Literature Trivia Questions
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Which author wrote the collection of nine stories titled 'Windy City Blues' featuring the character V.I. Warshawski?
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sara paretsky
Which modern author was originally named Howard Allen O'Brien, known for creating the character of the vampire Lestat?
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anne rice
Who is the author that grew up in Hollywood and wrote the novel 'What Makes Sammy Run?' about an amoral studio executive?
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budd schulberg
Who is the author known for describing his novel 'Jude The Obscure' as a story 'of a deadly war waged between flesh and spirit'?
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thomas hardy
In Boccaccio's 'The Decameron', how many days' work does the title literally refer to?
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10
In Shakespeare's play 'Cymbeline', which bird is mentioned in the song lyrics 'Hark! Hark! at heaven's gate sings'?
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lark
Who is the author of 'Babbitt' who published his first novel, 'Hike And The Aeroplane', under the pseudonym Tom Graham?
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sinclair lewis
What did Shakespeare write, 'There is no darkness but' and is something you cannot use as an excuse of the law?
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ignorance
What pen name did Stephen King use to write the 1984 novel 'Thinner'?
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richard bachman
In which novel do the characters Winston Smith, Julia, and Mr. Charrington appear?
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1984
Which author, known for being born in Edinburgh in 1850 and dying in Samoa in 1894, wrote famous works like 'Treasure Island'?
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robert louis stevenson
In which country is Athol Fugard's play 'Master Harold...and the Boys' set?
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south africa
Who is the author of the novels 'Pal Joey', 'Butterfly 8', and 'Ten North Frederick'?
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john o'hara
Which author wrote the novel 'Fahrenheit 451', a book about a dystopian future where books are banned and burned?
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ray bradbury
Which author is known for writing 'Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant' in 1982 and 'Breathing Lessons' in 1988?
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anne tyler
Which author, known for creating Uncle Remus, has his papers housed at the Woodruff Library at Emory University in Atlanta?
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joel chandler harris
Who is the rightful Duke of Milan and the leading character in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
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prospero
Who is the Nobel Prize-winning novelist whose home, Rowan Oak, is a national historic landmark?
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william faulkner
In 1989, which author of 'Beloved' became a professor of Creative Writing at Princeton?
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toni morrison
Which author created the characters Nathan Zuckerman, Trick E. Dixon, and Alexander Portnoy?
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philip roth
What Ayn Rand book ends with the lines 'Then there was only the ocean and the sky and the figure of Howard Roark'?
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fountainhead
Which Mississippian author wrote 'Go Down, Moses,' a book that includes his famous story 'The Bear'?
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william faulkner
Who adapted his novel 'The Caine Mutiny' into a play titled 'The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial' in 1953?
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herman wouk
Who is the scholarly amateur detective who solves the baffling case of 'The Purloined Letter'?
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c. auguste dupin
Which ancient playwright wrote 'The Clouds,' a play that debuted in Athens almost 2,400 years before Michael Frayn's 'Clouds' debuted in London?
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aristophanes
Who was the female member of the Bloomsbury Group who wrote her second novel 'Night and Day'?
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virginia woolf
Which essayist, cartoonist, and humorist described his years at The New Yorker in 'The Years With Ross'?
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james thurber
Which Evelyn Waugh novel is narrated by Charles Ryder?
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brideshead revisited
Who was the novelist that served as a speechwriter for LBJ before writing 'Jaws'?
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peter benchley
Which famous author and illustrator's work is featured on Wedgwood's Peter Rabbit children's tea set?
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beatrix potter
Who wrote the book 'Generation of Swine' as a commentary on the 1980s?
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hunter s. thompson
Who is the character that exclaims, 'Angels and ministers of grace defend us!' when he sees the ghost of his father?
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hamlet
Who is the playwright known for works such as 'The Real Inspector Hound' and 'The Real Thing'?
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tom stoppard
What is the name of the novel in which Mr. Lockwood rents Thrushcross Grange?
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wuthering heights
Which British veterinarian, known for writing 'All Creatures Great and Small,' passed away in 1995?
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james herriot
What is the 3,182-line poem in Old English that combines Norse legend with 6th-century Danish history?
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beowulf
Which day of the week is referenced in the title of one of T.S. Eliot's longer poems, 'Ash'?
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wednesday
Who is the Yiddish language Nobel Prize winner author of the 20th-century novel 'The Magician of Lublin' set in Poland?
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isaac bashevis singer
How many nights are described in the tales of 'One Thousand and One Nights'?
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1001
Who is the biologist known for writing 'Silent Spring'?
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rachel carson
In Thomas Mann's 'Magic Mountain,' what disease is the Swiss sanatorium treating?
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tuberculosis
Which American poet was nicknamed 'The Nun of Amherst' due to her reclusive life after her father's death?
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emily dickinson
Who is the author of the poem 'Tam O'Shanter' that features a witch named Cutty Sark pulling a mare's tail off?
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robert burns
Which Welsh poet is the focus of the collection of stories, 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog'?
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dylan thomas
Which author wrote 'Silas Marner' and 'Middlemarch'?
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george eliot
From which little town did the Grinch steal Christmas?
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whoville
Which Round Table wit collaborated with Elmer Rice on the 1924 play 'Close Harmony'?
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dorothy parker
What is the name of the poetic work that features pilgrims including a knight, a cook, a squire, a miller, and a merchant?
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canterbury tales
In T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land', which cards are alluded to with the line 'I do not find the hanged man'?
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tarot
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