My favorite question from trivia last night was this:

Each of the following phrases is an anagram of the name of a famous poet. Name the poet.

(a) YOGA ALUMNAE

(b) IS A SPERM LIKE A WHALE

(c) NICE SMUG ME

(d) I WILL ALARM ISLAMIC OWLS

Here are the answers.

I got (a) and (d), Mike got (c) (which I might have got had I not heard it as NICE SMUG KNEE), and Lisa got (b) (which I don’t think I would have got at all).

It’s questions like this that are slowly addicting me to Trivia Night.

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The answers are:

(a) Maya Angelou

(b) William Shakespeare

(c) e.e. cummings

(d) William Carlos Williams