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Weird Facts About Authors Trivia Quiz

Following are mixed trivia questions about authors.

A multiple-choice quiz by ravenskye. Estimated time: 3 mins.

Author
ravenskye

Time
3 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
32,323

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
5

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
3 / 5

Plays
1922

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 5

1. Which author was known for liking to write first drafts with a Number 2 pencil?

Answer: (Last name only - American male author)

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Question 2 of 5

2. What did O. Henry, Marquis de Sade and Oscar Wilde have in common? Hint

They all smoked pipes.

They were all vegetarians.

They all wrote while imprisoned.

They were all cross-dressers.

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Question 3 of 5

3. What did Jorge Luis Borges, John Milton and James Thurber have in common? Hint

blind

mute

deaf

no sense of smell

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Question 4 of 5

4. Which of these writers did NOT attend college -- John Steinbeck, Jack London, Mark Twain?

Answer: (Hannibal, MO)

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Question 5 of 5

5. What affliction did Winston Churchill, Charles Dickens and Rudyard Kipling have in common? Hint

Plague

Hay Fever

Insomnia

Tuberculosis

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Which author was known for liking to write first drafts with a Number 2 pencil?

Answer: Hemingway

Hemingway started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of 17.

2. What did O. Henry, Marquis de Sade and Oscar Wilde have in common?

Answer: They all wrote while imprisoned.

O. Henry was imprisoned for embezzlement.

3. What did Jorge Luis Borges, John Milton and James Thurber have in common?

Answer: blind

One of Milton's best known works is "Paradise Lost".

4. Which of these writers did NOT attend college -- John Steinbeck, Jack London, Mark Twain?

Answer: Mark Twain

Jack London attended college in California for a year; John Steinbeck attended Stanford University, 1919-1925.

5. What affliction did Winston Churchill, Charles Dickens and Rudyard Kipling have in common?

Answer: Insomnia

Churchill was also a lover of cats.

Source: Author ravenskye

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