Literature Trivia Questions
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What is the title of the Bernard Malamud novel where the hero, Roy Hobbs, leads his baseball team to the top of the league?
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natural
Who wrote the fourth and final Rabbit Angstrom novel, 'Rabbit at Rest'?
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john updike
How many years of solitude are chronicled in the novel by Garcia Marquez?
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100
Who is the author that published the verse play 'Smerti' under a pseudonym in 1923, years before writing the novel 'Lolita'?
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vladimir nabokov
Which character originally featured in May Day games and Morris dances eventually became Robin Hood's girlfriend?
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maid marian
Who wrote the 'Georgics' in praise of agricultural life before composing a famous Roman epic?
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virgil
Which Shakespearean character delivers a soliloquy that begins with 'How all occasions do inform against me'?
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hamlet
Which poet, who later published his first volume of poetry in 1913, was a chicken farmer in Derry, N.H.?
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robert frost
In which book would you find the quote 'All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others'?
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animal farm
Which author wrote the book 'Go Down, Moses' that includes the story 'The Bear'?
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william faulkner
In which city are the prince and the pauper born on the same day in Twain's novel?
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london
Which American poet was born and died at 280 Main Street in Amherst, Massachusetts, living from 1830 to 1886?
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emily dickinson
Which poet wrote 'Tam O'Shanter' to accompany an engraving of Alloway Kirk by Francis Grose?
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bobby burns
Which character in Shakespeare's play is walking in her sleep when she says 'All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand'?
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lady macbeth
Which Sir Walter Scott saga did Thackeray spoof in a sequel entitled 'Rebecca & Rowena'?
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ivanhoe
What is the name of the fictional candy maker who invented the Everlasting Gobstopper?
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willy wonka
Which author brought back Lucky Santangelo as the heroine in the novel 'Lady Boss'?
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jackie collins
Who is the author of the 1975 novel 'Curtain' in which detective Hercule Poirot dies?
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agatha christie
Who is the dashing character created by Margaret Mitchell that has been described as 'The most famous of all Charlestonians'?
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rhett butler
What 14th century literary work is divided into the sections 'Inferno,' 'Purgatorio,' and 'Paradiso'?
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divine comedy
Which poet quipped in one of his cute couplets, 'A bit of talcum is always walcum'?
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ogden nash
Which 'Little Women' author wrote 'Hospital Sketches' as a collection of letters during her time as a nurse in 1863?
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louisa may alcott
Who is the author of 'Tropic of Cancer' featured in the biography 'The Happiest Man Alive'?
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henry miller
Which autobiographical novel did Charles Dickens consider his personal favorite?
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david copperfield
In which Maryland city did many of H.L. Mencken's noted essays start as newspaper columns in the 'Sun'?
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baltimore
Which author's life is explored in the 1996 book 'The Man Behind James Bond'?
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ian fleming
What is the name of the character from 'A Christmas Carol' who has become synonymous with avarice?
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ebenezer scrooge
Who was the first to publish the tales often attributed to a big bird, and was actually a French poet named Charles Perrault?
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mother goose
Which author based the character Lara in 'Dr. Zhivago' on his mistress Olga Ivinskaya?
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boris pasternak
In 'The Jungle Book,' what kind of ferocious animal is Shere Khan?
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tiger
In which country was Robert Louis Stevenson's unfinished masterpiece 'Weir of Hermiston' set?
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scotland
Which author used 'Memories de M. D'Artagnan' as the main source of inspiration for 'The Three Musketeers'?
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alexandre dumas
Which author wrote the line 'Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly' in 'Treasure Island'?
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robert louis stevenson
Who is the author of 'Atlas Shrugged', known for her philosophy of objectivism?
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ayn rand
Which author was inspired by his incarceration in a POW camp in Singapore during WWII to write 'King Rat'?
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james clavell
Who is the author who wrote 'Sense and Sensibility', 'Pride and Prejudice', and 'Northanger Abbey' between 1795 and 1798?
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jane austen
In Alexandre Dumas' sequel 'Twenty Years After', which novel features the vicious Mordaunt who beheads King Charles I?
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three musketeers
In 'A Shropshire Lad,' what is described as being the quietest places under Clunton and Clunbury, Clungunford and Clun?
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sun
Who is the author of the 1989 collection 'We Are Still Married,' which includes poems and fictional sketches related to Lake Wobegon?
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garrison keillor
What city did Phileas Fogg start and end his 80-day trip around the world in the book 'Around the World in Eighty Days'?
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london
Who is the author of the poems 'Beat, Beat Drums' and 'I Hear America Singing'?
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walt whitman
Who is the author of the novel featuring Rosamond Vincy as the selfish spouse of Tertius Lydgate, published in the 1870s with the title 'Middlemarch'?
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george eliot
Which author followed his book 'The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success' with 'The Seven Spiritual Laws for Parents'?
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deepak chopra
Who was the master of horror that collaborated with Peter Straub on 'The Talisman' and was also his good friend?
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stephen king
Which poet wrote the line, 'The best laid schemes o' mice & men gang aft a-gley'?
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robert burns
Which poem describes the borogoves as 'all mimsy'?
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jabberwocky
In Kipling's story 'The Spring Running', who is the boy that reaches manhood and decides to live with humans?
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mowgli
What literary character is associated with the horse named Rocinante?
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don quixote
In 'Alice in Wonderland,' what is the group made up of 12 animals, including Bill the Lizard, at the trial of the Knave of Hearts?
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jury
Who wrote the first novel 'Treasure Island'?
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robert louis stevenson
Which author published 'The Torrents of Spring' in the same year as 'The Sun Also Rises'?
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ernest hemingway
Which character in a fairy tale said, 'Today I bake, tomorrow brew; next day I'll have the queen's child too'?
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rumpelstiltskin
Who wrote 'Brave New World' and was also the great-nephew of the poet Matthew Arnold?
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aldous huxley
What adjective describes the garden in the title of a 1911 book by Frances Hodgson Burnett?
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secret
Who wrote, 'We need the tonic of wildness' in 'Walden'?
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henry david thoreau
Who did Keir Dullea portray in the one-man show 'The Other Side of Paradise'?
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f. scott fitzgerald
By what name is Caroline Meeber better known in a Theodore Dreiser novel?
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sister carrie
Who is the Chinese sleuth featured in Earl Derr Biggers' 1925 novel 'The House Without a Key'?
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charlie chan
Which American author wrote several anonymous reviews praising the genius of his own work 'Leaves of Grass'?
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walt whitman
In John Bunyan's 'The Pilgrim's Progress', what does the celestial city symbolize?
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heaven