Set 2: Literature Trivia Flashcards
1
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No. 1 on the New York Times’ combined print & e-book nonfiction list in May 2019 was the long-awaited “Report” by this man
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Who is Robert Mueller?
2
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In 2019 this Rick Riordan title guy—”& the Olympians”, too—spent week 500 on the children’s series list, & that’s no myth
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Who is Percy Jackson?
3
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Dirk Pitt returned for book No. 25 in “Celtic Empire” by father-&-son Clive & Dirk this (& it’s not Pitt)
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Who is Cussler?
4
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Baseball writer Tyler Kepner took an in-depth look at 10 types of pitches in a book with this single letter as its title
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What is K?
5
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This comedian may have decided “Life Will Be the Death of Me”, but not before she made the bestseller list
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Who is Chelsea Handler?
6
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character in this work: Hrothgar, Wiglaf
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What is Beowulf?
7
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characters in this work: Lennie Small, George Milton
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What is Of Mice and Men?
8
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character in this work: Don Fernando, Dulcinea
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What is Don Quixote?
9
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characters in this work: Richard Parker, Orange Juice, Santosh Patel
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What is The Life of Pi?
10
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characters in this work By Cormac McCarthy: the Kid, Judge Holden
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What is Blood Meridian?
11
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W.E.B. Du Bois wrote a 1909 biography defending this abolitionist who was hanged 50 years earlier
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Who is John Brown?
12
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Biographer: His “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.” came out in 1791, 7 years after his friend’s death
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Who is Boswell?
13
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Biographer: “The Pioneers”, the latest by David McCullough, features the settlers of this American territory just past the Ohio river
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What is the Northwest Territory?
14
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Biographer: Rose Byrne played biographer Rebecca Skloot in the HBO movie “The Immortal Life of” this woman
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Who is Henrietta Lacks?
15
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Biographer: His fourth volume on Lyndon Johnson appeared in 2012 & was followed by great anticipation of volume 5
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Who is Robert Caro?
16
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In the epilogue to “Moby-Dick”, this rescued narrator quotes from the book of Job: “and I only am escaped alone to tell thee”
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Who is Ishmael?
17
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Daisy Buchanan’s cousin, he narrates “The Great Gatsby”
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Who is Nick Carraway?
18
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Though he takes his own life in “The Sound and the Fury”, Quentin Compson is back to narrate this author’s “Absalom, Absalom!”
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Who is Faulkner?
19
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In “The Book Thief”, the narrator isn’t a who per se but this, knocking at the door
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What is Death?
20
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Montresor, the narrator of this Poe story, lures Fortunato to his doom with the promise of a fine Spanish sherry
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What is “The Cask of Amontillado?”
21
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Emily Elizabeth & this large colorful canine have many adventures in works by Norman Bridwell
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Who is Clifford (the big red dog)?
22
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She wrote the classics “Ramona the Pest” & “Beezus & Ramona”
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Who is Beverly Cleary?
23
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In Kipling’s “The Jungle Book”, this mongoose faces off against 2 cobras to protect his human family
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Who is Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
24
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Mary Pope Osborne has taken kids all through history as Jack & Annie travel in this magic structure
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What is The Magic Tree House?
25
Milo learns about time from a watchdog named Tock after driving through this mysterious title object
What is The Phantom Tollbooth?
26
A futuristic society revolves around science & efficiency in this 1932 novel by Aldous Huxley
What is Brave New World?
27
“A House Divided” completed Pearl Buck’s trilogy that began 4 years earlier with this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
What is The Good Earth?
28
A line from this novel: “Name’s Joad, Tom Joad”
What is The Grapes of Wrath?
29
This novel by Garcia Marquez tells of the Buendia family in the mythic town of Macondo from the 1820s to the 1920s
What is One Hundred Years of Solitude?
30
Nadsat, the fictional language in this book, is from the Russian suffix that means “teen”
What is A Clockwork Orange?
31
Garry Wills’ 1992 “Lincoln at” this place examines an event sixscore & nine years previous
What is Gettysburg?
32
The New Orleans Advocate reported a “flood of books” for this event’s 10th anniversary, including “Cooking Up a Storm”
What is Hurricane Katrina?
33
It’s the title town where 2 former Texas Rangers live in the 1870s in a classic novel by Larry McMurtry
What is Lonesome Dove?
34
“I woke to the sound of a mosquito whining in my left ear”, begins 2000’s “Fever 1793”, about an epidemic of this disease
What is yellow fever?
35
His 1815 novel “Guy Mannering” begins in the year “17–” with Guy visiting some ruins in Dumfries
Who is Walter Scott?
36
The federal laureate position is technically called “Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry” by this library
What is The Library of Congress?
37
This “Chicago” poet was Illinois’ poet laureate in the last years of his life from 1962 to 1967
Who is Carl Sandberg?
38
Colorado laureate Milford Shields must have been surprised when the governor also made this singer laureate in 1974
Who is John Denver?
39
In 1998 Lawrence Ferlinghetti was made this city’s first poet laureate
What is San Francisco?
40
In 2019 Joy Harjo of the Muscogee Creek Nation of this state was named the first Native American poet laureate
What is Oklahoma?
41
Nonfiction book subtitle: With a rhyming title: “The True Story of the Manson Murders”
What is Helter Skelter?
42
Nonfiction book subtitle: “A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything”
What is Freakonomics?
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Nonfiction book subtitle: About Louis Zamperini: “A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”
What is Unbroken?
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Nonfiction book subtitle: By Sheryl Sandberg: “Women, Work, and the Will to Lead”
What is Lean In?
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Nonfiction book subtitle: Made into a Jennifer Aniston movie, “The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”
What is He’s Just Not That Into You?
46
A book about George, who takes the new name Melissa, earned some bans but also one of these Greek-letter awards AKA the Lammys
What is the Lambda award?
47
This Stowe novel was banned in parts of the slave-holding South & in serf-holding Russia
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
48
Forget the love story—Pasternak’s “Dr. Zhivago” was banned in the USSR until 1987 because of its portrayal of this commie faction
Who are the Bolsheviks?
49
Due to its alleged obscenity, in 1957 U.S. Customs seized 520 copies of this Allen Ginsberg poem printed in England
What is “Howl?”
50
The 1722 novel “Moll Flanders” by this author has been taken off shelves for lewdness
Who is Daniel Defoe?
51
The Whomping Willow does its whomping on the grounds of this castle
What is Hogwarts?
52
The party tree that grew in this Middle-Earth land was the location of Bilbo’s farewell speech
What is the Shire?
53
Shel Silverstein’s “The Giving Tree” gives these fruits & more to a thoughtless boy
What is an apple?
54
“It was a right motley company that gathered about the noble greenwood tree in Sherwood’s depths” in an 1883 tale of this hero
Who is Robin Hood?
55
After this title character accepts Rochester’s proposal, lightning splits a chestnut tree at Thornfield Hall
Who is Jane Eyre?
56
Thornton Wilder’s novel about the time of Julius Caesar in Rome has this title, like an unlucky date for Julius
What is The Ides of March?
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“The Gladiator” & “Rebellion” are the subtitles of Ben Kane’s books about this man who led a slave army against Rome
Who is Spartacus?
58
When the death of a popular politician threatens to destroy the Roman Republic, Gordianus the Finder must solve “A Murder on” this famous road
What is The Appian Way?
59
In “The Eagle of the Ninth”, a soldier seeks to discover what became of a legion that went missing in this faraway island
What is Britain?
60
This novel by Robert Graves is written as the memoir of a reluctant 1st century Roman emperor
What is I, Claudius?
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Book Numbers: By Bret Easton Ellis: “Less Than ____”
zero
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Book Numbers: “The ____ Habits of Highly Effective People”
7
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Book Numbers: An international bestseller: “The ____ -Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared”
100
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Book Numbers: From “The Charge of the Light Brigade”: “All in the valley of Death rode the ___”
600
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Book Numbers: A Temperance Brennan novel: “___ Bones” (referring to the number of bones in the body)
206
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This Tom Wolfe work was spacey but had the correct contents to win a 1980 Nonfiction Award
What is The Right Stuff?
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The 2017 Nonfiction winner was Masha Gessen’s “The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed” this superpower
What is Russia?
68
Colson Whitehead liberated the 2016 Fiction Award for his novel about this title 19th century “conveyance”
What is The Underground Railroad?
69
Thomas Pynchon found the Fiction Prize at the end of this 1973 novel
What is Gravity’s Rainbow?
70
He won Fiction Awards for “The Magic Barrel” & “The Fixer” but not for “The Natural”
Who is Bernard Malamud?
71
This Narnian lion appears in several other forms, including a lamb
Who is Aslan?
72
Jilted on her wedding day, this Dickens character teaches her ward Estella to despise men
Who is Miss Havisham?
73
Much of “The Color Purple” is made up of letters written by her to God
Who is Celie?
74
Hemingway’s collections “In Our Time” & “Men Without Women” feature this character based partly on Hemingway
Who is Nick Adams?
75
“The Good Earth” begins with Wang Lung’s marriage day—to this woman
Who is 0-Lan?
76
Natalie Y. Moore examined “The South Side: A Portrait of” this city “and American Segregation “
What is Chicago?
77
A gopher is on the cover of the book titled this comedy film: “The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story”
What is Caddyshack?
78
A nonfiction classic by Rabbi Harold Kushner is “When” these “Happen to Good People”
What are bad things?
79
Barack Obama’s first book was “Dreams from My Father”; his second was this “bold” bestseller that arrived in 2006
What is The Audacity of Hope?
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He wrote of the loss of both his parents in a 5-week span in “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Who is Dave Eggers?
81
Her first published book: 1811: “Sense and Sensibility”
Who is Jane Austen?
82
Her first published book:1920: “The Mysterious Affair at Styles”
Who is Agatha Christie?
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Her first published book: 2005: “Twilight”
Who is Stephanie Meyer ?
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Her first published book: 1940: “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”
Who is Carson McCullers?
85
Her first published book: 1988: “The Bean Trees”
Who is Barbara Kingsolver?
86
Quotable Books: 1865: “She was walking by the White Rabbit, who was peeping anxiously into her face”
What is Alice in Wonderland?
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Quotable Books: 1958: “It was some little while before I could bring myself to open the window, and ask Miss Golightly what she wanted”
What is Breakfast at Tiffany’s?
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Quotable Books: 1990: “You have brains in your head, you have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose”
What is Oh, The Places You’ll Go?
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Quotable Books: 1873: “Phileas Fogg had won his wager of twenty thousand pounds!”
What is Around The World in 80 Days?
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Quotable Books: A recent Pulitzer Prize winner set during WWII: “Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever”
What is All The Light We Cannot See?
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Subtitle:
| Or, “The Parish Boy's Progress," which included picking a pocket or two.
What is Oliver Twist?
92
In this Steinbeck work, George kills his friend Lennie to spare him from a lynch mob.
What is ‘Of Mice and Men’?
93
This book with a lamb-free title marked the first appearance of Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
What is Red Dragon?
94
1949's "The Kingdom of This World," an early work in this style blending naturalism and fantasy, includes a manifesto of it
What is magical realism?
95
In St. Petersburg, it's not far from Raskolnikov's murder spree in this book to the bridge where he considers suicide.
What is Crime and Punishment?
96
In 1972, this author created the Kinte foundation.
Who is Alex Haley?
97
Thomas Bracken and Janet Frame are two authors from Dunedin in this country who bring that city to the forefront.
What is New Zealand?
98
Won in 2015 by Svetlana Alexievich, it's handed out annually by the Swedish Academy.
What is the Nobel Prize in Literature?
99
Punny Classic Literature Titles: It's the story of a weaving apparatus equipped with a pleasant panorama.
What is a loom with a view?
100
Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels include "A Legend of Montrose" and one about this alliterative Scottish outlaw.
Who is Rob Roy?
101
This Tolstoy tome centers on the 1812 invasion of Russia and the ensuing Russian resistance.
What is ‘War & Peace’?
102
Inspiring the film "Rescue Dawn" was Dieter Dengler's "Escape From" this Indochinese nation.
What is Laos?
103
Criticism of this gloomy novel and its loser title hero put Thomas Hardy off writing novels forever.
What is ‘Jude the Obscure’?
104
"The Boarding House" and "The Sisters" are two of the 15 stories appearing in this 1914 James Joyce collection.
What is ‘Dubliners’?
105
"Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now," he said in "Gone with the Wind."
Who is Rhett Butler?
106
"The Road to En-Dor" (during WWI) and "Midnight Express" (later) are accounts of escaping a prison in this country.
What is Turkey?
107
This 1929 Thomas Wolfe novel is subtitled "A Story of the Buried Life."
What is ‘Look Homeward, Angel’?
108
Peter Ustinov directed and starred in the film version of the Yasar Kemal novel "Memed, My" this predatory bird.
What is ‘Hawk’?
109
This central character of "The Three Musketeers" was a real person; much of the material is drawn from his memoirs.
Who is D'Artagnan?
110
Encyclopedia Britannica calls his "The Hunting of the Snark" "nonsense literature of the highest order."
Who is Lewis Carroll?
111
This Albert Camus novel begins with the discovery of a dead rat outside Dr. Bernard Rieux's door; more dead rats follow.
What is ‘The Plague’?
112
In 1943 this aviator created "The Little Prince;" a year later, his plane disappeared during a mission.
Who is Antoine de Saint Exupery?
113
Born in 1799, this poet, novelist, and playwright is to Russian literature what Shakespeare is to English literature.
Who is Alexander Pushkin?
114
In Fred Gipson's novel, this "colorful" dog with one ear missing adopts a Texas frontier family in the 1860s.
Who is Old Yeller?
115
Many of the Dublin locales he personally frequented are featured in his book "Ulysses.
Who is James Joyce?
116
When the title character tells him that a great adventure may win him an island he can govern, he leaves his family
WHO IS SANCHO PANZA?
