16373 Hard Trivia Questions
16373 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
How many lines does the poem Beowulf contain?
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3,182 lines
What is the name of the French officer who befriends Pierre during his captivity?
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Captain Ramballe
What is the name of the Masonic lodge that Pierre joins in War and Peace?
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Lodge of the Three Virtues
What is the Russian transliteration of War and Peace?
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Voyna i mir
Which English Romantic poet composed the fragment 'Hyperion'?
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John Keats
Which German Romantic author wrote the novella 'Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts'?
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Joseph von Eichendorff
Which Russian Romantic poet wrote the novel 'A Hero of Our Time'?
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Mikhail Lermontov
Which Polish Romantic poet wrote the national epic 'Pan Tadeusz'?
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Adam Mickiewicz
Which American Romantic poet translated Dante's 'Divine Comedy'?
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Which French poet wrote the collection 'Les Fleurs du Mal' (The Flowers of Evil)?
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Charles Baudelaire
Which English Romantic poet died in a shipwreck off the coast of Italy?
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Which Romantic poet wrote 'The Vision of Judgment'?
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Lord Byron
Which Romantic author wrote the apocalyptic novel 'The Last Man'?
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Mary Shelley
Which Romantic poet wrote 'Adonais', an elegy for John Keats?
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Which German Romantic author wrote the novella 'The Sandman'?
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E.T.A. Hoffmann
In which year did John Keats die?
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1821
Which Romantic poet wrote the poem 'Ozymandias'?
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
What is the subtitle of Mary Shelley's novel 'Frankenstein'?
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The Modern Prometheus
What is the name of the vampire in John Polidori's 'The Vampyre'?
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Lord Ruthven
What is the name of the heroine in Ann Radcliffe's 'The Mysteries of Udolpho'?
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Emily St. Aubert
What is the name of the Bleeding Nun in Matthew Lewis's 'The Monk'?
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Beatrice de las Cisternas
Which 1764 novel is considered the first Gothic novel?
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The Castle of Otranto
In George Gissing's 'New Grub Street', what is the name of the struggling novelist?
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Edwin Reardon
What was the title of George Meredith's first published novel?
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The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
What pseudonym did Emily Brontë use for her published works?
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Ellis Bell
Who wrote the Victorian long poem 'The Ring and the Book'?
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Robert Browning
In 'The Way We Live Now' by Anthony Trollope, what is the name of the financier?
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Augustus Melmotte
What is the name of the villain in the Sherlock Holmes story 'The Final Problem'?
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Professor Moriarty
In 'The Lost World' by Arthur Conan Doyle, what is the name of the reporter?
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Edward Malone
In 'The Island of Dr Moreau' by H.G. Wells, what is the name of the shipwreck survivor?
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Edward Prendick
Who translated the 'Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám' into English?
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Edward FitzGerald
In 'The Importance of Being Earnest', what is the name of Lady Bracknell's nephew?
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Algernon Moncrieff