Which journal serialized Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The Idiot?
Answer
The Russian Messenger
89685 Intermediate Trivia Questions
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What is the English title of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s prison memoir about Siberian penal labor?
Answer
The House of the Dead
What is the usual English name for the narrator of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground?
Answer
The Underground Man
Who played Anna Karenina in the 1935 film adaptation starring Fredric March?
Answer
Greta Garbo
Which actor played Pierre Bezukhov in the 1966 Soviet film War and Peace?
Answer
Sergei Bondarchuk
What was the name of the railway station where Leo Tolstoy died?
Answer
Astapovo
Which Tolstoy story features the peasant Pakhom, who dreams of owning more land?
Answer
How Much Land Does a Man Need?
Which philosopher’s ideas strongly influenced Leo Tolstoy’s nonviolent Christian teachings?
Answer
Henry David Thoreau
Which Tolstoy novel features the character Dmitri Nekhlyudov?
Answer
Resurrection
Which war did Leo Tolstoy describe in his 1855 Sevastopol Sketches?
Answer
Crimean War
What was Leo Tolstoy’s first major novel about Cossack life called?
Answer
The Cossacks
Which Russian Orthodox body excommunicated Leo Tolstoy in 1901?
Answer
The Holy Synod
Which elephant species is specially adapted to Africa’s tropical rainforests?
Answer
African forest elephant
Which South American rainforest otter is the world’s largest otter species?
Answer
Giant otter
Which Madagascar rainforest gecko is famous for its leaf-like body and bizarre, jagged tail?
Answer
Satanic leaf-tailed gecko
In R. J. Palacio’s young-adult novel Wonder, which condition caused August Pullman’s facial differences?
Answer
Treacher Collins syndrome
In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, where does the final tomb scene take place?
Answer
The Capulet tomb
In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, what punishment does Prince Escalus impose on Romeo after Tybalt’s death?
Answer
Banishment from Verona
Which Beat Generation poet wrote the 1958 poem “A Footnote to Howl”?
Answer
Allen Ginsberg
In which city was Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti born?
Answer
Yonkers
What was the title of Diane di Prima’s first poetry collection, published in 1958?
Answer
This Kind of Bird Flies Backward
Which Beat Generation writer wrote the novel Junkie, published under the name William Lee?
Answer
William S. Burroughs
Which fictional character in On the Road is based on Neal Cassady?
Answer
Dean Moriarty
Which Roald Dahl story features the wealthy character Mike Teavee?
Answer
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Which Roald Dahl book was adapted into the 1989 film Danny, the Champion of the World?
Answer
Danny, the Champion of the World
Which Roald Dahl book introduced the character Willy Wonka?
Answer
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Which Austrian writer won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature and wrote The Piano Teacher?
Answer
Elfriede Jelinek