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literature	In this novel, with the following sentences, David Lodge sums up the fact that his Catholic characters ceased to believe in the existence of hell: âAt some point in the nineteen-sixties, Hell disappeared. No one could say for certain when this happened. First it was there and then it wasnât.	[ "The Remains of the Day", "How Far Can You Go", "The Bloody Chamber", "The Silence in the Garden" ]	How Far Can You Go
literature	The following quote is from a literary work by Kurt Vonnegut in which the characters search for an important and dangerous substance called âice-nineâ: âBeware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.â Name the literary work.	[ "Breakfast of Champions", "Cats Cradle", "Catch-22", "Slaughterhouse 5" ]	Cats Cradle
literature	The following speculation is from a novel set in the gloomy Fen Country of East Anglia: âRealitys not strange, not unexpected. Reality doesnt reside in the sudden hallucination of events. Reality is uneventfulness, vacancy, flatness. Reality is that nothing happens. How many of the events of history have occurred, ask yourselves, for this and for that reason, but for no other reason, fundamentally, than the desire to make things happen?â Can you name the novel?	[ "Times Arrow", "Last Orders", "Waterland", "Sugar and Rum" ]	Waterland
literature	This quote is from a novel by Somerset Maugham, which tells the story of a young man searching for the meaning of life: âIt is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded.	[ "Of Human Bondage", "Theatre", "Sons and Lovers", "Dombey and Son" ]	Of Human Bondage
literature	In this novel, the following words are said by the protagonist, Isadora Wing, who is in pursuit of liberation: âI was nobodyâs baby now. Liberated. Utterly free. It was the most terrifying sensation Iâd ever known in my life. Like teetering on the edge of the Grand Canyon and hoping youâd learn to fly before you hit the bottom.	[ "A Good Man Is Hard to Find", "Editha", "Tropic of Cancer", "Fear of Flying" ]	Fear of Flying
literature	This is a quote from a novel in which the action takes place in a mental institution: âYou have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.â Name the novel.	[ "âOne Flew Over the Cuckooâs Nestâ", "Lost in the Funhouse", "Something Happened", "The Winter of Our Discontent" ]	âOne Flew Over the Cuckooâs Nestâ
literature	After Dr. Seuss used 236 different words to write The Cat in the Hat, his publisher, Bennett Cerf, bet $50 that Seuss could not write a book of only fifty words. Seuss won the bet with this book in 1960.	[ "Hop on Pop", "Theres a Wocket in My Pocket!", "Green Eggs and Ham", "One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish" ]	Green Eggs and Ham
literature	Published in January 1990, this is the last book written and illustrated by Dr. Seuss. In the US, its a popular graduation gift.	[ "My Book about ME", "I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today!", "Oh, the Places Youll Go!", "Fox in Socks" ]	Oh, the Places Youll Go!
literature	The plot of this 1984 Seuss satire has been likened to the war between Blefuscu and Lilliput in Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travel and their war over which end of an egg is supposed to be cracked.	[ "The Butter Battle Book", "Oh Say Can You Say?", "Green Eggs and Ham", "Theres a Wocket in My Pocket!" ]	The Butter Battle Book
literature	Youre a Mean One, Mr. Grinch, one of the most famous songs from the 1966 animated TV special How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, was sung by the narrator Boris Karloff.	[ "True", "False" ]	False
literature	The title of this 1956 Dr. Seuss book has become a popular phrase used to introduce an opinion.	[ "If I Ran the Circus", "Oh Say Can You Say?", "If I Ran the Zoo", "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street" ]	If I Ran the Circus
literature	Published in 1937, this is Dr. Seusss first book. Its main character Marco is based on Marco McClintock, the son of Mike McClintock, Seuss editor, and Helene McClintock, to whom he dedicated the book.	[ "Theres a Wocket in My Pocket!", "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street", "Horton Hatches the Egg", "The Cat in the Hat" ]	And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
literature	In this 1954 Dr. Seuss book the moral of the story (and a repeated phrase throughout the book) is: a persons a person no matter how small. This was the first of two Seuss books starring this kind-hearted elephant.	[ "Hop on Pop", "Theres a Wocket in My Pocket!", "Horton Hears a Who!", "Hooper Humperdink...? Not Him!" ]	Horton Hears a Who!
literature	This 1971 Dr. Seuss book about a mossy, bossy creature, the Once-ler and the Truffula trees has been banned by some schools and libraries for its anti-forestry industry content.	[ "The Butter Battle Book", "Horton Hears a Who!", "Fox in Socks", "The Lorax" ]	The Lorax
literature	What book by Dr. Seuss contains the quote: When a Fox is in the bottle where the Tweetle Beetles battle with their paddles in a puddle on a noodle-eating poodle, THIS is what they call......a Tweetle Beetle Noodle Poodle Bottled Paddled Muddled Duddled Fuddled Wuddled Fox In Socks, Sir!?	[ "The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins", "If I Ran the Circus", "Fox in Socks", "Oh, the Places Youll Go!" ]	Fox in Socks
literature	Voyage of the Dawn Treader was written by this author.	[ "T S Elliot", "C S Lewis", "Lewis Carrol", "Brothers Grimm" ]	C S Lewis
literature	This famous childrens poet wrote Where the Sidewalk Ends and The Giving Tree.	[ "Dr Seuss", "none of these", "Lewis Carrol", "Shel Silverstien" ]	Shel Silverstien
literature	Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) probably began this work in 1306. Its first canto begins with: Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost.	[ "Troilus and Cressida", "The Divine Comedy", "The Decameron", "Gargantua and Pantagruel" ]	The Divine Comedy
literature	The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer. It recounts the tales told by individuals on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. Which of the following was not a character in this work?	[ "Physician", "Reeve", "Tax Collector", "Yeoman" ]	Tax Collector
literature	In the novel Don Quixote by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, who is the witty squire and companion to Alonso Quixano?	[ "Aldonzo Lorenzo", "Antonio de la Gandara", "Che Guevara", "Sancho Panza" ]	Sancho Panza
literature	In this tragic play by William Shakespeare, three witches tell a general in the army of King Duncan that he will never be vanquishd until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against him.	[ "The Tempest", "Macbeth", "Hamlet", "Titus Andronicus" ]	Macbeth
literature	This 1971 novel by Anthony Burgess relates the story of a fifteen-year-old boy named Alex, who, with his gang members (known as droogs) roam the streets at night, committing violent crimes for enjoyment.	[ "Helter Skelter", "A Clockwork Orange", "Fahrenheit 451", "Catcher in the Rye" ]	A Clockwork Orange
literature	The famous line In the room the women come and go, talking of Michelangelo is from the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by this influential 20th century poet.	[ "W. H. Auden", "Robert Browning", "Robert Frost", "T. S. Eliot" ]	T. S. Eliot
literature	This great work of Russian literature by Fyodor Dostoevsky features the character Raskolnikov, an impoverished St. Petersburg student who kills an unscrupulous pawnbroker.	[ "Dead Souls", "And Quiet Flows the Don", "The Brothers Karamazov", "Crime and Punishment" ]	Crime and Punishment
literature	This novel by Charles Dickens, published in 1850, is considered his most autobiographical. It begins with: Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. Characters include Wilkins Micawber and Uriah Heep.	[ "Great Expectations", "David Copperfield", "A Tale of Two Cities", "Bleak House" ]	David Copperfield
literature	As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect is the opening line to this famous work of German fiction by Franz Kafka.	[ "The Metamorphosis", "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", "As I Lay Dying", "Heart of Darkness" ]	The Metamorphosis
literature	This novel by Charlotte BrontÃ« includes the character Mr. Rochester, whose wife is a violent lunatic.	[ "Jane Eyre", "Wuthering Heights", "A Room with a View", "The Turn of the Screw" ]	Jane Eyre
literature	Fifteen men on the dead mans chestâ Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! is a famous line from Treasure Island, a novel by this author published in 1883.	[ "James Fenimore Cooper", "Robert Louis Stevenson", "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "William Makepeace Thackeray" ]	Robert Louis Stevenson
literature	Death be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so is a portion of a work by this poet who lived from 1572-1631.	[ "John Milton", "John Donne", "Lord Byron", "William Blake" ]	John Donne
literature	In what 1851 novel would you find the characters Ishmael, Captain Ahab, Queequeg and Starbuck?	[ "Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis", "Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad", "Moby Dick by Herman Melville", "The Jungle by Upton Sinclair" ]	Moby Dick by Herman Melville
literature	This early Anglo-Saxon work, possibly from the 800s, features the antagonist Grendel, a descendant of Cain who invades the mead-hall of the Danes and eats the men within. The title character ultimately beheads Grendel and keeps it as a trophy.	[ "Oedipus Rex", "Morte Arthure", "Beowulf", "Epic of Gilgamesh" ]	Beowulf
literature	In Stephen Kings novel Bag of Bones, what is the location of the Noonans summer home?	[ "Sarah Laughs", "Black House", "Parilloud", "Lewiston" ]	Sarah Laughs
literature	What is the name of Dolores Claibornes wealthy employer in the Stephen King novel Dolores Claiborne?	[ "Jamie ONeal", "Selena Cook", "Joe St. George", "Vera Donovan" ]	Vera Donovan
literature	In the horror novel Misery, Annie Wilkes was referred to by the newspapers as what?	[ "The Dragon Lady", "The Baby Slayer", "The Black Widow", "Misery" ]	The Dragon Lady
literature	What is Stephen Kings first published novel?	[ "Salems Lot", "Carrie", "The Stand", "The Shining" ]	Carrie
literature	What novel did Stephen King and Peter Straub co-author in 1983?	[ "Twilight Eyes", "The Talisman", "Black House", "Shadowland" ]	The Talisman
literature	In the novel Cristine, Dennis decides he does not like Christine, because, while sitting in it, he has a vision of the car and the surroundings as they would be in 1957 when the car was new.	[ "False", "True" ]	True
literature	Once in a kingdom called Delain, there was a king with two sons. Delain was a very old kingdom and it had had hundreds of kings, perhaps, even thousands... is the beginning of what book?	[ "The Stand", "The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger", "The Dark Tower IV: The Wizard and the Glass", "The Eyes of the Dragon" ]	The Eyes of the Dragon
literature	In the novel Pet Semetary, what is the name of the Creeds cat that is buried and returns to life?	[ "Jud", "Church", "Gage", "Louis" ]	Church
literature	Who fell into the lake?	[ "Neville", "Colin", "Hermione", "Dennis" ]	Dennis
literature	George used the Jelly-Legs curse on Goyle.	[ "True", "False" ]	False
literature	On what day did Percy say he would have the report ready for Mr Crouch?	[ "Monday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Tuesday" ]	Tuesday
literature	Goblet of Fire started a series of deaths in the books. Who died in Goblet of Fire?	[ "Wormtail", "Padfoot", "Dumbledore", "Cedric Diggory" ]	Cedric Diggory
literature	Harry rescued Hermione from the Merpeople.	[ "True", "False" ]	False
literature	Where do Harry Potter and Ron leave the chocolate cakes for Crabbe and Goyle to find?	[ "On the Floor", "At the end of the banister", "Floating near the entrance to the Slytherin Common Room", "Floating mid-air in the exit of the Great Hall" ]	At the end of the banister
literature	In chapter one of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry has Snapes essay on Sleeping Draughts hidden under the floorboard.	[ "True", "False" ]	False
literature	In chapter 7 of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, titled The Boggart in the Wardrobe, a severed hand comes out of the wardrobe for Seamus Finnegan.	[ "No", "Yes" ]	No
literature	How long does Dudleys tongue become, after eating Fred and Georges candies, in the fourth book of the Harry Potter series?	[ "1 ft.", "2 ft.", "2.5 ft.", "3 ft." ]	1 ft.
literature	Rons Christmas gift to Dobby in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is a tea cozy.	[ "False", "True" ]	False
literature	What room does Harry Potter go to for his hearing in the 5th book of the series?	[ "Courtroom 10", "Courtroom13", "Courtroom 11", "Courtroom 7" ]	Courtroom 10
literature	In chapter 24 of book 5, what breaks Snapes attempt to use Legilimency on Harry Potter?	[ "Fluffys attack on Harry, Hermione and Ron", "The vision of Cedrics dead body", "Voldemorts re-birth", "The Dementors kiss on Sirius" ]	The vision of Cedrics dead body
literature	The weapon that Voldemort wanted in book 5 of the Harry Potter series was Harry.	[ "No", "Yes" ]	No
literature	Who wrote the novel Gone With the Wind?	[ "Margaret Mitchell", "Pansey OHara", "Ann Marie Tyler", "Jacqueline Susan" ]	Margaret Mitchell
literature	In 2000, Alice Randall wrote a new version of Gone With the Wind in which the story is told from the point of view of the slaves. What was the name of this novel?	[ "Scarletts Troubles", "Went With the Wind", "The Wind Done Gone", "Tomorrow Aint Another Day" ]	The Wind Done Gone
literature	In 1962, the best known music theme from the movie Gone with the Wind often called Taras Theme, was made into a hit record on the pop charts. Which group had a 1962 hit with My Own True Love?	[ "The Coasters", "The Dovells", "The Duprees", "The Shangri-Las" ]	The Duprees
literature	Who portrayed Ashley Wilkes in the popular movie Gone with the Wind?	[ "Gary Cooper", "Groucho Marx", "Leslie Howard", "Voctor Jory" ]	Leslie Howard
literature	Excluding the opening music, the intermission, and exit music, how long does the movie Gone with the Wind run?	[ "148 minutes", "127 minutes", "180 minutes", "222 minutes" ]	222 minutes
literature	Three men are given credit as directors of the movie Gone with the Wind. Which one of the following directors is not among them?	[ "Sam Wood", "Raoul Walsh", "George Cukor", "Victor Fleming" ]	Raoul Walsh
literature	The company that produced Gone with the Wind was fined because Rhett Butler says the word damn in his famous line: Frankly my dear, I dont give a damn.	[ "True", "False" ]	False
literature	How much did David O. Selznick pay for the rights to the book Gone with the Wind?	[ "$5,000,000", "nothing", "$5,000", "$50,000" ]	$50,000
literature	The producer of the movie Gone with the Wind was short of money and needed a male lead. With whom did he make a deal?	[ "With his father-in-law", "With Columbia Films", "With his father", "With United Artists" ]	With his father-in-law
literature	A TV sequel to Gone with the Wind was released in 1994.	[ "True", "False" ]	True
literature	Which American author is popularly known as the chronicler of the Jazz Age - the period between World War I and World War II?	[ "Ernest Hemingway", "John Dos Passos", "John Steinbeck", "F. Scott Fitzgerald" ]	F. Scott Fitzgerald
literature	Which novel by Ernest Hemingway was published in Great Britain under the title Fiesta?	[ "Death in the Afternoon", "A Farewell to Arms", "The Sun Also Rises", "For Whom the Bell Tolls" ]	The Sun Also Rises
literature	Which 1929 novel narrates the decline of the distinguished Southern family, the Compsons?	[ "East of Eden by John Steinbeck", "The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner", "Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos", "This Side of paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald" ]	The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
literature	The 1961 publication of this sexually explicit novel led to an obscenity trial in the USA.	[ "Naked Lunch", "Tropic of Cancer", "A Spy in the House of Love", "On the Road" ]	Tropic of Cancer
literature	Which novel, set in the Great Depression of the 1930s, won the the Pulitzer Prize in 1940?	[ "The Naked and the Death", "Tortilla Flat", "An American Tragedy", "The Grapes of Wrath" ]	The Grapes of Wrath
literature	Which of the following is not a character depicted by Joseph Heller in his anti-war novel Catch-22?	[ "Papa Monzano", "Major Major Major Major", "Chief White Halfoat", "Dunbar" ]	Papa Monzano
literature	Humbert Humbert is the protagonist and narrator of which 1955 novel?	[ "Lolita", "The Awakening", "In Cold Blood", "Something Happened" ]	Lolita
literature	Which of these novels is not part of the popular Rabbit series written by John Updike?	[ "Rabbit Redux", "Rabbit in Love", "Rabbit, Run", "Rabbit Is Rich" ]	Rabbit in Love
literature	Which author was not a reperesentative figure of the Harlem Renaissance, an African American cultural movement of the 1920s and early 1930s?	[ "Carl Sandburg", "ZoraNeale Hurston", "Countee Cullen", "Langston Hughes" ]	Carl Sandburg
literature	Who wrote the semi-autobiographical novel Junkie, which gives an account of the lifestyle of heroin addicts in the early 1950s?	[ "Jack Kerouac", "Philip Roth", "Saul Bellow", "William S. Burroughs" ]	William S. Burroughs
literature	In this book, a man loses his memory during the war, falls in love and marries, then hits his head and remembers his former life, forgetting his wife completely.	[ "Random Harvest", "The Razors Edge", "Round the Bend", "For Whom the Bell Tolls" ]	Random Harvest
literature	This novel tells the story of a man that meets his double and changes identities with him.	[ "Body Double", "Dead Ringers", "The Scapegoat", "The Silent Partner" ]	The Scapegoat
literature	A man who searches for inner peace, finally finding it by the side of a river is the protagonist of this 1922 German novel.	[ "A River Runs Through It", "On the Beach", "In Search of the Miraculous", "Siddhartha" ]	Siddhartha
literature	In this book, a man says that he will stop the motor of the world. He does so by removing the creative and visionary leaders from society one by one, tempting them to come live in an utopian society in the wilderness.	[ "Giant", "Utopia", "Heart of Darkness", "Atlas Shrugged" ]	Atlas Shrugged
literature	The main character of this novel can make people disappear from existence with an effort of will.	[ "Steppenwolf", "Stranger in a Strange Land", "The Mote in Gods Eye", "When the Bough Breaks" ]	Stranger in a Strange Land
literature	In this novel, the son of a wealthy man is obsessed with creating more wealth, in a subconscious desire to rebel against his father. In the end, he discovers that he has become his father. During his life, he invests in airplanes and movies, among other things. He has many affairs with beautiful women along the way.	[ "The Carpetbaggers", "L.A. Confidential", "Valley of the Dolls", "The Tycoon" ]	The Carpetbaggers
literature	Electrodes are implanted into the brain of this bookâs protagonist in an effort to cure his seizures. But the electrodes fire too often, making him go on a murderous rampage.	[ "The Electric Michelangelo", "Altered States", "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test", "The Terminal Man" ]	The Terminal Man
literature	A mild-mannered coward is enlisted to help a group of hardened criminals pull off a museum theft in this 1962 English novel.	[ "The Light of Day", "The House on the Strand", "The Empty Copper Sea", "The Boomerang Heist" ]	The Light of Day
literature	In this novel, an adult man is obsessed with a teenage girl.	[ "Obsession", "Rebecca", "Lolita", "Studio Sex" ]	Lolita
literature	This book tells the story of a pilot and a scientist on an air expedition to Greenland who have separate dreams of being two long-dead lovers.	[ "Eaters of the Dead", "An Old Captivity", "The Interpretation of Dreams", "Lost Horizon" ]	An Old Captivity
literature	Name the movie that ends with the following line: Louis. I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.	[ "Casablanca", "The African Queen", "The Maltese Falcon", "Sahara" ]	Casablanca
literature	They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow,	[ "rough Eden took their solitary way is from a work by this author.", "William Shakespeare", "Geoffrey Chaucer", "James Joyce", "John Milton" ]	John Milton
literature	Which movie ends with these lines: Yes! Yes! I believe it. I believe it because I want to believe it. Gentlemen I give you a toast. Heres my hope that Robert Conway will find his Shangri-La. Heres my hope that we all find our Shangri-La.?	[ "Jane Eyre", "Wuthering Heights", "Lost Horizon", "Green Mansions" ]	Lost Horizon
literature	So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back into the past. was the last line in a book by this author.	[ "Herman Melville", "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "Werner Herzog", "Thomas Hardy" ]	F. Scott Fitzgerald
literature	Mother of Mercy! Is this the end of Rico? is the last line of this great movie.	[ "Little Ceasar", "The Great Santini", "Carlitos Way", "Midnight Cowboy" ]	Little Ceasar
literature	Which Shakespearean play ends with this line: So thanks to all at once and to each one, Whom we invite to see us crowned at Scone.	[ "Henry IV, Part I", "Hamlet", "Macbeth", "Othello" ]	Macbeth
literature	Which great movie ends with this line: Victory is Ours!?	[ "Dr. Strangelove", "Duck Soup", "The Battleship Potempkin", "The Great Dictator" ]	Duck Soup
literature	Which great movie ends with this line: The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of. Huh?	[ "Casablanca", "The Maltese Falcon", "Sahara", "Citizen Kane" ]	The Maltese Falcon
literature	Which great movie ends with these lines: O-Lan, you are the Earth.?	[ "The Day the Earth Stood Still", "Green Mansions", "The Good Earth", "Lost Horizon" ]	The Good Earth
literature	Which movie ends with these lines: Hello everybody. This is Mrs. Norman Maine.?	[ "Citizen Kane", "A Star is Born", "Radio Star", "A Day at the Races" ]	A Star is Born
literature	This movie is about a drifter, who works for a cruel boss at a textile mill, and comes across a mutated rat with no eyes or legs.	[ "Cats Eye", "Sometimes They Come Back", "Pet Sematary", "Graveyard Shift" ]	Graveyard Shift
literature	This actress played the little girl, Amanda, in the horror movie Cats Eye.	[ "Drew Barrymore", "Alyssa Milano", "Molly Ringwald", "Patricia Benson" ]	Drew Barrymore
literature	This Stephen King movie is about Jack Torrance, a writer who takes a job as a caretaker for the Overlook Hotel.	[ "Misery", "Rose Red", "Pet Sematary", "The Shining" ]	The Shining
literature	What animal was the main character in the horror movie Cujo?	[ "Snake", "Alligator", "Cat", "Dog" ]	Dog
literature	What actress plays Annie Wilkes in the movie Misery?	[ "none of these", "Terri Garr", "Cheryl Ladd", "Kathy Bates" ]	Kathy Bates
literature	Which novel by Charles Dickens is generally regarded as the first Victorian novel?	[ "Dombey and Son", "The Pickwick Papers", "David Copperfield", "Barnaby Rudge" ]	The Pickwick Papers
literature	This highly symbolic story by Polish-born novelist Joseph Conrad served as a base for the movie Apocalypse Now.	[ "Lord Jim", "The Shadow Line", "An Outcast of the Islands", "Heart of Darkness" ]	Heart of Darkness
literature	Which novel by Thomas Hardy had the subtitle A Pure Woman, which shocked Victorian readers?	[ "Tess of the dUrbervilles", "The Hand of Ethelberta", "The Return of the Native", "Emma" ]	Tess of the dUrbervilles

literature

In this novel, with the following sentences, David Lodge sums up the fact that his Catholic characters ceased to believe in the existence of hell: âAt some point in the nineteen-sixties, Hell disappeared. No one could say for certain when this happened. First it was there and then it wasnât.

[ "The Remains of the Day", "How Far Can You Go", "The Bloody Chamber", "The Silence in the Garden" ]

How Far Can You Go

literature

The following quote is from a literary work by Kurt Vonnegut in which the characters search for an important and dangerous substance called âice-nineâ: âBeware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.â Name the literary work.

[ "Breakfast of Champions", "Cats Cradle", "Catch-22", "Slaughterhouse 5" ]

Cats Cradle

literature

The following speculation is from a novel set in the gloomy Fen Country of East Anglia: âRealitys not strange, not unexpected. Reality doesnt reside in the sudden hallucination of events. Reality is uneventfulness, vacancy, flatness. Reality is that nothing happens. How many of the events of history have occurred, ask yourselves, for this and for that reason, but for no other reason, fundamentally, than the desire to make things happen?â Can you name the novel?

[ "Times Arrow", "Last Orders", "Waterland", "Sugar and Rum" ]

Waterland

literature

This quote is from a novel by Somerset Maugham, which tells the story of a young man searching for the meaning of life: âIt is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded.

[ "Of Human Bondage", "Theatre", "Sons and Lovers", "Dombey and Son" ]

Of Human Bondage

literature

In this novel, the following words are said by the protagonist, Isadora Wing, who is in pursuit of liberation: âI was nobodyâs baby now. Liberated. Utterly free. It was the most terrifying sensation Iâd ever known in my life. Like teetering on the edge of the Grand Canyon and hoping youâd learn to fly before you hit the bottom.

[ "A Good Man Is Hard to Find", "Editha", "Tropic of Cancer", "Fear of Flying" ]

Fear of Flying

literature

This is a quote from a novel in which the action takes place in a mental institution: âYou have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.â Name the novel.

[ "âOne Flew Over the Cuckooâs Nestâ", "Lost in the Funhouse", "Something Happened", "The Winter of Our Discontent" ]

âOne Flew Over the Cuckooâs Nestâ

literature

After Dr. Seuss used 236 different words to write The Cat in the Hat, his publisher, Bennett Cerf, bet $50 that Seuss could not write a book of only fifty words. Seuss won the bet with this book in 1960.

[ "Hop on Pop", "Theres a Wocket in My Pocket!", "Green Eggs and Ham", "One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish" ]

Green Eggs and Ham

literature

Published in January 1990, this is the last book written and illustrated by Dr. Seuss. In the US, its a popular graduation gift.

[ "My Book about ME", "I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today!", "Oh, the Places Youll Go!", "Fox in Socks" ]

Oh, the Places Youll Go!

literature

The plot of this 1984 Seuss satire has been likened to the war between Blefuscu and Lilliput in Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travel and their war over which end of an egg is supposed to be cracked.

[ "The Butter Battle Book", "Oh Say Can You Say?", "Green Eggs and Ham", "Theres a Wocket in My Pocket!" ]

The Butter Battle Book

literature

Youre a Mean One, Mr. Grinch, one of the most famous songs from the 1966 animated TV special How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, was sung by the narrator Boris Karloff.

[ "True", "False" ]

False

literature

The title of this 1956 Dr. Seuss book has become a popular phrase used to introduce an opinion.

[ "If I Ran the Circus", "Oh Say Can You Say?", "If I Ran the Zoo", "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street" ]

If I Ran the Circus

literature

Published in 1937, this is Dr. Seusss first book. Its main character Marco is based on Marco McClintock, the son of Mike McClintock, Seuss editor, and Helene McClintock, to whom he dedicated the book.

[ "Theres a Wocket in My Pocket!", "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street", "Horton Hatches the Egg", "The Cat in the Hat" ]

And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street

literature

In this 1954 Dr. Seuss book the moral of the story (and a repeated phrase throughout the book) is: a persons a person no matter how small. This was the first of two Seuss books starring this kind-hearted elephant.

[ "Hop on Pop", "Theres a Wocket in My Pocket!", "Horton Hears a Who!", "Hooper Humperdink...? Not Him!" ]

Horton Hears a Who!

literature

This 1971 Dr. Seuss book about a mossy, bossy creature, the Once-ler and the Truffula trees has been banned by some schools and libraries for its anti-forestry industry content.

[ "The Butter Battle Book", "Horton Hears a Who!", "Fox in Socks", "The Lorax" ]

The Lorax

literature

What book by Dr. Seuss contains the quote: When a Fox is in the bottle where the Tweetle Beetles battle with their paddles in a puddle on a noodle-eating poodle, THIS is what they call......a Tweetle Beetle Noodle Poodle Bottled Paddled Muddled Duddled Fuddled Wuddled Fox In Socks, Sir!?

[ "The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins", "If I Ran the Circus", "Fox in Socks", "Oh, the Places Youll Go!" ]

Fox in Socks

literature

Voyage of the Dawn Treader was written by this author.

[ "T S Elliot", "C S Lewis", "Lewis Carrol", "Brothers Grimm" ]

C S Lewis

literature

This famous childrens poet wrote Where the Sidewalk Ends and The Giving Tree.

[ "Dr Seuss", "none of these", "Lewis Carrol", "Shel Silverstien" ]

Shel Silverstien

literature

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) probably began this work in 1306. Its first canto begins with: Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost.

[ "Troilus and Cressida", "The Divine Comedy", "The Decameron", "Gargantua and Pantagruel" ]

The Divine Comedy

literature

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer. It recounts the tales told by individuals on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. Which of the following was not a character in this work?

[ "Physician", "Reeve", "Tax Collector", "Yeoman" ]

Tax Collector

literature

In the novel Don Quixote by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, who is the witty squire and companion to Alonso Quixano?

[ "Aldonzo Lorenzo", "Antonio de la Gandara", "Che Guevara", "Sancho Panza" ]

Sancho Panza

literature

In this tragic play by William Shakespeare, three witches tell a general in the army of King Duncan that he will never be vanquishd until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against him.

[ "The Tempest", "Macbeth", "Hamlet", "Titus Andronicus" ]

Macbeth

literature

This 1971 novel by Anthony Burgess relates the story of a fifteen-year-old boy named Alex, who, with his gang members (known as droogs) roam the streets at night, committing violent crimes for enjoyment.

[ "Helter Skelter", "A Clockwork Orange", "Fahrenheit 451", "Catcher in the Rye" ]

A Clockwork Orange

literature

The famous line In the room the women come and go, talking of Michelangelo is from the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by this influential 20th century poet.

[ "W. H. Auden", "Robert Browning", "Robert Frost", "T. S. Eliot" ]

T. S. Eliot

literature

This great work of Russian literature by Fyodor Dostoevsky features the character Raskolnikov, an impoverished St. Petersburg student who kills an unscrupulous pawnbroker.

[ "Dead Souls", "And Quiet Flows the Don", "The Brothers Karamazov", "Crime and Punishment" ]

Crime and Punishment

literature

This novel by Charles Dickens, published in 1850, is considered his most autobiographical. It begins with: Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. Characters include Wilkins Micawber and Uriah Heep.

[ "Great Expectations", "David Copperfield", "A Tale of Two Cities", "Bleak House" ]

David Copperfield

literature

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect is the opening line to this famous work of German fiction by Franz Kafka.

[ "The Metamorphosis", "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", "As I Lay Dying", "Heart of Darkness" ]

The Metamorphosis

literature

This novel by Charlotte BrontÃ« includes the character Mr. Rochester, whose wife is a violent lunatic.

[ "Jane Eyre", "Wuthering Heights", "A Room with a View", "The Turn of the Screw" ]

Jane Eyre

literature

Fifteen men on the dead mans chestâ Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! is a famous line from Treasure Island, a novel by this author published in 1883.

[ "James Fenimore Cooper", "Robert Louis Stevenson", "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "William Makepeace Thackeray" ]

Robert Louis Stevenson

literature

Death be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so is a portion of a work by this poet who lived from 1572-1631.

[ "John Milton", "John Donne", "Lord Byron", "William Blake" ]

John Donne

literature

In what 1851 novel would you find the characters Ishmael, Captain Ahab, Queequeg and Starbuck?

[ "Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis", "Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad", "Moby Dick by Herman Melville", "The Jungle by Upton Sinclair" ]

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

literature

This early Anglo-Saxon work, possibly from the 800s, features the antagonist Grendel, a descendant of Cain who invades the mead-hall of the Danes and eats the men within. The title character ultimately beheads Grendel and keeps it as a trophy.

[ "Oedipus Rex", "Morte Arthure", "Beowulf", "Epic of Gilgamesh" ]

Beowulf

literature

In Stephen Kings novel Bag of Bones, what is the location of the Noonans summer home?

[ "Sarah Laughs", "Black House", "Parilloud", "Lewiston" ]

Sarah Laughs

literature

What is the name of Dolores Claibornes wealthy employer in the Stephen King novel Dolores Claiborne?

[ "Jamie ONeal", "Selena Cook", "Joe St. George", "Vera Donovan" ]

Vera Donovan

literature

In the horror novel Misery, Annie Wilkes was referred to by the newspapers as what?

[ "The Dragon Lady", "The Baby Slayer", "The Black Widow", "Misery" ]

The Dragon Lady

literature

What is Stephen Kings first published novel?

[ "Salems Lot", "Carrie", "The Stand", "The Shining" ]

Carrie

literature

What novel did Stephen King and Peter Straub co-author in 1983?

[ "Twilight Eyes", "The Talisman", "Black House", "Shadowland" ]

The Talisman

literature

In the novel Cristine, Dennis decides he does not like Christine, because, while sitting in it, he has a vision of the car and the surroundings as they would be in 1957 when the car was new.

[ "False", "True" ]

True

literature

Once in a kingdom called Delain, there was a king with two sons. Delain was a very old kingdom and it had had hundreds of kings, perhaps, even thousands... is the beginning of what book?

[ "The Stand", "The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger", "The Dark Tower IV: The Wizard and the Glass", "The Eyes of the Dragon" ]

The Eyes of the Dragon

literature

In the novel Pet Semetary, what is the name of the Creeds cat that is buried and returns to life?

[ "Jud", "Church", "Gage", "Louis" ]

Church

literature

Who fell into the lake?

[ "Neville", "Colin", "Hermione", "Dennis" ]

Dennis

literature

George used the Jelly-Legs curse on Goyle.

[ "True", "False" ]

False

literature

On what day did Percy say he would have the report ready for Mr Crouch?

[ "Monday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Tuesday" ]

Tuesday

literature

Goblet of Fire started a series of deaths in the books. Who died in Goblet of Fire?

[ "Wormtail", "Padfoot", "Dumbledore", "Cedric Diggory" ]

Cedric Diggory

literature

Harry rescued Hermione from the Merpeople.

[ "True", "False" ]

False

literature

Where do Harry Potter and Ron leave the chocolate cakes for Crabbe and Goyle to find?

[ "On the Floor", "At the end of the banister", "Floating near the entrance to the Slytherin Common Room", "Floating mid-air in the exit of the Great Hall" ]

At the end of the banister

literature

In chapter one of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry has Snapes essay on Sleeping Draughts hidden under the floorboard.

[ "True", "False" ]

False

literature

In chapter 7 of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, titled The Boggart in the Wardrobe, a severed hand comes out of the wardrobe for Seamus Finnegan.

[ "No", "Yes" ]

No

literature

How long does Dudleys tongue become, after eating Fred and Georges candies, in the fourth book of the Harry Potter series?

[ "1 ft.", "2 ft.", "2.5 ft.", "3 ft." ]

1 ft.

literature

Rons Christmas gift to Dobby in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is a tea cozy.

[ "False", "True" ]

False

literature

What room does Harry Potter go to for his hearing in the 5th book of the series?

[ "Courtroom 10", "Courtroom13", "Courtroom 11", "Courtroom 7" ]

Courtroom 10

literature

In chapter 24 of book 5, what breaks Snapes attempt to use Legilimency on Harry Potter?

[ "Fluffys attack on Harry, Hermione and Ron", "The vision of Cedrics dead body", "Voldemorts re-birth", "The Dementors kiss on Sirius" ]

The vision of Cedrics dead body

literature

The weapon that Voldemort wanted in book 5 of the Harry Potter series was Harry.

[ "No", "Yes" ]

No

literature

Who wrote the novel Gone With the Wind?

[ "Margaret Mitchell", "Pansey OHara", "Ann Marie Tyler", "Jacqueline Susan" ]

Margaret Mitchell

literature

In 2000, Alice Randall wrote a new version of Gone With the Wind in which the story is told from the point of view of the slaves. What was the name of this novel?

[ "Scarletts Troubles", "Went With the Wind", "The Wind Done Gone", "Tomorrow Aint Another Day" ]

The Wind Done Gone

literature

In 1962, the best known music theme from the movie Gone with the Wind often called Taras Theme, was made into a hit record on the pop charts. Which group had a 1962 hit with My Own True Love?

[ "The Coasters", "The Dovells", "The Duprees", "The Shangri-Las" ]

The Duprees

literature

Who portrayed Ashley Wilkes in the popular movie Gone with the Wind?

[ "Gary Cooper", "Groucho Marx", "Leslie Howard", "Voctor Jory" ]

Leslie Howard

literature

Excluding the opening music, the intermission, and exit music, how long does the movie Gone with the Wind run?

[ "148 minutes", "127 minutes", "180 minutes", "222 minutes" ]

222 minutes

literature

Three men are given credit as directors of the movie Gone with the Wind. Which one of the following directors is not among them?

[ "Sam Wood", "Raoul Walsh", "George Cukor", "Victor Fleming" ]

Raoul Walsh

literature

The company that produced Gone with the Wind was fined because Rhett Butler says the word damn in his famous line: Frankly my dear, I dont give a damn.

[ "True", "False" ]

False

literature

How much did David O. Selznick pay for the rights to the book Gone with the Wind?

[ "$5,000,000", "nothing", "$5,000", "$50,000" ]

$50,000

literature

The producer of the movie Gone with the Wind was short of money and needed a male lead. With whom did he make a deal?

[ "With his father-in-law", "With Columbia Films", "With his father", "With United Artists" ]

With his father-in-law

literature

A TV sequel to Gone with the Wind was released in 1994.

[ "True", "False" ]

True

literature

Which American author is popularly known as the chronicler of the Jazz Age - the period between World War I and World War II?

[ "Ernest Hemingway", "John Dos Passos", "John Steinbeck", "F. Scott Fitzgerald" ]

F. Scott Fitzgerald

literature

Which novel by Ernest Hemingway was published in Great Britain under the title Fiesta?

[ "Death in the Afternoon", "A Farewell to Arms", "The Sun Also Rises", "For Whom the Bell Tolls" ]

The Sun Also Rises

literature

Which 1929 novel narrates the decline of the distinguished Southern family, the Compsons?

[ "East of Eden by John Steinbeck", "The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner", "Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos", "This Side of paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald" ]

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

literature

The 1961 publication of this sexually explicit novel led to an obscenity trial in the USA.

[ "Naked Lunch", "Tropic of Cancer", "A Spy in the House of Love", "On the Road" ]

Tropic of Cancer

literature

Which novel, set in the Great Depression of the 1930s, won the the Pulitzer Prize in 1940?

[ "The Naked and the Death", "Tortilla Flat", "An American Tragedy", "The Grapes of Wrath" ]

The Grapes of Wrath

literature

Which of the following is not a character depicted by Joseph Heller in his anti-war novel Catch-22?

[ "Papa Monzano", "Major Major Major Major", "Chief White Halfoat", "Dunbar" ]

Papa Monzano

literature

Humbert Humbert is the protagonist and narrator of which 1955 novel?

[ "Lolita", "The Awakening", "In Cold Blood", "Something Happened" ]

Lolita

literature

Which of these novels is not part of the popular Rabbit series written by John Updike?

[ "Rabbit Redux", "Rabbit in Love", "Rabbit, Run", "Rabbit Is Rich" ]

Rabbit in Love

literature

Which author was not a reperesentative figure of the Harlem Renaissance, an African American cultural movement of the 1920s and early 1930s?

[ "Carl Sandburg", "ZoraNeale Hurston", "Countee Cullen", "Langston Hughes" ]

Carl Sandburg

literature

Who wrote the semi-autobiographical novel Junkie, which gives an account of the lifestyle of heroin addicts in the early 1950s?

[ "Jack Kerouac", "Philip Roth", "Saul Bellow", "William S. Burroughs" ]

William S. Burroughs

literature

In this book, a man loses his memory during the war, falls in love and marries, then hits his head and remembers his former life, forgetting his wife completely.

[ "Random Harvest", "The Razors Edge", "Round the Bend", "For Whom the Bell Tolls" ]

Random Harvest

literature

This novel tells the story of a man that meets his double and changes identities with him.

[ "Body Double", "Dead Ringers", "The Scapegoat", "The Silent Partner" ]

The Scapegoat

literature

A man who searches for inner peace, finally finding it by the side of a river is the protagonist of this 1922 German novel.

[ "A River Runs Through It", "On the Beach", "In Search of the Miraculous", "Siddhartha" ]

Siddhartha

literature

In this book, a man says that he will stop the motor of the world. He does so by removing the creative and visionary leaders from society one by one, tempting them to come live in an utopian society in the wilderness.

[ "Giant", "Utopia", "Heart of Darkness", "Atlas Shrugged" ]

Atlas Shrugged

literature

The main character of this novel can make people disappear from existence with an effort of will.

[ "Steppenwolf", "Stranger in a Strange Land", "The Mote in Gods Eye", "When the Bough Breaks" ]

Stranger in a Strange Land

literature

In this novel, the son of a wealthy man is obsessed with creating more wealth, in a subconscious desire to rebel against his father. In the end, he discovers that he has become his father. During his life, he invests in airplanes and movies, among other things. He has many affairs with beautiful women along the way.

[ "The Carpetbaggers", "L.A. Confidential", "Valley of the Dolls", "The Tycoon" ]

The Carpetbaggers

literature

Electrodes are implanted into the brain of this bookâs protagonist in an effort to cure his seizures. But the electrodes fire too often, making him go on a murderous rampage.

[ "The Electric Michelangelo", "Altered States", "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test", "The Terminal Man" ]

The Terminal Man

literature

A mild-mannered coward is enlisted to help a group of hardened criminals pull off a museum theft in this 1962 English novel.

[ "The Light of Day", "The House on the Strand", "The Empty Copper Sea", "The Boomerang Heist" ]

The Light of Day

literature

In this novel, an adult man is obsessed with a teenage girl.

[ "Obsession", "Rebecca", "Lolita", "Studio Sex" ]

Lolita

literature

This book tells the story of a pilot and a scientist on an air expedition to Greenland who have separate dreams of being two long-dead lovers.

[ "Eaters of the Dead", "An Old Captivity", "The Interpretation of Dreams", "Lost Horizon" ]

An Old Captivity

literature

Name the movie that ends with the following line: Louis. I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

[ "Casablanca", "The African Queen", "The Maltese Falcon", "Sahara" ]

Casablanca

literature

They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow,

[ "rough Eden took their solitary way is from a work by this author.", "William Shakespeare", "Geoffrey Chaucer", "James Joyce", "John Milton" ]

John Milton

literature

Which movie ends with these lines: Yes! Yes! I believe it. I believe it because I want to believe it. Gentlemen I give you a toast. Heres my hope that Robert Conway will find his Shangri-La. Heres my hope that we all find our Shangri-La.?

[ "Jane Eyre", "Wuthering Heights", "Lost Horizon", "Green Mansions" ]

Lost Horizon

literature

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back into the past. was the last line in a book by this author.

[ "Herman Melville", "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "Werner Herzog", "Thomas Hardy" ]

F. Scott Fitzgerald

literature

Mother of Mercy! Is this the end of Rico? is the last line of this great movie.

[ "Little Ceasar", "The Great Santini", "Carlitos Way", "Midnight Cowboy" ]

Little Ceasar

literature

Which Shakespearean play ends with this line: So thanks to all at once and to each one, Whom we invite to see us crowned at Scone.

[ "Henry IV, Part I", "Hamlet", "Macbeth", "Othello" ]

Macbeth

literature

Which great movie ends with this line: Victory is Ours!?

[ "Dr. Strangelove", "Duck Soup", "The Battleship Potempkin", "The Great Dictator" ]

Duck Soup

literature

Which great movie ends with this line: The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of. Huh?

[ "Casablanca", "The Maltese Falcon", "Sahara", "Citizen Kane" ]

The Maltese Falcon

literature

Which great movie ends with these lines: O-Lan, you are the Earth.?

[ "The Day the Earth Stood Still", "Green Mansions", "The Good Earth", "Lost Horizon" ]

The Good Earth

literature

Which movie ends with these lines: Hello everybody. This is Mrs. Norman Maine.?

[ "Citizen Kane", "A Star is Born", "Radio Star", "A Day at the Races" ]

A Star is Born

literature

This movie is about a drifter, who works for a cruel boss at a textile mill, and comes across a mutated rat with no eyes or legs.

[ "Cats Eye", "Sometimes They Come Back", "Pet Sematary", "Graveyard Shift" ]

Graveyard Shift

literature

This actress played the little girl, Amanda, in the horror movie Cats Eye.

[ "Drew Barrymore", "Alyssa Milano", "Molly Ringwald", "Patricia Benson" ]

Drew Barrymore

literature

This Stephen King movie is about Jack Torrance, a writer who takes a job as a caretaker for the Overlook Hotel.

[ "Misery", "Rose Red", "Pet Sematary", "The Shining" ]

The Shining

literature

What animal was the main character in the horror movie Cujo?

[ "Snake", "Alligator", "Cat", "Dog" ]

Dog

literature

What actress plays Annie Wilkes in the movie Misery?

[ "none of these", "Terri Garr", "Cheryl Ladd", "Kathy Bates" ]

Kathy Bates

literature

Which novel by Charles Dickens is generally regarded as the first Victorian novel?

[ "Dombey and Son", "The Pickwick Papers", "David Copperfield", "Barnaby Rudge" ]

The Pickwick Papers

literature

This highly symbolic story by Polish-born novelist Joseph Conrad served as a base for the movie Apocalypse Now.

[ "Lord Jim", "The Shadow Line", "An Outcast of the Islands", "Heart of Darkness" ]

Heart of Darkness

literature

Which novel by Thomas Hardy had the subtitle A Pure Woman, which shocked Victorian readers?

[ "Tess of the dUrbervilles", "The Hand of Ethelberta", "The Return of the Native", "Emma" ]

Tess of the dUrbervilles