Literature Trivia 1 – Flashcards
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Who was Clark Kent's high school sweetheart?
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Lana Lang
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John Clayton Jr. was the childhood name of what well-known fictional character?
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Tarzan
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What is the name of the poem which appears on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty?
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The New Colossus
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Men Against the Sea and Pitcairn's Island were two sequels to what famous novel?
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Mutiny on the Bounty
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What is the only novel to top the best-seller lists for two consecutive years?
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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What classic gothic novel of 1818 was subtitled, The Modern Prometheus?
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Frankenstein
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What is the name of Dr Seuss's egg-hatching elephant?
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Horton
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What novel contains the longest sentence in literature?
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Les Miserables
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The Max Fleischer cartoon character Betty Boop was based on which real-life actress?
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Helen Kane
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"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again," was the first line of what Daphne du Maurier novel?
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Rebecca
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What is the actual title of da Vinci's "Mona Lisa"?
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La Gioconda
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In Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, Hiawatha, what was the name of Hiawatha's wife?
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Minnehaha
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"The temperature hit ninety degrees the day she arrived," was the opening line of one of the best-selling novels ever. What was it?
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The Valley of the Dolls
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Who was the first writer to incorporate himself?
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
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What is the native country of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot?
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Belgium
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In the Robin Hood stories, what was the real name of Little John
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John Little
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What was Scarlett O'Hara's real first name?
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Katie
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Under what assumed name did Oscar Wilde live out the last three years of his life, in France?
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Sebastian Melmoth
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By what pseudonym is writer Frederick Dannay Manfred Bennington Lee better known?
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Ellery Queen
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What was the name of the pig leader in Animal Farm?
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Napoleon
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To whom did Herman Melville dedicate Moby Dick?
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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What was Juliet's last name in Romeo and Juliet?
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Capulet
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The Terror of the Monster was an early title for a novel which inspired one of the highest-grossing movies of the mid 70s. What was its movie name?
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Jaws
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The Emerald City was the working title of which classic novel?
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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What famous writer named a dull-witted character in one of his plays Moron, introducing the word into the vocabulary?
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Moliere
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What famous American poet penned the oft-quoted line "Into each life some rain must fall"?
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Who is the only named dog to appear in a Shakespearean play?
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Crab
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What was the favorite cocktail of James Bond?
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vodka martini shaken, not stirred
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What famous American writer's gravestone epitaph is this last line from one of his novels: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past"?
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F Scott Fitzgerald
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To what famous architect do we attribute "Less is more"
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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What famous British poet and playwright had an m-for murderer-branded on his left thumb?
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Ben Jonson
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What was author Louis L'Amour's real name?
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Louis LaMoore
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The title of what poetic drama by Robert Browning was used to name a Kentucky town?
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Pippa Passes
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How many years did Robinson Crusoe spend shipwrecked on his island?
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24
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What famous American poet was a West Point cadet for two weeks, but was forced to leave after failing arithmetic and grammar?
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Carl Sandburg
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What were the names of the brothers Karamozov in the novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky?
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Dmitri, Ivan, Alexei, and Smerdyakov
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What exotic city was featured in National Geographic magazine's first photo story in 1905?
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Lhasa
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What was the name of Dick and Jane's baby sister in elementary school primers of old?
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Sally
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What was mystery writer Dashiell Hammett's first name?
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Samuel
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What is the literary source of the F Scott Fitzgerald book title Tender is the Night?
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Keats's poem Ode to a Nightingale
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What was the name of the dog that was with Rip Van Winkle when he fell asleep for 20 years?
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Wolf
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What was Dr Frankenstein's first name?
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Victor
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What was the title of Harpo Marx's 1985 autobiography?
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Harpo Speaks
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What was the name of the cat Alice left behind when she fell down the rabbit hole?
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Dinah
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What was Rembrandt's last name?
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Van Ryn
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What American novel was the first to sell over 1 million copies?
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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What is the name of the gypsy girl the hunchback Quasimodo falls in love with?
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Esmeralda
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What famous American writer worked as an entertainer aboard a Swedish ocean liner cruising the Caribbean before being drafted to serve in WWII?
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JD Salinger
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To whom did Helen Keller dedicate her autobiography, The Story of My Life?
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Alexander Graham Bell
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What famous book beings: "Chug, chug, chug. Puff, puff, puff."?
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The Little Engine that Could
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What was the name of Don Quixote's worn out old horse?
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Rosinante
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What were the first names of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde?
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Henry and Edward
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What was the name of the she-ape that rescued Tarzan and raised him to be Lord of the Apes?
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Kala
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What is the name of the elementary school attended by Lucy, Linus, and Charlies Brown in Peanuts?
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Birchwood
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In The Hunting of the Snark, what did the snark turn into to fool hunters?
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a boojum
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In the original The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, what color were Dorothy's slippers?
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silver
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What was Andy Warhol's name at birth?
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Andrew Warhola
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Whose autobiography is entitled The Wheel of Fortune?
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Edith Piaf
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What is the native language of Tom Stoppard?
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Czech
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What was Captain Queeg's first name and rank in the 1951 novel, later movie, The Caine Mutiny?
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Lieutenant Commander Philip
