What was Leo Tolstoy’s 1897 essay on aesthetics called?
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What Is Art?
89713 Intermediate Trivia Questions
89713 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What honorary title did Odense give Hans Christian Andersen in 1867?
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Honorary citizen
Which annual international observance is held on Hans Christian Andersen’s birthday?
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International Children’s Book Day
Which school in Zealand did Hans Christian Andersen attend after receiving Jonas Collin’s support?
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Slagelse Latin School
Which airport in Denmark is named after Hans Christian Andersen?
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Hans Christian Andersen Airport
Who wrote The Late George Apley, winner of the 1936 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?
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John P. Marquand
Which author won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Rabbit at Rest?
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John Updike
What is the title of the 1962 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Edwin O'Connor?
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The Edge of Sadness
Which author won the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Dragon's Teeth?
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Upton Sinclair
Which author won the 1965 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Keepers of the House?
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Shirley Ann Grau
What is the title of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1863 travelogue about Europe?
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Winter Notes on Summer Impressions
Which Dostoevsky work is subtitled “A Petersburg Poem”?
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The Double
What was the name of Dostoevsky’s 1846 novel about the clerk Golyadkin?
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The Double
What was the name of the literary group Dostoevsky joined in Saint Petersburg in 1847?
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Petrashevsky Circle
What is the English title of Dostoevsky’s 1864 novella originally published as Zapiski iz podpolya?
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Notes from Underground
In which army did C.S. Lewis serve during World War I?
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The British Army
What was the name of C.S. Lewis’s Oxford literary discussion group?
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The Inklings
Which C.S. Lewis book is a retelling of the Cupid and Psyche myth?
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Till We Have Faces
What is the name of the protagonist in C.S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy?
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Elwin Ransom
On what date did C.S. Lewis die in Oxford in 1963?
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22 November 1963
Which C.S. Lewis book collects his BBC radio talks from the early 1940s?
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Mere Christianity
What was the title of C.S. Lewis’s 1955 autobiography about his conversion?
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Surprised by Joy
At which Oxford college did C.S. Lewis teach for most of his academic career?
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Magdalen College
What was Roald Dahl’s RAF rank when he was commissioned after training as a pilot?
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Pilot Officer
Which Roald Dahl story was adapted into the 1990 film The Witches?
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The Witches
Who was Roald Dahl’s second wife, whom he married in 1983?
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Felicity Crosland
At which English boarding school did Roald Dahl study from 1929 to 1934?
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Repton School
Which Roald Dahl book was adapted into the 2009 film directed by Wes Anderson?
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
Who was Roald Dahl’s first wife?
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Patricia Neal
What was the title of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s first poetry collection, published in 1955?
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Pictures of the Gone World
Which Beat poet wrote the 1959 collection Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems?
Answer
Gary Snyder
Which Beat Generation writer published the 1966 novel Trout Fishing in America?
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Richard Brautigan