Credo Reference Friday Brainteaser – Winter
This week: Winter
Britain and parts of the United States have been suffering a severe winter. Try to answer these questions, each of which is about winter or has an answer that includes the word “winter”.
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1. What is the title of Shakespeare’s play about Leontes, who is married to Hermione and becomes consumed by an insane jealousy? Show the Answers ▼
2. In the Northern Hemisphere, is the winter solstice in November, December or January? Show the Answers ▼
3. Name one of the two US brothers surnamed “Winter”: one a rock musician born in 1946; the other a rhythm and blues guitarist born in 1944. Show the Answers ▼
4. Were the first separate, self-contained Winter Olympic Games held in 1904, 1914 or 1924? Show the Answers ▼
5. Which poet wrote the line “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind”? Was it Keats, Shelley or Wordsworth? Show the Answers ▼
6. Name one of the two countries which fought the “Winter War” during the 1939-40 winter. Show the Answers ▼
7. Is “Winter’ the first or last of the four violin concertos by Vivaldi called “The Four Seasons”? Show the Answers ▼
8. What was the first name of the man whose first marriage was to Rebecca de Winter, the eponymous character in Daphne Du Maurier’s 1938 novel “Rebecca”? Show the Answers ▼
9. In which Russian city was the Winter Palace, the former Russian imperial residence which was stormed by the Bolsheviks in November 1917? Show the Answers ▼
10. Which composer wrote a song cycle called “Winter Words” based on poems by Thomas Hardy? Show the Answers ▼
Image “Winter”, by Jacob Grimmer. Find it on Credo Reference: http://www.credoreference.com/entry/bridgeart/winter/7
