What was the title of the first story featuring Miss Marple?
Answer
The Tuesday Night Club
16373 Hard Trivia Questions
16373 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What is the name of the narrator and murderer in 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd'?
Answer
Dr. James Sheppard
In which Agatha Christie novel does Hercule Poirot die?
Answer
Curtain: Poirot's Last Case
What was the original UK title of Agatha Christie's novel now known as 'And Then There Were None'?
Answer
Ten Little Niggers
What is the name of the fortress that guards the Pass of Cirith Ungol?
Answer
Tower of Cirith Ungol
Who was the father of Denethor?
Answer
Ecthelion II
What is the name of the ship of Eärendil?
Answer
Vingilot
What is the name of the first dragon in Tolkien's legendarium?
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Glaurung
Who was the father of Thorin Oakenshield?
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Thráin II
What is the Sindarin name of the Grey Havens?
Answer
Mithlond
What was Frodo's original name in Tolkien's early drafts?
Answer
Bingo Baggins
What cataclysmic event ends the First Age?
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War of Wrath
In what year did J.R.R. Tolkien die?
Answer
1973
What is the Quenya name for the wizard Gandalf?
Answer
Olórin
Which real-life bullfighter inspired the character Pedro Romero in 'The Sun Also Rises'?
Answer
Cayetano Ordóñez
To which Catholic shrine did Hemingway donate his Nobel Prize medal?
Answer
Our Lady of Charity of Cobre
What was the title of Hemingway's first published short story?
Answer
Up in Michigan
What was the name of the Italian town where Hemingway was wounded in WWI?
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Fossalta di Piave
What is the title of Hemingway's posthumous novel published in 1999?
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True at First Light
On what exact date was Hemingway wounded in World War I?
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July 8, 1918
What was the nickname of Hemingway's eldest son?
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Bumby
What was the name of the African safari guide who accompanied Hemingway in the 1930s?
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Philip Percival
Which of Hemingway's sons became a physician?
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Gregory Hemingway
What was the name of the unfinished novel by Hemingway published posthumously in 1986?
Answer
The Garden of Eden
Which of Hemingway's novels features a character named Colonel Cantwell?
Answer
Across the River and Into the Trees
What is the name of the bullfighter in The Sun Also Rises?
Answer
Pedro Romero
What was the immediate cause of Ernest Hemingway's death?
Answer
Suicide by gunshot
What 1905 anti-war story by Mark Twain was published posthumously in 1916?
Answer
The War Prayer
What was the name of Mark Twain's publishing company started in 1884?
Answer
Charles L. Webster and Company
What was the title of Mark Twain's 1906 short story narrated by Eve?
Answer
Eve's Diary
What was the name of the short story Mark Twain wrote about a talking dog?
Answer
A Dog's Tale
What collection of Mark Twain's essays was published posthumously in 1962?
Answer
Letters from the Earth
Which library famously banned Mark Twain's 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' in 1885?
Answer
Concord Public Library
What is the title of Mark Twain's book about his travels in Australia, New Zealand, and India?
Answer
Following the Equator
In what city did Mark Twain deliver his first public lecture?
Answer
San Francisco
Which university awarded Mark Twain an honorary LL.D. in 1902?
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University of Missouri