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literature	Which of the Bronte sisters wrote Shirley, a novel set in Yorkshire during the industrial depression?	[ "Emily", "Charlotte", "Elizabeth", "Anne" ]	Charlotte
literature	Which list contains the names of the Bennet sisters, depicted by Jane Austin in Pride and Prejudice?	[ "Cathrine, Jane, Lydia, Kitty, Mary", "Elizabeth, Ann, Lydia, Kitty, Mary", "Charlotte, Elizabeth, Emily, Mary, Kitty", "Elisabeth, Jane, Lydia, Kitty, Mary" ]	Elisabeth, Jane, Lydia, Kitty, Mary
literature	Which of these literary works was written in the form of a long letter while the author was in prison?	[ "De Profundis", "A Room with a View", "The Canterville Ghost", "The Importance of Being Earnest" ]	De Profundis
literature	Which of these books were written by Victorian novelist Mary Anne Evans, commonly known as George Eliot?	[ "The Mill on the Floss, Adam Bede, A Room of Ones Own", "Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss, Adam Bede", "The Mill on the Floss, Vanity Fair, Adam Bede", "Middlemarch, North and South, Vanity Fair" ]	Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss, Adam Bede
literature	This novel, which satirizes society in early 19th-century England, opens at Miss Pinkertons Academy for Young Ladies.	[ "Jane Eyre", "Wuthering Heights", "Vanity Fair", "The Book of Snobs" ]	Vanity Fair
literature	This literary work by Mary Shelley, infused with some elements of the Gothic novel, was subtitled The Modern Prometheus.	[ "Arms and the Man", "The Mortal Immortal", "Frankenstein", "The Last Man" ]	Frankenstein
literature	What are the two cities named in the title of Charles Dickens historical novel A Tale of Two Cities?	[ "London and Manchester", "Paris and London", "Dublin and London", "Edinburgh and London" ]	Paris and London
literature	Ahab, Ishmael, Starbuck, Stubb, Queequeg and Elijah were characters in this 1851 novel.	[ "Eastern Voices", "Genesis", "The Satanic Episodes", "Moby Dick" ]	Moby Dick
literature	Jim, Marlowe, Stein, Sherif Ali, Rajah Tunka Allang and Gentleman Brown were characters in this novel.	[ "Lord Jim", "Darkest Passage", "Eastern Visions", "The Heart of Darkness" ]	Lord Jim
literature	The characters in this novel included Charles Marlow, Kurtz, Fresleven, Chief Accountant and General Manager.	[ "Passage to India", "Lord Jim", "Eastern Visions", "The Heart of Darkness" ]	The Heart of Darkness
literature	The characters in this novel included Pierre Bezukov, Natasha Rostovic, Sonya Rostovic, Andrei N. Bolkov and Elene Kuragin.	[ "War and Peace", "The Gulag", "Crime and Punishment", "The Idiot" ]	War and Peace
literature	Jim, Widow Douglas, Miss Watson, The Grangerford and the Shepardsons were characters in this novel.	[ "Life on the Mississippi", "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", "Billy Budd", "The Rise of Silas Lapham" ]	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
literature	Raskolnikov, Sonya S. and Porfry were characters in this novel.	[ "Crime and Punishment", "Napoleon", "The Idiot", "War and Peace" ]	Crime and Punishment
literature	The characters in this novel included Hester Prynne, Pearl, Roger Chillingworth and Arthur Dimmsdale.	[ "The Heiress", "Jane Eyre", "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", "The Scarlet Letter" ]	The Scarlet Letter
literature	The characters in this novel included Wilfred, Rebecca, Rowena, Isaac of York and Prior.	[ "The Scarlet Letter", "The Rise of Silas Lapham", "Ivanhoe", "The Day of the Locust" ]	Ivanhoe
literature	Elizabeth Bennet, Mr. Darcy, Mr. Bennett, Charles Bingley and William Collins were characters in this novel.	[ "Wuthering Heights", "Great Expectations", "Pride and Prejudice", "Jane Eyre" ]	Pride and Prejudice
literature	Clara, Mr. Chiilg, Mr. Creadle, Peggotty and Betsy Trotwood were characters in this novel.	[ "Pickwick Papers", "Great Expectations", "A Take of Two Cities", "David Copperfield" ]	David Copperfield
literature	The characters in this novel included Becky Sharp, Amelia Smedley, George Osborne and Pitt Crawley.	[ "The Pillsbury man", "The Scarlet Letter", "Vanity Fair", "The Rise of Sila Lapham" ]	Vanity Fair
literature	In the novel Jurassic Park, the zoo-like amusement park is on an island, situated off the shore of what country?	[ "Costa Rica", "El Salvador", "Honduras", "Mexico" ]	Costa Rica
literature	Ian Malcolm, a character from the book Jurassic Park, is an expert in which field?	[ "Languages", "Geology", "Chaos Theory", "History" ]	Chaos Theory
literature	Dennis Nedry was paid by a rival company to sabotage Jurassic Park in the self-titled book.	[ "False", "True" ]	False
literature	The game warden, Muldoon, was killed by raptors in the book Jurassic Park.	[ "True", "False" ]	False
literature	This dinosaur, depicted in the novel Jurassic Park, was a very beautiful carnivore but spat poison to blind its prey.	[ "Microceratops", "Styracosaur", "Dilophosaur", "Procompsognathid" ]	Dilophosaur
literature	What was the occupation of Donald Gennaro, the character in the book Jurassic Park who originally tried to get Jurassic Park shut down?	[ "Paleontologist", "Lawyer", "Mathematician", "Senator" ]	Lawyer
literature	The dinosaurs, featured in Michael Crichtons novel Jurassic Park, were supposedly not able to breed inside the park for what reason?	[ "They were all neutered at birth", "They were all female", "They were all male", "They were fed a special drug to keep them from breeding" ]	They were all female
literature	How many T-Rexes were there in the novel Jurassic Park?	[ "2", "3", "4", "1" ]	2
literature	The Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences named the new ankylosaurus species Crichtonsaurus in honor of Michael Crichton, the author of Jurassic Park.	[ "False", "True" ]	True
literature	Why was a diagonal red line painted on the jeeps in the book Jurassic Park?	[ "The triceratops didnt like the red line, therefore they wouldnt charge the jeeps.", "It was the symbol of Jurassic Park Theme Park.", "The velociraptors regarded red as a color that signified some larger predator.", "The apatosaurs thought that stripes were an indication of a predator so they stayed away." ]	The triceratops didnt like the red line, therefore they wouldnt charge the jeeps.
literature	In the movie Gone With the Wind Scarlett had three husbands. Who was the first?	[ "Brent Tarleton", "Frank Kennedy", "Charles Hamilton", "Stuart Tarleton" ]	Charles Hamilton
literature	In the film Gone with the Wind, Scarletts first husband died in the early days of the Civil War. What was the cause of his death?	[ "He died under enemy attack.", "Measles and pneumonia", "Consumption", "Flu" ]	Measles and pneumonia
literature	In the film Gone with the Wind, when Rhett and Scarlett came back from their honeymoon they brought a gift for Mammy. What was it?	[ "White silk nightgown", "White silk petticoat", "Red silk petticoat", "Fur coat" ]	Red silk petticoat
literature	The Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role went to which cast member of Gone With the Wind?	[ "Butterfly McQueen", "Dorothy Dandridge", "Hattie McDaniel", "None of these" ]	Hattie McDaniel
literature	Clark Gable won the Oscar for Best Actor for his role as Rhett Butler.	[ "True", "False" ]	False
literature	Where did Gone with the Wind character Rhett get the inspiration for his and Scarletts daughters name from?	[ "A nursery rhyme his mother had sung to him as a child", "The southern skies", "The confederate flag", "Mammy" ]	The confederate flag
literature	Which of the following lines from the movie Gone with the Wind was voted as the #1 movie quote by the American Film Institute?	[ "After all, tomorrow is another day!", "I dont know nothin bout birthin no babies!", "As God is my witness, Ill never be hungry again!", "Frankly my dear, I dont give a damn." ]	Frankly my dear, I dont give a damn.
literature	What was NOT true of Scarletts second husband in Gone with the Wind?	[ "The physical affliction he returned from the war with was body lice.", "He died on a mission to avenge Scarletts attack in Shantytown.", "He owned a sawmill.", "He divorced Scarlett to marry her sister, Sue-Ellen." ]	He divorced Scarlett to marry her sister, Sue-Ellen.
literature	What was the name of the Atlanta street where fictional character Scarlett OHara lived with Aunt Pittypat?	[ "Weeping Willow", "Elm", "Peachtree", "Southern Pine" ]	Peachtree
literature	There is only one scene in the movie Gone with the Wind that suggests Scarlett has a problem with alcohol consumption.	[ "False", "True" ]	False
literature	Which of the following caused the death of Scarlett and Rhetts daughter?	[ "She succumbed to influenza.", "She was a war casualty.", "She mysteriously died in her crib.", "She broke her neck while jumping her pony." ]	She broke her neck while jumping her pony.
literature	What actress portrayed the character in Gone with the Wind who claimed she knew everythin bout birthin babies when, in reality, she knew nothin?	[ "Dorothy McDaniel", "Dorothy Dandridge", "Butterfly McQueen", "Hattie McDaniel" ]	Butterfly McQueen
literature	Vivian Leigh earned the same amount of money as Clark Gable for her work in Gone With the Wind.	[ "False", "True" ]	False
literature	How many actresses auditioned for the coveted role of Scarlett OHara?	[ "1200", "150", "2500", "1400" ]	1400
literature	Vivian Leigh won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance as Scarlett OHara in Gone With the Wind. This was her only Academy Award.	[ "True", "False" ]	False
literature	Scarlett OHara wasted much of her life pining after Ashley Wilkes who was played by this actor.	[ "Leslie Howard", "Errol Flynn", "George Reeves", "Gary Cooper" ]	Leslie Howard
literature	The play is the tragedy Man, and the hero, the Conquerer Worm.	[ "Edgar Allan Poe", "William Jennings Bryant", "H.P. Lovecraft", "None of these" ]	Edgar Allan Poe
literature	And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,	[ "nt home and put a bullet through his head.", "John Berryman", "Randall Jarrell", "Edwin Arlington Robinson", "Luke Havergall" ]	Edwin Arlington Robinson
literature	From my mothers sleep, I fell into the State.	[ "hunched in its body till my wet fur froze.", "s miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life...", "en I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.", "Randall Jarrell", "John Crowe Ransom", "Wallace Stevens", "Robinson Jeffers" ]	Randall Jarrell
literature	Success is counted sweetest	[ " comprehend a nectar", "Emily Dickinson", "None of these", "Gertrude Stein", "Hilda Doolittle" ]	Emily Dickinson
literature	A heap of broken images, where the Sun beats...	[ "will show you fear in a handful of dust.", "Gertrude Stein", "Ezra Pound", "Allen Ginsberg", "T.S. Eliot" ]	T.S. Eliot
literature	Pity this busy monster mankind not...	[ "Sharon Olds", "Rita Dove", "Marianne Moore", "e.e. cummings" ]	e.e. cummings
literature	I spit upon this dreadful bankers grave	[ "ho alas alas", "en will indifference come, I moan rave", " like to scrabble till I got right down", "Hart Crane", "None of these", "John Berryman", "Philip Booth" ]	John Berryman
literature	I saw a man pursuing the horizon;	[ "Robert Lowell", "Denise Levertov", "Walt Whitman", "Stephen Crane" ]	Stephen Crane
literature	I have gone out, a possessed witch,	[ "woman like that is not a woman, quite. ", "have been her kind.", "Gwendolyn Brooks", "Emily Dickinson", "Anne Sexton", "Sylvia Plath" ]	Anne Sexton
literature	Which of these novels is not part of the Forsyte Saga, written by English novelist John Galsworthy?	[ "To Let", "In Chancery", "The Man of Property", "Money" ]	Money
literature	This massive novel, consisting of 18 chapters, chronicles the events of one single day in the life of the protagonist Leopold Bloom.	[ "Ulysses", "Finnegans Wake", "Dubliners", "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young man" ]	Ulysses
literature	Which of these influential 20th century authors was not Irish-born?	[ "William Golding", "James Joyce", "William Butler Yeats", "George Bernard Shaw" ]	William Golding
literature	In 1989, the author of this book and all those involved in its publication were sentenced to death by the Supreme Leader of Iran.	[ "Songs of Enchantment", "Lady Chatterleys Lover", "The Gate at the End of the World", "The Satanic Verses" ]	The Satanic Verses
literature	Which of these English authors was a member of the Bloomsbury group, a literary circle that rejected the Victorian taboos on religious, artistic, social, and sexual matters?	[ "D. H. Lawrence", "George Orwell", "Virginia Woolf", "John Fowles" ]	Virginia Woolf
literature	Which allegorical novel by William Golding features a group of boys stranded on a desert island?	[ "Fire Down Below", "Rites of Passage", "Lord of the Flies", "Darkness Visible" ]	Lord of the Flies
literature	What do George Bernard Shaw, William Butler Yeats, Rudyard Kipling and William Golding have in common?	[ "They were all born in Ireland.", "They were members of The Fabian Society - a British socialist intellectual movement.", "All of them served in WWI.", "All of them received the Nobel Prize in Literature." ]	All of them received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
literature	Which playwright received the 1938 Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay?	[ "John Boyd", "George Bernard Shaw", "Harold Pinter", "John Osborne" ]	George Bernard Shaw
literature	What name was applied to the group of British playwrights and novelists from the 1950s, which included John Osborne, John Braine, and Alan Sillitoe?	[ "The Rebels", "The Conformists", "The Disappointed Young Men", "The Angry Young Men" ]	The Angry Young Men
literature	This novel focuses on Winston Smith and his attempt to rebel against the totalitarian state in which he lives.	[ "The Invisible Man", "Nineteen Eighty-Four", "The War of the Worlds", "Animal Farm" ]	Nineteen Eighty-Four
literature	Into what creature did Mad Eye Moody turn Draco Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire?	[ "A rat", "A ferret", "A toad", "A mouse" ]	A ferret
literature	Draco Malfoy is a member of this fictional house at Hogwarts which values pure blood heritage.	[ "Ravenclaw", "Slytherin", "Gryffindor", "Hufflepuff" ]	Slytherin
literature	Draco Malfoy is killed by Harry Potter in the last book of the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.	[ "True", "False" ]	False
literature	In which book of the Harry Potter series is Draco Malfoy made Prefect of his house?	[ "Prisoner of Azkaban", "Order of the Phoenix", "Goblet of Fire", "Half-Blood Prince" ]	Order of the Phoenix
literature	In the book Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Draco Malfoy was attacked by this kind of creature while in his Care for Magical Creatures class?	[ "Werewolf", "Blast-Ended Skrewt", "Centaur", "Hippogryph" ]	Hippogryph
literature	Draco Malfoy became the master of the Elder Wand which was Dumbledores beloved wand.	[ "True", "False" ]	True
literature	Ralph, Piggy, Jack Merridew, Simon, Ron are characters in this novel.	[ "Lawdy, Lawdy, Miss Claudie", "The Lord of the Flies", "The Lord of the Ring", "Lord Jim" ]	The Lord of the Flies
literature	Humbert Humbert, Valeria and Charlotte Haze are characters from this literary work.	[ "The Day of the Triffids", "Lolita", "All the Kings Men", "Naked Lunch" ]	Lolita
literature	Paul Sheldon and Annie Wilkes are characters in this novel.	[ "Day for Night", "Cujo", "The Long Green Mile", "Misery" ]	Misery
literature	What novels includes characters named Sethe, Liz Granacher, Paul D. McKnight, Charlie McKnight?	[ "Beloved", "Satanic Verses", "The Color Purple", "A Passage to India" ]	Beloved
literature	Willie Stark, Anne Stanton, Judge Montague Irving are characters from this novel.	[ "All the Kings Men", "Lady Lovelace", "The Sun Also Rises", "The Grapes of Wrath" ]	All the Kings Men
literature	Ari, Dov, Kitty Fremont, Akiva, Bruce Sutherland are characters in this novel.	[ "The Glory", "Ben-Hur", "The Promise", "Exodus" ]	Exodus
literature	This novel focuses on the lives of Jake Barnes, Brett Ashley, Robert Cohn, Pedro Romero, Bill Gorton, Michael Campbell.	[ "Ragtime", "The Sun Also Rises", "The Dog Soldiers", "Day of the Locust" ]	The Sun Also Rises
literature	Which book includes the characters John Converse, Ray Hicks, Marge Converse?	[ "Dog Soldiers", "Day of the Locust", "The Hearth", "Day In Day Out" ]	Dog Soldiers
literature	What Southern novel centers on the lives of these characters: Jason, Quentin, Candice Compson, Dilsey Gibson?	[ "Way of the West", "The Sound and the Fury", "Dog Soldiers", "Day of the Locust" ]	The Sound and the Fury
literature	John Singer, Mick Kelly, Biff Brannon, Jack Blount, Dr. Copeland are characters described in this literary work.	[ "Giant", "Strangers on a Train", "Butterflies are Free", "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" ]	The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
literature	What novel by Erich Maria Remarque was banned in Nazi Germany for insulting the Wehrmacht?	[ "The Night in Lisbon", "Heaven Has No Favorites", "The Black Obelisk", "All Quiet on the Western Front" ]	All Quiet on the Western Front
literature	Name the author of Animal Farm, an anti-Stalinist novella, which was confiscated in Germany by Allied troops.	[ "William Faulkner", "Erich Maria Remarque", "George Orwell", "Boris Pasternak" ]	George Orwell
literature	What novel by Vladimir Nabokov was banned for obscenity in England, Argentina, New Zealand and South Africa?	[ "Lolita", "Lips to Lips", "Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure", "Terra Incognita" ]	Lolita
literature	This book, published in 1988, was banned in Bangladesh, India, Singapore and Iran for blasphemous references and its author Salman Rushdie was condemned to death by former Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.	[ "Midnights Children", "The Satanic Verses", "Shame", "East, West" ]	The Satanic Verses
literature	Who is the author of the book My Struggle (Mein Kampf) which was banned due to anti-Nazi laws?	[ "Hermann Esser", "Joseph Goebbels", "Adolph Hitler", "Benito Mussolini" ]	Adolph Hitler
literature	Which of these books by Henry Miller was banned in the US in the 1930s due to sexually explicit content?	[ "Black Spring", "All of these", "Tropic of Cancer", "Tropic of Capricorn" ]	All of these
literature	This novel, which follows the adventures of junkie William Lee, was banned by Boston courts in 1962.	[ "Naked Lunch", "The Cat Inside", "Interzone", "On the Road" ]	Naked Lunch
literature	What classic satirical novel by Jonathan Swift was banned in Ireland for being wicked and obscene?	[ "A Journal to Stella", "A Modest Proposal", "Gullivers Travels", "Robinson Crusoe" ]	Gullivers Travels
literature	What Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, set during the Great Depression, was banned in some US States for vulgar language?	[ "The Call of the Wild", "The Grapes of Wrath", "As I Lay Dying", "The Sound and the Fury" ]	The Grapes of Wrath
literature	What 2003 best-selling novel by Dan Brown was denounced by Roman Catholics for being anti-Christian?	[ "Foucaults Pendulum", "The Solomon Key", "Digital Fortress", "The Da Vinci Code" ]	The Da Vinci Code
literature	What novel opens with this sentence: I was born in the year 1632 in the city of York, of a good family thou not of that country, my father being from Bremen, who settled first at Hill.?	[ "A Tale of Two Cities", "Kidnapped", "The Count of Monte Cristo", "Robinson Crusoe" ]	Robinson Crusoe
literature	Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again is the first sentence of this literary work.	[ "Wuthering Heights", "Emma", "Jane Eyre", "Rebecca" ]	Rebecca
literature	What novel opens with this line: It was a cold day in April and the clock was striking thirteen.?	[ "Brave New World", "A Clockwork Orange", "The Time Machine", "1984" ]	1984
literature	This novel opens with the following sentence: You may rejoice to hear that a disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil foreboding..	[ "Fahrenheit 451", "Dracula", "The Time Machine", "Frankenstein" ]	Frankenstein
literature	To begin at the beginning: It is spring, moonless night in the small town is the opening of this literary work.	[ "Of Mice and Men", "Under Milk Wood", "The Road Not Taken", "The Inferno" ]	Under Milk Wood
literature	You better not tell nobody but God is the beginning of this novel.	[ "Gone with the Wind", "The Da Vinci Code", "The Color Purple", "To Kill a Mockingbird" ]	The Color Purple
literature	This novel opens with the question Who is John Galt?.	[ "The Bridges of Madison County", "Atlas Shrugged", "The Metamorphosis", "The Da Vinci Code" ]	Atlas Shrugged
literature	All this happened, more or less is the first sentence of this book.	[ "Stalag 17", "Slaughterhouse Five", "Little Big Man", "The Devils Advocate" ]	Slaughterhouse Five
literature	Mother died today is the opening of this novel.	[ "Mother Courage and Her Children", "Animal Farm", "The Stranger", "No Exit" ]	The Stranger
literature	Which literary work opens with this line: To be born again, sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, first you have to die.?	[ "The Arabian Nights", "The Metamorphosis", "Satanic Verses", "The 1001 Arabian Nights" ]	Satanic Verses
literature	Finish this quote by Oscar Wilde: Education is an admirable thing ........................	[ "but it is well to remember that it is useless", "but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught", "but it is well to remember that it is not for the faint of heart", "but it is well to remember that it requires much energy" ]	but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught

literature

Which of the Bronte sisters wrote Shirley, a novel set in Yorkshire during the industrial depression?

[ "Emily", "Charlotte", "Elizabeth", "Anne" ]

Charlotte

literature

Which list contains the names of the Bennet sisters, depicted by Jane Austin in Pride and Prejudice?

[ "Cathrine, Jane, Lydia, Kitty, Mary", "Elizabeth, Ann, Lydia, Kitty, Mary", "Charlotte, Elizabeth, Emily, Mary, Kitty", "Elisabeth, Jane, Lydia, Kitty, Mary" ]

Elisabeth, Jane, Lydia, Kitty, Mary

literature

Which of these literary works was written in the form of a long letter while the author was in prison?

[ "De Profundis", "A Room with a View", "The Canterville Ghost", "The Importance of Being Earnest" ]

De Profundis

literature

Which of these books were written by Victorian novelist Mary Anne Evans, commonly known as George Eliot?

[ "The Mill on the Floss, Adam Bede, A Room of Ones Own", "Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss, Adam Bede", "The Mill on the Floss, Vanity Fair, Adam Bede", "Middlemarch, North and South, Vanity Fair" ]

Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss, Adam Bede

literature

This novel, which satirizes society in early 19th-century England, opens at Miss Pinkertons Academy for Young Ladies.

[ "Jane Eyre", "Wuthering Heights", "Vanity Fair", "The Book of Snobs" ]

Vanity Fair

literature

This literary work by Mary Shelley, infused with some elements of the Gothic novel, was subtitled The Modern Prometheus.

[ "Arms and the Man", "The Mortal Immortal", "Frankenstein", "The Last Man" ]

Frankenstein

literature

What are the two cities named in the title of Charles Dickens historical novel A Tale of Two Cities?

[ "London and Manchester", "Paris and London", "Dublin and London", "Edinburgh and London" ]

Paris and London

literature

Ahab, Ishmael, Starbuck, Stubb, Queequeg and Elijah were characters in this 1851 novel.

[ "Eastern Voices", "Genesis", "The Satanic Episodes", "Moby Dick" ]

Moby Dick

literature

Jim, Marlowe, Stein, Sherif Ali, Rajah Tunka Allang and Gentleman Brown were characters in this novel.

[ "Lord Jim", "Darkest Passage", "Eastern Visions", "The Heart of Darkness" ]

Lord Jim

literature

The characters in this novel included Charles Marlow, Kurtz, Fresleven, Chief Accountant and General Manager.

[ "Passage to India", "Lord Jim", "Eastern Visions", "The Heart of Darkness" ]

The Heart of Darkness

literature

The characters in this novel included Pierre Bezukov, Natasha Rostovic, Sonya Rostovic, Andrei N. Bolkov and Elene Kuragin.

[ "War and Peace", "The Gulag", "Crime and Punishment", "The Idiot" ]

War and Peace

literature

Jim, Widow Douglas, Miss Watson, The Grangerford and the Shepardsons were characters in this novel.

[ "Life on the Mississippi", "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", "Billy Budd", "The Rise of Silas Lapham" ]

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

literature

Raskolnikov, Sonya S. and Porfry were characters in this novel.

[ "Crime and Punishment", "Napoleon", "The Idiot", "War and Peace" ]

Crime and Punishment

literature

The characters in this novel included Hester Prynne, Pearl, Roger Chillingworth and Arthur Dimmsdale.

[ "The Heiress", "Jane Eyre", "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", "The Scarlet Letter" ]

The Scarlet Letter

literature

The characters in this novel included Wilfred, Rebecca, Rowena, Isaac of York and Prior.

[ "The Scarlet Letter", "The Rise of Silas Lapham", "Ivanhoe", "The Day of the Locust" ]

Ivanhoe

literature

Elizabeth Bennet, Mr. Darcy, Mr. Bennett, Charles Bingley and William Collins were characters in this novel.

[ "Wuthering Heights", "Great Expectations", "Pride and Prejudice", "Jane Eyre" ]

Pride and Prejudice

literature

Clara, Mr. Chiilg, Mr. Creadle, Peggotty and Betsy Trotwood were characters in this novel.

[ "Pickwick Papers", "Great Expectations", "A Take of Two Cities", "David Copperfield" ]

David Copperfield

literature

The characters in this novel included Becky Sharp, Amelia Smedley, George Osborne and Pitt Crawley.

[ "The Pillsbury man", "The Scarlet Letter", "Vanity Fair", "The Rise of Sila Lapham" ]

Vanity Fair

literature

In the novel Jurassic Park, the zoo-like amusement park is on an island, situated off the shore of what country?

[ "Costa Rica", "El Salvador", "Honduras", "Mexico" ]

Costa Rica

literature

Ian Malcolm, a character from the book Jurassic Park, is an expert in which field?

[ "Languages", "Geology", "Chaos Theory", "History" ]

Chaos Theory

literature

Dennis Nedry was paid by a rival company to sabotage Jurassic Park in the self-titled book.

[ "False", "True" ]

False

literature

The game warden, Muldoon, was killed by raptors in the book Jurassic Park.

[ "True", "False" ]

False

literature

This dinosaur, depicted in the novel Jurassic Park, was a very beautiful carnivore but spat poison to blind its prey.

[ "Microceratops", "Styracosaur", "Dilophosaur", "Procompsognathid" ]

Dilophosaur

literature

What was the occupation of Donald Gennaro, the character in the book Jurassic Park who originally tried to get Jurassic Park shut down?

[ "Paleontologist", "Lawyer", "Mathematician", "Senator" ]

Lawyer

literature

The dinosaurs, featured in Michael Crichtons novel Jurassic Park, were supposedly not able to breed inside the park for what reason?

[ "They were all neutered at birth", "They were all female", "They were all male", "They were fed a special drug to keep them from breeding" ]

They were all female

literature

How many T-Rexes were there in the novel Jurassic Park?

[ "2", "3", "4", "1" ]

2

literature

The Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences named the new ankylosaurus species Crichtonsaurus in honor of Michael Crichton, the author of Jurassic Park.

[ "False", "True" ]

True

literature

Why was a diagonal red line painted on the jeeps in the book Jurassic Park?

[ "The triceratops didnt like the red line, therefore they wouldnt charge the jeeps.", "It was the symbol of Jurassic Park Theme Park.", "The velociraptors regarded red as a color that signified some larger predator.", "The apatosaurs thought that stripes were an indication of a predator so they stayed away." ]

The triceratops didnt like the red line, therefore they wouldnt charge the jeeps.

literature

In the movie Gone With the Wind Scarlett had three husbands. Who was the first?

[ "Brent Tarleton", "Frank Kennedy", "Charles Hamilton", "Stuart Tarleton" ]

Charles Hamilton

literature

In the film Gone with the Wind, Scarletts first husband died in the early days of the Civil War. What was the cause of his death?

[ "He died under enemy attack.", "Measles and pneumonia", "Consumption", "Flu" ]

Measles and pneumonia

literature

In the film Gone with the Wind, when Rhett and Scarlett came back from their honeymoon they brought a gift for Mammy. What was it?

[ "White silk nightgown", "White silk petticoat", "Red silk petticoat", "Fur coat" ]

Red silk petticoat

literature

The Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role went to which cast member of Gone With the Wind?

[ "Butterfly McQueen", "Dorothy Dandridge", "Hattie McDaniel", "None of these" ]

Hattie McDaniel

literature

Clark Gable won the Oscar for Best Actor for his role as Rhett Butler.

[ "True", "False" ]

False

literature

Where did Gone with the Wind character Rhett get the inspiration for his and Scarletts daughters name from?

[ "A nursery rhyme his mother had sung to him as a child", "The southern skies", "The confederate flag", "Mammy" ]

The confederate flag

literature

Which of the following lines from the movie Gone with the Wind was voted as the #1 movie quote by the American Film Institute?

[ "After all, tomorrow is another day!", "I dont know nothin bout birthin no babies!", "As God is my witness, Ill never be hungry again!", "Frankly my dear, I dont give a damn." ]

Frankly my dear, I dont give a damn.

literature

What was NOT true of Scarletts second husband in Gone with the Wind?

[ "The physical affliction he returned from the war with was body lice.", "He died on a mission to avenge Scarletts attack in Shantytown.", "He owned a sawmill.", "He divorced Scarlett to marry her sister, Sue-Ellen." ]

He divorced Scarlett to marry her sister, Sue-Ellen.

literature

What was the name of the Atlanta street where fictional character Scarlett OHara lived with Aunt Pittypat?

[ "Weeping Willow", "Elm", "Peachtree", "Southern Pine" ]

Peachtree

literature

There is only one scene in the movie Gone with the Wind that suggests Scarlett has a problem with alcohol consumption.

[ "False", "True" ]

False

literature

Which of the following caused the death of Scarlett and Rhetts daughter?

[ "She succumbed to influenza.", "She was a war casualty.", "She mysteriously died in her crib.", "She broke her neck while jumping her pony." ]

She broke her neck while jumping her pony.

literature

What actress portrayed the character in Gone with the Wind who claimed she knew everythin bout birthin babies when, in reality, she knew nothin?

[ "Dorothy McDaniel", "Dorothy Dandridge", "Butterfly McQueen", "Hattie McDaniel" ]

Butterfly McQueen

literature

Vivian Leigh earned the same amount of money as Clark Gable for her work in Gone With the Wind.

[ "False", "True" ]

False

literature

How many actresses auditioned for the coveted role of Scarlett OHara?

[ "1200", "150", "2500", "1400" ]

1400

literature

Vivian Leigh won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance as Scarlett OHara in Gone With the Wind. This was her only Academy Award.

[ "True", "False" ]

False

literature

Scarlett OHara wasted much of her life pining after Ashley Wilkes who was played by this actor.

[ "Leslie Howard", "Errol Flynn", "George Reeves", "Gary Cooper" ]

Leslie Howard

literature

The play is the tragedy Man, and the hero, the Conquerer Worm.

[ "Edgar Allan Poe", "William Jennings Bryant", "H.P. Lovecraft", "None of these" ]

Edgar Allan Poe

literature

And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,

[ "nt home and put a bullet through his head.", "John Berryman", "Randall Jarrell", "Edwin Arlington Robinson", "Luke Havergall" ]

Edwin Arlington Robinson

literature

From my mothers sleep, I fell into the State.

[ "hunched in its body till my wet fur froze.", "s miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life...", "en I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.", "Randall Jarrell", "John Crowe Ransom", "Wallace Stevens", "Robinson Jeffers" ]

Randall Jarrell

literature

Success is counted sweetest

[ " comprehend a nectar", "Emily Dickinson", "None of these", "Gertrude Stein", "Hilda Doolittle" ]

Emily Dickinson

literature

A heap of broken images, where the Sun beats...

[ "will show you fear in a handful of dust.", "Gertrude Stein", "Ezra Pound", "Allen Ginsberg", "T.S. Eliot" ]

T.S. Eliot

literature

Pity this busy monster mankind not...

[ "Sharon Olds", "Rita Dove", "Marianne Moore", "e.e. cummings" ]

e.e. cummings

literature

I spit upon this dreadful bankers grave

[ "ho alas alas", "en will indifference come, I moan rave", " like to scrabble till I got right down", "Hart Crane", "None of these", "John Berryman", "Philip Booth" ]

John Berryman

literature

I saw a man pursuing the horizon;

[ "Robert Lowell", "Denise Levertov", "Walt Whitman", "Stephen Crane" ]

Stephen Crane

literature

I have gone out, a possessed witch,

[ "woman like that is not a woman, quite. ", "have been her kind.", "Gwendolyn Brooks", "Emily Dickinson", "Anne Sexton", "Sylvia Plath" ]

Anne Sexton

literature

Which of these novels is not part of the Forsyte Saga, written by English novelist John Galsworthy?

[ "To Let", "In Chancery", "The Man of Property", "Money" ]

Money

literature

This massive novel, consisting of 18 chapters, chronicles the events of one single day in the life of the protagonist Leopold Bloom.

[ "Ulysses", "Finnegans Wake", "Dubliners", "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young man" ]

Ulysses

literature

Which of these influential 20th century authors was not Irish-born?

[ "William Golding", "James Joyce", "William Butler Yeats", "George Bernard Shaw" ]

William Golding

literature

In 1989, the author of this book and all those involved in its publication were sentenced to death by the Supreme Leader of Iran.

[ "Songs of Enchantment", "Lady Chatterleys Lover", "The Gate at the End of the World", "The Satanic Verses" ]

The Satanic Verses

literature

Which of these English authors was a member of the Bloomsbury group, a literary circle that rejected the Victorian taboos on religious, artistic, social, and sexual matters?

[ "D. H. Lawrence", "George Orwell", "Virginia Woolf", "John Fowles" ]

Virginia Woolf

literature

Which allegorical novel by William Golding features a group of boys stranded on a desert island?

[ "Fire Down Below", "Rites of Passage", "Lord of the Flies", "Darkness Visible" ]

Lord of the Flies

literature

What do George Bernard Shaw, William Butler Yeats, Rudyard Kipling and William Golding have in common?

[ "They were all born in Ireland.", "They were members of The Fabian Society - a British socialist intellectual movement.", "All of them served in WWI.", "All of them received the Nobel Prize in Literature." ]

All of them received the Nobel Prize in Literature.

literature

Which playwright received the 1938 Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay?

[ "John Boyd", "George Bernard Shaw", "Harold Pinter", "John Osborne" ]

George Bernard Shaw

literature

What name was applied to the group of British playwrights and novelists from the 1950s, which included John Osborne, John Braine, and Alan Sillitoe?

[ "The Rebels", "The Conformists", "The Disappointed Young Men", "The Angry Young Men" ]

The Angry Young Men

literature

This novel focuses on Winston Smith and his attempt to rebel against the totalitarian state in which he lives.

[ "The Invisible Man", "Nineteen Eighty-Four", "The War of the Worlds", "Animal Farm" ]

Nineteen Eighty-Four

literature

Into what creature did Mad Eye Moody turn Draco Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire?

[ "A rat", "A ferret", "A toad", "A mouse" ]

A ferret

literature

Draco Malfoy is a member of this fictional house at Hogwarts which values pure blood heritage.

[ "Ravenclaw", "Slytherin", "Gryffindor", "Hufflepuff" ]

Slytherin

literature

Draco Malfoy is killed by Harry Potter in the last book of the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

[ "True", "False" ]

False

literature

In which book of the Harry Potter series is Draco Malfoy made Prefect of his house?

[ "Prisoner of Azkaban", "Order of the Phoenix", "Goblet of Fire", "Half-Blood Prince" ]

Order of the Phoenix

literature

In the book Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Draco Malfoy was attacked by this kind of creature while in his Care for Magical Creatures class?

[ "Werewolf", "Blast-Ended Skrewt", "Centaur", "Hippogryph" ]

Hippogryph

literature

Draco Malfoy became the master of the Elder Wand which was Dumbledores beloved wand.

[ "True", "False" ]

True

literature

Ralph, Piggy, Jack Merridew, Simon, Ron are characters in this novel.

[ "Lawdy, Lawdy, Miss Claudie", "The Lord of the Flies", "The Lord of the Ring", "Lord Jim" ]

The Lord of the Flies

literature

Humbert Humbert, Valeria and Charlotte Haze are characters from this literary work.

[ "The Day of the Triffids", "Lolita", "All the Kings Men", "Naked Lunch" ]

Lolita

literature

Paul Sheldon and Annie Wilkes are characters in this novel.

[ "Day for Night", "Cujo", "The Long Green Mile", "Misery" ]

Misery

literature

What novels includes characters named Sethe, Liz Granacher, Paul D. McKnight, Charlie McKnight?

[ "Beloved", "Satanic Verses", "The Color Purple", "A Passage to India" ]

Beloved

literature

Willie Stark, Anne Stanton, Judge Montague Irving are characters from this novel.

[ "All the Kings Men", "Lady Lovelace", "The Sun Also Rises", "The Grapes of Wrath" ]

All the Kings Men

literature

Ari, Dov, Kitty Fremont, Akiva, Bruce Sutherland are characters in this novel.

[ "The Glory", "Ben-Hur", "The Promise", "Exodus" ]

Exodus

literature

This novel focuses on the lives of Jake Barnes, Brett Ashley, Robert Cohn, Pedro Romero, Bill Gorton, Michael Campbell.

[ "Ragtime", "The Sun Also Rises", "The Dog Soldiers", "Day of the Locust" ]

The Sun Also Rises

literature

Which book includes the characters John Converse, Ray Hicks, Marge Converse?

[ "Dog Soldiers", "Day of the Locust", "The Hearth", "Day In Day Out" ]

Dog Soldiers

literature

What Southern novel centers on the lives of these characters: Jason, Quentin, Candice Compson, Dilsey Gibson?

[ "Way of the West", "The Sound and the Fury", "Dog Soldiers", "Day of the Locust" ]

The Sound and the Fury

literature

John Singer, Mick Kelly, Biff Brannon, Jack Blount, Dr. Copeland are characters described in this literary work.

[ "Giant", "Strangers on a Train", "Butterflies are Free", "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" ]

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

literature

What novel by Erich Maria Remarque was banned in Nazi Germany for insulting the Wehrmacht?

[ "The Night in Lisbon", "Heaven Has No Favorites", "The Black Obelisk", "All Quiet on the Western Front" ]

All Quiet on the Western Front

literature

Name the author of Animal Farm, an anti-Stalinist novella, which was confiscated in Germany by Allied troops.

[ "William Faulkner", "Erich Maria Remarque", "George Orwell", "Boris Pasternak" ]

George Orwell

literature

What novel by Vladimir Nabokov was banned for obscenity in England, Argentina, New Zealand and South Africa?

[ "Lolita", "Lips to Lips", "Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure", "Terra Incognita" ]

Lolita

literature

This book, published in 1988, was banned in Bangladesh, India, Singapore and Iran for blasphemous references and its author Salman Rushdie was condemned to death by former Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

[ "Midnights Children", "The Satanic Verses", "Shame", "East, West" ]

The Satanic Verses

literature

Who is the author of the book My Struggle (Mein Kampf) which was banned due to anti-Nazi laws?

[ "Hermann Esser", "Joseph Goebbels", "Adolph Hitler", "Benito Mussolini" ]

Adolph Hitler

literature

Which of these books by Henry Miller was banned in the US in the 1930s due to sexually explicit content?

[ "Black Spring", "All of these", "Tropic of Cancer", "Tropic of Capricorn" ]

All of these

literature

This novel, which follows the adventures of junkie William Lee, was banned by Boston courts in 1962.

[ "Naked Lunch", "The Cat Inside", "Interzone", "On the Road" ]

Naked Lunch

literature

What classic satirical novel by Jonathan Swift was banned in Ireland for being wicked and obscene?

[ "A Journal to Stella", "A Modest Proposal", "Gullivers Travels", "Robinson Crusoe" ]

Gullivers Travels

literature

What Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, set during the Great Depression, was banned in some US States for vulgar language?

[ "The Call of the Wild", "The Grapes of Wrath", "As I Lay Dying", "The Sound and the Fury" ]

The Grapes of Wrath

literature

What 2003 best-selling novel by Dan Brown was denounced by Roman Catholics for being anti-Christian?

[ "Foucaults Pendulum", "The Solomon Key", "Digital Fortress", "The Da Vinci Code" ]

The Da Vinci Code

literature

What novel opens with this sentence: I was born in the year 1632 in the city of York, of a good family thou not of that country, my father being from Bremen, who settled first at Hill.?

[ "A Tale of Two Cities", "Kidnapped", "The Count of Monte Cristo", "Robinson Crusoe" ]

Robinson Crusoe

literature

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again is the first sentence of this literary work.

[ "Wuthering Heights", "Emma", "Jane Eyre", "Rebecca" ]

Rebecca

literature

What novel opens with this line: It was a cold day in April and the clock was striking thirteen.?

[ "Brave New World", "A Clockwork Orange", "The Time Machine", "1984" ]

1984

literature

This novel opens with the following sentence: You may rejoice to hear that a disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil foreboding..

[ "Fahrenheit 451", "Dracula", "The Time Machine", "Frankenstein" ]

Frankenstein

literature

To begin at the beginning: It is spring, moonless night in the small town is the opening of this literary work.

[ "Of Mice and Men", "Under Milk Wood", "The Road Not Taken", "The Inferno" ]

Under Milk Wood

literature

You better not tell nobody but God is the beginning of this novel.

[ "Gone with the Wind", "The Da Vinci Code", "The Color Purple", "To Kill a Mockingbird" ]

The Color Purple

literature

This novel opens with the question Who is John Galt?.

[ "The Bridges of Madison County", "Atlas Shrugged", "The Metamorphosis", "The Da Vinci Code" ]

Atlas Shrugged

literature

All this happened, more or less is the first sentence of this book.

[ "Stalag 17", "Slaughterhouse Five", "Little Big Man", "The Devils Advocate" ]

Slaughterhouse Five

literature

Mother died today is the opening of this novel.

[ "Mother Courage and Her Children", "Animal Farm", "The Stranger", "No Exit" ]

The Stranger

literature

Which literary work opens with this line: To be born again, sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, first you have to die.?

[ "The Arabian Nights", "The Metamorphosis", "Satanic Verses", "The 1001 Arabian Nights" ]

Satanic Verses

literature

Finish this quote by Oscar Wilde: Education is an admirable thing ........................

[ "but it is well to remember that it is useless", "but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught", "but it is well to remember that it is not for the faint of heart", "but it is well to remember that it requires much energy" ]

but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught