Which Beat Generation writer published the poetry collection Gasoline in 1958?
Answer
Gregory Corso
91735 Intermediate Trivia Questions
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Which Beat writer co-wrote the 1963 novel The Yage Letters with William S. Burroughs?
Answer
Allen Ginsberg
Which novel by Jack Kerouac portrays the fictional Buddhist poet Japhy Ryder?
Answer
The Dharma Bums
What was the name of Allen Ginsberg’s mother, the subject of his poem “Kaddish”?
Answer
Naomi Ginsberg
Which real-life writer inspired Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road?
Answer
Neal Cassady
On what date did Allen Ginsberg first perform “Howl” at San Francisco’s Six Gallery?
Answer
October 7, 1955
Which publisher released Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems in 1956?
Answer
City Lights Books
Which Dostoevsky novel is narrated by the troubled former student Arkady Dolgoruky?
Answer
The Adolescent
Which Moscow hospital employed Fyodor Dostoevsky’s father as a doctor?
Answer
Mariinsky Hospital
Which Dostoevsky novel has Prince Myshkin as its central character?
Answer
The Idiot
What is the title of Leo Tolstoy’s 1886 short story about a peasant’s greed for land?
Answer
How Much Land Does a Man Need?
Whom did Leo Tolstoy marry in 1862?
Answer
Sofia Behrs
At which railway station did Leo Tolstoy die in 1910?
Answer
Astapovo
In which war did Leo Tolstoy serve as a Russian army officer?
Answer
Crimean War
What was Leo Tolstoy’s first published work, appearing in 1852?
Answer
Childhood
At which Cambridge college did C.S. Lewis serve as a Fellow from 1954?
Answer
Magdalene College
What was the title of C.S. Lewis's autobiography published in 1955?
Answer
Surprised by Joy
Which C.S. Lewis novel retells the Cupid and Psyche myth through the character Orual?
Answer
Till We Have Faces
Which C.S. Lewis book was adapted from his 1940s BBC radio talks on Christian belief?
Answer
Mere Christianity
What was the name of C.S. Lewis's wife, whom he married in 1956?
Answer
Joy Davidman
Which Roald Dahl book won the 1983 Whitbread Children’s Book Award?
Answer
The Witches
Which Roald Dahl novel was published posthumously in 1991?
Answer
The Minpins
Which Roald Dahl book is a collection of poems retelling classic nursery rhymes?
Answer
Revolting Rhymes
Which Roald Dahl book follows a boy and his father who hunt pheasants?
Answer
Danny, the Champion of the World
What is the title of Roald Dahl’s 1984 memoir about his childhood?
Answer
Boy: Tales of Childhood
What was Roald Dahl’s first published children’s book?
Answer
The Gremlins
Which Hans Christian Andersen tale centers on a fir tree longing to grow up?
Answer
The Fir Tree
Which Hans Christian Andersen story follows eleven brothers transformed into swans?
Answer
The Wild Swans
What was the title of Hans Christian Andersen’s first fairy-tale collection, published in 1835?
Answer
Fairy Tales Told for Children
In the Brothers Grimm tale “The Fisherman and His Wife,” what kind of fish grants the fisherman’s wishes?
Answer
An enchanted flounder