In the Brothers Grimm collection, which tale features a girl named Briar Rose?
Answer
Sleeping Beauty
91735 Intermediate Trivia Questions
91735 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What is the German title of the Brothers Grimm collection commonly called Grimm’s Fairy Tales?
Answer
Kinder- und Hausmärchen
Which author won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for One of Ours?
Answer
Willa Cather
Who wrote The Reivers, winner of the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?
Answer
William Faulkner
Which author won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Executioner's Song?
Answer
Norman Mailer
Which author won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for A Bell for Adano?
Answer
John Hersey
Which author won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Old Man and the Sea?
Answer
Ernest Hemingway
Which author won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Age of Innocence?
Answer
Edith Wharton
Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate was the first Japanese winner?
Answer
Yasunari Kawabata
Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude?
Answer
Gabriel García Márquez
Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate wrote The Old Man and the Sea?
Answer
Ernest Hemingway
Who was the oldest Nobel Prize in Literature laureate when awarded?
Answer
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?
Answer
Until the seas go dry
In Percy Bysshe Shelley’s sonnet “Ozymandias,” what remains of the ruler’s statue in the desert?
Answer
Two vast legs of stone
What poetic form did John Milton use for Paradise Lost?
Answer
Blank verse
What is the name of the first novel in Brandon Sanderson’s original Mistborn trilogy?
Answer
Mistborn: The Final Empire
Who wrote A Song of Ice and Fire, the fantasy novel series that begins with A Game of Thrones?
Answer
George R. R. Martin
In Cormac McCarthy's dystopian novel The Road, which major literary prize did it win in 2007?
Answer
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
In Octavia E. Butler's novel Parable of the Sower, what is the name of the protagonist?
Answer
Lauren Olamina
In Lois Lowry's dystopian novel The Giver, what is the community's designated Receiver called?
Answer
The Receiver of Memory