Trivia questions and answers, drawn fresh from the well

• Hard Hard difficulty.
• Nobel Prize In Literature

Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate won in 2011 and was known for short, compressed poems?

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Tomas Tranströmer

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Nobel Prize In Literature

Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate won in 2006 and wrote My Name Is Red?

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Orhan Pamuk

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Nobel Prize In Literature

Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate won in 2001 and wrote A House for Mr Biswas?

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V. S. Naipaul

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Nobel Prize In Literature

Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate won in 1964 but refused the award?

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Jean-Paul Sartre

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Nobel Prize In Literature

Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate won in 1936 and wrote Long Day’s Journey into Night?

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Eugene O’Neill

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Nobel Prize In Literature

Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate won in 1925 after writing plays such as Pygmalion?

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George Bernard Shaw

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Nobel Prize In Literature

Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate won in 1980 for poetry expressing historical and political experience?

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Czesław Miłosz

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Nobel Prize In Literature

Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate won in 1967, becoming the first Guatemalan recipient?

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Miguel Ángel Asturias

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Nobel Prize In Literature

Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate won in 1923 for poetry marked by inspired expression?

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W. B. Yeats

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Norse Mythology In Literature

How many operas make up Richard Wagner’s Norse-inspired Ring Cycle?

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Four

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Norse Mythology In Literature

In the Old English epic Beowulf, what is the name of the hall built by King Hrothgar?

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Heorot

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Norse Mythology In Literature

In John Gardner’s novel Grendel, which literary tradition provides the monster’s original story?

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Beowulf

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