| Clue | Word |
% Correct |
| Open-mouthed sign of boredom or sleepiness | YAWN | | 95.1% | Maya Angelou knows
why this caged creature sings. | BIRD | | 90.3% | | Nickname for Shakespeare | BARD | | 89.7% | | A worker's regular pay | WAGE | | 87.6% | Rosy-fingered morning phenomenon
frequently invoked by Homer | DAWN | | 87.6% | Omar Khayyám wants thou
with a loaf of bread and a jug of this. | WINE | | 85.8% | | Decrease, like William Cullen Bryant's pallid moon | WANE | | 85.6% | | Title for Byron or Tennyson | LORD | | 84.5% | | A mild adjectival expletive | DARN | | 84.1% | Chimney residue that Eliot's yellow smoke
lets fall upon its back | SOOT | | 83.8% | Blest be the ties that do this,
so saith John Fawcett's hymn | BIND | | 83.1% | It's worth one thousandth of a picture,
proverbially. | WORD | | 82.7% | An iamb, trochee, dactyl, or anapest
(or where you might wear a shoe) | FOOT | | 82.7% | North, South, East and West,
Each is the one Amy Lowell likes best. | WIND | | 81.7% | | What one eats (eg, antelope for a Tyger) | FOOD | | 81.7% | A place to buy things
like coffee or old curiosities | SHOP | | 81.4% | | Emerson told of one heard round the world. | SHOT | | 80.9% | Robert Frost encountered two roads
diverging in a yellow one. | WOOD | | 79.3% | Before he was interrupted by a raven,
Poe was pondering over volumes of forgotten this. | LORE | | 78.4% |
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| Clue | Word |
% Correct |
| Assign a value, possibly on a scale of 1 to 10 | RATE | | 78% | Dylan Thomas suggests you this, this
against the dying of the light. | RAGE | | 77.6% | | Whittier's tan-cheeked boy has this kind of feet. | BARE | | 76.9% | | A challenge . . . like peach eating for Prufrock | DARE | | 76.6% | | Rent asunder, ripped | TORE | | 76.4% | Gertrude Stein repeatedly asserts
the reflexive property of this flower. | ROSE | | 73.1% | In the spring a young man's fancy
lightly turns to thoughts of this. | LOVE | | 72.4% | | Though we trod her, still Maya Angelou does this. | RISE | | 67.4% | | Into the valley of Death, the six hundred did this. | RODE | | 66.8% | A slithy creature that Lewis Carroll says
you might find gimbling in a wabe | TOVE | | 65.1% | A rich mineral deposit,
like you might find in the land of Eldorado | LODE | | 63.8% | | What Death kindly did for Emily Dickinson | STOP | | 63.6% | William Ernest Henley is captain of his soul
and master of his this. | FATE | | 63.6% | Coleridge's ancient Mariner tells a long one.
(Or maybe it's just frost in his beard.) | RIME | | 57.4% | Great renown: Lord Byron's Childe Harold
says it is the thirst of youth. | FAME | | 52.5% | Robert Herrick advises rosebud gathering,
since this Old One is still a-flying. | TIME | | 50.2% | If you can't do this to your Wild Strawberry,
don't blame Shel Silverstein. | TAME | | 49.3% | Over the roofs of the world,
Walt Whitman sounds his barbaric one. | YAWP | | 25.7% |
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Quiz Updated Dec 22, 2013
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