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Friday, July 31, 2026

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1. Which word means a shortened form of another word?

AntonymAlliterationAbbreviationBiography

2. Which city is home to the British Library?

CardiffDublinLondonEdinburgh

3. Which July 2026 exhibition at the Getty draws on mythology and literature?

Timeless TalesOdilon Redon: Otherworldly VisionsNew Music FridaySilo

4. Which is the author of 1984?

Jane AustenJ. R. R. TolkienCharles DickensGeorge Orwell

5. Which came first: Frankenstein, The Hobbit, or The Da Vinci Code?

The HobbitThey all appeared togetherThe Da Vinci CodeFrankenstein

6. Among novel, poem, essay, and violin, which one breaks the pattern?

ViolinNovelEssayPoem

7. Three clues point to one poet: she wrote about the sea, the moon, and The Waste Land. Who was she?

W. B. YeatsSeamus HeaneySylvia PlathT. S. Eliot

8. What links a chapter and a page?

Both are continentsBoth are parts of a bookBoth are musical termsBoth are types of weather

9. Which has more letters: 'pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis' or 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious'?

Neither is a real wordThey are the same lengthSupercalifragilisticexpialidociousPneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

10. Which recent July 2026 title is a TV prequel to Legally Blonde?

SuitsCluelessElleCharmed

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