What do you call a newspaper writer who answers readers' personal questions?
AnswerAdvice columnist
Advice columnists answer readers' letters about life problems.
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7 fact-checked facts about famous advice, advice columns and the art of good counsel, each with the reason behind it. 5 more are in today's round and join this page after it closes.
The basics
What does 'Look before you leap' advise?
AnswerThink before you act
The proverb urges considering consequences first.
Going deeper
In British English, an advice columnist is often called what?
AnswerAgony aunt
'Agony aunt' is the British nickname for an advice columnist.
In Hamlet, which character tells his son 'Neither a borrower nor a lender be'?
AnswerPolonius
Polonius gives this advice to Laertes in Act 1.
Which maxim was inscribed at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi?
AnswerKnow thyself
'Know thyself' was one of the Delphic maxims.
Expert level
Which poet wrote the advice-filled 'Letters to a Young Poet'?
AnswerRainer Maria Rilke
Rilke's letters to a young writer were published in 1929.
'Carpe diem' comes from a poem by which Roman poet?
AnswerHorace
The phrase appears in Horace's Odes.
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