Q 01/05

Byron belonged to which literary movement?

A) Romanticism

B) Modernism

C) Metaphysical poetry

D) Augustan satire

Answer · why

A) Romanticism

Romanticism prized passion and the lone rebel, and Byron's own brooding protagonists gave the movement a stock figure still called the Byronic hero.

Q 02/05

Byron was born in 1788 in which city?

A) Dublin

B) London

C) Bath

D) Edinburgh

Answer · why

B) London

London: his mother came back from France, where the couple had gone to dodge his father's creditors, just in time to give birth in rented rooms on Hol...

Q 03/05

What did the press nickname Byron's grandfather, a vice admiral who sailed around the world?

A) Thunderbolt Jack

B) Salt-Water Jack

C) Foul-Weather Jack

D) Black-Flag Jack

Answer · why

C) Foul-Weather Jack

Foul-Weather Jack earned the name from the storms that dogged his voyages; as a teenage midshipman he had already survived a shipwreck on the coast of...

Q 04/05

Byron became a lord at the age of ten when which relative, the so-called 'Wicked Lord', died?

A) His father

B) His great-uncle

C) His grandfather

D) His elder brother

Answer · why

B) His great-uncle

His great-uncle William, the fifth baron, died in 1798, leaving a title the boy had never expected and a half-ruined abbey; Byron was then living in r...

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

Nottinghamshire: Henry VIII granted the former priory to the Byrons, and the poet, sunk in debt, finally sold it while he was living in Italy.