What year was 'The Hobbit' first published?
Answer
1937
98686 Intermediate Trivia Questions
98686 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What is the name of the protagonist in Julio Cortázar's 'Hopscotch'?
Answer
Horacio Oliveira
In 'The Satanic Verses', which character transforms into a goat?
Answer
Saladin Chamcha
In 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', how long did the great rain last?
Answer
4 years 11 months 2 days
In 'The Satanic Verses', what is the name of the film star who falls from the sky?
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Gibreel Farishta
In 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', which character eats earth out of anxiety?
Answer
Rebeca Buendía
Which Salman Rushdie novel was banned in many countries for alleged blasphemy?
Answer
The Satanic Verses
Which magical realist novel by Mikhail Bulgakov features a talking cat?
Answer
The Master and Margarita
In 'The Alchemist', what is the name of the king who helps Santiago?
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Melchizedek
Which Argentine author wrote 'The Garden of Forking Paths'?
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Jorge Luis Borges
What is the name of the oldest surviving epic poem?
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
Which 14th-century English poet wrote 'The Canterbury Tales'?
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Which African American poet was the first to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry?
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Gwendolyn Brooks
Which English poet wrote 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'?
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Who wrote the poem "She Walks in Beauty"?
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Lord Byron
Which poet is known for the collection "The Prophet"?
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Kahlil Gibran
Which English poet wrote the epic "Paradise Lost"?
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John Milton
What is the name of the 19-line poetic form with two refrains?
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Villanelle
Who wrote the sonnet 'Ozymandias'?
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Which metaphysical poet wrote 'The Flea'?
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John Donne
Who wrote the nonsense poem 'Jabberwocky'?
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Lewis Carroll
Who wrote the mock-epic poem 'The Rape of the Lock'?
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Alexander Pope
Who wrote the sonnet sequence 'Astrophil and Stella'?
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Sir Philip Sidney
Who wrote 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol'?
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Oscar Wilde
Who wrote the poem 'Annabel Lee'?
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Edgar Allan Poe
Who wrote the poem 'Sonnet 130'?
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William Shakespeare
Who wrote the poem 'La Belle Dame sans Merci'?
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John Keats
Who wrote the poem 'Ode to the West Wind'?
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Who wrote the poem 'Kubla Khan'?
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Who wrote the World War I poem 'Dulce et Decorum Est'?
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Wilfred Owen
Which Roman poet wrote 'Metamorphoses'?
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Ovid
Which T.S. Eliot poem begins 'Let us go then, you and I'?
Answer
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Who wrote the poem 'The Second Coming'?
Answer
W.B. Yeats
Who wrote the poem 'Song of Myself'?
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Walt Whitman