16373 Hard Trivia Questions
16373 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What was George Orwell's original title for '1984'?
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The Last Man in Europe
In 'The Westing Game', what is the name of the building where the characters live?
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Sunset Towers
Who wrote 'The Princess and the Goblin'?
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George MacDonald
Who wrote 'The Story of Ferdinand'?
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Munro Leaf
What is the name of the automaton's maker in 'The Invention of Hugo Cabret'?
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Georges Méliès
What is the name of the magical kingdom in 'The Phantom Tollbooth'?
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The Kingdom of Wisdom
What is the name of the mother cat in 'The Tale of Tom Kitten'?
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Tabitha Twitchit
What is the real name of the author behind the pseudonym Lemony Snicket?
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Daniel Handler
Who illustrated the original 'Winnie-the-Pooh' books?
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E. H. Shepard
Which Roald Dahl children's book was published after his death?
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The Minpins
Who won the first Caldecott Medal for illustration?
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Dorothy P. Lathrop
What was the first book to win the Newbery Medal?
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The Story of Mankind
What is the real name of the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
What is the oldest American picture book still in print?
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Millions of Cats
In 'Midnight's Children', what is the name of Saleem Sinai's son?
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Aadam Sinai
In 'The Obscene Bird of Night', what is the name of the protagonist?
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Humberto Peñaloza
In 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', which character deciphers Melquíades's manuscripts?
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Aureliano Babilonia
What is the name of the magical realist novel by Ben Okri that won the Booker Prize in 1991?
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The Famished Road
In which Alejo Carpentier novel does the character Ti Noël appear?
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The Kingdom of This World
Which Günter Grass novel features a boy who refuses to grow up?
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The Tin Drum
In 'The House of the Spirits', which character has the gift of foresight?
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Clara del Valle
What term did Alejo Carpentier coin for the Latin American magical realism tradition?
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Lo real maravilloso
Which French poet wrote the prose poem collection 'A Season in Hell'?
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Arthur Rimbaud
Who was the first poet to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Sully Prudhomme
Which Persian poet wrote the epic poem 'Shahnameh'?
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Ferdowsi
Which poet wrote the collection "The Flowers of Evil"?
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Charles Baudelaire
Which poet coined the term "sprung rhythm"?
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
Which American poet wrote the modernist epic 'The Bridge'?
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Hart Crane
Which Nobel laureate wrote the epic poem 'Omeros'?
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Derek Walcott
Which English poet wrote the sonnet sequence 'Sonnets from the Portuguese'?
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Which English poet wrote the ode 'The Wreck of the Deutschland'?
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
Which poet wrote the long narrative poem 'Aurora Leigh'?
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Who coined the term 'negative capability'?
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John Keats
Which poet wrote 'The Duino Elegies'?
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Rainer Maria Rilke