good quiz, but even though it's a 6-letter chair, maybe "rhyme" should work for the Chaucer question because the couplets aren't in the past; they still rhyme today and they'll rhyme tomorrow.
And the least-correctly guessed. Can't say I've ever heard of bodice-ripper genre in Australia, although I would have known what a Mills & Boon genre was. I also failed but tried blouse.
You could, but "bodice-ripper" is an existing word for a genre in fiction, so is more relevant to literature. Perhaps the definition could be more specific, and refer to the historical background in the genre, but I agree with the Quizmaster that "bodice" should be the right reply.
No, because it's a chain. Each word has to start with the last letter of the answer before it, meaning that specific answer has to begin with a "b" and end with an "e."
"TO BEE-EE-EE-EE-EE OR NOT TO BE!"
a) "I ran"
b) "I run"
"Run" would be grammatical, because it's an infinitive, and infinitives come without tense.
"Ran" would be ungrammatical again, because it's tensed. If it's tensed, you need a subject.
Coming back to the quiz question:
"What did the couplets do?"
a) "They rhymed."
b) "Rhyme."