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!"