91599 Intermediate Trivia Questions
91599 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which novel won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in young-adult literature?
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Looking for Alaska
Who is the narrator and main character of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars?
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Hazel Grace Lancaster
Which actor played detective Benoit Blanc in the film Knives Out?
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Daniel Craig
Who wrote the 1868 detective novel The Moonstone?
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Wilkie Collins
In the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, who narrates the investigation alongside Hercule Poirot?
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Dr. James Sheppard
Which detective fiction author created Inspector Jules Maigret?
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Georges Simenon
What is the name of Raymond Chandler's private detective in The Big Sleep?
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Philip Marlowe
Which Beat Generation writer published the poetry collection Gasoline in 1958?
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Gregory Corso
Which Beat writer co-wrote the 1963 novel The Yage Letters with William S. Burroughs?
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Allen Ginsberg
Which novel by Jack Kerouac portrays the fictional Buddhist poet Japhy Ryder?
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The Dharma Bums
What was the name of Allen Ginsberg’s mother, the subject of his poem “Kaddish”?
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Naomi Ginsberg
Which real-life writer inspired Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road?
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Neal Cassady
On what date did Allen Ginsberg first perform “Howl” at San Francisco’s Six Gallery?
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October 7, 1955
Which publisher released Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems in 1956?
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City Lights Books
Which Dostoevsky novel is narrated by the troubled former student Arkady Dolgoruky?
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The Adolescent
Which Moscow hospital employed Fyodor Dostoevsky’s father as a doctor?
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Mariinsky Hospital
Which Dostoevsky novel has Prince Myshkin as its central character?
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The Idiot
What is the title of Leo Tolstoy’s 1886 short story about a peasant’s greed for land?
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How Much Land Does a Man Need?
Whom did Leo Tolstoy marry in 1862?
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Sofia Behrs
At which railway station did Leo Tolstoy die in 1910?
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Astapovo
In which war did Leo Tolstoy serve as a Russian army officer?
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Crimean War
What was Leo Tolstoy’s first published work, appearing in 1852?
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Childhood
At which Cambridge college did C.S. Lewis serve as a Fellow from 1954?
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Magdalene College
What was the title of C.S. Lewis's autobiography published in 1955?
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Surprised by Joy
Which C.S. Lewis novel retells the Cupid and Psyche myth through the character Orual?
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Till We Have Faces
Which C.S. Lewis book was adapted from his 1940s BBC radio talks on Christian belief?
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Mere Christianity
What was the name of C.S. Lewis's wife, whom he married in 1956?
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Joy Davidman
Which Roald Dahl book won the 1983 Whitbread Children’s Book Award?
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The Witches
Which Roald Dahl novel was published posthumously in 1991?
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The Minpins
Which Roald Dahl book is a collection of poems retelling classic nursery rhymes?
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Revolting Rhymes
Which Roald Dahl book follows a boy and his father who hunt pheasants?
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Danny, the Champion of the World