Tournament Questions Flashcards
Name the author of “The Pickwick Papers” and “A Christmas Carol,” considered the greatest novelist of the Victorian Era, and whose most famous work is about the life of an orphan names Oliver.
Charles Dickens
Name this Japanese-born British novelist, screenwriter, and musician, whom the Swedish Academy described as “having uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world” and whose most famous novel is “Never Let Me Go”.
Kazuo Ishiguro
Name this novel by Upton Sinclair, which describes workiing-class poverty, lack of social support, and harsh and unpleasant conditions and exposes the meat-packing industry’s health violations and unsanitary practices in the early 20th century.
The Jungle
In the Old English poem “Beowulf,” the hero Beowulf faces a monster known by what name?
Grendel
What is the name of this 1899 novella in which the sailor Charles Marlow tells his listeners the story of his assignment as a steamer captain for a Belgian company in the African interior, and which is considered Joseph Conrad’s most famous work?
Heart of Darkness
Name the author who was highly influenced by Jung’s archetypal theories and who is best known for this work: “The Hero with a Thousand Face.”
Joseph Campbell
Name the author who wrote the novel “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” in 1964, but is much better known for writing British spy stories in which many of the characters were known by a single letter or number.
Ian Fleming
What English writer, born Adeline Virginia Stephen in 1882, is considered one of the most important modernist writers in the 20th century? Her most famous works include “The Waves”, “To the Lighthouse”, and “Mrs. Dalloway”?
Virginia Woolf
“Going to the mattresses,” or hiding out from enemies, was a phrase popularized by what crime novel by Mario Puzo? This novel was later adapted into a film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Marlon Brando as the head of the fictional mafia family.
The Godfather
Fames as “one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century,” which British author, poet, and wartime fighter ace is known for works such as “George’s Marvellous Medicine,” “The Twits,” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”?
Roald Dahl
Name this reclusive American poet famous from Amherst, Massachusetts, who was considered an eccentric during her time, known for white clothing never leaving her bedroom.
Emily Dickinson
Name this Jane Austen character, initially presented as an arrogant and rude man, whose kind and sincere nature is slowly revealed to Elizabeth Bennett.
Mr. Darcy (or Darcy)
Which epic poem begins with the line, “Sing, O goddess the anger of Achilles son of Peleus?”
The Iliad
Which Jane Austen novel was published after the death of the author and features the characters Henry Tilney, Isabella Thorpe, and Catherine Morland?
Northanger Abbey
Who is often credited as the first fictional detective, predating Sherlock Holmes, and appears in Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”?
Auguste Dupin
Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” introduced a drug symbolizing mindless pleasure and contentment. What is the name of the drug?
Soma
Name both the author and the title of the major work which includes the narratives: the “Pardoner’s Tale” and the “Wife of Bath’s Tale”.
“The Canterbury Tales” by Geoffrey Chaucer
Which British author wrote the dystopian novel “A Clockwork Orange”?
Anthony Burgess
Name the captain of the Pequod from Melville’s novel “Mody Dick”.
Captain Ahab
What type fo bird, whose symbolic meaning include both “good luck” and “a heavy burden,” is featured in Samuel Taylor’s Coleridge’s poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”?
Albatross
Which modernist work is structured around the theme of the Odyssey, but is clearly set in 20th-century Dublin?
“Ulysses” by James Joyce
Which playwright wrote “The Birthday Party” and “The Caretaker”?
Harold Pinter
Name the E. M. Forster novel, set in India, which intertwines themes of guilt and redemption which the end of the British Raj.
A Passage to India
Who coined the term “objective correlative” in his essay “Hamlet and His Problems”?
T.S. Eliot
Who wrote “A Modest Proposal,” a atirical essay suggesting the Irish should sell their children as food?
Jonathan Swift
What term refers to a story embedded within another story?
Frame Narrative/Story
Which postmodern author wrote “Gravity’s Rainbow”?
Thomas Pynchon
In which James Joyce novel is the protagonist Stephen Dedalus introduced?
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Which poet wrote “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night,” a villanelle about resisting death?
Dylan Thomas
Which 17th-Century metaphysical poet wrote “To His Coy Mistress”?
Andrew Marvell
“Under the Greenwood Tree” is a novel written by which English author?
Thomas Hardy
In Jane Austin’s “Pride and Prejudice,” who does Elizabeth Bennet eventually marry?
Mr. Darcy
Who tells the first tale in Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales”?
The Knight
