34719 Intermediate Trivia Questions
34719 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Who wrote the poem 'The Lady of Shalott'?
Answer
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In 'Treasure Island', what is the name of the inn where Jim Hawkins lives?
Answer
Admiral Benbow
Which American author won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007 for 'The Road'?
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Cormac McCarthy
Which American author wrote 'The Turn of the Screw'?
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Henry James
Which American author wrote 'The Last of the Mohicans'?
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James Fenimore Cooper
In Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird', what is the name of the narrator?
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Scout Finch
Which American playwright wrote 'A Streetcar Named Desire'?
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Tennessee Williams
Which American author wrote 'Slaughterhouse-Five'?
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Kurt Vonnegut
Who wrote the novel 'The Bell Jar'?
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Sylvia Plath
Which American poet wrote the poem 'O Captain! My Captain!'?
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Walt Whitman
Which American author wrote 'Native Son'?
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Richard Wright
Which American author wrote 'A Farewell to Arms'?
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Ernest Hemingway
Which American novelist wrote 'The House of Mirth'?
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Edith Wharton
Which American author wrote 'The Sound and the Fury'?
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William Faulkner
Who wrote the novel 'Invisible Man'?
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Ralph Ellison
What Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway features the character Santiago?
Answer
The Old Man and the Sea
What is the name of the protagonist in 'The Great Gatsby'?
Answer
Nick Carraway
Which American poet wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?
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Walt Whitman
How many novels did Harper Lee publish?
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Two
Which American novelist wrote 'The Color Purple'?
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Alice Walker
What is the name of the fictional county in William Faulkner's novels?
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Yoknapatawpha
Who wrote the poem 'The Raven'?
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Edgar Allan Poe
Which American author wrote the novel 'The Sun Also Rises'?
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Ernest Hemingway
For how many years does Penelope weave and unravel her work?
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Three years
What is Penelope weaving to delay her suitors?
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A shroud for Laertes
Who is the leader of Penelope's suitors?
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Antinous
What is the name of Odysseus's old nurse?
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Eurycleia
How many heads does the monster Scylla have?
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Six
Which sea god is the main divine antagonist of Odysseus?
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Poseidon
Who is the son of Nestor who accompanies Telemachus?
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Peisistratus
Who is the mother of the Cyclops Polyphemus?
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Thoosa
What river does Odysseus encounter at the entrance of Hades?
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Acheron
Which suitor tries to blame Antinous after the bow contest?
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Eurymachus
What is the name of the cowherd who helps Odysseus against the suitors?
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Philoetius
Who is the father of King Alcinous of the Phaeacians?
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Nausithous
What is the name of the floating island of Aeolus?
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Aeolia
What animal does Circe turn Odysseus's men into?
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pigs