The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - 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". " Answers here.
1. What is the title of Shakespeare's play about Leontes, who is married to Hermione and becomes consumed by an insane jealousy?
2. In the Northern Hemisphere, is the winter solstice in November, December or January?
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.
4. Were the first separate, self-contained Winter Olympic Games held in 1904, 1914 or 1924?
5. Which poet wrote the line "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind"? Was it Keats, Shelley or Wordsworth?
6. Name one of the two countries which fought the "Winter War" during the 1939-40 winter.
7. Is "Winter' the first or last of the four violin concertos by Vivaldi called "The Four Seasons"?
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"?
9. In which Russian city was the Winter Palace, the former Russian imperial residence which was stormed by the Bolsheviks in November 1917?
10. Which composer wrote a song cycle called "Winter Words" based on poems by Thomas Hardy?
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