginald Arkell 8 Which Shakespeare Sonnet begins "Let those who are in favour with their stars"? A: No 25 9 "Thou art the grave where buried love doth live" is the 9th line in which Sonnet by William Shakespeare? A: No 31. 10 In which year was Canadian poet Bliss Carman born? A: 1861