Which university employed J.R.R. Tolkien as a professor of Anglo-Saxon and English literature?
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University of Oxford
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Which university employed J.R.R. Tolkien as a professor of Anglo-Saxon and English literature?
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University of Oxford
Which Tolkien story features the hobbit Niggle as its central character?
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Leaf by Niggle
What is the name of the fictional artifact Tolkien describes as the Silmarils’ maker’s greatest creation?
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The Silmarils
Which fictional language did J.R.R. Tolkien create from Finnish and use prominently in his writings?
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Quenya
Which 1951 film starring Ava Gardner uses Pandora from Greek mythology in its title?
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Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
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Which Tolkien story features the hobbit Niggle as its central character?
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Leaf by Niggle
Which 1951 film starring Ava Gardner uses Pandora from Greek mythology in its title?
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Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
In Greek mythology, what kind of being was Pandora, according to Hesiod’s account?
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The first woman
Which Hesiod work tells the Pandora story as part of Zeus’s punishment of humanity?
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Works and Days
In Hesiod’s Greek mythology, which god shaped Pandora’s body from clay?
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Hephaestus
Which ancient Greek poem says Pandora’s jar was opened after she was sent to Epimetheus?
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Works and Days