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Biographies and Titles Trivia Quiz

See if you can discern the subject of the book from its title.

A multiple-choice quiz by robert362. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
robert362

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
54,107

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
5 / 10

Plays
1298

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. 'More Than A Woman' Hint

Bette Davis

Joan of Arc

Hillary Clinton

Mother Teresa

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Question 2 of 10

2. 'Sometimes Madness is Wisdom' Hint

Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning

John and Jacqueline Kennedy

Percy Shelley and Mary Shelley

F Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Fitzgerald

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Question 3 of 10

3. 'Sailor on Horseback' Hint

Ernest Hemingway

Joseph Conrad

James Dean

Jack London

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Question 4 of 10

4. 'Israfel', 'The Haunted Palace' Hint

Vincent Price

Edgar Allan Poe

Rod Serling

Bela Lugosi

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Question 5 of 10

5. 'To Purge This Land With Blood' Hint

Jefferson Davis

Robert E. Lee

John Brown

Dred Scott

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Question 6 of 10

6. 'The Passions of the Mind' Hint

Darwin

Da Vinci

Freud

Copernicus

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Question 7 of 10

7. 'The Arrogance of Power' Hint

Nixon

Napoleon

Hitler

Clinton

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Question 8 of 10

8. 'Savage Beauty' Hint

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Marlene Dietrich

Sylvia Plath

Joan Crawford

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Question 9 of 10

9. 'Curse of the Misbegotten' Hint

Arthur Miller

Eugene O'Neill

D.H. Lawrence

Oscar Wilde

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Question 10 of 10

10. 'The War Years', 'The Prairie Years' Hint

Andrew Jackson

Brigham Young

Davy Crockett

Abraham Lincoln

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. 'More Than A Woman'

Answer: Bette Davis

This was a relatively recent biography about the legendary B.D. Apparently, she was quite a handful.

2. 'Sometimes Madness is Wisdom'

Answer: F Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Fitzgerald

This is a current work about the tragic Fitzgeralds.

3. 'Sailor on Horseback'

Answer: Jack London

Jack was a bit of an adventurer.

4. 'Israfel', 'The Haunted Palace'

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

Both are titles of Poe poems, too.

5. 'To Purge This Land With Blood'

Answer: John Brown

Civil War abolitionism.

6. 'The Passions of the Mind'

Answer: Freud

Irving Stone.

7. 'The Arrogance of Power'

Answer: Nixon

'Arrogance' is the perfect word.

8. 'Savage Beauty'

Answer: Edna St. Vincent Millay

Thi is a new one by Nancy Milford, who also wrote about Zelda Fitzgerald.

9. 'Curse of the Misbegotten'

Answer: Eugene O'Neill

Their lives truly seem to have been cursed.

10. 'The War Years', 'The Prairie Years'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln

From Carl Sandburg's multi-volume biography.

Source: Author robert362

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