Q 01/05

Byron belonged to which literary movement?

A) Romanticism

B) Modernism

C) Metaphysical poetry

D) Augustan satire

Answer · why

A) Romanticism

He is counted among the greatest British poets, alongside fellow Romantics Shelley, Keats and Wordsworth.

Q 02/05

Byron was born in 1788 in which city?

A) Aberdeen

B) London

C) Nottingham

D) Edinburgh

Answer · why

B) London

His birthplace on Holles Street is now supposedly occupied by a John Lewis department store; he spent part of his childhood in Aberdeen.

Q 03/05

What did the press nickname Byron's grandfather, a vice admiral who set a circumnavigation speed record?

A) Fighting Jack

B) Lucky Jack

C) Foul-Weather Jack

D) Iron Jack

Answer · why

C) Foul-Weather Jack

He had survived a shipwreck as a teenage midshipman before earning the name in a stormy voyage during the American War of Independence.

Q 04/05

At what age did Byron inherit his title and Newstead Abbey from his great-uncle, the 'wicked' Lord Byron?

A) Six

B) Fourteen

C) Twenty-one

D) Ten

Answer · why

D) Ten

The abbey was in such disrepair that his mother leased it out rather than live there.

Q 05/05

Newstead Abbey, Byron's ancestral home, is in which English county?

A) Nottinghamshire

B) Derbyshire

C) Yorkshire

D) Lincolnshire

Answer · why

A) Nottinghamshire

He sold it in 1817 while living in Venice, and is buried nearby at Hucknall.

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