Answers to literature quiz
Tony Hurson
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who are seeing the questions for the first time might like to twist their
heads upside down as 'ANSWERS' scrolls past!
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001. Which Harlem-born novelist wrote "Go Tell It On The Mountain",
"Giovanni's Room" and "Another Country"?
002. What was the nationality of the poetess Sor Juana?
003. What contemporary of Shakespeare's wrote "The Alchemist" and
"Bartholemew Fair"?
004. Which early 20th century French novelist began writing with
her husband, but became a respected writer in her own right
with such wry, penetrating novels as "Gigi" and "Sido"?
005. Which English novelist and poet created the fictional county
of Wessex?
006. Dostoyevsky's novel "Crime and Punishment" is set in which
city?
007. Which French Symbolist poet had a work entitled "Les Fleurs Du
Mal"?
008. Name the philosopher brother of a famous American writer, who
wrote and lectured on "Pragmatism" at Columbia University.
009. Which writer of the Scottish Enlightenment created the novels
"The Abbot" and "Ivanhoe"?
010. Which English historian wrote "The Decline And Fall Of The Roman
Empire"?
011. Whose long treatise on Existentialism is entitled "Being And
Nothingness"?
012. Whose book "Mont Saint Michel And Chartres" reflected the author's
quest for order and unity in a world of multiplicity and
disintegration?
013. Which major work of James Joyce has a synthesized language of
English, Latin, French, Irish and Danish?
014. Which novel by Nabokov, after being refused by many publishers,
eventually found a home at the Olympia Press in Paris?
015. Evelyn Waugh's "Scoop" is a satire on which profession?
016. Which unfinished novel of Kafka's was published posthumously
in 1927?
017. Which English dramatist wrote the Restoration comedy "The Country
Wife"?
018. Which writer created the "Rosy Crucifixion" trilogy?
019. In poetry, what is aliteration?
020. Who used the Moscow Trials of the 1930s as a basis for his
novel "Darkness At Noon"?
021. What is the nationality of Jorge Luis Borges?
022. In Thomas Hardy's "Jude The Obscure", Christminster is the
fictional name of which English city?
023. Which Norwegian novelist won the 1920 Nobel Literature
Prize for the book, "The Growth Of The Soil"?
024. Who wrote "As I Lay Dying"?
025. Which English Victorian novelist and politician wrote
"Sybil" and "Tancred"?
026. Wyndham Lewis satirized the lives of the Sitwells, Gertrude
Stein and James Joyce in which novel?
027. Who painted a satirical picture of social life in 1870s New
York in "The Age Of Innocence"?
028. Which English Romantic poets collaborated on "Lyrical
Ballads"?
029. Whose novels include "Roderic Hudson, The American", "What
Daisy Knew" and "The Ambassadors"?
030. Who wrote the novel "New Grub Street"?
031. In which Bertholt Brecht book does Mac The Knife appear?
032. Name the French Existentialist, born in Algeria, whose
essays include "The Myth Of Sisyphus"?
033. In which John Buchan book does Richard Hannay become a
British general and spy catcher?
034. Hemingway's wartime experience in which European country
formed the backdrop to "A Farewell To Arms"?
035. Which longtime companion of Jean Paul Sartre wrote "The
Second Sex"?
036. What was the pen-name of Mary-Ann Evans, the writer of
"Silas Marner"?
037. Which protestant reformer wrote "The History Of The
Reformation Within The Realme Of Scotland" and "First
Blast Of The Trumpet Against The Monstrous Regiment Of
Women"?
038. What is the nationality of Gabriel Garcia-Marquez?
039. The wife of a well known poet created the character of
Frankenstein. Who was she?
040. What French writer's confession of homosexuality was
translated as "If It Die..."?
041. In which work does Balaam's Ass appear?
042. Who wrote simple, natural accounts of his early life
called "Boyhood" and "Childhood".
043. Which recent writer has produced a 5-volume autobiography,
beginning with "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings"?
044. Who was the creator of Sherlock Holmes?
045. In Goethe's "Faust", how does the Devil first appear to
the main character?
046. Shakespeare's Shylock is a citizen of which European city?
047. Which philosopher and poet, born in Boston, was briefly a
pastor before embarking on a career as a lecturer, evolving
a quasi-religious philosophy known as Transcendentalism?
048. Where does the adjective "shavian" come from?
049. Whose memoirs are called "The Autobiography Of Alice B.
Tolkas"?
050. Which playwright had the characters Sganarelle and Tartuffe
in his works?
051. Who, according to Shakespeare, said "A horse, a horse, my
kingdom for a horse"?
052. Sir Walter Scott's "Heart Of Midlothian" is set in which
city?
053. Which poet and lawyer became the first Black to be admitted
to the Florida Bar since Reconstruction days?
054. What was the nationality of the poet Frederico Garcia Lorca?
055. "The House Of The Dead" is an account of life in a Siberian
prison. Who wrote it?
056. "The Lake School", a group of English poets, consisted of
Coleridge, Southey and who else?
057. Which 20th century French writer's works include the play
"The Blacks"?
058. "The History Of Henry Esmond" and "Vanity Fair" were written
by which English novelist?
059. What was the nationality of Pablo Neruda?
060. In which wartime satire could you be removed from duty if
mad, but were considered sane if you asked to be removed
from duty?
061. The writer Isaac Bashevis Singer has written principally
in which language?
062. Who wrote "Alice In Wonderland"?
063. Which 20th century poet had a poem with the opening line,
"I too sing America"?
064. Which book by George Orwell describes a northern English
town during the Depression era?
065. Which contemporary Czech writer has been called "The other
K."?
066. What is the distinction between Shakespeare's folios and
quartos?
067. The most popular novel of this San Francisco-born
illegitimate child recounted his Alaskan experiences in the
character of the dog "Buck". Who was he?
068. Who wrote "The Picture Of Dorian Gray"?
069. Which writer, born in Canada of Russian-Jewish parents
wrote the novels "Dangling Man", "Herzog" and "Humboldt's
Gift"?
070. Which German literary philosopher created the doctrine of
the Superman?
071. Montagues and Capulets face off against each other in which
Shakespearian play?
072. Which character ends Joyce's "Ulysses" with a chapter-long
stream-of-consciousness?
073. Which area provides the scene for "Naked On Roller Skates"
by Maxwell Bodenheim, "All God's Chillun Got Wings" by
Eugene O'Neil, and "The Cool World" by Warren Miller?
074. Which German novelist, mystic and critic of bourgeois
society wrote "The Glass Bead Game"?
075. Who was the author who created the detective "Maigret"?
076. What is the nationality of the novelist Anita Desai?
077. In which decade was Steinbeck's "Tortilla Flat" published?
078. Who was Don Quixote's squire?
079. Who wrote "Utopia", a sketch of an ideal commonwealth, in
Latin?
080. Which Dostoyevsky novel contains the character Kirilov?
081. In which street did Sherlock Holmes live?
082. Who created the character of Horatio Hornblower?
083. In which language was the Mahabaratha written?
084. Who originally wrote "The Beggar's Opera"?
085. Which Irish-born satirist created the land of Brobdingnag?
086. In which Shakespearean play does a character have the
following titles : Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor and king?
087. Name Jonson's "Jew Of Malta".
088. Which 1950's play about the Salem witchcraft trials was
considered a parable of McCarthyism?
089. Which 17th century English writer's most famous works are
"Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained"?
090. Name the English lexicographer, essayist, poet and moralist
of the 18th century, whose most famous work is "The
Dictionary Of The English Language".
091. Which Southern Catholic writer who died in 1964 was best
known for her short stories, which have been labelled
"Southern Gothic"?
092. Who wrote "Mourning Becomes Electra"?
093. Who wrote "The Magic Mountain", "Dr. Faustus" and
"Buddenbrooks"?
094. "The Cocktail Party" and "Murder In The Cathedral" are plays
by which Anglo-American poet?
095. What was the nationality of G.B. Shaw?
096. Who wrote "Bartleby The Scrivener"?
097. Thomas a Kempis wrote a religious treatise that had a major
influence on Christianity. What is its title?
098. Name the 19th century Russian novelist whose most famous
work is the epic "Dead Souls".
099. Uriah Heep comes from the pen of which novelist?
100. A novel written by Erich Maria Remarque was the best known
piece of anti-war literature between the World Wars. What
is its name?
101. Who wrote "Barchester Towers"?
102. Which 12th century Muslim philosopher, known to Chaucer's
Physician, helped bring Aristotle back into the Western
tradition?
103. Which famous literary magazine was founded in Boston in 1857
and named by Oliver Wendell Holmes?
104. Which French writer wrote the open letter "J'accuse" ("I
Accuse") to President Faure of France in denunciation of
the Dreyfus affair?
105. Which Shakespearean play would ideally be performed on June
23rd?
106. Which 12th century Spanish philosopher, known to Jews as
"Rambam" wrote "A Treatise On Logic" and "A Guide For The
Perplexed"?
107. Which 19th century Scottish critic produced books including
"A History Of The French Revolution", "Chartism" and "Past
And Present"?
108. Which American essayist, biographer and historian's most
famous book is "The Sketch Book Of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent."?
109. Which book of the Bible begins "In the beginning was the
Word..."?
110. What is the main character's profession in Kafka's "The
Castle"?
111. Who created the character "Tarzan"?
112. Which poet helped found the Abbey theatre in Dublin and wrote
poems such as "The Wild Swans Of Coole" and "The Wanderings
Of Oisin"?
113. Which American poet and suicide wrote "Colossus", "The Bell
Jar" and "Johnny Panic And The Bible Of Dreams"?
114. Name the son of a German factory owner who wrote of the
wretched condition of the urban poor in "The Condition Of
The Working Class In England".
115. In Shakespeare's "Richard II", who usurps Richard's throne?
116. In which G.B. Shaw play does Don Juan appear?
117. Which writer first presented his famous private eye in "The
Maltese Falcon"?
118. Which 20th century playwright, despite his committment to
Marxism, has remained popular in the West with works such
as "Mother Courage" and "The Caucasian Chalk Circle"?
119. Who wrote "Dr. Zhivago"?
120. Which English poet created "The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner"
and "Kubla Khan"?
121. Who wrote the play "Hedda Gabler"?
122. What is the nationality of the poet Derek Walcott?
123. Who, in 1925, wrote "An American Tragedy"?
124. Which French novelist created the Count of Monte Cristo?
125. Who wrote "Emma", "Persuasion" and "Sense And Sensibility"?
126. Which modern English poet insisted a "White Goddess"
permeated the spirit of all good poetry?
127. Name the English novelist who wrote "Women In Love" and "The
Plumed Serpent".
128. Born the son of a Persian tent maker, he became an astronomer
and mathematician, but is best known for a long poem. Who was
he?
129. Who wrote the 1939 novel "After Many A Summer Dies The Swan"?
130. Which Latin American writer wrote "The Death Of Artemio
Cruz"?
131. Which English poet and critic's most enduring work is the
collection of essays "Culture And Anarchy"?
132. Which English Romantic poet wrote "Ode To A Grecian Urn",
"Ode To Psyche" and "Ode To A Nightingale"?
133. Charles Jackson's first novel is a vivid report on the life
of an alcoholic. What is its title?
134. Name the famous book that was written following the
researches of a scientist on the Galapagos Islands.
135. Which medieval Italian philosopher, called "Doctor Angelicus"
wrote the "Summa Theologica"?
136. Which medieval story includes a franklin, a physician, a
merchant and a prioress?
137. Which 20th century novelist, born in New Orleans, wrote the
books "Other Voices, Other Rooms" and "In Cold Blood"?
138. Who wrote "Address To The Deil" in 1786, attacking the
corrupt clergy in Scotland?
139. Who captained the ship in Melville's "Moby Dick"?
140. What is the nationality of playwright Eugene Ionesco?
141. Who were Beaumont and Fletcher?
142. Which American statesman, who died in a duel, wrote a
collection of essays favouring strong, centralised
goverment?
143. Which German sociologist suggested a religious under-
-pinning to capitalism and also wrote a history of the Jews?
144. Who wrote "And Quiet Flows The Don"?
145. Shakespeare's "Hamlet" is set at which castle?
146. Harlequin, the stock character of European comedy came
originally from which country?
147. Which English poet and dramatist served in the Spanish Civil
War, married Thomas Mann's daughter and moved from Marxist
to Christian viewpoints in his lifetime?
148. What is the nationality of Jorge Amado?
149. Which writer on philosophy wrote "Eichmann In Jerusaulem: A
Study In The Banality Of Evil"?
150. Voltaire's most popular novel, satirising the optimistic
creed of Leibnitz, has what title?
151. Who wrote "Keep The Asphidistra Flying" and "Down And Out In
Paris And London"?
152. Which close friend of Joyce settled in Paris in 1937 and is
considered a master of the literature of the Absurd?
153. Who in 1804 produced the long, mystical poem "Jerusaulem"?
154. Who wrote "The Last Of The Mohicans"?
155. From which region of France did the medieval tales of
chivalry originate?
156. Who is the bearer of the "Scarlet letter" in Nathaniel
Hawthorne's novel of that name?
157. The Czech writer Jaroslav Hasek is best known in the English-
speaking world for what satire?
158. Who wrote "The House Of The Seven Gables"?
159. In T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land", how did Phlebas the
Phonecian die?
160. Who wrote the World Warr II novel "The Naked And The Dead"?
161. Which writer created The Canterville Ghost?
162. Harry Hope's rundown saloon is a harbour for alcoholics in
which Eugene O'Neil play?
163. Which French novelist's comic masterpiece "The Human Comedy"
took 20 years to write?
164. Which Irish-born 18th century politcal writer wrote a classic
conservative criticism of the French Revolution?
165. In the book "Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man", who is
the fictional artist?
166. Beatrice was the beloved of which 13th century poet?
167. Which chronicler of the Gulag, a critic of communism and
democracy was deported from the U.S.S.R. in 1974?
168. In the Bible, what is the Pentateuch?
169. In which language was the play "Waiting For Godot" originally
written?
170. Who wrote a 2-volume set of children's stories called "The
Jungle Book"?
171. What term has been used to describe the works of Borges,
Garcia-Marquez and Carpentier?
172. Which poet and friend of T.S. Eliot attacked usury as the
root of all evil; but later dismissed his anti-semitism as a
"suburban prejudice"?
173. "Beowolf" is part of the 8th century literature of which
country?
174. Which peasant girl was the object of Don Quixote's affection?
175. Name the English Radical politician who described the death
pangs of peasant England in "Rural Rides".
176. Which Scottish Enlightenment philosopher was ostracized by
Edinburgh society for his religious scepticism?
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001 : James Baldwin.
002 : Mexican.
003 : Ben Jonson.
004 : Colette.
005 : Thomas Hardy.
006 : St. Petersburg.
007 : Baudelaire.
008 : William James.
009 : Sir Walter Scott.
010 : Edward Gibbon.
011 : Jean Paul Sartre.
012 : Henry Adams.
013 : "Finegan's Wake".
014 : "Lolita".
015 : Journalism.
016 : "Amerika".
017 : William Wycherly.
018 : Henry Miller.
019 : The repetition of consonants, especially first consonants, as in
"Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Pepper".
020 : Arthur Koestler.
021 : Argentinian.
022 : Oxford.
023 : Knut Hamsun.
024 : William Faulkener.
025 : Benjamin Disraelli.
026 : "The Apes Of God".
027 : Edith Wharton.
028 : Coleridge and Wordsworth.
029 : Henry James.
030 : George Gissing.
031 : "Threepenny Novel".
032 : Albert Camus.
033 : "The Thirty-nine Steps".
034 : Italy.
035 : Simone de Beauvoir.
036 : George Eliot.
037 : John Knox.
038 : Colombian.
039 : Mary Shelley.
040 : Andre Gide.
041 : The Bible.
042 : Tolstoy.
043 : Maya Angelou.
044 : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
045 : As a black dog.
046 : Venice.
047 : Ralph Waldo Emerson.
048 : The works of G.B. Shaw.
049 : Gertrude Stein.
050 : Moliere.
051 : Richard III.
052 : Edinburgh, Scotland.
053 : James Weldon Johnson.
054 : Spanish.
055 : Dostoyevsky.
056 : William Wordsworth.
057 : Jean Genet.
058 : William Thackeray.
059 : Chilean.
060 : "Catch-22".
061 : Yiddish.
062 : Lewis Carroll.
063 : Langston Hughes.
064 : "The Road To Wigan Pier".
065 : Milan Kundera.
066 : Folding of the sheets : folios were tall and thin; quartos
were smaller and squarer.
067 : Jack London.
068 : Oscar Wilde.
069 : Saul Bellow.
070 : Nietzsche.
071 : "Romeo and Juliet".
072 : Molly Bloom.
073 : Harlem, in New York City.
074 : Hermann Hesse.
075 : George Simenon.
076 : Indian.
077 : 1930s (1935).
078 : Sancho Panza.
079 : Sir Thomas More.
080 : "The Devils", or, "The Pocessed".
081 : Baker Street.
082 : C.S. Forester.
083 : Sanskrit.
084 : John Gay.
085 : Jonathan Swift.
086 : "Macbeth".
087 : Barrabas.
088 : "The Crucible".
089 : Milton.
090 : Samuel Johnson.
091 : Flannery O'Connor.
092 : Eugene O'Neil.
093 : Thomas Mann.
094 : T.S. Eliot.
095 : Irish.
096 : Herman Melville.
097 : "The Imitation of Christ".
098 : Gogol.
099 : Dickens ("David Copperfield").
100 : "All Quiet On The Western Front".
101 : Anthony Trollope.
102 : Averoes.
103 : "The Atlantic Monthly".
104 : Emile Zola.
105 : "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
106 : Maimonides.
107 : Thomas Carlyle.
108 : Washington Irving.
109 : John.
110 : A land surveyor.
111 : Edgar Rice Burroughs.
112 : W.B. Yeats.
113 : Sylvia Plath.
114 : Frederick Engels.
115 : Bollingbrooke.
116 : "Man And Superman".
117 : Dashiel Hammett.
118 : Bertholt Brecht.
119 : Boris Pasternak.
120 : Samual Taylor Coleridge.
121 : Henrik Ibsen
122 : Jamaican.
123 : Theodore Dreiser.
124 : Alexandre Dumas.
125 : Jane Austen.
126 : Robert Graves.
127 : D.H. Lawrence.
128 : Omar Khaiyam.
129 : Aldous Huxley.
130 : Carlos Fuentes.
131 : Matthew Arnold.
132 : John Keats.
133 : "The Lost Weekend".
134 : "The Origin Of The Species".
135 : Thomas Aquinas.
136 : "The Canterbury Tales".
137 : Truman Capote.
138 : Robert Burns.
139 : Ahab.
140 : Romanian.
141 : Elizabethan English dramatists.
142 : Alexander Hamilton.
143 : Max Weber.
144 : Mikhail Sholokhov.
145 : Elsinore.
146 : Italy.
147 : W.H. Auden.
148 : Brazilian.
149 : Hannah Arendt.
150 : "Candide", or, "L'Optimisme".
151 : George Orwell.
152 : Samuel Beckett.
153 : William Blake.
154 : J.F. Cooper.
155 : Provence.
156 : Hester Prynne.
157 : "The Good Soldier Schweik".
158 : Nathaniel Hawthorne.
159 : By water, drowning.
160 : Norman Mailer.
161 : Oscar Wilde.
162 : "The Iceman Cometh".
163 : Honore de Balzac.
164 : Edmund Burke.
165 : Stephen Dedalus.
166 : Dante.
167 : Alexander Soltzenitzhen.
168 : The 1st 5 books.
169 : French.
170 : Rudyard Kipling.
171 : Magic Realism.
172 : Ezra Pound.
173 : England.
174 : Dulcinea del Tobosco.
175 : William Cobbett.
176 : David Hume.
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