Literature Quiz Questions – Trivia. Bug. The following lines are the answer to what book's titular explanation? The Da Vinci Code (2.

Dan Brown. These are some of the clues which steer Langdon to the solution to the mystery. Idries Shah who achieved prominence as an authority on Sufism is credited with popularizing the stories of which 1. Turkey known for his wit and humor? Nasreddin Hodja. He appears in thousands of stories that are known in most parts of Asia.(Acknowledgement)In a 2. The Telegraph, an inmate in Russia's Petak prison claimed that he knifed two women out of sheer boredom and then asked the interviewer if he is familiar with which author?

Dostoyevsky. The crime of course has parallels to what happens in the classic Crime and Punishment.(Acknowledgement)Which writer who died in 2. Majestyk, and Rum Punch (which became the movie Jackie Brown directed by Tarantino). Napoleon, a Berkshire boar thought to be based on Stalin, triumphs, despite being the novel's baddie. He battles with Snowball, a much nicer pig modeled on Leon Trotsky, who genuinely works for the good of the other animals. It is Napoleon's bully boy tactics which seem to win the day, while Snowball is chased off the farm by dogs. This mirrored Trotsky's deportation from the Soviet Union after he criticized Stalin.(Acknowledgement)Give either of the two better known names of the character who takes the following names in the course of a 1. Porter that is now considered a classic of children's literature, with the title character's name becoming a popular term for someone with an optimistic outlook.(Acknowledgement)The Pulitzer- nominated 1.

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The Madwoman in the Attic which examines Victorian literature from a feminist perspective takes its title from a plot point of what 1. Charlotte Bront? Chesterton, best known for the Father Brown mystery stories, was the judge, while George Bernard Shaw was the foreman of the jury, made up of other authors. The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final and incomplete novel by Charles Dickens in which the focus is on Drood's uncle, choirmaster John Jasper.(Acknowledgement)Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky a current- day husband and wife team are known for what type of contribution to literature? Translations. Most of their translations are of works in Russian, but also French, Italian, and Greek.

On her way to the celebration, there was a young woman dressed in black sitting across the aisle from her. The woman was crying. Miss Wheeler sat next to her and sought to comfort her for the rest of the journey. When they arrived, the poet was so unhappy that she could barely attend the festivities. As she looked at her own face in the mirror, she suddenly recalled the sorrowful widow. It was at that moment that she wrote the opening lines of the poem which was first published in a 1. The New York Sun.(Acknowledgement)Who is the popular contemporary author who is on an on- going mission to 'prove' that English painter Walter Sickert is the actual Jack the Ripper?

Patricia Cornwell (creator of Dr. Kay Scarpetta)She wrote Portrait of a Killer—Jack the Ripper: Case Closed, which was published in 2.

Acknowledgement)The main elements of what beloved series came from the author's boarding school experience of lining up in two perfectly straight lines to go anywhere and from his meeting someone who had their appendix removed? Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans. Lapine, which is derived from the French word for rabbit, is the language spoken by the characters of what 1.

Watership Down by Richard Adams. Set in south- central England, the story features a small group of rabbits. Although they live in their natural environment, they are anthropomorphised.(Acknowledgement)For the title of his year 2. Russia and China, author Tom Clancy used the names of what animals? Bear and dragon (The Bear and the Dragon)The 1. Paige Compositor sought to replace the typewriter but ended up becoming a failure.

Which American author lost nearly all his fortune for its development? Mark Twain. He invested not only the bulk of his book profits but also a large portion of the inheritance of his wife.(Acknowledgement)John Nettleship who himself admitted in an interview that he was “a short- tempered chemistry teacher with long hair. Jane. Namesake of Jane's Defense Weekly, among others.(Acknowledgement)In an interview to The Paris Review, which author talking about his acclaimed 1. English butler as a metaphor for emotional frostiness and reserve? When the novel The Mad Tryst is being read at a sitting, the residence that the dwellers are in begins to collapse in what classic story? Clarke Clarke emigrated to Sri Lanka in 1.

Acknowledgement)According to a 1. Saknussemm's Corridor in an extinct volcano in Iceland is the place to start if you seek to go where? Center of the earth. In Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne. After their adventures, the travelers emerge out in southern Italy at the Stromboli volcano.(Acknowledgement)American poet Dixon Lanier Merritt's well- known limerick is about what bird?

Pelican. It goes: A wonderful bird is the pelican,His bill will hold more than his belican,He can take in his beak. Enough food for a week. But I'm damned if I see how the helican!(Acknowledgement)Algernon Blackwood's 1. H. Lovecraft as the ? The adaptations were in 1.

Acknowledgement)The division of Penguin that deals with science fiction and fantasy books started in 2. Coleridge to describe which diabolic villain of literature? A 1. 97. 8 contemplative travel book of Peter Matthiessen concerned him tracking what elusive creature of the Himalayas? Snow leopard. A 1. Cold War diplomats including Dean Acheson and George Kennan had what title evoking a certain Biblical trio? The unique 'villains' of what celebrated 1.

Yiddish expression . What play by Michael Frayn that takes the name of a European city has the spirits of Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr and Bohr's wife converse on myriad topics? Guy Fawkes. Dostoevsky's The Idiot begins and ends with Prince Myshkin at what type of place? Sanatorium. As his very goodness precipitates disaster, the story suggests that in a world obsessed with money, power, and sexual conquest, a sanatorium may be the only place for a saint. What is particularly common to the narrators of the Edgar Allan Poe stories The Black Cat, The Tell- Tale Heart and The Cask of Amontillado? Narrators are murderers What French novel is said to based on an epidemic that hit the Algerian city of Oran in 1. The Plague by Camus.

Camus was born in Algeria and lived for several years there. A crowned figure clutching a sword and a crosier is seen in the top part on the cover of what important philosophical work of the 1. Due to the penguin parents being of the same sex, some adults in the United States have objected to children reading the book.

Whose interview in Life magazine is said to have led to an upsurge in the sales of James Bond books? After a private screening of Dr. No, he also reportedly said . Anvir Task Manager 7 5 1 Portable.

Wodehouse is a valet and not a butler. He serves a man and not a household. In The Shawshank Redemption when the inmates are organizing books for their library, when told that this classic French novel is about prison break, Morgan Freeman suggests it be filed under education. They involve adventures by groups of children almost all during the school holidays and mostly in England and Scotland, between the two World Wars.

The stories revolve around outdoor activities, especially sailing.(Acknowledgement)Polydactyl cats (born with more than the usual number of toes) are associated with which writer who was known for his love for them? Ernest Hemingway. One of them was first given to him by a ship's captain. Upon Hemingway's death in 1. Key West, Florida, became a museum and a home for his cats, and it currently houses approximately fifty descendants of his cats.(Acknowledgement)What atmospheric 1. American best- seller set in Georgia became known for its striking cover of the sculpture of a girl holding two bowls?