FunTrivia Literature Mix: Vol 13 Quiz

Answer: Charles Robert Darwin FRS

Darwin proposed that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors, and put forward the theory that this branching pattern resulted from a process known as Natural Selection. Although his theory was accepted in his own lifetime, there were still people who refuted this many decades after his death and in parts of the U.S. it was illegal for a teacher to teach his theory in schools.

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Answer: John Grisham

"A Time to Kill"(1989), and "Sycamore Row"(2013) were the first two books in the series. Once again, Brigance is faced with defending an unpopular client in a major public murder trial.

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Answer: Napoleon

Animal Farm was first published in August 1945 as a political satire on Stalin's Soviet Union. Napoleon the pig is undoubtedly the Stalin character in the book. When the animals first drive Farmer Jones away from the farm the leadership of the animals is jointly taken by Napoleon and Snowball.

After a while though Snowball is driven away from the farm as well by the power-hungry Napoleon. After that if anything bad happens it is attributed to Snowball by Napoleon and his henchman, Squealer. Boxer is the hard-working carthorse who ends up being sent to the knacker's yard when he is no longer fit for work.

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Answer: Spanish

"Don Quixote", written by Cervantes, was published in the early 17th century. It is considered by some to be the best book ever written. It is written in Spanish, in a slightly older form compared to modern Spanish (similar to the difference between Shakespeare's plays and modern English). It has been translated into many languages after it was written.

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Answer: Alabama

"To Kill a Mockingbird" is a semi-autobiographical novel, loosely woven around the early life of author Harper Lee, with the principal characters based on her family, friends and neighbours. The plot framework centers upon occurrences and events that happened around her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama in the mid 1930s. Alabama was the 22nd state to join the union in 1822 and Montgomery is the capital.

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Answer: Gothic

"The Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follett was released in 1989. It is a historical novel centering around the building of a cathedral in England. The novel is based in the 12th century. The novel covers the development of Gothic architecture.

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Answer: Groucho Marx

Charlotte Chandler asked Groucho for an interview and she became a close friend who was welcomed into his home. She documented many conversations with his friends and family. She has also written biographies of Bette Davis and Alfred Hitchcock.

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Answer: The Shire

The Shire is the home of hobbits! The book "The Hobbit" doesn't spend much time in the Shire, though. Instead, it follows the adventures of a hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, who goes on a quest with a band of dwarves and a wizard, encountering elves, dragons, giant spiders, and skin-changers along the way.

There are a lot of counties ending in -shire in England (think Derbyshire, Yorkshire, or Shropshire) and this naming pattern was popularized in the tenth century. The Cheshire Cat in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland is a fantastical cat who appears and disappears suddenly (Cheshire is also a county in England). Shire horses are known for their ability to pull a lot of weight.

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Answer: The Wind in the Willows

'The Wind in the Willows' by Kenneth Grahame was published in 1908. President Theodore Roosevelt wrote to the author saying that he had "read it and reread it, and have come to accept the characters as old friends."

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Answer: Colombian

Marquez was born in 1927, and is recognized as Colombia's leading 20th Century novelist. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, and his citation reads "for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts" (Nobel Institute).

His most well known and best selling novel is "One Hundred Years of Solitude", published in 1967. Marquez also published "Love in the Time of Cholera" in 1985, which was made into a film in 2007.

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