What is the name of Hrothgar's nephew?
Answer
Hrothulf
34719 Intermediate Trivia Questions
34719 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
How many warriors does Beowulf bring with him to Denmark?
Answer
Fourteen
What object does a slave steal that awakens the dragon?
Answer
A golden cup
Who becomes king of the Geats after Beowulf's death?
Answer
Wiglaf
What is the name of the sword given to Beowulf by Unferth?
Answer
Hrunting
In what century was the Beowulf manuscript written?
Answer
11th century
What is the only surviving manuscript of Beowulf called?
Answer
Nowell Codex
Which Russian general dies from wounds at the Battle of Borodino in War and Peace?
Answer
Prince Bagration
What is the name of the comet that Pierre sees in War and Peace?
Answer
The Great Comet
Which battle takes place before the Battle of Austerlitz in War and Peace?
Answer
Battle of Schöngrabern
In what year does the novel War and Peace begin?
Answer
1805
Which peasant character embodies Tolstoy's philosophy of simple living?
Answer
Platon Karataev
What secret society does Pierre consider joining in the novel?
Answer
The Freemasons
Which major character is mortally wounded at the Battle of Borodino?
Answer
Prince Andrei
Which German Romantic poet wrote the play 'The Robbers'?
Answer
Friedrich Schiller
Which American Romantic novelist wrote 'The Last of the Mohicans'?
Answer
James Fenimore Cooper
Which Romantic poet wrote the lyrical drama 'Prometheus Unbound'?
Answer
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Which American Romantic poet wrote the epic poem 'The Song of Hiawatha'?
Answer
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Which Russian Romantic poet wrote the narrative poem 'The Bronze Horseman'?
Answer
Alexander Pushkin
Which Scottish Romantic poet wrote the song 'Auld Lang Syne'?
Answer
Robert Burns
Which German Romantic author wrote 'The Nutcracker and the Mouse King'?
Answer
E.T.A. Hoffmann
Which American Romantic author wrote the novel 'The House of the Seven Gables'?
Answer
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Which Russian Romantic poet wrote 'Eugene Onegin'?
Answer
Alexander Pushkin
Which Scottish Romantic poet wrote 'Tam o' Shanter'?
Answer
Robert Burns
Which Romantic poet was expelled from Oxford for writing 'The Necessity of Atheism'?
Answer
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Which Romantic poet died at Missolonghi in 1824?
Answer
Lord Byron
Which Gothic Romantic author wrote the novel 'The Mysteries of Udolpho'?
Answer
Ann Radcliffe
Which American Romantic poet wrote 'The Bells'?
Answer
Edgar Allan Poe
Which Romantic poet wrote the autobiographical epic 'The Prelude'?
Answer
William Wordsworth
Which Romantic poet wrote 'La Belle Dame sans Merci'?
Answer
John Keats
Which Romantic poet wrote 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell'?
Answer
William Blake
Which French Romantic writer authored 'Les Misérables'?
Answer
Victor Hugo
What is the name of the English region home to the Lake Poets?
Answer
Lake District
Which German poet wrote the novel 'The Sorrows of Young Werther'?
Answer
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Which American Romantic author wrote 'The Scarlet Letter'?
Answer
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Who is the author of 'Wuthering Heights'?
Answer
Emily Brontë
Which Romantic poet wrote the verse drama 'Manfred'?
Answer
Lord Byron
In 'Frankenstein', what is the name of the Arctic explorer who writes letters?
Answer
Robert Walton
In 'The Fall of the House of Usher', what is the name of Roderick's twin sister?
Answer
Madeline Usher
In 'The Italian', what is the name of the heroine?
Answer
Ellena Rosalba