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Writers And Where They Lived Trivia Quiz

Authors just as normal earthlings need houses to live in. Some had very impressive, very romantic or very unusual houses, or they simply were very much attached to them. - In this quiz all questions have a link with such a house.

A multiple-choice quiz by chrissie_26. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
chrissie_26

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
39,667

Updated
Aug 17 24

# Qns
10

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Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

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One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. 907 Whitehead Street, Key West was his address. Sloppy Joe's bar his home from home. Martha Gelhorn one of his lovers. Who is this macho guy? Hint

John Dos Passos

Scott Fitzgerald

Erskine Caldwell

Ernest Hemingway

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Question 2 of 10

2. She had an abandoned English castle for a home, together with her husband she added a wonderful garden to it and was a friend of Virginia Woolf's. Who is this daughter of Eve? Hint

Violet Keppel -Trefusis

Rosamund Grosvenor

Vita Sackville-West

Vanessa Bell

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Question 3 of 10

3. This Welsh poet lived for quite some time in a Boat House with a view of the sea. He died at the end of a lecture tour in USA 1953. His name? Hint

Ronald Stewart Thomas

Vernon Watkins

Edward Thomas

Dylan Thomas

4. This American author was born in Missouri, but had his favourite house at Hartford, Connecticut. He was so popular that in summer he had to 'hide' from his fans on his wife Livy's family-estate. Who is he? Hint

Theodore Dreiser

Charles Brockden Brown

Frank Norris

Mark Twain

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Question 5 of 10

5. English female author. Found herself a cottage ('Monk's House') in Rodmell, Sussex. She drowned herself near that cottage in March 1941. Hint

Maud Gonne

Virginia Woolf

Vanessa Bell

Lady Ottoline Morrell

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Question 6 of 10

6. Irish author who wrote a lot about his 'Tower' near Gort, Galway. Had to leave for Dublin when after the Irish Civil War he was elected as a Senator for the new Irish Parliament. His name? Hint

W.B. Yeats

Seamus Heaney

Patrick Kavanagh

Frank O'Connor

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Question 7 of 10

7. Born in Belgium, French nationality, wrote a book on the Emperor Hadrian . She sheltered from World War II at 'Petite Plaisance', Mount Desert Island, Maine where she lived with Grace Frick and later Jerry Wilson. Survived both of them and returned to France. Became Member of the French Academy. Buried on Mount Desert Island. Hint

Colette

Simone de Beauvoir

Francoise Sagan

Marguerite Yourcenar

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Question 8 of 10

8. This American author was born in New Albany, Mississippi, and spent time in New Orleans, Paris, New York, Hollywood - where he wrote filmscripts. His main residence however was Oxford, Mississippi, at Rowan Oak. Hint

Jack Kerouac

Saul Bellow

John Hawkes

William Faulkner

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Question 9 of 10

9. Danish authoress. Married a Swedish Baron, went with him to Kenya. Disappointed in and deceived by her faithless husband, she fell in love with an eccentric Englishman who got killed in a plane crash. Returned to her family residence Rungstedlung near Copenhagen. Her given name (not her pen name)? Hint

Karen Finch Hatton

Karen Blixen

Karen Dinesen

Isak Dinesen

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Question 10 of 10

10. Born in India, English nationality, settled on Island of Corfu, sheltered from Germans in Alexandria, Egypt. Then back to Greece, Rhodes and Cyprus. Because of troubles in Cyprus he went to France, and found a suitable residence at Sommieres, near Nimes. Hint

Lawrence Durrell

Henry Miller

Gerald Durrell

John Updike

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. 907 Whitehead Street, Key West was his address. Sloppy Joe's bar his home from home. Martha Gelhorn one of his lovers. Who is this macho guy?

Answer: Ernest Hemingway

John Dos Passos (1896-1970). F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940). Erskine Caldwell won some fame with "God's Little Acre"

2. She had an abandoned English castle for a home, together with her husband she added a wonderful garden to it and was a friend of Virginia Woolf's. Who is this daughter of Eve?

Answer: Vita Sackville-West

Vanessa Bell was Virginia Woolf's sister and mother of Quentin Bell; Violet and Rosamund were friends of Vita's. Vita's castle is now better known as Sissinghurst Gardens.

3. This Welsh poet lived for quite some time in a Boat House with a view of the sea. He died at the end of a lecture tour in USA 1953. His name?

Answer: Dylan Thomas

R.S. Thomas, born 1913, Cardiff. Edward Thomas (1878-1917), born in London and not a Welshman at all. Vernon Watkins (1906-67), Welsh poet.

Answer: Mark Twain

Theodore Dreiser (1871, Terre Haute, Indiana - 1945). Frank Norris (1871-1900). Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)

5. English female author. Found herself a cottage ('Monk's House') in Rodmell, Sussex. She drowned herself near that cottage in March 1941.

Answer: Virginia Woolf

Maud Gonne was the Irish nationalist Yeats had fallen in love with. Lady Ottoline Morrell played a role in D.H. Lawrence's life. Vanessa Bell was Virginia Woolf's sister.

6. Irish author who wrote a lot about his 'Tower' near Gort, Galway. Had to leave for Dublin when after the Irish Civil War he was elected as a Senator for the new Irish Parliament. His name?

Answer: W.B. Yeats

Kavanagh (1904-67) born in Inniskeen, Co. Monaghan. Seamus Heaney born 1939 in Co. Derry, Northern Ireland but has moved to the Irish Republic since 1972. Frank O'Connor, ps. of Michael O'Donovan (1903-1966).

Answer: Marguerite Yourcenar

Marguerite Yourcenar was born de Crayencour, her ps. is an anagram of her real name. Colette, Sagan and de Beauvoir all were prominent French women writers.

Answer: William Faulkner

Hawkes born 1925 - Saul Bellow 1915 (author of "the Adventures of Augie March"; "Herzog" ) - Kerouac (1922-69)

Answer: Karen Dinesen

Denys Finch Hatton was her English lover. Karen Blixen was her name when married to Baron Blixen. Isak Dinesen was her first pen name.

Answer: Lawrence Durrell

John Updike, born 1932. Not an Englishman! Gerald is Lawrence's brother. Henry Miller befriended Durrell and also wrote about Greece.

Source: Author chrissie_26

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