Which poet wrote 'The Cantos'?
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Ezra Pound
16373 Hard Trivia Questions
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Which ancient Greek poet wrote 'Theogony'?
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Hesiod
Who translated the 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam' into English?
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Edward FitzGerald
What poetic form consists of 19 lines, five tercets and a quatrain?
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Villanelle
What is the oldest known surviving Old English poem?
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Cædmon's Hymn
Who wrote the poem containing the line 'I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul'?
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William Ernest Henley
Which novel by Alejo Carpentier is set during the Haitian Revolution?
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The Kingdom of This World
What is the original Spanish title of Mario Vargas Llosa's novel 'The War of the End of the World'?
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La guerra del fin del mundo
What is the full birth name of the Brazilian author known as Machado de Assis?
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Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Which Cuban poet wrote the novel 'Paradiso'?
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José Lezama Lima
Which Argentine author wrote the novel 'Betrayed by Rita Hayworth'?
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Manuel Puig
What was the real birth name of the poet Pablo Neruda?
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Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto
Which Brazilian author wrote the modernist novel 'Macunaíma'?
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Mário de Andrade
Which Brazilian author wrote 'Grande Sertão: Veredas'?
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João Guimarães Rosa
What is the name of the literary movement founded by Vicente Huidobro?
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Creacionismo
Which Peruvian poet wrote 'Los heraldos negros'?
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César Vallejo
Which Cuban author wrote 'Three Trapped Tigers'?
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Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Which Colombian author wrote 'The Sound of Things Falling'?
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Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Which Chilean author wrote 'The Savage Detectives'?
Answer
Roberto Bolaño
Which Brazilian author wrote 'Near to the Wild Heart'?
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Clarice Lispector
Which Dominican dictator is the subject of Mario Vargas Llosa's 'The Feast of the Goat'?
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Rafael Trujillo
What is the title of Jorge Luis Borges's story about a man with perfect memory?
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Funes the Memorious
In which country was author Julio Cortázar born?
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Belgium
What is the name of the fictional town where Dostoevsky's 'The Brothers Karamazov' is set?
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Skotoprigonyevsk
What is the name of the protagonist in Vladimir Nabokov's Russian-language novel 'The Gift'?
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Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev
What is the name of the novel by Mikhail Sholokhov that won the Nobel Prize?
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And Quiet Flows the Don
What is the name of the simple peasant who represents Tolstoy's ideal in 'War and Peace'?
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Platon Karataev
What is the name of the protagonist in Leskov's 'Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District'?
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Katerina Izmailova
What is the name of the character in Dostoevsky's 'Demons' who leads a secret revolutionary cell?
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Pyotr Verkhovensky
What is the name of the countess in Pushkin's 'The Queen of Spades'?
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Anna Fedotovna
In which year did Leo Tolstoy die?
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1910
Which Russian author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970?
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn
In 'What Is to Be Done?' by Chernyshevsky, what is the name of the heroine?
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Vera Pavlovna
What is the name of the poetic form introduced by Pushkin in 'Eugene Onegin'?
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Onegin stanza
Which character writes 'The Grand Inquisitor' poem in 'The Brothers Karamazov'?
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Ivan Karamazov
Who is the Danish warrior killed by Grendel's mother?
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Aeschere
How many sons did King Hrethel have?
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Three
Who is Beowulf's maternal grandfather?
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Hrethel