questions

Question 1

Who wrote JAWS

Answer 1

Peter Benchley

Question 2

Helen Keller dedicated her autobiography to

Answer 2

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 3

William Sidney Porter was spending some time in Honduras what was he doing

Answer 3

Hiding from the government (MENACE TO SOCIETY)

Question 4

What famous American novelist went under the pen name called Edgar Box

Answer 4

Gore Vidal

Question 5

What is the name of Dick and Jane’s baby sister

Answer 5

Sally

Question 6

What does the D in J.D stand for in this authors name

Answer 6

James David

Question 7

Which book had the longest stay in N.Y.C times paperback bestseller

Answer 7

A life less ordinary

Question 8

Who wrote the Da Vinci Code

Answer 8

Dan Brown

Question 9

Who wrote of the novel Jurassic Park

Answer 9

Michael Crichton

Question 10

Who wrote East Eden

Answer 10

John Steinbeck

Question 11

With connection to generational lit

Answer 11

The birth of Kunta Kinte of Alex Haley’s Roots

Question 12

Who wrote the book Knocked

Answer 12

Aunt Erma’s cope book by Emma Bombeck

Question 13

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Answer 13

Ernest Hemingway

Question 14

Famous lines from this book are “ an old house in Paris that was covered in vines,’ ‘lived 12 little girls in two straight lines,’ and that’s all there is, there isn’t any more

Answer 14

Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans

Question 15

Who wrote carrie and misery

Answer 15

stephen king

Question 16

writer of horrific things was involved in a road acciendt when walking in 1999

Answer 16

stephen king

Question 17

Vladimir Nabokov wrote Lolita in what language

Answer 17

english

Question 18

American author Samule Langhorme Clemens is known as

Answer 18

Mark Twain

Question 19

What book was David Chapman carrying when he killed John Lenon on 12/8/80

Answer 19

JD Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye

Question 20

Trio of female novelists who sold over 30 million books, who was the second to be published

Answer 20

Harper lee-to kill a mocking bird

Question 21

Ernest hemingwy book aout bull fighting

Answer 21

Fiesta

Question 22

Who wrote Humbolt’s Gift and Herzog

Answer 22

Saul Bellow

Question 23

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 23

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 24

Norman Bean known as what author

Answer 24

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Question 25

A Streetcar Named Desire writer

Answer 25

Tennessee Williams

Question 26

Who wrote The Lady Who Liked Clean Rest Rooms

Answer 26

JP Donleavy

Question 27

Roots Author

Answer 27

Alex Haley

Question 28

The Raven Author

Answer 28

Edgar Allen Poe

Question 29

Jurassic park author

Answer 29

Michael Crichton

Question 30

Writer of The Shining, The Dead Zone, and Misery

Answer 30

Stephen King

Question 31

Bought a minivan that hit him for $1500

Answer 31

Stepen King

Question 32

Breakfast at Tiffany’s Author

Answer 32

Truman Capote

Question 33

Interview with a Vampire Author

Answer 33

Anne Rice

Question 34

Huck Finn’s remedy for warts is

Answer 34

swiging a dead cat in a graveyard at midnight

Question 35

In the book Futility published in 1898 what was the name of the ship that lost after hitting and iceberg (this was before the titanic)

Answer 35

The Titan

Question 36

What Walter Farley book became a movie staring Mickey Rooney

Answer 36

The Black Stallion

Question 37

The Postman Always Rings Twice, author

Answer 37

James M Cain

Question 38

What was Mobey Dick

Answer 38

a whale

Question 39

Where does old man in the sea take place

Answer 39

Cuba

Question 40

In Mad magazines spoofs of superman what names were used for the man of steel and his newspaper man ego

Answer 40

SUPERDUPERMAN and Clark Bent and Lois Pain `

Question 41

Who wrote the opera Porgy and Bess

Answer 41

George Gershwin

Question 42

The cat in the hat

Answer 42

Dr. Seuss

Question 43

Good Wives was a squeal to which classic novel

Answer 43

Little women

Question 44

Which literary animal likes honey and says Whats for breakfast

Answer 44

Winnie the Pooh