I'm a huge fan of the BBC quiz show Pointless, and I just
had to share today's round on 'Poems and Their Poets'. If you haven't seen the programme before, the
basic idea is that before the show they've given 100 members of the public the
names of twelve poems and asked them to name the poets who wrote them. The
contestants on the show then have to choose the poem they think the lowest number
of those 100 people knew…but they also have to be able to name the
poet who wrote it themselves. The ultimate achievement is to get a 'pointless' answer -- that is, to know the answer to one that none of the 100 people
knew. I suppose it's kind of a Family Fortunes
in reverse. Does that make any sense? I doubt it -- my skills of explanation are not my strongest point, and I know it took me a few watches to get my head around the concept! But rules aside, these are the poems:
I managed to name the poets of eight of them. And I kicked myself when I found out the answer to one of the others. The remaining three I've never heard of and should probably look up sometime.
How many can you get?
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