What is J. D. Salinger's full first name?
Answer
Jerome
94851 Intermediate Trivia Questions
94851 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which publisher first released The Catcher in the Rye as a novel?
Answer
Little, Brown and Company
Which Salinger story was adapted into the film My Foolish Heart?
Answer
Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut
What 1949 film is linked to Salinger's later refusal of screen adaptations?
Answer
My Foolish Heart
Who taught the Columbia writing class where Salinger wrote The Young Folks?
Answer
Whit Burnett
At which university did Salinger write The Young Folks in Whit Burnett's class?
Answer
Columbia University
Which magazine published the Holden Caulfield story I'm Crazy?
Answer
Collier's
Which magazine published "Slight Rebellion off Madison" in 1946?
Answer
The New Yorker
Which New York zoo does Holden visit with Phoebe?
Answer
Central Park Zoo
What object is the subject of Holden's composition for Stradlater?
Answer
Baseball glove
Which book club's midsummer selection helped set The Catcher in the Rye's publication date?
Answer
Book-of-the-Month Club
The Catcher in the Rye has total sales of more than how many books?
Answer
65 million
About how many copies of The Catcher in the Rye are sold each year?
Answer
One million
Who was the cover artist for the first edition of The Catcher in the Rye?
Answer
E. Michael Mitchell
Who won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Interpreter of Maladies?
Answer
Jhumpa Lahiri
Which John Kennedy Toole novel won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction after his death?
Answer
A Confederacy of Dunces
Who won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Breathing Lessons?
Answer
Anne Tyler
Which Oscar Hijuelos novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1990?
Answer
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Which Norman Mailer book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1980?
Answer
The Executioner's Song
Which N. Scott Momaday novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969?
Answer
House Made of Dawn
Which Allen Drury political novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960?
Answer
Advise and Consent
Which seal species is native only to the Hawaiian Islands?
Answer
Hawaiian monk seal
Which marine mammal is the only living species in the genus Enhydra?
Answer
Sea otter
What mineral form makes up most stony coral skeletons?
Answer
Aragonite
Which mammal order contains manatees and dugongs?
Answer
Sirenia
Which class of cartilaginous fish includes sharks, rays, and skates?
Answer
Chondrichthyes
Which Anne Brontë novel is partly framed by Helen Graham's diary?
Answer
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Which village near Bradford was Charlotte Brontë born in?
Answer
Thornton
What name does Helen use as the mysterious tenant at Wildfell Hall?
Answer
Helen Graham
In Wuthering Heights, who is Hareton Earnshaw's father?
Answer
Hindley Earnshaw
Which Charlotte Brontë novel is narrated by Lucy Snowe?
Answer
Villette
On what date was Charlotte Brontë born?
Answer
21 April 1816
Which North Pacific current flows northeastward past Japan?
Answer
Kuroshio Current
Which instrument measures ocean depth by sending sound pulses to the seafloor?
Answer
Echo sounder