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Literary Odds N' Ends Trivia Quiz

Just some mixed literary trivia.

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

Author
tjoebigham

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
47,884

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

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Difficult

Avg Score
5 / 10

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Question 1 of 10

1. Scientist D-503 falls in with some rebels and gets a brainwashing operation from the State. From what novel is this from? Hint

Brave New World

Nineteen Eighty-Four

A Clockwork Orange

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Question 2 of 10

2. Name the psuedonym that doesn't belong. Hint

Evan Hunter

Richard Stark

Ed McBain

Richard Marsten

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Question 3 of 10

3. What is the relation of 'Raffles' creator E.W. Hornung to the great Sir Arthur Conan Doyle? Hint

brother-in-law

cousin

uncle

nephew

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Question 4 of 10

4. In what way are Thomas Hardy and Herman Melville NOT alike? Hint

both were journalists

both wrote poetry

both were novelists

both wrote short stories

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Question 5 of 10

5. What author here is best known for his horror stories? Hint

H.G. Wells

Edgar Rice Burroughs

H.P. Lovecraft

Robert E. Howard

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Question 6 of 10

6. What English poet gave James Jones three of his titles? Hint

Carroll

Kipling

Keats

Coleridge

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Question 7 of 10

7. Which of these playwrights wasn't successful? Hint

Oscar Wilde

Henry James

Eugene O'Neill

Samuel Beckett

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Question 8 of 10

8. Who isn't an essayist? Hint

Marlowe

Thoreau

Chesterton

Mencken

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Question 9 of 10

9. True or false: Shakespeare wrote only plays.

Answer: (One Word)

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Question 10 of 10

10. What author did NOT inspire a Hemingway title? Hint

Lewis Carroll

John Donne

King Solomon

Shakespeare

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Scientist D-503 falls in with some rebels and gets a brainwashing operation from the State. From what novel is this from?

Answer: We

George Orwell acknowledged Eugene Zamyatin's influence, but not Aldous Huxley, and Anthony Burgess used Russian as the basis for his Nadsat language in 'Orange'.

2. Name the psuedonym that doesn't belong.

Answer: Richard Stark

The other three belong to Salvatore Lombino, best known for his 'Hunter' novels and 'McBain' mysteries. Stark is the pen name of Donald E. Westlake.

3. What is the relation of 'Raffles' creator E.W. Hornung to the great Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?

Answer: brother-in-law

Hornung even dedicated his first volume of Raffles stories to Doyle!

4. In what way are Thomas Hardy and Herman Melville NOT alike?

Answer: both were journalists

Hardy had a bit more success with his poems than Melville.

5. What author here is best known for his horror stories?

Answer: H.P. Lovecraft

H.G. Wells, along with Verne, pioneered modern science fiction. And Burroughs, besides his Tarzan tales, also penned scientific fantasies set on Mars and in the earth's center. Howard is best known for his sword-and-sorcery epics of Conan. And they wrote for the pulps, as did Lovecraft. Wells, though, published his stories long before the pulps were born, though some sci-fi pulps reprinted his tales.

6. What English poet gave James Jones three of his titles?

Answer: Kipling

'From Here To Eternity' from 'Gentleman-Rankers', 'Go To The Widow-Maker' from 'Harp-Song of the Danish Women' and 'The Thin Red Line from 'Tommy'('thin red line o'heroes' came from a Crimean War reporter)

7. Which of these playwrights wasn't successful?

Answer: Henry James

Success on the stage eluded novelist James.

8. Who isn't an essayist?

Answer: Marlowe

Marlowe was a fellow playwright of Shakespeare.

9. True or false: Shakespeare wrote only plays.

Answer: false

The Bard is also known for his great body of sonnets.

10. What author did NOT inspire a Hemingway title?

Answer: Lewis Carroll

'The Sun Also Rises' from King Solomon's Ecclesiastes, 'For Whom The Bell Tolls' from Donne and 'A Sea-Change', a short story, from Shakespeare's 'Tempest'.

Source: Author tjoebigham

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