Which Beat Generation poet wrote the 1958 poem “A Footnote to Howl”?
Answer
Allen Ginsberg
94 Beat Generation Writers Trivia Questions with Answers
94 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
In which city was Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti born?
Answer
Yonkers
Which novel did Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs write together in 1945?
Answer
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
What was the title of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s 1958 poetry collection about a famous amusement district?
Answer
A Coney Island of the Mind
Which Beat poet wrote the 1957 poem “Marriage”?
Answer
Gregory Corso
Which Beat poet wrote the 1958 novel Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict under a pseudonym?
Answer
William S. Burroughs
Which Beat poet wrote the 1956 novel The Dharma Bums?
Answer
Jack Kerouac
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
What is William S. Burroughs’s middle name?
Answer
Seward
Which Beat writer authored the novel The Western Lands?
Answer
William S. Burroughs
What was Allen Ginsberg’s middle name?
Answer
Louis
Which Beat poet wrote the poem “Bomb,” a long meditation on nuclear warfare?
Answer
Gregory Corso
Which 1972 Jack Kerouac novel was published posthumously after his death?
Answer
Visions of Cody
In which city was Beat writer William S. Burroughs born in 1914?
Answer
St. Louis
Which Beat writer wrote the 1959 novel Doctor Sax?
Answer
Jack Kerouac
What was the title of Allen Ginsberg’s 1961 collection that includes “Kaddish”?
Answer
Kaddish and Other Poems
Which Allen Ginsberg poem is titled after the Kansas city associated with his 1966 antiwar journey?
Answer
Wichita Vortex Sutra
Which Jack Kerouac novel, published in 1958, follows the aspiring poet Ray Smith?
Answer
The Dharma Bums
Who co-founded City Lights Books with Lawrence Ferlinghetti?
Answer
Peter D. Martin
Which Beat writer authored The Nova Trilogy?
Answer
William S. Burroughs
Which Beat writer published the novel Desolation Angels in 1965?
Answer
Jack Kerouac
Which Beat writer published the poetry collection Ghost Tantras in 1964?
Answer
Michael McClure
Who edited the 1960 poetry anthology The New American Poetry?
Answer
Donald Allen
Which Beat writer appeared as Old Bull Lee in Jack Kerouac’s novel On the Road?
Answer
William S. Burroughs
What was the name of Jack Kerouac’s 1958 novel about a jazz musician?
Answer
The Subterraneans
Which person was Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl” dedicated to?
Answer
Carl Solomon
What term did Jack Kerouac use for his rapid, spontaneous writing method?
Answer
Spontaneous prose
Which San Francisco bookstore did Lawrence Ferlinghetti open in 1953?
Answer
City Lights
What was the name of the New York bar where Allen Ginsberg met Neal Cassady in 1947?
Answer
The West End Bar
What was Gregory Corso’s first published poetry collection?
Answer
The Vestal Lady on Brattle and Other Poems
Which 1952 essay by John Clellon Holmes helped define the Beat Generation for a wide readership?
Answer
This Is the Beat Generation