What is the name of the highest heaven in Dante's Paradiso?
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Empyrean
98686 Intermediate Trivia Questions
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What is the name of the frozen lake at the bottom of Hell?
Answer
Cocytus
What is the name of the river of boiling blood in the seventh circle?
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Phlegethon
In which circle of Hell are the lustful punished?
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Second circle
In Joe Haldeman's 'The Forever War', what is the name of the protagonist?
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William Mandella
In Kurt Vonnegut's 'Slaughterhouse-Five', what is the name of the alien planet?
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Tralfamadore
What is the title of the Philip K. Dick short story adapted into the film 'Total Recall'?
Answer
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale
What is the name of the Martian in Robert A. Heinlein's 'Stranger in a Strange Land'?
Answer
Valentine Michael Smith
What is the name of the spaceship in Arthur C. Clarke's '2001: A Space Odyssey'?
Answer
Discovery One
Who wrote 'The Dispossessed'?
Answer
Ursula K. Le Guin
Who wrote the novel 'A Canticle for Leibowitz'?
Answer
Walter M. Miller Jr.
Which novel by Philip K. Dick was adapted into the film 'Blade Runner'?
Answer
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
What is the name of the planet in Stanislaw Lem's 'Solaris'?
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Solaris
Which author coined the term 'cyberspace'?
Answer
William Gibson
What is the name of the order of monks in Walter M. Miller Jr.'s 'A Canticle for Leibowitz'?
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Albertian Order of Leibowitz
What are the fearsome creatures in Dan Simmons's 'Hyperion' called?
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The Shrike
What is the name of the alien species in 'The Forever War'?
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Taurans
In what novel by Ursula K. Le Guin does the ansible first appear?
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Rocannon's World
What is the name of the barber who accompanies the priest in Don Quixote?
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Maese Nicolás
Which character tricks Don Quixote into believing Dulcinea is enchanted?
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Sancho Panza
What is the name of the bachelor who disguises as a knight to bring Don Quixote home?
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Samson Carrasco
What is the real name of the woman Don Quixote calls Dulcinea?
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Aldonza Lorenzo
What pseudonym was used by the author of a spurious second part of Don Quixote?
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Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda
Which author wrote the 'Cadfael' series of historical mysteries?
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Ellis Peters
Which author wrote the 'Mary Russell' series?
Answer
Laurie R. King
Which author wrote the 'Phryne Fisher' series?
Answer
Kerry Greenwood
Which author wrote the 'Ruth Galloway' series?
Answer
Elly Griffiths
Which author wrote the 'Slough House' series?
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Mick Herron