1. Who is the poet is pictured above?

   1. Tom Paulin

   2. Andrew Motion

   3. Pam Ayres

   4. Benjamin Zephaniah

2. When does poet laureate Andrew Motion want to stand down?

   1. As soon as he can convince the committee to give the job to Pam Ayres?

   2. May 1, 2009, concluding a decade in the job

   3. Like the Queen, he's going to be here for life

   4. When he is given a peerage

3. What is the best selling adult poetry collection of the year so far?

   1. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage

   2. Surgically Enhanced by Pam Ayres

   3. Two Cures for Love by Wendy Cope

   4. The Ballad of Hogwarts by Hermione Granger

4. And how many copies has it sold (according to Nielsen BookScan)?

   1. 1,000

   2. 13,000

   3. 52,000

   4. 104,000

5. What are Seamus Heaney's dedicated fans known as?

   1. Heaneyboppers

   2. Heanagers

   3. Heanophiles

   4. Team Seamus

6. Who did Jeremy Paxman recently describe as a purveyor of "sentimental doggerel"

   1. Wendy Cope

   2. Purple Ronnie

   3. Pam Ayres

   4. Robert Burns

7. What was voted number one in BBC Bookworm's poll to find the nation's favourite poem?

   1. Rudyard Kipling's If

   2. Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky

   3. WB Yeats's He Wishes For The Cloths of Heaven

   4. Keats's Ode To A Nightingale

8. Who wrote these lines, about whom? “It's a sign of what's to come/ A start, and then some; It's a difference growing/ A younger sort of knowing.”

   1. Tom Paulin on Ian Paisley Jr

   2. Andrew Motion on Prince William

   3. Pam Ayres on 50 Cent

   4. Seamus Heaney on Bono

9. What is the correct extract from Carol Ann Duffy's poem Education for Leisure, which was recently removed from an exam syllabus for its content?

   1. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,/ Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before

   2. Today I am going to kill something. Anything./I have had enough of being ignored and today/I am going to play God

   3. No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,/ More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring

   4. O happy dagger!/ This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die

10. Which contemporary poet is outraged at finding their work available for free all over the internet?

    1. Jenny Joseph

    2. Wendy Cope

    3. Sujata Bhatt

    4. Jo Shapcott

11. Whose poetry was revealed to the world this autumn?

    1. George W Bush

    2. Osama Bin Laden

    3. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

    4. Tony Blair

12. Who won last year's Forward prize for Best Collection?

    1. Sean O'Brien

    2. Robin Robertson

    3. Seamus Heaney

    4. Pam Ayres

13. What is the title of Stephen Fry's recent book about poetry?

    1. Them’s the Line Breaks

    2. Scans to Reason

    3. The Ode Less Travelled

    4. Iamb Bic Pen Amateur

Solutions

1:A, 2:B, 3:B, 4:B, 5:A, 6:D, 7:A, 8:B, 9:B, 10:B, 11:B, 12:A, 13:C

Scores

1. 4 and above.

   You're under the impression that poetry stopped when Tennyson died, aren't you? Time for you to follow Andrew Motion's example and get with it, baby

2. 8 and above.

   5-8 Not bad, but you haven’t been paying enough attention to <a href=” http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/series/poemoftheweek”>this</a>, have you?

3. 12 and above.

   You know it! Are you a poet?

4. 13 and above.

   Truth is beauty, beauty is truth; you ticked the true answers, thus so are you