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WORLD LITERATURE
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| "WITHIN A BUDDING GROVE", THE 2ND PART OF HIS "REMEMBRANCES OF THINGS PAST", WON THE GONCOURT LITERARY PRIZE | PROUST |
| THIS STORY OF A COURTESAN WHO SACRIFICES HER HAPPINESS FOR A LOVER'S GOOD WAS DUMAS FILS' FIRST NOVEL | CAMILLE |
| SHE COLLABORATED ON 4 NOVELS WITH HUSBAND HENRI GAUTHIER-VILLARS BEFORE WRITING "GIGI" | COLETTE |
| THIS ALGERIAN-BORN NOVELIST'S "THE STRANGER" IS BASED ON HIS ESSAY "THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS" | CAMUS |
| THIS MASTER OF SHORT STORIES LIKE "BALL OF FAT" ALSO WROTE 6 NOVELS | GUY DE MAUPASSANT |
| FANCHETTE IS "THE MOST INTELLIGENT CAT IN THE WORLD" IN THE "CLAUDINE" BOOKS BY THIS "GIGI" NOVELIST | COLETTE |
| HE CHANGED THE WORLD OF COMIC BOOKS WITH "BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS" AND "SIN CITY" | FRANK MILLER |
| THE AUTHOR OF ABOUT 40 BOOKS, HE WAS WORLD BRIDGE CHAMPION IN 1950 | CHARLES GOREN |
| "THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO" AND "THE BLACK TULIP" ARE A PERE OF HIS HISTORICAL ROMANCES | DUMAS (PERE) |
| IN 1973 THE KGB CONFISCATED A MANUSCRIPT OF THIS MASSIVE WORK & SOLZHENITSYN SOON PUBLISHED IT IN FRANCE | THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO |
| DETECTIVE CORDELIA GRAY DEBUTED IN THIS ENGLISHWOMAN'S "AN UNSUITABLE JOB FOR A WOMAN" | P.D. JAMES |
| IF YOU CAN'T COME UP WITH THIS JAPANESE TITLE OF TAYAMA KATAI'S NOVEL TRANSLATED AS "THE QUILT", SLEEP ON IT | FUTON |
| YOU CAN GO BACK TO MEDIEVAL NORWAY BY READING SIGRID UNDSET'S NOVEL ABOUT THIS WOMAN AND HER FATHER LAVRANS | KRISTIN LAVRANSDATTER |
| THE WORLD'S LARGEST LIBRARY, IT CONTAINS OVER 115 MILLION VOLUMES ON 532 MILES OF BOOKSHELVES | THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS |
| C.S. LEWIS CHRONICLED THIS FANTASY WORLD IN 7 BOOKS, BEGINNING WITH "THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE" | NARNIA |
| IN BOOKS BY C.S. LEWIS, ASLAN, ONE OF THESE ANIMALS, CREATED THE WORLD OF NARNIA | LION |
| THIS AUTHOR OF "AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS" ALSO WROTE LIBRETTOS FOR OPERETTAS | JULES VERNE |
| NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS CONTINUED THE ADVENTURES OF THIS HOMERIC HERO IN A 33,333-LINE SEQUEL | ODYSSEUS |
| AFTER HIS RETURN TO RUSSIA IN 1994, THIS FORMER DISSIDENT WAS GIVEN HIS OWN TV TALK SHOW | ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN |
| ALTHOUGH HE SPENT MOST OF HIS LIFE IN PRAGUE, FRANZ KAFKA SPOKE & WROTE IN THIS LANGUAGE | GERMAN |
| MOST OF NADINE GORDIMER'S NOVELS INCLUDING "JULY'S PEOPLE", ARE SET IN THIS COUNTRY WHERE SHE GREW UP | SOUTH AFRICA |
| READING THE ILIAD AND ODYSSEY IN THEIR ORIGINAL LANGUAGE IS THIS LANGUAGE TO US | GREEK |
| POPE JOHN PAUL II'S POEM "EASTER VIGIL 1966" WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN THIS, HIS NATIVE LANGUAGE | POLISH |
| THIS AUTHOR OF "CRIME & PUNISHMENT" WROTE "THE IDIOT" WHILE ON THE RUN FROM CREDITORS | DOSTOEVSKY |
| IN DUE PROCESS YOU CAN TELL US HIS "DER PROZESS", WAS METAMORPHOSED INTO ENGLISH AS "THE TRIAL" | KAFKA |
| VICTOR HUGO'S WORKING TITLE FOR THIS NOVEL WAS "MISERES" | LES MISERABLES |
| PART V OF THIS WILLA CATHER NOVEL IS ENTITLED "ALEXANDRA" | O PIONEERS! |
| "ST. MAWR" IS A SHORT NOVEL BY THIS CREATOR OF THE LESS THAN SAINTLY LADY CHATTERLY | D.H. LAWRENCE |
| UNDINE SPRAGG IS THE HEROINE OF "THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY" BY THIS AUTHOR OF "THE AGE OF INNOCENCE" | EDITH WHARTON |
| ORIGINALLY, THIS "OOMO" AUTHOR'S NAME WAS SPELLED WITHOUT AN "E" ON THE END | HERMAN MELVILLE |
| D'ARTAGNAN IS THE SWASHBUCKLING HERO OS THIS AUTHOR'S "THE THREE MUSKETEERS" | DUMAS |
| THIS BRITISH AUTHOR WROTE "THE WAR IN THE AIR" AS WELL AS "THE WAR OF THE WORLDS" | H.G. WELLS |
| HE DIED IN 1924 WITHOUT COMPLETING "THE TRIAL" AND "THE CASTLE" | KAFKA |
| 1943'S "MAGISTER LUDI", OR "THE GLASS DEAD GAME", WAS THE LAST NOVEL BY THIS GERMAN AUTHOR | HERMAN HESSE |
| SHE PUBLISHED A ROMANTIC NOVEL CALLED "VALPERGA" IN 1823, 5 YEARS AFTER GIVING BIRTH TO "FRANKENSTEIN" | MARY SHELLEY |
| HIS NOVEL "NICHOLAS NICKELBY" WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN SERIAL FORM IN "BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY" | CHARLES DICKENS |
| ALFRED DE VIGNY'S HISTORICAL NOVEL "CINQ-MARS" CONCERNS A 17TH-C. PLOT AGAINST THIS FRENCH CARDINAL | CARDINAL RICHELIEU |
| AN IMMIGRANT NAMED JURGIS RUDKUS IS THE LEADING CHARACTER IN HIS "MEATY" NOVEL "THE JUNGLE" | UPTON SINCLAIR |
| A CAVELIER FALLS IN LOVE WITH A ROUNDHEAD'S DAUGHTER IN "PEVERIL OF THE PEAK", BY THIS "IVANHOE" AUTHOR | SIR WALTER SCOTT |
| THIS "DON QUIXOTE" AUTHOR'S FIRST PUBLISHED WORK WAS "LA GALATEA", A PASTORAL NOVEL | CERVANTES |
| FANNY PRICE FALLS IN LOVE WITH HER COUSIN EDMUND IN THIS "PRIDE & PREJUDICE" AUTHOR'S "MANSFIELD PARK" | JANE AUSTEN |
| "THE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP" WAS THE LAST COMPLETED NOVEL BY THIS "VANITY FAIR" AUTHOR | THACKERAY |
| THIS "OF HUMAN BONDAGE" AUTHOR'S EXPERIENCES AS A SPY INSPIRED HIS "ASHENDEN: OR THE BRITISH AGENT" | SOMERSET MAUGHAM |
| SONIA MARMELADOVNA IS THE HEROINE OF HIS 1866 NOVEL "CRIME & PUNISHMENT" | DOSTOEVSKY |
| MANY OF THE LETTERS IN THIS EPISTOLARY ALICE WALKER NOVEL ARE WRITTEN BY CELIE TO GOD | THE COLOR PURPLE |
| HE WROTE A PLAY CALLED "CLEVINGER'S TRIAL", BASED ON CHAPTER 8 OF HIS NOVEL "CATCH-22" | JOSEPH HELLER |
| THE HERO OF THIS MORRIS L. WEST NOVEL IS A UKRANIAN WHO BECOMES POPE | THE SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN |
| "BODILY HARM" AND "THE HANDMAID'S TALE" ARE 2 OF THIS CANADIAN'S FEMINIST NOVELS | MARGARET ATWOOD |
| SAVONAROLA AND MACHIAVELLI ARE CHARACTERS IN GEORGE ELIOT'S "ROMOLA", SET IN THE 1490S IN THIS CITY | FLORENCE |
| AS A MEDICAL STUDENT IN THIS CITY, CHEKHOV WROTE SHORT STORIES TO HELP SUPPORT HIS FAMILY | MOSCOW |
| HIS "L'ILE MYSTERIEUSE", PUBLISHED IN 1874, FORESAW THE SUBMARINE, THE AQUALUNG, TV, AND SPACE TRAVEL | JULES VERNE |
| "DEMIAN" IS A BILDUNGSROMAN BY THIS GERMAN NOVELIST AND POET | HERMANN HESSE |
| IRAKLION-BORN NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS IS BEST KNOWN FOR THIS 1946 NOVEL | ZORBA THE GREEK |
| FIRST AND LAST NAME OF THE WRITER WHOSE UNCLE BECAME PRESIDENT OF CHILE IN 1970 | ISABEL ALLENDE |
| DOSTOYEVSKY DIDN'T CALLE HIS NOVEL ABOUT PRINCE MYSHKIN "THE DOPE" OF "THE NINNY", BUT THIS | THE IDIOT |
| THE LAST OD ANDRE CHENIER'S MOVING POEMS "IAMBES" DATE FROM JUST BEFORE HIS DEATH BY THIS IN JULY 1794 | GUILLOTINE |
| BORN IN 1547, THIS SPANISH AUTHOR ALWAYS CRAVED THE FAME OF HIS CONTEMPORARY LOPE DE VEGA | CERVANTES |
| NAGUIB MAHFOUZ, THE FIRST ARABIC-LANGUAGE NOBEL LITERATURE LAUREATE, IS FROM THIS COUNTRY | EGYPT |
| IN 1831, HE PUBLISHED A BOOK OF POEMS CALLED "LES FEUILLES D'AUTOMNES", AS WELL AS THAT HUNCHBACK NOVEL | VICTOR HUGO |
| HIS LAST PLAY WAS 1909'S AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL "STORA LANDSVAGEN", SWEDISH FOR "THE GREAT HIGHWAY" | STRINDBERG |
| JOHANNA SPYRI SENT HER HEROINE "HEIDI" TO LIVE IN THE ALPS OF THIS COUNTRY, HER OWN HOMELAND | SWITZERLAND |
| "BLEAK HOUSE" OPENS IN THIS CITY, WHERE, "AT THE VERY HEART OF THE FOG, SITS THE LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR" | LONDON |
| ISABEL ALLENDE WRITES NOVELS LIKE "INES OF MY SOUL" IN THIS LANGUAGE | SPANISH |
| THIS NORWEGIAN WAS IN HIS EARLY 20S WHEN HE WROTE HIS FIRST PLAY, "CATALINA", IN 1850 | IBSEN |
| THE HEROINE OF HER 1849 NOVEL "SHIRLEY" WAS INSPIRED BY HER SISTER EMILY | CHARLOTTE BRONTE |
| IN ENGLISH, THE TITLE OF THIS HERMANN HESSES NOVEL MEANS "THE PRAIRIE WOLF" | STEPPENWOLF |
| "THE WAPSHOT SCANDAL" WAS THIS NEW ENGLANDER'S SEQUEL TO "THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLE" | JOHN CHEEVER |
| THE NOVEL "TRILBY" INTRODUCED THIS HYPNOTIST WHOSE NAME IS SYNONYMOUS WITH EVIL MANIPULATION | SVENGALI |
| PUBLISHED IN SPAIN IN 1605, THIS CLASSIC OF WORLD LITERATURE WAS AN INSTANT HIT | DON QUIXOTE |
| TOLSTOY'S FIRST FULL-LENGTH NOVEL, IT INCLUDES A CAST OF MORE THAN 500 CHARACTERS | WAR & PEACE |
| CHAPTER 8 OF THIS 17TH-C. WORK BEGINS, "THEY CAME IN SIGHT OF THIRTY, FORTY WINDMILLS" | DON QUIXOTE |
| THIS ALBERT CAMUS NOVEL BEGINS WITH THE DISCOVERY OF A DEAD RAT OUTSIDE DR. BERNARD RIEUX' DOOR | THE PLAGUE |
| BURIED TREASURE FOUND ON AN ISLET IN THE TUSCAN ARCHIPELAGO MAKES THIS CHARACTER WEALTHY | THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO |
| IN 1902 KIPLING PUBLISHED A VOLUME OF THESE "STORIES", INCLUDING "THE CAT THAT WALKED BY HIMSELF" | JUST SO STORIES |
| IN THE EARLY 1900S ARGENTINE WRITERS BENITO LYNCH & RICARDO GUIRALDES WROTE NOVELS ABOUT THE LIVES OF THESE COWBOYS | GAUCHOS |
| "L'ART D'ETRE GRAND-PERE" IS A NOT SO MISERABLES POETRY COLLECTION BY THIS AUTHOR | VICTOR HUGO |
| THIS AUSSIE'S BOOKS INCLUDE "OUTBACK" AS WELL AS "SCHINDLER'S LIST" | THOMAS KENEALLY |
| JACOBEAN WHO WROTE THE GHOULISH & VIOLENT PLAYS "THE WHITE DEVIL" AND "THE DUCHESS OF MALFI" | JOHN WEBSTER |
| CZAR BORIS GODUNOV INSPIRED AN 1825 DRAMA BY THIS WRITER, RUSSIA'S EQUIVALENT OF SHAKESPEARE | PUSHKIN |
| FERNANDO PESSOA OF LISBON & MACHADO DE ASSIS OF RIO DE JANEIRO WERE GREAT WRITERS IN THIS LANGUAGE | PORTUGUESE |
| IN THE 18TH-C. RADISCHEV PROTESTED THE ABUSE OF PEASANTS IN "JOURNEY FROM ST. PETERSBURG" TO THIS BIG CITY | MOSCOW |
| THIS LANGUAGE THAT "BEOWULF" WAS WRITTEN IN IS MORE LIKE MODERN GERMAN THAN THE LANGUAGE WE SPEAK | OLD ENGLISH |
| SHERLOCK HOLMES FINDS "AS MUCH SENSE IN HAFIZ", A 14TH-C. PERSIAN POET, "AS IN" THIS ROMAN WITH AN "H" NAME | HORACE |
| A 1623 WALLOON DRAMA WAS LITERALLY ONE OF THESE PREACHY PLAYS...THAT WAS THE TITLE | MORALITY PLAY |
| PROLETARIAN WRITER DING LING WAS ONCE FRIENDLY WITH THIS LEADER, BUT WAS JAILED IN HIS CULTURAL REVOLUTION | MAO TSE-TUNG |
| MUHAMMAD YAMIN WAS ONE OF THE GREAT POETS OF THIS LARGELY ISLAMIC ISLAND REPUBLIC | INDONESIA |
| A 985 MOVIE COVERED THE LIFE OF THIS JAPANESE WRITER WHO DRAMATICALLY COMMITTED SUICIDE IN 1970 | MISHIMA |
| POET WHO FOUNDED SAN FRANCISCO'S "CITY LIGHTS" BOOKSTORE IN 1953 | LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI |
| THIS BRITISH PHYSICIAN AND NOVELIST BASED HIS HOLMES CHARACTER ON ONE OF HIS UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS | ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE |
| "THE TEMPLE OF THE GOLDEN PAVILLION" AND "THE MARIOKA SISTERS" ARE CLASSICS FROM THIS ASIAN COUNTRY | JAPAN |
| CREDITED TO LUO GUANZHONG, "ALL MEN ARE BROTHERS", IS A FAMOUS TALE ABOUT AN OUTLAW GANG OF THIS COUNTRY | CHINA |
| IN ITS ORIGINAL ITALIAN, THIS UMBERTO ECO WORK IS "EL PENDOLO DI FOUCAULT" | FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM |
| TANT PIS, THE CRUCIAL EXPANSION OF EXISTENTIAL THOUGHT BY THIS FRENCH AUTHOR WAS CUT ALL TOO SHORT | CAMUS |
| IT CONSISTS OF A STORY-TELLING CONTEST TO PASS THE TIME ON A TRIP TO THE SHRINE OF ST. THOMAS A BECKET | THE CANTERBURY TALES |
| DON QUIXOTE GAVE THIS NAME TO ALDONZA LORENZO, A PEASANT GIRL WHO WAS HIS IDEAL LADY | DULCINEA |
| IN "1984" WINSTON SMITH WORKS FOR THE MINISTRY OF THIS | TRUTH |
| 14 OF THE BOOKS IN THE "ODYSSEY" ARE SET ON THIS ROCKY HOMELAND OF ODYSSEUS | ITHACA |
| THIS 1532 WORK IS DEDICATED TO LORENZO THE MAGNIFICENT, SON OF PIERO DE MEDICI | THE PRINCE |
| THE PONCHANTANTRA, A COLLECTION OF INDIAN ANIMAL FABLES, WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN IN THIS CLASSIC LANGUAGE | SANSKRIT |
| THIS FRENCHMAN SPENT 5 YEARS WRITING "MADAME BOVARY" WHICH WAS FINALLY PUBLISHED IN 1857 | FLAUBERT |
| THE DEFENSE OF DOUGLAS CASTLE IN 1306 IS THE SUBJECT OF THIS EDINBURGH NATIVE'S 1832 NOVEL "CASTLE DANGEROUS" | SIR WALTER SCOTT |
| "GREEN, GREEN MY VALLEY NOW" WAS A THIRD SEQUEL TO THIS WORLD-FAMOUS WELSH NOVEL | HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY |
| THIS CZECH PLAYWRIGHT WHO INVENTED THE WORD "ROBOT" ALSO WROTE THE NOVEL "KRAKATIT", "AN ATOMIC PHANTASY" | KAREL CAPEK |
| LAST NAME OF FLAUBERT CHARACTER CHARLES, WHOSE WIFE EMMA HAS AN AFFAIR WITH LEON DUPUIS | BOVARY |
| A PARIS CROWD SELECTS THIS CHARACTER AS KING OF FOOLS FOR THE EPIPHANY CELEBRATIONS OF 1482 | THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME |
| THE TITLE CHARACTER OF THIS EPIC POEM IS THE NEPHEW OF KING HYGELAC OF THE GEATS | BEOWULF |
| ELLEN DOUGLAS IS THE TITLE CHARACTER OF THIS SCOTTISH NOVELIST'S "THE LADY OF THE LAKE" | SIR WALTER SCOTT |
| HE WON THE 1953 NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE PARTLY FOR HIS 6-VOLUME HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II | CHURCHILL |
| SANCHO PANZA CALLS HIM "THE KNIGHT OF THE SAD COUNTENANCE" | DON QUIXOTE |
| THIS CLASSIC STORY COLLECTION INCLUDES "THE TALES OF SINBAD", "ALADDIN", AND "ALI BABA" | ARABIAN NIGHTS |
| IN THIS 1862 NOVEL, EX-CONVICT JEAN VALJEAN STEALS THE BISHOP OF DIGNE'S SILVERWARE | LES MISERABLES |
| HIS "THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV" WAS TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH IN 1912, 32 YEARS AFTER IT WAS FIRST PUBLISHED | DOSTOYEVSKY |
| SHAKESPEARE'S "CYMBELLINE" IS BASED IN PART ON A STORY FROM THIS 14TH-C. WORK BY BOCACCIO | THE DECAMERON |
| AMONG THE PLACES VISITED IN THIS NOVEL ARE GLUBDRUBDIB, AN ISLAND OF SORCERERS, AND LUGGNAGG | GULLIVER'S TRAVELS |
| IN "BEOWULF", THIS MONSTER REGULARLY DEVOURS HROTHGAR'S SLEEPING WARRIORS | GRENDEL |
| ESMERALDA EARNS HER LIVING BY DANCING WITH HER GOAT, DJALI, IN THIS NOVEL | THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME |
| "THE LEGEND OF THE KNIGHT OF THE RED CROSS" IS THE 1ST BOOK IN THIS EDMUND SPENSER WORK | THE FAERIE QUEEN |
| THE RISES TO POWER OF CESARE BORGIA & FRANCESCO SFORZA, AMONG OTHERS, ARE RELATED IN THIS 1513 WORK | THE PRINCE |
| THE KNIGHT IS THE FIRST CHARACTER TO TELL HIS STORY IN THIS CHAUCER CLASSIC | THE CANTERBURY TALES |
| HE PROMISED THAT IF SANCHO PANZA BECAME HIS SQUIRE, HE'D MAKE HIM GOVERNOR OF AN ISLAND | DON QUIXOTE |
| ROHAN, OR RIDDERMARK, IS AN IMPORTANT REALM OF MIDDLE-EARTH IN BOOKS BY THIS AUTHOR | TOLKIEN |
| AFTER HE RETURNED TO VENICE IN 1295, HE WROTE STORIES OF HIS TRAVELS TO THE ORIENT | MARCO POLO |
| IN NORSE LEGEND, THE CHILDREN IN THIS NURSERY RHYME WERE CAPTURED BY THE MOON WHILE DRAWING WATER | JACK & JILL |
| MAUD GONNE, AN IRISH PATRIOT & PHILANTHROPIST, WAS THE HEROINE OF SEVERAL POEMS BY THIS IRISHMAN | YEATS |
| BEFORE PLUTARCH WROTE LOVE POEMS TO LAURA, DANTE WROTE HIS TO HER | BEATRICE |
| "EUGENE ONEGIN", A NOVEL WRITTEN IN VERSE, IS CONSIDERED THIS RUSSIAN POET'S MASTERPIECE | PUSHKIN |
| IN THIS NOVEL, DOSTOYEVSKY'S LAST, A SON IS FALSELY ACCUSED OF MURDERING HIS FATHER | THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV |
| FOR 10 YEARS, THIS GREATEST OF GERMAN POETS PRACTICALLY RAN THE DUCHY OF SAXE-WEIMAR | GOETHE |
| THIS GREEK WRITER CONTINUED THE STORY OF ULYSSES IN HIS 1938 POEM, "THE ODYSSEY: A MODERN SEQUEL" | NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS |
| KING LOUIS XIV PROVIDED THIS AUTHOR OF "THE MISANTHROPE" WITH A PERMANENT THEATRE NEAR THE LOUVRE | MOLIERE |
| THIS STUDENT OF PLATO'S WROTE TREATISES ON METAPHYSICS, PHYSICS, POETICS, AND RHETORIC | ARISTOTLE |
| SCHEHERAZADE TOLD HER HUSBAND STORIES FOR THIS MANY NIGHTS BEFORE HE DECIDED TO LET HER LIVE | 1,001 |
| UPTON SINCLAIR'S STORY OF A LITHUANIAN IMMIGRANT FAMILY EMPLOYED IN THE MEAT-PACKING INDUSTRY | THE JUNGLE |
| AESCHYLUS' DRAMATIC ACCOUNT OF THE TITAN WHO WAS CONDEMNED FOR GIVING FIRE TO MERE MORTALS | PROMETHEUS BOUND |
| IN THE ERA OF COLONIALISM, THIS BRITISH AUTHOR WROTE, "TAKE UP THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN" | KIPLING |
| LI PO, WHO LIVED OVER 1,000 YEARS AGO, WAS ONE OF THIS COUNTRY'S GREATEST POETS | CHINA |
| "SHADOWS ON THE GRASS" IS A COLLECTION OF AFRICAN VIGNETTES BY THIS DANISH BARONESS | ISAK DINESEN |
| IN GERMAN, THE TITLE OF THIS THOMAS MANN NOVELLA IS "DER TOD IN VENEDIG" | DEATH IN VENICE |
| VIRGINIA WOOLF WROTE ABOUT ONE "OF ONE'S OWN"; E.M. FORSTER WROTE ABOUT ONE "WITH A VIEW" | A ROOM |
| NATIONALITY OF THE WOMAN WHO CREATED HANS BRINKER | AMERICAN (MARY MAPES DODGE) |
| DOSTOEVSKI NOVEL IN WHICH RASKOLNIKOV, A YOUNG STUDENT, KILLS AN OLD WOMAN PAWNBROKER | CRIME & PUNISHMENT |
| AFTER OFFENDING BOTH SIDES IN A RELIGIOUS DISPUTE, THIS "MOLL FLANDERS" AUTHOR WAS SENTENCED TO THE PILLORY | DANIEL DEFOE |
| IN 1967 GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ BECAME WORLD FAMOUS IN PUBLICATION OF HIS "ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF..." THIS | SOLITUDE |
| IRISH-BORN SAMUEL BECKETT AND ROMANIAN-BORN EUGENE IONESCO BOTH WROTE ABSURDIST PLAYS IN THIS LANGUAGE | FRENCH |
| THE POLISH-BORN AUTHOR OF "THE PAINTED BIRD", SET IN EUROPE AND "BEING THERE", SET IN WASHINGTON, D.C. | JERZY KOZINSKI |
| TRAPPED IN THE CAVE, CASSIM YELLED, "OPEN, WHEAT!" AND "OPEN, BARLEY!" WHEN HE FORGOT THIS PHRASE | OPEN, SESAME |
| HE USED MARLOWE AS A CHARACTER OR NARRATOR IN "YOUTH", "LORD JIM", AND "HEART OF DARKNESS" | JOSEPH CONRAD |
| IT'S WHO ELIZA CARRIED ACROSS THE ICE FLOES OF THE OHIO RIVER IN "UNCLE TOM'S CABIN" | HER BABY |
| THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE "DANZIG TRILOGY" BY GUNTER GRASS | THE TIN DRUM |
| THE LAST NAMES OF THESE STEINBECK CHARACTERS ARE SMALL AND MILTON | LENNIE & GEORGE |
| HERMANN HESSE'S NOVEL OF A YOUNG INDIAN'S SEARCH FOR REALITY; ITS TITLE IS ONE OF THE NAMES OF BUDDHA | SIDDHARTHA |
| WRITTEN IN YIDDISH, HIS NOVELS SUCH AS "THE FAMILY MOSKAT" ARE OFTEN SET IN POLAND | ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER |
| ALGERIAN-BORN FRENCHMAN WHO WROTE "THE STRANGER" BEFORE HE WORKED FOR THE RESISTANCE DURING WWII | CAMUS |
| "JOSEPH & HIS BROTHERS", A GROUP OF NOVELS BASED ON A BIBLE STORY, IS THIS GERMAN AUTHOR'S LONGEST WORK | THOMAS MANN |
| "IF HE HAS A CONSCIENCE, HE WILL SUFFER FOR HIS MISTAKE" REFERS TO A MURDERER IN THIS 1866 NOVEL | CRIME & PUNISHMENT |
| IT SAYS "O POET...I BEG YOU, THAT I MAY FLEE THIS EVIL & WORSE EVILS, TO LEAD ME...THAT I MAY SEE THE GATEWAY OF SAINT PETER" | DANTE'S INFERNO |
| FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ITS HISTORY, THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE WAS NOT AWARDED IN THIS YEAR | 1914 |
| A WAR DESCRIBED IN THIS 1726 NOVEL BEGAN OVER AN ARGUMENT ABOUT HOW TO CRACK OPEN AN EGG | GULLIVER'S TRAVELS |
| THE NEXT-TO-LAST CHAPTER OF THIS NOVEL IS ENTITLED "THE KNITTING DONE" | A TALE OF TWO CITIES |
| HIS FIRST NOVEL, "THE SNAKE'S PASS", WAS PUBLISHED IN 1890, 7 YEARS BEFORE "DRACULA" | BRAM STOKER |
| HIS MONUMENTAL COLLECTION "LA COMEDIE HUMAINE" EMCOMPASSES ABOUT 90 NOVELS AND STORIES | HONORE DE BALZAC |
| THIS NOVELIST'S MOTHER, FRANCIS TROLLOPE, WROTE A DEROGATORY BOOK ABOUT AMERICAN MANNERS IN 1832 | ANTHONY TROLLOPE |
| "LITTLE MR. THIMBLEFINGER AND HIS QUEER COUNTRY" IS A CHILDREN'S BOOK BY THIS CREATOR OF UNCLE REMUS | JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS |
| THIS AUTHOR OF "THE LUCK OF ROARING CAMP" SERVED AS U.S. CONSUL IN GLASGOW 1880-85 | BRET HARTE |
| IN 1833 A FRENCH HISTORIAN SAID THAT THIS AUTHOR HAD BUILT "A CATHEDRAL AS SOLID AS THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE OTHER (ONE)" | VICTOR HUGO |
| HE WROTE, "I WANTED TO LIVE DEEP AND SUCK OUT ALL THE MARROW OF LIFE, TO LIVE SO STURDILY AND SPARTAN-LIKE... | THOREAU |
| D.H. LAWRENCE CALLED HIM "AN ADVENTURER INTO THE VAULTS AND...HORRIBLE UNDERGROUND PASSAGES OF THE HUMAN SOUL" | EDGAR ALLAN POE |
| HE REJECTED OFFERS TO RUN FOR CONGRESS AND MAYOR OF NYC AND TO BE VAN BUREN'S SECRETARY OF THE NAVY | WASHINGTON IRVING |
| 2 AFFAIRS INSPIRED BAUDELAIRE'S POEM CYCLES TITLED "BLACK" AND "WHITE" THIS LOVE GODDESS | VENUS |
| THIS AUTHOR LIVED IN ST. PETERSBURG AND ONE OF HIS NOVELS OPENS WITH RASKOLNIKOV WALKING OUT ON A SUMMER NIGHT THERE | DOSTOEVSKY |
| GARCIA LORCA WROTE "LAMENT FOR A BULLFIGHTER" IN 1935, BUT A YEAR LATER HE WAS THE LAMENTED ONE IN THIS WAR | SPANISH CIVIL WAR |
| THIS AUTHOR WAS BORN IN WHAT WAS THEN DANZIG; "CAT & MOUSE", "DOG YEARS", AND "THE TIN DRUM" MAKE UP HIS DANZIG TRILOGY | GUNTER GRASS |
| IN THE 1970S MILAN KUNDERA WAS STRIPPED OF HIS CITIZENSHIP BY THIS COUNTRY'S GOVERNMENT | CZECHOSLOVAKIA |
| "HAPPY FAMILIES ARE ALL ALIKE" BEGINS HIS "ANNA KARENINA" | TOLSTOY |
| ONE REVIEW CALLED HIS "STEPPENWOLF" THE ULTIMATE NOVEL OF INTELLECT IN DESPAIR" | HERMANN HESSE |
| 10 CHARACTERS TELL 10 STORIES EACH OVER 10 DAYS IN HIS "DECAMERON" | BOCCACIO |
| LANGSTON HUGHES TRANSLATED THIS SPANIARD'S "GYPSY BALLADS" OF 1928 INTO ENGLISH | FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA |
| "LES CHOUANS" IN 1829 WAS THE FIRST NOVEL THIS "LA COMEDIE HUMAINE" AUTHOR PUBLISHED UNDER HIS OWN NAME | HONORE DE BALZAC |
| THE NAME OF THIS AUTHOR WHO DIED IN 1924 HAS BECOME AN ADJECTIVE MEANING SURREAL OR NIGHTMARISH | FRANZ KAFKA |
| THIS MUSICAL INSTRUMENT IS THE PRIZED POSSESSION OF GUNTER GRASS' DWARFISH HERO OSKAR | TIN DRUM |
| SADLY, THIS FINAL ACT OF GOETHE'S INFATUATED HERO YOUNG WERTHER WAS WIDELY IMITATED BY YOUNG ROMANTIC READERS | COMMITTING SUICIDE |
| THE TITLE VESSEL OF A 1494 POEM BY SEBASTIAN BRANT AND OF THE PAINTING OF THE SAME PERIOD BY HIERONYMUS BOSCH | THE SHIP OF FOOLS |
| THE PETER WEISS PLAY KNOWN BY THIS 2-WORD TITLE IS "PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF THE ASYLUM OF CHARENTON" | MARAT/SADE |
| THE ORIGINAL TITLE OF THIS AUTHOR'S "MAGISTER LUDI" MEANS "THE GLASS BEAD GAME" | HERMANN HESSE |
| FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER, OF "ODE TO JOY" FAME, IS FAMOUS FOR AN 1804 TALE ABOUT THIS ARCHER | WILLIAM TELL |
| A TRIP TO INDIA INSPIRED HIS 1922 NOVEL "SIDDHARTHA" | HERMANN HESSE |
| THE GERMAN DICTIONARY THIS PAIR OF BROTHERS BEGAN IN 1854 WAS FINISHED BY OTHERS IN 1954 | THE BROTHERS GRIMM |
| THIS COUNTRY'S AUTHORS HAVE WON MORE NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZES THAN ANY OTHER, INCLUDING THE U.S. | FRANCE |
| IT TOOK HIM 10 YEARS TO COME OUT WITH "DON QUIXOTE PART II" | CERVANTES |
| "BARRABAS CAME TO US BY SEA" IS HOW THIS FEMALE AUTHOR BEGAN "THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS" | ISABEL ALLENDE |
| PABLO NERUDA'S WEBSITE IS ON THE SERVER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THIS COUNTRY OF HIS BIRTH | CHILE |
| THIS "BLOOD WEDDING" POET AND PLAYWRIGHT WAS EXECUTED IN SPAIN IN 1936 | FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA |
| IN 1990 HE BECAME THE FIRST MEXICAN POET TO WIN THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE, NOT THE EIGHTH FOR PEACE | OCTAVIO PAZ |
| LAST NAME OF BROTHERS JAKOB & WILHELM, KNOWN FOR THEIR GERMAN DICTIONARY AS WELL AS THEIR FAIRY TALES | GRIMM |
| AS A MEDICAL STUDENT AT MOSCOW UNIVERSITY, HE WROTE STORIES UNDER THE NAME ANTOSHA CHEKHONTE | CHEKHOV |
| KEEPING IT IN THE FAMILY, JOHANN WYSS EDITED HIS DAD'S MANUSCRIPT ABOUT THIS SWISS FAMILY | SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON |
| WHILE SERVING AS AN AMBULANCE DRIVER DURING WWI, HE FINISHED HIS NOVEL "OF HUMAN BONDAGE" | SOMERSET MAUGHAM |
| IN 1909, THIS AUTHOR OF "THE IMMORALIST" CO-FOUNDED THE LITERARY MAGAZINE THE NEW FRENCH REVUE | ANDRE' GIDE |
| IN A WORK BY THIS DRAMATIST, TREPLIOV KILLS A SEA GULL, THE SYMBOL OF HIS BROKEN DREAMS | CHEKHOV |
| HE STUDIED LAW AND WORKED AS A STOCKBROKER BEFORE WRITING THE FIRST OF HIS "VOYAGES EXTRAORDINAIRE" IN 1863 | JULES VERNE |
| PEER GYNT, THE TITLE CHARACTER OF HIS 1867 PLAY, IS BASED ON A LEGENDARY NORWEGIAN FOLK HERO | IBSEN |
| "THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS" IS THE FIRST NOVEL BY THIS LIMA-BORN WOMAN | ISABEL ALLENDE |
| IN ITALY IN 2005, THIS AUTHOR HELPED RE-CREATE THE EXPERIMENT WITH FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM | UMBERTO ECO |
| THIS BRIT COINED "DOUBLETHINK" AND "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU" | GEORGE ORWELL |
| IN A 1605 PROLOGUE, THIS SPANIARD TELLS THE READER THAT HE HAS WRITTEN AN "INVECTIVE AGAINST BOOKS OF CHIVALRY" | CERVANTES |
| WHILE AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN, HE WROTE THE ESSAY "THE DAY OF THE RABBLEMENT", ATTACKING THE IRISH LITERARY THEATRE | JAMES JOYCE |
| THIS LITERARY WHIZ' NAME IS SOMETIMES TRANSLITERATED FROM BENGALI AS RAVINDRANATHA THAKURA | RABINDRANATH TAGORE |
| THIS FRENCH WRITER "STEAKED" A CLAIM AS "THE FATHER OF ROMANTICISM" BY WRITING SUCH WORKS AS "ATALA" | CHATEAUBRIAND |
| AUGUSTE MAQUET & P.A. FIORENTINO WERE COLLABORATORS OF HIS CLASSIC NOVEL "THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO" | DUMAS |
| TURGENEV REGARDED THIS AUTHOR OF "THE COSSACKS" AS THE "GREAT AUTHOR OF THE RUSSIAN LAND" | TOLSTOY |
| HE CONCEIVED THE GENERAL PLAN FOR "FAUST" IN 1770, BUT IT WASN'T UNTIL 1808 THAT THE COMPLETE FIRST PART WAS PUBLISHED | GOETHE |
| IN "EXEMPLARY TALES", A 1613 COLLECTION, HE CLAIMED TO BE THE FIRST TO WRITE SHORT STORIES IN CASTILIAN | CERVANTES |
| THIS ACCLAIMED AUTHOR WAS BORN IN 1928 IN ARACATACA, COLUMBIA | GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ |
| WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS WAS FROM THIS COUNTRY | IRISH |
| NATIONALITY OF KNUT HAMSUN | NORWEGIAN |
| NATIONALITY OF NADINE GORDIMER | SOUTH AFRICAN |
| NATIONALITY OF HALLDOR LAXNESS | ICELAND |
| NATIONALITY OF VLADIMIR NABOKOV | RUSSIAN |
| NATIONALITY OF DEEPAK CHOPRA | INDIAN |
| NATIONALITY OF THOMAS MANN | GERMAN |
| NATIONALITY OF UMBERTO ECO | ITALIAN |
| WHILE HE WROTE A LOT OF POEMS, "DOCTOR ZHIVAGO" WAS HIS ONLY NOVEL | BORIS PASTERNAK |
| AFTER GOING "OUT OF AFRICA" FOR GOOD IN 1931, ISAK DINESEN RETURNED TO THIS COUNTRY | DENMARK |
| AFTER WRITING "J'ACCUSE", HE WAS CONVICTED OF LIBEL | EMILE ZOLA |
| A RAT INFESTATION TAKES ITS TOLL ON A FRENCH TOWN IN THIS ALGERIAN-BORN AUTHOR'S "THE PLAGUE" | CAMUS |
| THE MAIN CHARACTER IN HIS 1947 NOVEL "DOKTOR FAUSTUS" IS A GERMAN COMPOSER NAMED ADRIAN LEVERKUHN | THOMAS MANN |
| CHAPTERS IN AN 1831 WORK BY THIS AUTHOR INCLUDE "MAITRE JACQUES COPPENOLE" AND "A TEAR FOR A DROP OF WATER" | VICTOR HUGO |
| IN 1898 HE WROTE, "AS FOR THE PERSONS I HAVE ACCUSED...THEY ARE...EMBODIMENTS OF SOCIAL MALFEASANCE" | EMILE ZOLA |
| STUDY THIS LANGUAGE AT BENNINGTON AND YOU MAY TAKE A CLASS ON "SVEVO & TOZZI" | ITALIAN |
| AYN RAND ONCE CITED THIS LATE MIKE HAMMER AUTHOR AS HER FAVORITE POPULAR WRITER | MICKEY SPILLANE |
| A FRIEND SINCE CHILDHOOD, SHE HELPED TRUMAN CAPOTE RESEARCH "IN COLD BLOOD" BEFORE PUBLISHING HER OWN NOVEL | HARPER LEE |
| ANCESTORS OF THIS ELUSIVE MODERN AUTHOR PROTESTED AFTER HAWTHORNE USED THEIR NAME IN "THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES" | THOMAS PYNCHON |
| IT'S NO MYSTERY THAT THIS ENGLISHWOMAN WROTE ROMANTIC FICTION UNDER THE PEN NAME MARY WESTMACOTT | AGATHA CHRISTIE |
| ON PUBLICATION IN 1915, HIS "THE RAINBOW" WAS LABELED OBSCENE AND BANNED, AND UNSOLD COPIES WERE DESTROYED | D.H. LAWRENCE |
| HE WAS 50 YARDS FROM VICTORY IN BRITAIN'S 1956 GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE WHEN HIS HORSE GAVE OUT | DICK FRANCIS |
| HER CAREER TOOK OFF AFTER PUBLISHING "FEAR OF FLYING" IN 1973 | ERICA JONG |
| SINCLAIR LEWIS DEDICATED "BABBITT" TO THIS AUTHOR OF "THE AGE OF INNOCENCE" | EDITH WHARTON |
| THIS DOCTOR HAS MADE THE ROUNDS WITH SUCH MEDICAL THRILLERS AS "COMA", "SHOCK", AND "TOXIN" | ROBIN COOK |
| THIS AUTHOR OF THE "DEADLY SIN" NOVELS ALSO WROTE SEVERAL BOOKS FEATURING PLAYBOY SLEUTH ARCHY MCNALLY | LAWRENCE SANDERS |
| IT WASN'T UNTIL 7 YEARS AFTER PUBLISHING "LORD OF THE FLIES" THAT HE RETIRED FROM TEACHING IN ENGLAND | WILLIAM GOLDING |
| MRS. MOREL IN "SONS AND LOVERS" IS BASED IN PART ON HIS OWN MOM | D.H. LAWRENCE |
| THIS AUTHOR OF "THE TIN DRUM" WON THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE IN 1999 | GUNTER GRASS |
| BARBARA VINE IS A PSEUDONYM OF THIS LEADING BRITISH MYSTERY WRITER OF TODAY | RUTH RENDELL |
| IN 1974 THIS BRIT TURNED OUT ANOTHER NOVEL LIKE CLOCKWORK, "THE CLOCKWORK TESTAMENT" | ANTHONY BURGESS |
| JORGE ICAZA, WHO WAS BORN IN QUITO, WAS ONE OF THIS COUNTRY'S MOST FAMOUS 20TH-C. AUTHORS | ECUADOR |
| DANISH WRITER PETER HOEG HAD A BESTSELLER ABOUT HER "SENSE OF SNOW" | SMILLA |
| ACTIVE AS A LAWYER FROM AGE 21, HE USED A DICTATING MACHINE TO WRITE HIS PERRY MASON NOVELS | ERLE STANLEY GARDNER |
| IN THIS RAY BRADBURY NOVEL, FIREMAN GUY MONTAG DOESN'T PUT OUT FIRES, HE STARTS THEM | FAHRENHEIT 451 |
| THIS BRITISH BORN & BRED EVELYN WAUGH SET THIS SATIRICAL 1948 NOVEL IN CALIFORNIA | THE LOVED ONE |
| THIS "HUMBOLDT'S GIFT" AUTHOR WON BOTH THE PULITZER PRIZE AND THE NOBEL PRIZE IN 1976 | SAUL BELLOW |
| LIKE "PRESUMED INNOCENT", HIS NOVEL "BURDEN OF PROOF" IS SET IN FICTIONAL KINDLE COUNTY | SCOTT TUROW |
| THIS "RAGTIME" AUTHOR'S INITIALS STAND FOR EDGAR LAURENCE | E.L. DOCTOROW |
| HIS WWIII IMPRISONMENT IN A DRESDEN SLAUGHTERHOUSE INSPIRED "SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE" | KURT VONNEGUT, JR |
| IN HIS FIRST BOOK, "THE BOO", PAT CONROY WROTE ABOUT THIS SOUTH CAROLINA MILITARY ACADEMY, HIS ALMA MATER | THE CITADEL |
| "LETTING GO" WAS THE FIRST FULL-LENGTH NOVEL BY THIS AUTHOR OF "GOODBYE, COLUMBUS" | PHILIP ROTH |
| "AFTER MANY A SUMMER DIES THE SWAN" IS A 1939 NOVEL BY THIS AUTHOR OF "BRAVE NEW WORLD" | ALDOUS HUXLEY |
| "CYNICISM IS AN UNPLEASANT WAY OF SAYING THE TRUTH", WROTE THIS PLAYWRIGHT IN "THE LITTLE FOXES" | LILLIAN HELLMAN |
| A COLLECTOR OF HIS NOVELS WOULD OWN COPIES OF "THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN" AND "THE COLLECTOR" | JOHN FOWLES |
| SHE WAS ONLY 19 WHEN SHE PUBLISHED HER 1ST NOVEL "THE OUTSIDERS" IN 1967 | S.E. HINTON |
| HE SET HIS NOVEL "THE TIN DRUM" IN AND AROUND DANZIG, HIS HOMETOWN | GUNTER GRASS |
| THIS AUTHOR WAS BORN IN 1926, THE DAUGHTER OF AMASA, AN ALABAMA LAWYER, AND FRANCES, WHOSE MAIDEN NAME WAS FINCH | HARPER LEE |
| BORN OF NORWEGIAN DESCENT IN 1916, HE WAS GIVEN THE FIRST NAME OF A FAMOUS NORWEGIAN OF THE TIME | ROALD DAHL |
| THIS RUSSIAN-BORN AUTHOR & SCIENTIST WHO DIED IN 1992 SAID, "I DO NOT FEAR COMPUTERS. I FEAR THE LACK OF THEM" | ISAAC ASIMOV |
| HIS "FICTIONAL MEMOIR" ABOUT HIS LAST AFRICAN SAFARI WAS PUBLISHED IN 1999, 38 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH | ERNEST HEMINGWAY |
| THIS NOVEL'S ALTERNATE TITLE IS "OPTIMISM" | CANDIDE |
| THIS NOVEL'S ALTERNATE TITLE IS "A PURE WOMAN FAITHFULLY PRESENTED" | TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES |
| THIS CHARLES DICKENS' NOVEL'S ALTERNATE TITLE IS "THE PARISH BOYS PROGRESS" | OLIVER TWIST |
| THIS NOVEL'S ALTERNATE TITLE IS "THE SACRED AND PROFANE MEMORIES OF CAPTAIN CHARLES RYDER" | BRIDESHEAD REVISITED |
| THIS KURT VONNEGUT NOVEL'S ALTERNATE TITLE IS "THE CHILDREN'S CRUSADE: A DUTY-DANCE WITH DEATH" | SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE |
| THIS MARY SHELLY WORK HAS THE ALTERNATE TITLE OF "THE MODERN PROMETHEUS" | FRANKENSTEIN |
| ALTERNATE TITLE OF "MOBY DICK"? | THE WHALE |
| ALTERNATE TITLE OF "THE HOBBITT" | THERE AND BACK AGAIN |
| THIS BOOKS ALTERNATE TITLE IS "THE SAGA OF AN AMERICAN FAMILY" | ROOTS |
| THE ALTERNATE TITLE OF "UNCLE TOM'S CABIN"? | LIFE AMONG THE LOWLY |
| THIS CHILDREN'S BOOK HAS THE ALTERNATE TITLE OF "THE GREAT DOG ROBBERY" | THE HUNDRED AND ONE DALMATIANS |
| WINNER OF THE 2010 NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE | MARIO VARGAS LLOSA |
| IN AUG. 2010, THIS AUTHOR OF "THE CORRECTIONS" BECAME THE FIRST LIVING NOVELIST ON THE COVER OF TIME, SINCE STEPHEN KING IN 2000 | JONATHAN FRANZEN |
| WHAT EXTRAORDINARY BOOK DID FORD PREFECT OWN? | THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY |
| THE 5 THINGS OLD KING COLE CALLED FOR | HIS PIPE, HIS BOWL, AND HIS FIDDLERS 3 |
| WHAT DO SEVEN MAGPIES SIGNIFY? | A SECRET NEVER TO BE TOLD |
| THE TEMPERATURE AT WHICH BOOKS COMBUST | FAHRENHEIT 451 |
| WHAT SCOTTISH FOODSTUFF DID ROBERT BURNS ADDRESS AS "THE GREAT CHIEFTAIN O' THE PUDDIN' RACE" | HAGGIS |
| HOW MANY BRONTE SISTERS WERE THERE? | 3 |
| THIS DRAMATIST CLAIMED THAT IS THERE WERE NO ANTI-SEMITISM, HE WOULD NOT THINK OF HIMSELF AS JEWISH | ARTHUR MILLER |
| WHO IS CREDITED WITH WRITING THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY | HOMER |
| BRITISH ROYAL WHO WROTE THE CHILDREN'S BOOK "THE OLD MAN OF LOCHNAGAR" | PRINCE CHARLES |
| HER "JAMAICA INN" CONCERNED CORNISH SHIPWRECKERS | DAPHNE DU MAURIER |
| WHAT BRITISH OFFICER'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY IS TITLED "SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM" | LAWRENCE OF ARABIA |
| HIS NOVEL "MILA 18" DEALS WITH THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING | LEON URIS |
| WHO CREATED GEORGE SMILEY? | JOHN LE CARRE |
| THE INSPIRATION FOR WHICH CHILDREN'S BOOK CHARACTER DIED IN APRIL, 1996? | CHRISTOPHER ROBIN |
| WHICH FAMOUS LONDON THEATER CAUGHT FIRE IN 1613? | THE GLOBE |
| ENGLISH WRITER OF "BLACK BEAUTY" | ANNA SEWELL |
| WHICH AGATHA CHRISTIE DETECTIVE LIVED IN ST. MARY MEAD? | MISS MARPLE |
| WHICH EX-POLITICIAN TOOK PART IN HIS OWN PLAY, "THE ACCUSED", ON THE WEST END STAGE IN 2000? | JEFFREY ARCHER |
| WHAT IS THE NAME FOR A WORD OR PHRASE THAT READS THE SAME BOTH FORWARDS AND BACKWARDS | PALINDROME |
| WHICH NOVELIST WAS THE COUSIN OF HORROR MOVIE ACTOR CHRISTOPHER LEE? | IAN FLEMING |
| WHICH ENGLISH COUNTY IS THOMAS HARDY ASSOCIATED WITH? | DORSET |
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