What is the title of Mark Twain's 1883 book about the Mississippi River?
Answer
Life on the Mississippi
80 Mark Twain Trivia Questions with Answers
80 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
In which cemetery in Elmira, New York is Mark Twain buried?
Answer
Woodlawn Cemetery
What Mark Twain novel features a prince and a pauper swapping places?
Answer
The Prince and the Pauper
Which university awarded Mark Twain an honorary LL.D. in 1902?
Answer
University of Missouri
What league was Mark Twain a vice president of?
Answer
American Anti-Imperialist League
What was the name of Mark Twain's final home in Redding, Connecticut?
Answer
Stormfield
What invention did Mark Twain invest heavily in that contributed to his bankruptcy?
Answer
Paige Compositor
What was the name of the steamboat pilot who taught Mark Twain?
Answer
Horace Bixby
What does the nautical term 'mark twain' signify?
Answer
two fathoms deep
What was the name of the publishing company Mark Twain co-founded that went bankrupt?
Answer
Charles L. Webster and Company
What newspaper did Mark Twain write for in Virginia City, Nevada?
Answer
Territorial Enterprise
What Mark Twain short story features a famous gambling frog?
Answer
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
What 1889 Mark Twain novel sends a character back to King Arthur's time?
Answer
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
In which state is the historic Mark Twain House located?
Answer
Connecticut
What riverboat job did Mark Twain hold before becoming a writer?
Answer
Steamboat pilot
Which comet did Mark Twain famously say he came in with and would go out with?
Answer
Halley's Comet
In what year did Mark Twain die?
Answer
1910
Which Mark Twain novel features the runaway slave Jim?
Answer
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
What Mark Twain novel published in 1876 features the character Tom Sawyer?
Answer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
In which town in Missouri was Mark Twain born?
Answer
Florida, Missouri
What was Mark Twain's real name?
Answer
Samuel Langhorne Clemens