Which British poet and playwright is known for 'The Waste Land'?
Answer
T.S. Eliot
34719 Intermediate Trivia Questions
34719 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which British author wrote the Gothic novel 'The Castle of Otranto'?
Answer
Horace Walpole
Which British poet wrote the epic 'Paradise Lost'?
Answer
John Milton
In Shakespeare's 'Macbeth', what is Macbeth's title at the start of the play?
Answer
Thane of Glamis
Which British children's author created Matilda Wormwood?
Answer
Roald Dahl
What is the name of Mr. Darcy's estate in 'Pride and Prejudice'?
Answer
Pemberley
Which novel by Virginia Woolf takes place in a single day?
Answer
Mrs Dalloway
Which British poet wrote 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'?
Answer
John Keats
Which novel by Charles Dickens features the character Fagin?
Answer
Oliver Twist
Which 19th-century British novelist wrote 'Middlemarch'?
Answer
George Eliot
Which Victorian novelist wrote 'Jane Eyre'?
Answer
Charlotte Brontë
Which British poet wrote 'Do not go gentle into that good night'?
Answer
Dylan Thomas
Which British author is known for the 'Discworld' series?
Answer
Terry Pratchett
Who wrote 'Robinson Crusoe'?
Answer
Daniel Defoe
Which British poet wrote 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'?
Answer
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Who is the author of the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy?
Answer
Philip Pullman
Which novel by Emily Brontë features Heathcliff?
Answer
Wuthering Heights
Which demon leads the Malebranche in the eighth circle of Hell?
Answer
Malacoda
Which pair of sinners are frozen together in the ninth circle of Hell?
Answer
Ugolino and Ruggieri
In which circle of Hell does Dante encounter the usurers?
Answer
Seventh circle
How many cantos are in the Inferno?
Answer
34
What is the name of the highest heaven in Dante's Paradiso?
Answer
Empyrean
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?
Answer
Phlegethon
In which circle of Hell are the lustful punished?
Answer
Second circle
In Joe Haldeman's 'The Forever War', what is the name of the protagonist?
Answer
William Mandella
In Kurt Vonnegut's 'Slaughterhouse-Five', what is the name of the alien planet?
Answer
Tralfamadore