What is the name of the titular character in 'Shirley'?
Answer
Shirley Keeldar
34719 Intermediate Trivia Questions
34719 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What was the name of the Brontës' longtime servant?
Answer
Tabitha Ackroyd
Which ruined farmhouse is said to have inspired 'Wuthering Heights'?
Answer
Top Withens
At what age did Anne Brontë die?
Answer
29
What is the name of the house where the Lintons live in 'Wuthering Heights'?
Answer
Thrushcross Grange
What was the cause of Emily Brontë's death?
Answer
Tuberculosis
Which Brontë novel was published posthumously?
Answer
The Professor
In which year was Emily Brontë born?
Answer
1818
What was the name of the Brontës' aunt who raised them?
Answer
Elizabeth Branwell
Which Brontë sister married her father's curate?
Answer
Charlotte Brontë
Which Brontë novel was initially rejected by publishers?
Answer
The Professor
What was the name of the Brontës' brother?
Answer
Branwell Brontë
Which Brontë novel was published in 1847 under the pseudonym Acton Bell?
Answer
Agnes Grey
Which Brontë sister died at age 30?
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Emily Brontë
In what year was 'Jane Eyre' published?
Answer
1847
What magazine did Edgar Allan Poe edit in Philadelphia from 1841 to 1842?
Answer
Graham's Magazine
On what island does Poe's story 'The Gold-Bug' take place?
Answer
Sullivan's Island
What was the title of Poe's first published book?
Answer
Tamerlane and Other Poems
What military academy did Edgar Allan Poe attend?
Answer
West Point
What is the name of Poe's poem about bells?
Answer
The Bells
What magazine first published Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart'?
Answer
The Pioneer
What was the name of the boarding school Edgar Allan Poe attended in England?
Answer
Manor House School
Which Poe poem begins 'The skies they were ashen and sober'?
Answer
Ulalume
What organization tortures the narrator in 'The Pit and the Pendulum'?
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The Spanish Inquisition
What was the name of the New York magazine Poe co-owned and edited in 1845?
Answer
Broadway Journal
What alias did Edgar Allan Poe use when he enlisted in the U.S. Army?
Answer
Edgar A. Perry
What is the name of the protagonist in Poe's story 'William Wilson'?
Answer
William Wilson
What is the name of the poem recited by Roderick Usher in 'The Fall of the House of Usher'?
Answer
The Haunted Palace
What was the name of the magazine that first published Poe's prize-winning story 'MS. Found in a Bottle'?
Answer
Baltimore Saturday Visiter
What was the name of the periodical that first published 'The Raven' in January 1845?
Answer
The Evening Mirror
Which literary and debating society did Poe join at the University of Virginia?
Answer
Jefferson Society
What was the name of Edgar Allan Poe's younger sister?
Answer
Rosalie Poe
Which French poet and translator popularized Poe's works in Europe?
Answer
Charles Baudelaire
What was the title of Edgar Allan Poe's first published short story?
Answer
Metzengerstein
What was the name of the first magazine Poe worked for as an editor?
Answer
Southern Literary Messenger
What is the name of the island where 'The Gold-Bug' is set?
Answer
Sullivan's Island