Which George Eliot novel features the character Maggie Tulliver?
Answer
The Mill on the Floss
16373 Hard Trivia Questions
16373 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
In Charles Dickens' 'Bleak House', what is the name of the interminable court case?
Answer
Jarndyce and Jarndyce
What is the name of the detective in Wilkie Collins' 'The Moonstone'?
Answer
Sergeant Cuff
What is the name of the fictional university in Thomas Hardy's 'Jude the Obscure'?
Answer
Christminster
What is the real name of the author who wrote under the pseudonym 'George Eliot'?
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Mary Ann Evans
What is considered the first American novel, published in 1789?
Answer
The Power of Sympathy
What is the name of the fictional college in Donna Tartt's 'The Secret History'?
Answer
Hampden College
Which American author's novel 'The Left Hand of Darkness' won both Hugo and Nebula awards?
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Ursula K. Le Guin
Which American author wrote the novel 'The Crying of Lot 49'?
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Thomas Pynchon
Which American poet won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923 for 'The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver'?
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
Which American author wrote the novel 'Gravity's Rainbow'?
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Thomas Pynchon
Who is the first African American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Toni Morrison
Which American author wrote the short story 'The Lottery'?
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Shirley Jackson
What is the full name of the author who wrote under the pen name 'Mark Twain'?
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Who is the king of the Laestrygonians?
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Antiphates
What Thracian city does Odysseus sack after leaving Troy?
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Ismarus
What is the Greek epithet for Odysseus meaning 'man of many turns'?
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Polytropos
How many lines does The Odyssey consist of?
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12,110
Who was the first Greek hero to die at Troy?
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Protesilaus
Which Greek hero killed the Paphlagonian leader Pylaemenes?
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Menelaus
Who was the Trojan ally from Paeonia killed by Achilles?
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Asteropaeus
Who was the Greek leader from Locris in the Iliad?
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Ajax the Lesser
Who was the Trojan son of Antenor killed by Agamemnon?
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Iphidamas
Which god saved Aeneas from being killed by Achilles?
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Poseidon
Which British diarist chronicled the Great Fire of London in 1666?
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Samuel Pepys
Which British author used the pseudonym 'Mary Westmacott'?
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Agatha Christie
Which British author wrote the sensation novel 'The Woman in White'?
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Wilkie Collins