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1. This colossal novel begins with the question, 'Who is John Galt?'. What is this book that was published in 1957?
2. This author won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1962. Who is the author of "Cup of Gold", "The Wayward Bus", and "The Winter of Our Discontent"?
3. The author Amandine A. L. Dupin Dudevant was said to have had an affair with a person who died in 1849. By what name is Dudevant best known?
4. Seven books in total make up this series of books, with the first three winning a Hugo for best all-time series in 1966. What is the original name of the first novel?
5. Characters in this novel include Zossimov, Lebeziatnikov, Nikodim Fomitch, Zametov, Alyona, Pulcheria, and Marfa Petrovna, just to name a few. What is this novel?
6. 'On a frosty morning with a little February sun, Clifford and Connie went for a walk across the park to the wood,' begins Chapter Five of what novel?
7. What is the title of James Baldwin's first novel?
8. For which work did Carl Sagan win a Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction in 1978?
9. "Welcome to the Monkey House" is a collection of short stories by which American writer?
10. A Nobel Prize winning author, this author had his citizenship taken away and then restored. Who is this author of "The Gulag Archipelago" and "The First Circle"?
11. At the time of his death in 1870, a novel remained to be finished. Name this unfinished novel by the author of "Sketches by Boz"?
12. Which of the following is taken from the novel "The Godfather" by author Mario Puzo?
13. The characters in a comedy based partly on "Rosalynde", a novel by the English author Thomas Lodge, include Rosalind, Celia, Orlando and others. Name this play by Shakespeare that was first performed in 1599 and published in 1623.
14. The 1940 Oscar winner for Best Picture, "Rebecca", was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Who wrote the novel on which it was based?
15. Here's a bit of arithmetic to keep your mind flexible. Take the number of Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle, and divide this number by the number of novels featuring Sherlock Holmes. Add this number to the year of Arthur C. Clarke's third "Odyssey" novel. Subtract from this number the title of a George Orwell novel published in 1949. Finally, add to this the number of times Robert Frost has won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry. What is your final figure?
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