What is the title of Roald Dahl’s 1984 memoir about his childhood?
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Boy: Tales of Childhood
91599 Intermediate Trivia Questions
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What was Roald Dahl’s first published children’s book?
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The Gremlins
Which Hans Christian Andersen tale centers on a fir tree longing to grow up?
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The Fir Tree
Which Hans Christian Andersen story follows eleven brothers transformed into swans?
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The Wild Swans
What was the title of Hans Christian Andersen’s first fairy-tale collection, published in 1835?
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Fairy Tales Told for Children
In the Brothers Grimm tale “The Fisherman and His Wife,” what kind of fish grants the fisherman’s wishes?
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An enchanted flounder
In the Brothers Grimm collection, which tale features a girl named Briar Rose?
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Sleeping Beauty
What is the German title of the Brothers Grimm collection commonly called Grimm’s Fairy Tales?
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Kinder- und Hausmärchen
Which author won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for One of Ours?
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Willa Cather
Who wrote The Reivers, winner of the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?
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William Faulkner
Which author won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Executioner's Song?
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Norman Mailer
Which author won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for A Bell for Adano?
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John Hersey
Which author won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Old Man and the Sea?
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Ernest Hemingway
Which author won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Age of Innocence?
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Edith Wharton
Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate was the first Japanese winner?
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Yasunari Kawabata
Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude?
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Gabriel García Márquez
Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate wrote The Old Man and the Sea?
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Ernest Hemingway
Who was the oldest Nobel Prize in Literature laureate when awarded?
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Doris Lessing
Who was the youngest Nobel Prize in Literature laureate at the time of the award?
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Rudyard Kipling
In Robert Burns’s poem “A Red, Red Rose,” how long does the speaker say his love will last?
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Until the seas go dry
In Percy Bysshe Shelley’s sonnet “Ozymandias,” what remains of the ruler’s statue in the desert?
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Two vast legs of stone
What poetic form did John Milton use for Paradise Lost?
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Blank verse
What is the name of the first novel in Brandon Sanderson’s original Mistborn trilogy?
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Mistborn: The Final Empire