83042 Easy Trivia Questions
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What is the only penguin species that breeds in South Africa and Namibia?
Answer
African penguin
What kind of bird is a penguin, despite its inability to fly?
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Flightless bird
Which literary movement is Fyodor Dostoevsky most often associated with?
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Russian realism
Which Dostoevsky novel centers on the student Raskolnikov’s murder and moral crisis?
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Crime and Punishment
What was the title of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1864 novella about a bitter, isolated narrator?
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Notes from Underground
What was Fyodor Dostoevsky’s profession before he became a full-time writer?
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Military engineer
Which Tolstoy novella follows the final days of Ivan Ilyich, a high-court judge?
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
What was the name of Leo Tolstoy’s wife, whom he married in 1862?
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Sofia Behrs
What was the title of Leo Tolstoy’s 1863–1869 novel?
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War and Peace
Which Tolstoy short story asks, “How Much Land Does a Man Need?”
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How Much Land Does a Man Need?
At which university did Leo Tolstoy study from 1844 to 1847?
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Kazan University
Which Brazilian rainforest mammal has a golden mane and is named for a lion?
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Golden lion tamarin
Which rainforest primate has enormous eyes and is native to the Philippines?
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Philippine tarsier
In Suzanne Collins’s young-adult novel The Hunger Games, who is the author?
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Suzanne Collins
In Lois Lowry’s young-adult novel The Giver, what is Jonas selected to become?
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Receiver of Memory
What was the title of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s 1958 poetry collection about a famous amusement district?
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A Coney Island of the Mind
Which Beat poet wrote the 1958 novel Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict under a pseudonym?
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William S. Burroughs
Which Beat poet wrote the 1956 novel The Dharma Bums?
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Jack Kerouac
In Roald Dahl’s Matilda, what supernatural power does Matilda develop?
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Telekinesis
What is the name of the boy in Roald Dahl’s George’s Marvellous Medicine?
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George Kranky
Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate won in 1949 and wrote The Sound and the Fury?
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William Faulkner
On which date is the Nobel Prize in Literature normally presented each year?
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10 December
Which institution selects the Nobel Prize in Literature laureate?
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The Swedish Academy
In Richard Matheson’s dystopian novel I Am Legend, what is the name of the protagonist?
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Robert Neville