In 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', which mechanical plays the role of Thisbe?
Answer
Francis Flute
16373 Hard Trivia Questions
16373 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What is the name of the Welsh parson in 'The Merry Wives of Windsor'?
Answer
Sir Hugh Evans
In 'Love's Labour's Lost', what is the name of the Spanish knight who speaks broken English?
Answer
Don Adriano de Armado
Which author declined the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1926?
Answer
Sinclair Lewis
Which author was the first to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice?
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Booth Tarkington
Which novel by Booth Tarkington won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1919?
Answer
The Magnificent Ambersons
Which 1988 novel by Salman Rushdie was banned in India and Iran for alleged blasphemy?
Answer
The Satanic Verses
Which 1970 children's picture book by Maurice Sendak was challenged for its depiction of a naked boy?
Answer
In the Night Kitchen
Which 1973 nonfiction work by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was banned in the Soviet Union?
Answer
The Gulag Archipelago
Which 1956 poetry collection by Allen Ginsberg was the subject of an obscenity trial in San Francisco?
Answer
Howl and Other Poems
Which 1962 science fantasy novel by Madeleine L'Engle was banned for its religious themes?
Answer
A Wrinkle in Time
Which 1971 book by William Powell was banned in many countries for instructions on explosives?
Answer
The Anarchist Cookbook
Which 1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis was banned in several countries for extreme violence?
Answer
American Psycho
Which 1933 U.S. court case lifted the ban on James Joyce's 'Ulysses'?
Answer
United States v. One Book Called Ulysses
Which Anthony Burgess novel had its final chapter removed from the US edition due to controversy?
Answer
A Clockwork Orange
Which Chilean poet and educator won the 1945 Nobel Prize in Literature?
Answer
Gabriela Mistral
Which Danish author shared the 1917 Nobel Prize in Literature with Karl Gjellerup?
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Henrik Pontoppidan
Which Russian émigré author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1933?
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Ivan Bunin
Which author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1903 for his lyrical poetry?
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Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Who is the oldest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Doris Lessing
Who was the first person awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature posthumously?
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Erik Axel Karlfeldt
Which author was awarded the 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature but forced to decline?
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Boris Pasternak
Which Prime Minister of the United Kingdom won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953?
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Winston Churchill
In 'A Canticle for Leibowitz', what is the name of the religious order that preserves knowledge?
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The Albertian Order
In 'The Iron Heel', what is the name of the document that tells the story?
Answer
The Everhard Manuscript
In 'The Chrysalids', what is the name of the telepathic protagonist?
Answer
David Strorm
In 'The Space Merchants', what is the name of the dominant advertising agency?
Answer
Fowler Schocken
In 'The Iron Heel' by Jack London, what is the name of the socialist revolutionary?
Answer
Ernest Everhard
In 'Snow Crash' by Neal Stephenson, what is the name of the protagonist?
Answer
Hiro Protagonist
In 'Station Eleven', what is the name of the comic book series within the novel?
Answer
Station Eleven