Who won the first Newbery Medal in 1922?
Answer
Hendrik Willem van Loon
83042 Easy Trivia Questions
83042 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What is the title of the 2004 Newbery Medal winner by Kate DiCamillo?
Answer
The Tale of Despereaux
Which author wrote the 1994 Newbery Medal-winning book 'The Giver'?
Answer
Lois Lowry
In Hamlet, who kills Polonius?
Answer
Hamlet
In Hamlet, what is the name of the Danish royal castle?
Answer
Elsinore
In Macbeth, how many witches appear in the play?
Answer
Three
In Romeo and Juliet, what is the name of Juliet's mother?
Answer
Lady Capulet
In Romeo and Juliet, what is the name of the friar who marries the title characters?
Answer
Friar Laurence
In Titus Andronicus, what is the name of the emperor of Rome?
Answer
Saturninus
In Coriolanus, what is the name of Coriolanus's mother?
Answer
Volumnia
In Othello, what is the name of Othello's lieutenant?
Answer
Cassio
In Macbeth, what is the name of Macbeth's castle?
Answer
Inverness
In Hamlet, who is the father of Prince Hamlet?
Answer
King Hamlet
In 'Romeo and Juliet', which prince banishes Romeo from Verona?
Answer
Prince Escalus
In 'Romeo and Juliet', what does Juliet drink to appear dead?
Answer
a sleeping potion
In 'Macbeth', what country is the setting?
Answer
Scotland
Which tragedy includes the villain Iago?
Answer
Othello
Which tragedy is about the star-crossed lovers from Verona?
Answer
Romeo and Juliet
In Shakespeare's 'Macbeth', who kills Macbeth?
Answer
Macduff
Which poet wrote 'The falling flower I saw drift back to the branch — it was a butterfly'?
Answer
Arakida Moritake
Which poet is known as 'the haiku master of the common people'?
Answer
Kobayashi Issa
Which haiku poet was also a famous painter?
Answer
Yosa Buson
Which Japanese poet wrote 'The old pond — a frog jumps in, sound of water'?
Answer
Matsuo Bashō
What is the name of Matsuo Bashō's famous travel diary?
Answer
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
What is the name of the 31-syllable Japanese poem?
Answer
tanka
What is the term for the 'cutting word' in haiku?
Answer
kireji
Which 17th-century Japanese poet is most famous for haiku?
Answer
Matsuo Bashō
Which author won the 2002 Booker Prize for 'Life of Pi'?
Answer
Yann Martel
Which author won the 1992 Booker Prize for 'The English Patient'?
Answer
Michael Ondaatje
Which author won the 1981 Booker Prize for 'Midnight's Children'?
Answer
Salman Rushdie
Who was the first woman to win the Booker Prize?
Answer
Bernice Rubens
Which company originally sponsored the Booker Prize?
Answer
Booker-McConnell