Literature Trivia Questions
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Who is the tattooed harpooner and cannibal from the uncharted South Seas island of Kokovoko in 'Moby Dick'?
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queequeg
Which famous detective met his end in the 1975 novel titled 'Curtain'?
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hercule poirot
Which author, the son of missionaries who worked in India, wrote the novel 'Siddhartha'?
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hermann hesse
Which author wrote the book 'An Inconvenient Woman' that explores morals and murders in L.A.'s high society?
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dominick dunne
Who is the playwright behind the 1882 play that includes the line 'The minority is always right'?
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henrik ibsen
Who is the author famous for writing the line 'I am a camera with its shutter open'?
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christopher isherwood
Which author followed his first novel, 'Appointment in Samarra', with 'BUtterfield 8'?
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john o'hara
Who is the author of 'A la recherche du temps perdu' known for his description of Madeleines?
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marcel proust
How many children did Shakespeare have before his descendants later died out?
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Which Shakespearean character lamented, 'I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died'?
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ophelia
Who wrote the expressionistic 1922 play 'The Hairy Ape' that opens in the firemen's forecastle of an ocean liner?
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eugene o'neill
Which sleuthing cleric is the central character in G.K. Chesterton's works 'The Wisdom...', 'The Secret...' and 'The Innocence...'?
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father brown
Which poet had hundreds of her poems discovered by her sister Lavinia in little handsewn booklets after she died in 1886?
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emily dickinson
What is the title given to Fyodor Dostoyevsky's saintly but foolish Prince Lvov Nikolayevitch Myshkin?
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idiot
Who wrote the novel 'Other Voices, Other Rooms'?
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truman capote
In which T. Dreiser novel is Clyde sentenced to death after the pregnant Roberta drowns?
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american tragedy
In which William Faulkner novel does Addie Bundren's family face numerous challenges to fulfill her burial wishes?
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as i lay dying
Who is the author that published 'Tales of a Wayside Inn' two years after his wife's death?
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henry wadsworth longfellow
Which author dedicated her novel 'Rubyfruit Jungle' to actress Alexis Smith?
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rita mae brown
Which heiress wrote the autobiography 'Black Knight, White Knight' recounting her search for happiness?
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gloria vanderbilt
Who is the author of 'The Betsy' and once worked as a shipping clerk for Universal Pictures?
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harold robbins
Which Swedish playwright's last marriage inspired him to write "The Dance of Death"?
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august strindberg
Which author wrote the adventure novel 'Jerry of the Islands' about an Irish terrier pup in the South Seas?
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jack london
Who wrote the best-selling book 'Cat Stories' in 1994?
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james herriot
Who is the author of the 1938 satire 'The Black Book' who also wrote 'The Alexandria Quartet'?
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lawrence durrell
Who wrote of 'things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme' in 'Paradise Lost'?
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john milton
Who is the author known for writing over 70 one-act plays and the novel 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn'?
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betty smith
Which poet wrote 'Come live with mee, & bee my love' in 'The Baite'?
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john donne
Which German playwright wrote the 1804 play about the Tell legend, reducing the intensity of the Sturm und Drang movement?
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friedrich schiller
Which Prague writer wrote 'Hunger Artist,' in which the protagonist starves because he couldn't find the food he liked?
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franz kafka
Shelley's poem about which mythological character 'unbound' features figures like Ione and Hercules?
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prometheus
Which book did Tolstoy reportedly conceive after witnessing a woman jump in front of a train?
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anna karenina
What name comes between Athos and Aramis?
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porthos
Who is the author known for bestsellers such as 'Full Circle', 'Wanderlust', and 'Five Days in Paris' published in 1995?
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danielle steel
In Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry, which musician's journey to Hades is the subject of a cycle of sonnets?
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orpheus
Which author wrote the 'Kent Family Chronicles' and mystery novels under the pen name Alan Payne?
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john jakes
In which Charles Dickens novel does the character Little Nell appear?
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old curiosity shop
Which English-born woman authored novels such as 'This Side of Innocence' and 'The Devil's Advocate'?
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taylor caldwell
Which Longfellow poem begins with the line 'This is the forest primeval' and describes hemlocks standing like Druids of eld?
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evangeline
Which tree did A.E. Housman describe as the loveliest in his poetry?
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cherry
Which author, known for the 1970 book 'The Female Eunuch,' has returned with the book 'The Whole Woman'?
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germaine greer
Which British barrister created the character Rumpole of the Bailey?
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john mortimer
Who is the author of 'Day of the Locust' whose wife Eileen was the inspiration for 'My Sister Eileen'?
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nathanael west
Which poet wrote the line 'Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come' in 'The People, Yes'?
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carl sandburg
Who is the author of the 1920 collection of philosophical essays titled 'Hey-Rub-A-Dub-Dub'?
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theodore dreiser
Who is the southern playwright whose final Broadway play was 'Clothes for a Summer Hotel'?
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tennessee williams
What British author had an illustrated edition of his work 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' published in 1994?
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douglas adams
Who is the blind poet that wrote, 'They also serve who only stand and wait' in 'On His Blindness'?
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john milton
Which author wrote the novel 'Falconer' that features the prison where Ezekiel Farragut is incarcerated?
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john cheever
What term describes the attribution of human traits to inanimate objects, of which the pathetic fallacy is a type?
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anthropomorphism
Which petite brunette, known as a member of the Algonquin Round Table, authored the story 'Big Blonde'?
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dorothy parker
What is the full name of the author whose middle name is Kinnan?
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marjorie kinnan rawlings
Which author dedicated his 1888 book 'Plain Tales From The Hills' to 'the wittiest woman in India'?
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rudyard kipling
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