Responsions was the first of the three examinations formerly required for acceptance for an academic degree at the University of Oxford.
The examination consisted of comparatively simple questions on Latin, Ancient Greek, and mathematics.
[1] John Henry Newman wrote to his father on 29 May 1818: "I go up for my Little tomorrow", and records in his journal for the following day that he had 'passed Responsions'.
[2] P. G. Wodehouse in The Inimitable Jeeves wrote: "Well, they're down there, too, reading for some exam or other with the vicar.
He's known far and wide as a pretty hot coach for those of fairly feeble intellect.
[7] In an RTE interview filmed in 1966, the Anglo-Irish author, film director, composer, celebrity and former Spitfire pilot Desmond Leslie, explains that he left Trinity College, Dublin in 1941 without graduating because "I though it much easier to join fighter command than to take Little-Go; required less brain".