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literature	What Shakespearean character is resented by her son for marrying her husbands brother, Claudius?	[ "Lady Macbeth", "Elizabeth Woodville", "Lady Anne Neville", "Queen Gertrude" ]	Queen Gertrude
literature	Having survived a shipwreck, this character from the comedy Twelfth Night poses as a boy, named Cesario, and enters the service of Duke Orsino.	[ "Viola", "Bianca", "Cordelia", "Olivia" ]	Viola
literature	In a sleepwalking scene, depicted in one of the most popular Shakespearean tragedies, this Queen of Scotland, suffering from a guilty conscience, cries Out, damned spot!	[ "Queen Gertrude", "Imogen", "Isabel", "Lady Macbeth" ]	Lady Macbeth
literature	How does young Juliet Capulet die in Shakespeares tragedy Romeo and Juliet?	[ "She swallows poison.", "She drowns herself.", "She stabs herself with a dagger.", "She is poisoned by Rosaline." ]	She stabs herself with a dagger.
literature	In Shakespeares history play Richard III, this lady asked Richard, Did you not kill my husband? and got the following reply: Your beauty which did haunt me in my sleep could make me undertake the death of all the world.	[ "Margaret of Anjou", "Queen Elizabeth", "The Duchess of York", "Lady Anne" ]	Lady Anne
literature	What Shakespearean tragic heroine is advised by her father to lock herself from Hamlets resort?	[ "Gertrude", "Viola", "Rosaline", "Ophelia" ]	Ophelia
literature	Which Shakespearean heroine is not correctly matched with the play in which she appears?	[ "Titania - Twelfth Night", "The Three Witches - Macbeth", "Beatrice - Much Ado About Nothing", "Lady Capulet - Romeo and Juliet" ]	Titania - Twelfth Night
literature	In Calla Bryn Sturgis, in the book Wolves of the Calla, the ka-tet meet a priest who, together with most of the townsfolk, asks them to protect them against the Wolves. What is the priests name?	[ "Father Brautigan", "Father Callahan", "Father ONeill", "Father Ted" ]	Father Callahan
literature	The priest in the novel Wolves of the Calla has appeared previously in which Stephen King novel?	[ "Cujo", "Pet Sematary", "Salems Lot", "Carrie" ]	Salems Lot
literature	The crystal ball in the novel Wolves of the Calla is used by Roland and his ka-tet to travel to 1977 to a borough of New York. Which Borough did they travel to?	[ "Queens", "New Jersey", "Brooklyn", "Manhattan" ]	Manhattan
literature	In the novel Wolves of the Calla, Roland and the ka-tet team travelled to New York to protect what?	[ "Eddies brother, Henry, from a drug dealer", "The headquarters of the Tet Corporation", "Prevent Jake from being killed by Jack Mort", "A single red rose growing in a vacant lot" ]	A single red rose growing in a vacant lot
literature	Susannah begins to undergo yet another change of character in Wolves of the Calla. What is this characters name?	[ "Coral", "Rhea", "Mia", "Susan" ]	Mia
literature	When the priest first appeared near Calla Bryn Sturgis in the book Wolves of the Calla, he was found by a religious group. What is their name?	[ "Wolves", "Taheen", "Manni", "Crimson Acolytes" ]	Manni
literature	Why are the Wolves such a problem to the people of Calla Bryn Sturgis in the novel Wolves of the Calla?	[ "They always beat the Bryn Sturgis soccer team when they visit.", "They have awful table manners.", "They come down from the mountains and kill all of the sheep, which are the main livestock in the area.", "They abduct one twin of a pair from a family whenever they appear." ]	They abduct one twin of a pair from a family whenever they appear.
literature	The Wolves in the novel The Wolves of the Calla have an arsenal of weapons, including hand-grenades called what?	[ "Landies", "Starbombs", "Sneetches", "Loopers" ]	Sneetches
literature	This type of poem is usually a long poem that tells the story of a significant event or a significant persons life.	[ "Hokku", "Lyric Poetry", "Epic Poetry", "Iamb" ]	Epic Poetry
literature	This type of poem consists of 14 lines with this rhyme pattern: abba cddc effe gg	[ "Acrostic", "Sonnet", "Ode", "Strophe" ]	Sonnet
literature	Which word means a set of two lines in a poem?	[ "iamb", "caesura", "bisody", "couplet" ]	couplet
literature	This type of poem is one that is relatively short and tells a story.	[ "Prosdic poem", "Lyric poem", "Narrative poem", "Epode" ]	Narrative poem
literature	In this type of poem, the first letters of each line help give the meaning of the poem.	[ "Iamb", "Ode", "Lyric", "Acrostic" ]	Acrostic
literature	This is a type of Japanese poem that is made of three parts; the first has five syllables, the second seven and the third have five.	[ "Hokku", "Haiku", "Jintishi", "Basho" ]	Haiku
literature	This is a type of Chinese poetry .	[ "Rubiyat", "Hokku", "Haiku", "Jintishi" ]	Jintishi
literature	This expression means an audible pause that breaks up a line of poetry.	[ "Rubiyat", "Hokku", "Shwa", "Caesura" ]	Caesura
literature	This type of poem is typified by a great poem by Omar Khayyam	[ "Jintishi", "Haiku", "Hokku", "Rubiyat" ]	Rubiyat
literature	In which book by Mark Twain does the following phrase appear: Lead us into temptation?	[ "The Prince and the Pauper", "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court", "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg", "The Mysterious Stranger" ]	The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
literature	I wish I owned half of that dog. Why? somebody asked. Because I would kill my half is a conversation from what book by Mark Twain?	[ "Puddnhead Wilson", "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.", "The Autobiography of Mark Twain", "Life on the Mississippi" ]	Puddnhead Wilson
literature	What Mark Twain book is the following quote from: Tom lost his temper. I notice a person most always does thatâs got laid out in an argument. He told us to shut up.?	[ "Innocents Abroad", "Captain Stormfield Visists Heaven", "Tom Sawyer Abroad", "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" ]	Tom Sawyer Abroad
literature	From which Mark Twain book does the following line come: âI never felt so filled with a blessed peace as I did yesterday - when I learned that Michangelo was dead.?	[ "The Prince and the Pauper", "Roughing it", "Life on the Mississippi", "The Innocents Abroad" ]	The Innocents Abroad
literature	What book by Mark Twain is the following excerpt from: If man could be crossed with a cat - it would improve man - but it would deteriorate the cat.?	[ "The Autobiography of Mark Twain", "Puddnhead Wilson", "Life on the Mississippi", "Huckleberry Finn" ]	The Autobiography of Mark Twain
literature	The difference between a cat and a lie is that the cat only has nine lives. Which book by Mark Twain is this quote from?	[ "Pudd nhead Willson", "Tom Sawyer", "Roughing It", "The Innocents Abroad" ]	Pudd nhead Willson
literature	What book does the following quote come from: You dont know me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but that aint no matter. ?	[ "Huckleberry Finn", "The Gilded Age", "Letters From the Earth", "Life on the Mississippi" ]	Huckleberry Finn
literature	I came in with Halleys Comet...it will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I dont go out with it. is a quote from what book by Mark Twain?	[ "The Autobiography of Mark Twain", "Tom Sawyer", "The Gilded Age", "Letters From the Earth" ]	The Autobiography of Mark Twain
literature	What Mark Twain book is the following line from: All right, then, Ill go to hell!?	[ "Life on the Mississippi", "Huckleberry Finn", "Captain Stormfield Visits Heaven", "The Diary of Adam and Eve" ]	Huckleberry Finn
literature	What book by Mark Twain does this quote come from: In mans heaven...it shall contain each and every thing that is repulsive to a man, and not a single thing he likes....it pays no compliment to the intellect...in fact never even mentions it. ?	[ "Letters From the Earth", "Roughing It", "The Innocents Abroad", "Huckleberry Finn" ]	Letters From the Earth
literature	Which poet wrote the poems The Germ, Listen, A Word to Husbands, and Very Like a Whale?	[ "Ogden Nash", "W. H. Auden", "C. Day Lewis", "Langston Hughes" ]	Ogden Nash
literature	Which of the following poems was not written by C. Day Lewis?	[ "Almost Human", "The Unknown Citizen", "Newsreel", "Come, Live With Me And Be My Love" ]	The Unknown Citizen
literature	Gwendolyn Brooks wrote all of the following poems except one. Can you find the odd one out?	[ "We Real Cool", "The Ballad of Sue Ellen Westerfield", "Way Out Morgan", "The Chicago Defender Sends A Man To Little Rock" ]	The Ballad of Sue Ellen Westerfield
literature	All of these poems were written by Allen Ginsberg except one. Which one was written by poet James Dickey?	[ "My Sad Self", "Howl", "The Beholders", "A Supermarket in California" ]	The Beholders
literature	This poet wrote the poems Moss Gathering and My Papas Waltz in 1948 and Elegy for Jane in 1953.	[ "Theodore Roethke", "Gwendolyn Brooks", "Robert Hayden", "Elizabeth Bishop" ]	Theodore Roethke
literature	Which of these poems was not written by Robert Lowell?	[ "For the Union Dead", "The Mouth of the Hudson", "Grandparents", "Digging for China" ]	Digging for China
literature	Which poet wrote the poems Still I Rise, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and Remembrance?	[ "Elizabeth Bishop", "Gwendolyn Brooks", "Anne Sexton", "Maya Angelou" ]	Maya Angelou
literature	Which 20th century poet wrote the phrase Candy is Dandy, But Liquor is Quicker?	[ "Ogden Nash", "James Dickey", "Dylan Thomas", "Allen Ginsberg" ]	Ogden Nash
literature	John Steinbeck was born in 1902 in this city.	[ "New York City", "Salinas, California", "Moscow, Soviet Union", "Heiligenhaus, Germany" ]	Salinas, California
literature	Which of the following books by John Steinbeck won a Pulitzer prize?	[ "East of Eden", "none of these", "Of Mice and Men", "The Grapes of Wrath" ]	The Grapes of Wrath
literature	Name the sequel to John Steinbecks 1945 book Cannery Row.	[ "The Pearl", "The Wayward Bus", "East of Eden", "Sweet Thursday" ]	Sweet Thursday
literature	What was John Steinbecks first published novel?	[ "Tortilla Flat", "The Red Pony", "Cup of Gold", "The Pastures of Heaven" ]	Cup of Gold
literature	In 1960 John Steinbeck set off on a trip around America, which he described in a book. What name did Steinbeck give to the vehicle he used during the trip?	[ "America", "Rocinante", "Charley", "Don Quihote" ]	Rocinante
literature	Upon its publishing in 1939 this book by John Steinbeck was banned from public schools and libraries in a lot of places in America.	[ "To a God Unknown", "In Dubious Battle", "The Moon Is Down", "The Grapes of Wrath" ]	The Grapes of Wrath
literature	During World War II John Steinbeck worked as a war correspondent for this newspaper.	[ "New York Herald Tribune", "San Francisco Chronicle", "The New York Times", "Los Angeles Times" ]	New York Herald Tribune
literature	George Milton and Lennie Small were characters in which book by John Steinbeck?	[ "The Wayward Bus", "Of Mice and Men", "The Pearl", "Cannery Row" ]	Of Mice and Men
literature	Which of the following women was not married to John Steinbeck?	[ "Carol Henning Steinbeck Brown", "Elaine Anderson Scott Steinbeck", "Gwyndolyn Conger Steinbeck", "Mary Steinbeck Dekker" ]	Mary Steinbeck Dekker
literature	What prize did John Steinbeck receive in 1962?	[ "New York Drama Critics Circle Award", "Nobel Prize for Literature", "Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal for Best Novel by a Californian", "Pulitzer Prize Fiction Award" ]	Nobel Prize for Literature
literature	He graduated from Harvard in 1916. He wrote The Enormous Room (1922) about a prison camp during WWI.	[ "Gary Porter", "e.e. cummings", "Robert Frost", "Ernest Hemingway" ]	e.e. cummings
literature	He is largely considered to be the most popular American poet of the 19th century as well as the first professional American poet.	[ "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "Edgar Allen Poe", "Robert Frost", "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" ]	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
literature	She was born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, and bore the same first name as her mother.	[ "Jane Austin", "Emily Dickinson", "Sylvia Plath", "Elizabeth Barrett Browning" ]	Emily Dickinson
literature	He was born in 1902 in Joplin, Missouri and began writing in the 8th grade even though his father discouraged him.	[ "Thurgood Marshall", "E.G. Marshall", "Langston Hughes", "Barnard Hughes" ]	Langston Hughes
literature	She wrote Cold Comfort in 1986 and A Space Filled with Movement in 1992.	[ "Maggie Anderson", "Louise McNeil", "Maude Anderson", "Louisa Mae Alcott" ]	Maggie Anderson
literature	Writer and artist Edward St. John Gorey was born on February 22 in what year?	[ "1915", "1925", "1935", "1920" ]	1925
literature	Edward Gorey, who gained fame for his illustrative and writing abilities, did not have any formal art education at all.	[ "True", "False" ]	False
literature	Writer and illustrator Edward Gorey was fond of animals, which were also the subject of some of his works. What pets did Gorey keep in his house?	[ "ferrets", "lizards", "cats", "dogs" ]	cats
literature	Writer and artist Edward Gorey never married.	[ "True", "False" ]	True
literature	Edward Gorey won a Tony Award for Best Costume Design for the 1977 Broadway production Dracula.	[ "True", "False" ]	True
literature	Writer and artist Edward Gorey died at the age of 75 at his home in Cape Cod. What caused his death?	[ "Prostate Cancer", "Car Accident", "Heart Attack", "Natural causes-old age" ]	Heart Attack
literature	What are the names of Rolands mother and father in The Dark Tower series?	[ "Gabrielle and Roland", "Gillian and Roland", "Gabrielle and Steven", "Gillian and Steven" ]	Gabrielle and Steven
literature	Which of the following Steven King books is not connected to the Dark Tower series?	[ "Salems Lot", "They are all connected.", "The Eye of the Dragon", "Rose Madder" ]	They are all connected.
literature	What was the name of the book that contained the short story The Little Sisters of Eluria, a prequel to The Gunslinger?	[ "Nightmares and Dreamscapes", "Skeleton Crew", "Everythingâs Eventual", "Different Seasons" ]	Everythingâs Eventual
literature	John Farson was the gunslinger who brought down the Affiliation in The Dark Tower series.	[ "False", "True" ]	False
literature	Oscar Wilde is associated with this art movement that began in the late Victorian period and is considered to have ended with Oscar Wildes trial in in 1895.	[ "Art Nouveau", "Neo-Classicism", "Symbolism", "Aestheticism" ]	Aestheticism
literature	Oscar Wilde was imprisoned for two years after being convicted of this crime.	[ "treason", "domestic abuse", "gross indecency", "sexual assault" ]	gross indecency
literature	This literary work, whose preface ends with the sentence, All art is quite useless, is Oscar Wildes only published novel.	[ "A Woman of No Importance", "The Importance of Being Earnest", "The Picture of Dorian Gray", "The Canterville Ghost" ]	The Picture of Dorian Gray
literature	What drama film, starring Scarlett Johansson as Meg Windermere, is based on Oscar Wildes play Lady Windermeres Fan?	[ "A Good Woman", "The Nanny Diaries", "The Other Boleyn Girl", "Lost in Translation" ]	A Good Woman
literature	This Oscar Wilde tragedy, originally written in French in 1891, was banned in England until 1931.	[ "A Florentine Tragedy", "Salome", "Vera; or, The Nihilists", "An Ideal Husband" ]	Salome
literature	While in prison Oscar Wilde wrote De Profundis, an extended letter in which he expressed his bitter criticism towards this English author, better known as Wildes intimate friend.	[ "Lord Alfred Tennyson", "Lord Alfred Douglas", "Matthew Arnold", "Robert Seymour Bridges" ]	Lord Alfred Douglas
literature	Which characters created by Oscar Wilde are not correctly paired with the literary work?	[ "The Picture of Dorian Gray - Basil Hallward, Sybil Vane", "Lady Windermeres Fan - Mrs Erlynne, Lord Darlington", "The Importance of Being Earnest - Gwendolen Fairfax, Algernon (Algy) Moncrieff", "Salome - Simone Grosso, Beatrice" ]	Salome - Simone Grosso, Beatrice
literature	Name the witty nobleman who conveys to Dorian Gray his view of indulgent hedonism in one of Oscar Wildes most famous works?	[ "Henry Wotton", "Basil Hallward", "Alan Campbell", "James Vane" ]	Henry Wotton
literature	The death penalty is the main theme of this poem by Oscar Wilde which contains the following often quoted lines:	[ "t each man kills the thing he loves", " each let this be heard,", "me do it with a bitter look,", "me with a flattering word,", "e coward does it with a kiss,", "e brave man with a sword!", "The Sphinx", "The Fisherman and his Soul", "A House of Pomegranates", "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" ]	The Ballad of Reading Gaol
literature	Complete the following statement made by one of Oscar Wildes characters: Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is ..............	[ "a genius", "beautiful", "a sinner", "a good lover" ]	a sinner
literature	The novel The Dark Tower begins where Song of Susannah left off.	[ "False", "True" ]	True
literature	In the book The Dark Tower, Susannah becomes physically separated from Mia and gives birth to Mordred, while Mia is killed by a group of vampires.	[ "False", "True" ]	False
literature	In Stephen Kings novel The Dark Tower, Mordred has the ability to transform himself into what type of creature?	[ "Spider", "Wolf", "Crow", "Snake" ]	Spider
literature	Once reunited in the book The Dark Tower, the ka-tet travel to a town called Fedic to stop the activity of a group of individuals who use their psychic powers to break apart the beams that hold the Dark Tower and Mid-World together. What is the name given to this group of psychics?	[ "Breakers", "The Great Old Ones", "Sanitisers", "Crimson Acolytes" ]	Breakers
literature	Which member of the ka-tet is mortally wounded in The Dark Tower in the battle to free the psychics of Fedic?	[ "Oy", "Eddie", "Jake", "Susannah" ]	Eddie
literature	In the final novel of The Dark Tower series, Jake, Roland and Oy travel to Maine in 1999 to do what important task?	[ "Deliver a rose to Jakes dying mother", "Open the Tet Corporation Tower", "Close a tear between the worlds that was causing strange creatures to enter 1999", "Save the life of Stephen King" ]	Save the life of Stephen King
literature	On their travels in the book The Dark Tower, the ka-tet come to a place called ODDS LANE (the S had been added by hand). The only person who lived here was an old guy who called himself Joe Collins, but what was his real name?	[ "Dandelo", "Cuthbert", "Walter", "Pennywise" ]	Dandelo
literature	In the novel The Dark Tower, in Joe Collins basement the ka-tet discover a young man named Patrick Danville imprisoned in a cage. What particular skill does Patrick have?	[ "He is blind and cannot be influenced by the all-seeing eye of The Crimson King.", "He can travel between worlds simply by thinking about them.", "He can block the destructive thoughts of the psychics who are destroying the Beams.", "He is a gifted artist whose drawings become reality." ]	He is a gifted artist whose drawings become reality.
literature	When close to his goal, The Dark Tower, Roland is attacked by Mordred. Who saves Rolands life, but dies in the process?	[ "Eddie", "Oy", "Jake", "Susannah" ]	Oy
literature	In The Dark Tower, Stephen King urges the reader to stop reading at a certain point in the book and not go any further.	[ "False", "True" ]	True
literature	Driven by jealousy, anguish and ambition, this character from a history play by Shakespeare uttered the words, I am determined to prove a villain / and hate the idle pleasures of these days.	[ "Henry V", "King Lear", "Claudius", "Richard III" ]	Richard III
literature	What Shakespearean character usurped the throne by murdering his brother and then married the late kings widow?	[ "Julius Caesar", "Claudius", "Polonius", "Iago" ]	Claudius
literature	Name the Scottish King whom Macbeth murdered, led by his thirst for power and desire to obtain the throne.	[ "King Duncan", "King Malcolm II", "King Henry", "King Kenneth" ]	King Duncan
literature	This character, often regarded as one of Shakespeares most malevolent villains, is an expert manipulator, who states, I am not what I am.	[ "Polonius", "Claudius", "Cassius", "Iago" ]	Iago
literature	This complex Shakespearean character, who is a villain at one point and a victim at another, demanded a pound of flesh and rendered no mercy.	[ "Horatio", "Tubal", "Antonio", "Shylock" ]	Shylock
literature	This character, who commits a number of villainous acts throughout the course of the play King Lear, is the illegitimate son of the Earl of Gloucester.	[ "Edmund", "Antonio", "Edgar", "Philip" ]	Edmund
literature	What character from the play Julius Caesar incites the conspiracy against Caesar and plays a leading role in his assassination?	[ "Brutus", "Taurus", "Arviragus", "Cassius" ]	Cassius
literature	Name King Lears brutal son-in-law who gouged out Gloucesters eyes in Shakespeares tragedy King Lear.	[ "Duke of Burgundy", "Edmund", "Earl of Kent", "Duke of Cornwall" ]	Duke of Cornwall
literature	In the play Cymbeline, this dishonest Roman soldier tricked Posthumos into believing that he had seduced his wife, Imogen.	[ "Iachimo", "Philario", "Brutus", "Cassius" ]	Iachimo
literature	In what Shakespearean comedy did Don John acknowledge, though I cannot be said to be a flattering honest man, it must not be denied but I am plain-dealing villain?	[ "The Comedy of Errors", "Much Ado About Nothing", "The Taming of the Shrew", "Measure for Measure" ]	Much Ado About Nothing
literature	Why does the group of eco-terrorists, featured in the book Ark Angel, call themselves Force Three?	[ "It does not say.", "The Earth is the third nearest planet to the sun.", "The group has three main goals.", "When the group was created, there were three members in it." ]	The Earth is the third nearest planet to the sun.
literature	In the book Ark Angel, what are the nicknames Alex Rider gives to the four men who break into St. Dominics hospital looking for Paul Drevin?	[ "Canvas Jacket, Spectacles, Steel Watch, Silver Tooth", "Combat Jacket, Spectacles, Steel Watch, Silver Tooth", "Canvas Jacket, Spectacles, Metal Watch, Silver Tooth", "Combat Jacket, Spectacles, Metal Watch, Steel Tooth" ]	Combat Jacket, Spectacles, Steel Watch, Silver Tooth
literature	Fictional character Alex Rider says that the leader of Force Three has what parts of the world tattooed on the back of his head?	[ "Brazil and West Africa", "Russia and China", "The US and Canada", "Europe" ]	Russia and China

literature

What Shakespearean character is resented by her son for marrying her husbands brother, Claudius?

[ "Lady Macbeth", "Elizabeth Woodville", "Lady Anne Neville", "Queen Gertrude" ]

Queen Gertrude

literature

Having survived a shipwreck, this character from the comedy Twelfth Night poses as a boy, named Cesario, and enters the service of Duke Orsino.

[ "Viola", "Bianca", "Cordelia", "Olivia" ]

Viola

literature

In a sleepwalking scene, depicted in one of the most popular Shakespearean tragedies, this Queen of Scotland, suffering from a guilty conscience, cries Out, damned spot!

[ "Queen Gertrude", "Imogen", "Isabel", "Lady Macbeth" ]

Lady Macbeth

literature

How does young Juliet Capulet die in Shakespeares tragedy Romeo and Juliet?

[ "She swallows poison.", "She drowns herself.", "She stabs herself with a dagger.", "She is poisoned by Rosaline." ]

She stabs herself with a dagger.

literature

In Shakespeares history play Richard III, this lady asked Richard, Did you not kill my husband? and got the following reply: Your beauty which did haunt me in my sleep could make me undertake the death of all the world.

[ "Margaret of Anjou", "Queen Elizabeth", "The Duchess of York", "Lady Anne" ]

Lady Anne

literature

What Shakespearean tragic heroine is advised by her father to lock herself from Hamlets resort?

[ "Gertrude", "Viola", "Rosaline", "Ophelia" ]

Ophelia

literature

Which Shakespearean heroine is not correctly matched with the play in which she appears?

[ "Titania - Twelfth Night", "The Three Witches - Macbeth", "Beatrice - Much Ado About Nothing", "Lady Capulet - Romeo and Juliet" ]

Titania - Twelfth Night

literature

In Calla Bryn Sturgis, in the book Wolves of the Calla, the ka-tet meet a priest who, together with most of the townsfolk, asks them to protect them against the Wolves. What is the priests name?

[ "Father Brautigan", "Father Callahan", "Father ONeill", "Father Ted" ]

Father Callahan

literature

The priest in the novel Wolves of the Calla has appeared previously in which Stephen King novel?

[ "Cujo", "Pet Sematary", "Salems Lot", "Carrie" ]

Salems Lot

literature

The crystal ball in the novel Wolves of the Calla is used by Roland and his ka-tet to travel to 1977 to a borough of New York. Which Borough did they travel to?

[ "Queens", "New Jersey", "Brooklyn", "Manhattan" ]

Manhattan

literature

In the novel Wolves of the Calla, Roland and the ka-tet team travelled to New York to protect what?

[ "Eddies brother, Henry, from a drug dealer", "The headquarters of the Tet Corporation", "Prevent Jake from being killed by Jack Mort", "A single red rose growing in a vacant lot" ]

A single red rose growing in a vacant lot

literature

Susannah begins to undergo yet another change of character in Wolves of the Calla. What is this characters name?

[ "Coral", "Rhea", "Mia", "Susan" ]

Mia

literature

When the priest first appeared near Calla Bryn Sturgis in the book Wolves of the Calla, he was found by a religious group. What is their name?

[ "Wolves", "Taheen", "Manni", "Crimson Acolytes" ]

Manni

literature

Why are the Wolves such a problem to the people of Calla Bryn Sturgis in the novel Wolves of the Calla?

[ "They always beat the Bryn Sturgis soccer team when they visit.", "They have awful table manners.", "They come down from the mountains and kill all of the sheep, which are the main livestock in the area.", "They abduct one twin of a pair from a family whenever they appear." ]

They abduct one twin of a pair from a family whenever they appear.

literature

The Wolves in the novel The Wolves of the Calla have an arsenal of weapons, including hand-grenades called what?

[ "Landies", "Starbombs", "Sneetches", "Loopers" ]

Sneetches

literature

This type of poem is usually a long poem that tells the story of a significant event or a significant persons life.

[ "Hokku", "Lyric Poetry", "Epic Poetry", "Iamb" ]

Epic Poetry

literature

This type of poem consists of 14 lines with this rhyme pattern: abba cddc effe gg

[ "Acrostic", "Sonnet", "Ode", "Strophe" ]

Sonnet

literature

Which word means a set of two lines in a poem?

[ "iamb", "caesura", "bisody", "couplet" ]

couplet

literature

This type of poem is one that is relatively short and tells a story.

[ "Prosdic poem", "Lyric poem", "Narrative poem", "Epode" ]

Narrative poem

literature

In this type of poem, the first letters of each line help give the meaning of the poem.

[ "Iamb", "Ode", "Lyric", "Acrostic" ]

Acrostic

literature

This is a type of Japanese poem that is made of three parts; the first has five syllables, the second seven and the third have five.

[ "Hokku", "Haiku", "Jintishi", "Basho" ]

Haiku

literature

This is a type of Chinese poetry .

[ "Rubiyat", "Hokku", "Haiku", "Jintishi" ]

Jintishi

literature

This expression means an audible pause that breaks up a line of poetry.

[ "Rubiyat", "Hokku", "Shwa", "Caesura" ]

Caesura

literature

This type of poem is typified by a great poem by Omar Khayyam

[ "Jintishi", "Haiku", "Hokku", "Rubiyat" ]

Rubiyat

literature

In which book by Mark Twain does the following phrase appear: Lead us into temptation?

[ "The Prince and the Pauper", "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court", "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg", "The Mysterious Stranger" ]

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

literature

I wish I owned half of that dog. Why? somebody asked. Because I would kill my half is a conversation from what book by Mark Twain?

[ "Puddnhead Wilson", "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.", "The Autobiography of Mark Twain", "Life on the Mississippi" ]

Puddnhead Wilson

literature

What Mark Twain book is the following quote from: Tom lost his temper. I notice a person most always does thatâs got laid out in an argument. He told us to shut up.?

[ "Innocents Abroad", "Captain Stormfield Visists Heaven", "Tom Sawyer Abroad", "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" ]

Tom Sawyer Abroad

literature

From which Mark Twain book does the following line come: âI never felt so filled with a blessed peace as I did yesterday - when I learned that Michangelo was dead.?

[ "The Prince and the Pauper", "Roughing it", "Life on the Mississippi", "The Innocents Abroad" ]

The Innocents Abroad

literature

What book by Mark Twain is the following excerpt from: If man could be crossed with a cat - it would improve man - but it would deteriorate the cat.?

[ "The Autobiography of Mark Twain", "Puddnhead Wilson", "Life on the Mississippi", "Huckleberry Finn" ]

The Autobiography of Mark Twain

literature

The difference between a cat and a lie is that the cat only has nine lives. Which book by Mark Twain is this quote from?

[ "Pudd nhead Willson", "Tom Sawyer", "Roughing It", "The Innocents Abroad" ]

Pudd nhead Willson

literature

What book does the following quote come from: You dont know me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but that aint no matter. ?

[ "Huckleberry Finn", "The Gilded Age", "Letters From the Earth", "Life on the Mississippi" ]

Huckleberry Finn

literature

I came in with Halleys Comet...it will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I dont go out with it. is a quote from what book by Mark Twain?

[ "The Autobiography of Mark Twain", "Tom Sawyer", "The Gilded Age", "Letters From the Earth" ]

The Autobiography of Mark Twain

literature

What Mark Twain book is the following line from: All right, then, Ill go to hell!?

[ "Life on the Mississippi", "Huckleberry Finn", "Captain Stormfield Visits Heaven", "The Diary of Adam and Eve" ]

Huckleberry Finn

literature

What book by Mark Twain does this quote come from: In mans heaven...it shall contain each and every thing that is repulsive to a man, and not a single thing he likes....it pays no compliment to the intellect...in fact never even mentions it. ?

[ "Letters From the Earth", "Roughing It", "The Innocents Abroad", "Huckleberry Finn" ]

Letters From the Earth

literature

Which poet wrote the poems The Germ, Listen, A Word to Husbands, and Very Like a Whale?

[ "Ogden Nash", "W. H. Auden", "C. Day Lewis", "Langston Hughes" ]

Ogden Nash

literature

Which of the following poems was not written by C. Day Lewis?

[ "Almost Human", "The Unknown Citizen", "Newsreel", "Come, Live With Me And Be My Love" ]

The Unknown Citizen

literature

Gwendolyn Brooks wrote all of the following poems except one. Can you find the odd one out?

[ "We Real Cool", "The Ballad of Sue Ellen Westerfield", "Way Out Morgan", "The Chicago Defender Sends A Man To Little Rock" ]

The Ballad of Sue Ellen Westerfield

literature

All of these poems were written by Allen Ginsberg except one. Which one was written by poet James Dickey?

[ "My Sad Self", "Howl", "The Beholders", "A Supermarket in California" ]

The Beholders

literature

This poet wrote the poems Moss Gathering and My Papas Waltz in 1948 and Elegy for Jane in 1953.

[ "Theodore Roethke", "Gwendolyn Brooks", "Robert Hayden", "Elizabeth Bishop" ]

Theodore Roethke

literature

Which of these poems was not written by Robert Lowell?

[ "For the Union Dead", "The Mouth of the Hudson", "Grandparents", "Digging for China" ]

Digging for China

literature

Which poet wrote the poems Still I Rise, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and Remembrance?

[ "Elizabeth Bishop", "Gwendolyn Brooks", "Anne Sexton", "Maya Angelou" ]

Maya Angelou

literature

Which 20th century poet wrote the phrase Candy is Dandy, But Liquor is Quicker?

[ "Ogden Nash", "James Dickey", "Dylan Thomas", "Allen Ginsberg" ]

Ogden Nash

literature

John Steinbeck was born in 1902 in this city.

[ "New York City", "Salinas, California", "Moscow, Soviet Union", "Heiligenhaus, Germany" ]

Salinas, California

literature

Which of the following books by John Steinbeck won a Pulitzer prize?

[ "East of Eden", "none of these", "Of Mice and Men", "The Grapes of Wrath" ]

The Grapes of Wrath

literature

Name the sequel to John Steinbecks 1945 book Cannery Row.

[ "The Pearl", "The Wayward Bus", "East of Eden", "Sweet Thursday" ]

Sweet Thursday

literature

What was John Steinbecks first published novel?

[ "Tortilla Flat", "The Red Pony", "Cup of Gold", "The Pastures of Heaven" ]

Cup of Gold

literature

In 1960 John Steinbeck set off on a trip around America, which he described in a book. What name did Steinbeck give to the vehicle he used during the trip?

[ "America", "Rocinante", "Charley", "Don Quihote" ]

Rocinante

literature

Upon its publishing in 1939 this book by John Steinbeck was banned from public schools and libraries in a lot of places in America.

[ "To a God Unknown", "In Dubious Battle", "The Moon Is Down", "The Grapes of Wrath" ]

The Grapes of Wrath

literature

During World War II John Steinbeck worked as a war correspondent for this newspaper.

[ "New York Herald Tribune", "San Francisco Chronicle", "The New York Times", "Los Angeles Times" ]

New York Herald Tribune

literature

George Milton and Lennie Small were characters in which book by John Steinbeck?

[ "The Wayward Bus", "Of Mice and Men", "The Pearl", "Cannery Row" ]

Of Mice and Men

literature

Which of the following women was not married to John Steinbeck?

[ "Carol Henning Steinbeck Brown", "Elaine Anderson Scott Steinbeck", "Gwyndolyn Conger Steinbeck", "Mary Steinbeck Dekker" ]

Mary Steinbeck Dekker

literature

What prize did John Steinbeck receive in 1962?

[ "New York Drama Critics Circle Award", "Nobel Prize for Literature", "Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal for Best Novel by a Californian", "Pulitzer Prize Fiction Award" ]

Nobel Prize for Literature

literature

He graduated from Harvard in 1916. He wrote The Enormous Room (1922) about a prison camp during WWI.

[ "Gary Porter", "e.e. cummings", "Robert Frost", "Ernest Hemingway" ]

e.e. cummings

literature

He is largely considered to be the most popular American poet of the 19th century as well as the first professional American poet.

[ "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "Edgar Allen Poe", "Robert Frost", "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" ]

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

literature

She was born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, and bore the same first name as her mother.

[ "Jane Austin", "Emily Dickinson", "Sylvia Plath", "Elizabeth Barrett Browning" ]

Emily Dickinson

literature

He was born in 1902 in Joplin, Missouri and began writing in the 8th grade even though his father discouraged him.

[ "Thurgood Marshall", "E.G. Marshall", "Langston Hughes", "Barnard Hughes" ]

Langston Hughes

literature

She wrote Cold Comfort in 1986 and A Space Filled with Movement in 1992.

[ "Maggie Anderson", "Louise McNeil", "Maude Anderson", "Louisa Mae Alcott" ]

Maggie Anderson

literature

Writer and artist Edward St. John Gorey was born on February 22 in what year?

[ "1915", "1925", "1935", "1920" ]

1925

literature

Edward Gorey, who gained fame for his illustrative and writing abilities, did not have any formal art education at all.

[ "True", "False" ]

False

literature

Writer and illustrator Edward Gorey was fond of animals, which were also the subject of some of his works. What pets did Gorey keep in his house?

[ "ferrets", "lizards", "cats", "dogs" ]

cats

literature

Writer and artist Edward Gorey never married.

[ "True", "False" ]

True

literature

Edward Gorey won a Tony Award for Best Costume Design for the 1977 Broadway production Dracula.

[ "True", "False" ]

True

literature

Writer and artist Edward Gorey died at the age of 75 at his home in Cape Cod. What caused his death?

[ "Prostate Cancer", "Car Accident", "Heart Attack", "Natural causes-old age" ]

Heart Attack

literature

What are the names of Rolands mother and father in The Dark Tower series?

[ "Gabrielle and Roland", "Gillian and Roland", "Gabrielle and Steven", "Gillian and Steven" ]

Gabrielle and Steven

literature

Which of the following Steven King books is not connected to the Dark Tower series?

[ "Salems Lot", "They are all connected.", "The Eye of the Dragon", "Rose Madder" ]

They are all connected.

literature

What was the name of the book that contained the short story The Little Sisters of Eluria, a prequel to The Gunslinger?

[ "Nightmares and Dreamscapes", "Skeleton Crew", "Everythingâs Eventual", "Different Seasons" ]

Everythingâs Eventual

literature

John Farson was the gunslinger who brought down the Affiliation in The Dark Tower series.

[ "False", "True" ]

False

literature

Oscar Wilde is associated with this art movement that began in the late Victorian period and is considered to have ended with Oscar Wildes trial in in 1895.

[ "Art Nouveau", "Neo-Classicism", "Symbolism", "Aestheticism" ]

Aestheticism

literature

Oscar Wilde was imprisoned for two years after being convicted of this crime.

[ "treason", "domestic abuse", "gross indecency", "sexual assault" ]

gross indecency

literature

This literary work, whose preface ends with the sentence, All art is quite useless, is Oscar Wildes only published novel.

[ "A Woman of No Importance", "The Importance of Being Earnest", "The Picture of Dorian Gray", "The Canterville Ghost" ]

The Picture of Dorian Gray

literature

What drama film, starring Scarlett Johansson as Meg Windermere, is based on Oscar Wildes play Lady Windermeres Fan?

[ "A Good Woman", "The Nanny Diaries", "The Other Boleyn Girl", "Lost in Translation" ]

A Good Woman

literature

This Oscar Wilde tragedy, originally written in French in 1891, was banned in England until 1931.

[ "A Florentine Tragedy", "Salome", "Vera; or, The Nihilists", "An Ideal Husband" ]

Salome

literature

While in prison Oscar Wilde wrote De Profundis, an extended letter in which he expressed his bitter criticism towards this English author, better known as Wildes intimate friend.

[ "Lord Alfred Tennyson", "Lord Alfred Douglas", "Matthew Arnold", "Robert Seymour Bridges" ]

Lord Alfred Douglas

literature

Which characters created by Oscar Wilde are not correctly paired with the literary work?

[ "The Picture of Dorian Gray - Basil Hallward, Sybil Vane", "Lady Windermeres Fan - Mrs Erlynne, Lord Darlington", "The Importance of Being Earnest - Gwendolen Fairfax, Algernon (Algy) Moncrieff", "Salome - Simone Grosso, Beatrice" ]

Salome - Simone Grosso, Beatrice

literature

Name the witty nobleman who conveys to Dorian Gray his view of indulgent hedonism in one of Oscar Wildes most famous works?

[ "Henry Wotton", "Basil Hallward", "Alan Campbell", "James Vane" ]

Henry Wotton

literature

The death penalty is the main theme of this poem by Oscar Wilde which contains the following often quoted lines:

[ "t each man kills the thing he loves", " each let this be heard,", "me do it with a bitter look,", "me with a flattering word,", "e coward does it with a kiss,", "e brave man with a sword!", "The Sphinx", "The Fisherman and his Soul", "A House of Pomegranates", "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" ]

The Ballad of Reading Gaol

literature

Complete the following statement made by one of Oscar Wildes characters: Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is ..............

[ "a genius", "beautiful", "a sinner", "a good lover" ]

a sinner

literature

The novel The Dark Tower begins where Song of Susannah left off.

[ "False", "True" ]

True

literature

In the book The Dark Tower, Susannah becomes physically separated from Mia and gives birth to Mordred, while Mia is killed by a group of vampires.

[ "False", "True" ]

False

literature

In Stephen Kings novel The Dark Tower, Mordred has the ability to transform himself into what type of creature?

[ "Spider", "Wolf", "Crow", "Snake" ]

Spider

literature

Once reunited in the book The Dark Tower, the ka-tet travel to a town called Fedic to stop the activity of a group of individuals who use their psychic powers to break apart the beams that hold the Dark Tower and Mid-World together. What is the name given to this group of psychics?

[ "Breakers", "The Great Old Ones", "Sanitisers", "Crimson Acolytes" ]

Breakers

literature

Which member of the ka-tet is mortally wounded in The Dark Tower in the battle to free the psychics of Fedic?

[ "Oy", "Eddie", "Jake", "Susannah" ]

Eddie

literature

In the final novel of The Dark Tower series, Jake, Roland and Oy travel to Maine in 1999 to do what important task?

[ "Deliver a rose to Jakes dying mother", "Open the Tet Corporation Tower", "Close a tear between the worlds that was causing strange creatures to enter 1999", "Save the life of Stephen King" ]

Save the life of Stephen King

literature

On their travels in the book The Dark Tower, the ka-tet come to a place called ODDS LANE (the S had been added by hand). The only person who lived here was an old guy who called himself Joe Collins, but what was his real name?

[ "Dandelo", "Cuthbert", "Walter", "Pennywise" ]

Dandelo

literature

In the novel The Dark Tower, in Joe Collins basement the ka-tet discover a young man named Patrick Danville imprisoned in a cage. What particular skill does Patrick have?

[ "He is blind and cannot be influenced by the all-seeing eye of The Crimson King.", "He can travel between worlds simply by thinking about them.", "He can block the destructive thoughts of the psychics who are destroying the Beams.", "He is a gifted artist whose drawings become reality." ]

He is a gifted artist whose drawings become reality.

literature

When close to his goal, The Dark Tower, Roland is attacked by Mordred. Who saves Rolands life, but dies in the process?

[ "Eddie", "Oy", "Jake", "Susannah" ]

Oy

literature

In The Dark Tower, Stephen King urges the reader to stop reading at a certain point in the book and not go any further.

[ "False", "True" ]

True

literature

Driven by jealousy, anguish and ambition, this character from a history play by Shakespeare uttered the words, I am determined to prove a villain / and hate the idle pleasures of these days.

[ "Henry V", "King Lear", "Claudius", "Richard III" ]

Richard III

literature

What Shakespearean character usurped the throne by murdering his brother and then married the late kings widow?

[ "Julius Caesar", "Claudius", "Polonius", "Iago" ]

Claudius

literature

Name the Scottish King whom Macbeth murdered, led by his thirst for power and desire to obtain the throne.

[ "King Duncan", "King Malcolm II", "King Henry", "King Kenneth" ]

King Duncan

literature

This character, often regarded as one of Shakespeares most malevolent villains, is an expert manipulator, who states, I am not what I am.

[ "Polonius", "Claudius", "Cassius", "Iago" ]

Iago

literature

This complex Shakespearean character, who is a villain at one point and a victim at another, demanded a pound of flesh and rendered no mercy.

[ "Horatio", "Tubal", "Antonio", "Shylock" ]

Shylock

literature

This character, who commits a number of villainous acts throughout the course of the play King Lear, is the illegitimate son of the Earl of Gloucester.

[ "Edmund", "Antonio", "Edgar", "Philip" ]

Edmund

literature

What character from the play Julius Caesar incites the conspiracy against Caesar and plays a leading role in his assassination?

[ "Brutus", "Taurus", "Arviragus", "Cassius" ]

Cassius

literature

Name King Lears brutal son-in-law who gouged out Gloucesters eyes in Shakespeares tragedy King Lear.

[ "Duke of Burgundy", "Edmund", "Earl of Kent", "Duke of Cornwall" ]

Duke of Cornwall

literature

In the play Cymbeline, this dishonest Roman soldier tricked Posthumos into believing that he had seduced his wife, Imogen.

[ "Iachimo", "Philario", "Brutus", "Cassius" ]

Iachimo

literature

In what Shakespearean comedy did Don John acknowledge, though I cannot be said to be a flattering honest man, it must not be denied but I am plain-dealing villain?

[ "The Comedy of Errors", "Much Ado About Nothing", "The Taming of the Shrew", "Measure for Measure" ]

Much Ado About Nothing

literature

Why does the group of eco-terrorists, featured in the book Ark Angel, call themselves Force Three?

[ "It does not say.", "The Earth is the third nearest planet to the sun.", "The group has three main goals.", "When the group was created, there were three members in it." ]

The Earth is the third nearest planet to the sun.

literature

In the book Ark Angel, what are the nicknames Alex Rider gives to the four men who break into St. Dominics hospital looking for Paul Drevin?

[ "Canvas Jacket, Spectacles, Steel Watch, Silver Tooth", "Combat Jacket, Spectacles, Steel Watch, Silver Tooth", "Canvas Jacket, Spectacles, Metal Watch, Silver Tooth", "Combat Jacket, Spectacles, Metal Watch, Steel Tooth" ]

Combat Jacket, Spectacles, Steel Watch, Silver Tooth

literature

Fictional character Alex Rider says that the leader of Force Three has what parts of the world tattooed on the back of his head?

[ "Brazil and West Africa", "Russia and China", "The US and Canada", "Europe" ]

Russia and China