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HONI | 23:59 Tue 31st May 2005 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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1.in maud's garden this white flower whispers 'i wait'

a.the flower?

b.who wrote the poem?

c.of which famous edwardian beauty was it the christian name?

d.what was this lady's equally floral name?

2.this young english poet wrote that 'just now the................is in bloom all before my little room'

a.which sweet smelling flowers are missing in the quotation?

b.who was the poet?

c.where exactly was the 'little room'?

3.two gentlemen composed the story of two star-crossed lovers[botanical not shakespearean] growing by a cottage door

a.who were the ill matched pair?

b.what was the proper name of one them?

c.how were they literally crossed in love?

d.what was their sad fate?

e.who were the two composers?

4."and maidens call it love in idleness.fetch me that flower"

a.what is this purple flower?

b.who is asking for it?

c.who is to fetch it?

d.for what purpose?

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3. is Flanders and Swann's song Misalliance about a right handed (clockwise-climbing)  honeysuckle and a left-handed bindweed (proper name, convolvulus).

The full lyrics (with answer to d.) are at
http://www.nomorelyrics.net/song/179729.html 
1. a. The Lily
b. Alfred Lord Tennyson

1.  c & d. Perhaps Lillie Langtry, "The Jersey Lily"
2.  Lilac
Rupert Brooke
The Old Vicarage, Granchester

4. is  Midsummer Night's Dream.  Love-in-idleness is the pansy
"Titania leaves and Oberon vows revenge, exclaiming, "I will torment thee for this injury" (147). He orders Puck to pick a flower called love-in-idleness and, while Titania is sleeping, Oberon will squeeze drops of its juice onto her eyelids. The juice will cause Titania to fall in love with the first thing she sees when she opens her eyes, be it a "lion, bear, or wolf, or bull/On meddling monkey, or on busy ape"  "
From http://shakespeare.about.com/library/weekly/aa081700b.ht m 

4: a) pansy, b) Oberon, c) Puck, d) to get revenge on Titania

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