In which Katherine Mansfield short story do two characters spend an intimate moment staring at a pear tree that seems “almost to touch the rim of the round, silver moon”?
Bliss
The Garden Party
Psychology
Sun and Moon
In the journal Italian Journey, Goethe documents his love of doing a certain activity in moonlight. What is it?
Gardening
Walking
Dancing
Sledging
Roverandom is a story about a dog who flew to the moon written by which fantasy author to console his/her four-year-old son over the loss of a treasured toy dog?
George RR Martin
JRR Tolkien
JK Rowling
CS Lewis
"The stars about the lovely moon/ fade back and vanish very soon,/ When, round and full, her silver face/ Swims into sight, and lights all space.” Which writer of the ancient world is behind these lines?
Horace
Sappho
Homer
Aeschylus
A projector on Mount Fuji beams adverts on to the face of the moon in which sci-fi novel?
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The War of the Worlds by HG Wells
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
“O, swear not by the moon, th' inconstant moon,/ That monthly changes in her circle orb,/ Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.” Who is lamenting the mutable nature of the moon, and in which Shakespeare play?
Viola in Twelfth Night
Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing
Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Juliet in Romeo and Juliet
"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." Which Russian writer is behind this quote?
Anton Chekhov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Leo Tolstoy
Vladimir Nabokov
"When your night comes,/ I see you staring back as though you can hear my Darlings,/ what have you done, what you have done to the earth?” Who penned the voice of this anthropomorphised, female moon?
Adrienne Rich
Emily Dickinson
Seamus Heaney
Carol Ann Duffy
In which religion's creation myth is the moon worn as a jewel on a god's forehead?
Hinduism
Christianity
Islam
Sikhism
What colour is the fantastical moon in Edward Lear's poem The Quangle Wangle's Hat?
Orange
Silver
Mulberry
Black
“The thoughts don't need Billy and Mabel tonight. The world will turn without them. The moon will shine without them.” Which romantic hero composed this comforting nursery rhyme?
Gilbert Blythe of Anne of Green Gables
Mark Darcy of Bridget Jones' Diary
Edward Ferrars of Sense and Sensibility
Rupert Campbell Black of Jilly Cooper's The Rutshire Chronicles
How did WH Auden describe the moon landings?
“A blast into the past”
“A huge phallic adventure”
“A hoax”
“A lunar-lit disappointment”