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(Editor's Note: These pop quizzes originally appeared on Huff Post Comedy. Reposted by permission of the author.)

Pop Quiz: T.S. Eliot or Missy Elliot

1. When it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine.

2. And there isn't any call for me to shout it. For he will do, as he do do and there's no doing anything about it!

3. Effanineffable

4. If you came to freak-a-leak you better bring your hat.

5. I got a cute face, chubby waist. Thick legs, in shape.

6. For a similar reason, when game is in season, he is found, not at Fox's, but Blimpy's.

7. Rum Tum Tugger

8. I'm like kak-a-rak-a-rak-rak-a-rak-a-rak.

9. Keep your eyes on my bum-bum-bum-bum-bum. And think you can handle this gadong-a-dong-dong.

10. Well I never! Did you ever, know a cat so clever.

11. Is it worth it, let me work it. I put my thing down, flip it and reverse it.

12. He sways his head from side to side, with movements like a snake and, when you think he's half asleep, he's always wide awake.

TS: 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 12

Missy: 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11

Pop Quiz: Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita" or Ed Sheeran's "Thinking Out Loud"

1. It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.

2. Place your head on my beating heart. I'm thinking out loud that maybe we found love right where we are.

3. Will your mouth still remember the taste of my love?

4. And the rest is rust and stardust.

5. Maybe it's all part of a plan, I'll just keep on making the same mistakes hoping that you'll understand.

6. Look at this tangle of thorns.

7. Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.

8. Take me into your loving arms, kiss me under the light of a thousand stars.

9. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.

10. I talk in a daze. I walk in a maze.

11. Honey your soul can never grow old, it's evergreen.

Vladimir: 1, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10

Ed: 2, 3, 5, 8, 11

Pop Quiz: Our Gang Little Rascal or Alternative Rock Band

1. Fishbone

2. Buckwheat

3. Zebrahead

4. Alfalfa

5. Froggy

6. Weezer

7. Holly McNarland

8. Moose

9. Bonedust

10. Spanky

11. Saliva

12. Spud

13. Fatboy Slim

14. Sunshine Sammy

15. Farina

16. Breezie Brisbane

17. Snowcake

18. Skillet

19. Dinah the Mule

Our Gang Little Rascal: 2,4, 5,9, 10,12, 14,15, 19

Alternative Rock Band: 1, 3, 7, 8, 11, 13, 17, 18

Both: 6

- Paul Lander

Paul Lander is not sure which he is proudest of - winning the Nobel Peace Prize or sending Sudanese peace activist, Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim, to accept it on his behalf, bringing to light the plight of central Africa's indigenous people. In his non-daydreaming hours, Paul has worked as a writer and/or producer for shows on ABC, NBC, Showtime, The Disney Channel, ABC Family, VH1, LOGO and Lifetime. In addition, he's written stand-up material that's been performed on "Leno," "Letterman," "Conan" and "Last Comic Standing." His humor pieces have appeared in Huff Post Comedy, McSweeney's, The New Yorker, Santa Fe Writers Project Journal, Humor Times, The Higgs Weldon and Hobo Pancake. In 2015, he placed second in the National Society of Newspaper Columnists' annual column contest in the online/blog/multimedia category for his pieces in Humor Times and was named the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop's "Humor Writer of the Month" in April.