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What's the fourth letter of the Greek
alphabet?Delta
What did Marcel Duchamp adorn his
reproduction of the "Mona Lisa" with?A moustache
Who is Prince Arn's father?Prince Valiant
What mythical Greek musician had his head
torn off by the Thracian women?Orpheus
Who wrote the line ``No man is an island'' - John Donne, Robinson Crusoe or Howard Hughes?John Donne
What chess piece does Alice start out as, in
"Through the Looking Glass"?A pawn
What two European languages apart from
English does James Bond speak?French and German
What country was Henry Miller's "Tropic of
Cancer" originally published in?France
What black tennis great penned the 1958 book
"I Always Wanted to Be Somebody"?Althea Gibson
What Picasso painting was inspired by the
1937 bombing of a Basque village?"Guernica"
What Hemingway novel gets its title from a
line in a John Donne sermon?"For Whom the Bell Tolls"
What's the musical play "Dreigroschenoper"
known as in English?"The Threepenny Opera"
Who wrote 1950's "Dianetics: The Modern
Science of Mental Health"?L. Ron Hubbard
What art style gets its name from the French
word "'rocaille'"?Rococo
What "Peanuts" character attends Eagle Camp?Woodstock
What's the Gannett Company's biggest
newspaper?"USA Today"
What Hemingway novel gets its title from
Ecclesiastes 1:5?"The Sun Also Rises"
What club does Dickens's "The Pickwick
Papers" center on?The Pickwick Club
How should you play it, according to the
title of a 1970 Joan Didion novel?As it lays
What kind of animal is Benjamin in "Animal
Farm"?A donkey
What Jane Austen novel was originally called
"First Impressions"?"Pride and Prejudice"
What U.S. president is Gilbert Stuart famed
for painting?George Washington
Who painted "View of Toledo"?El Greco
What British royal wrote the children's
story "The Old Man of Lochnagar"?Prince Charles
What are the columns of the Parthenon - Doric, Ionic or Corinthian?Doric
What's the first book of the New Testament?The Gospel According to St. Matthew
What Joseph Conrad novel contains the line:
"Mistah Kurtz - he dead"?"Heart of Darkness"
What's the completion of the proverb that
begins: "In the country of the blind..."?The one-eyed man is king
What comic strip introduced ants named
Claude, Sarah, Harry and Shirley?"B.C."
What female American writer's first novel
was "Run River"?Joan Didion's
What Nobel Prize winner penned "The Monetary
History of the United States, 1857-1960"?Milton Friedman
Who is the first character mentioned in Mario
Puzo's novel "The Sicilian"?Michael Corleone
What did Frances Moore Lappe design for this
small planet in 1971?A diet
What 1962 Doris Lessing novel became a
feminist classic?"The Golden Notebook"
What novel was the prime success of Muriel
Spark?"The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"
What's Joe Gargery's fiery trade in "Great
Expectations"?Blacksmith
What Nathaniel Hawthorne novel was banned in
Russia in the 1850s?"The Scarlet Letter"
What did the Romans call their equivalent of
the Greek god Ares?Mars
What 1,147-page James Clavell work was sold
for a record-setting $5.2 million?"Whirlwind"
What Asian country is the setting for Graham
Greene's 1955 novel "The Quiet American"?Vietnam
What insurgent group figures in Elmore
Leonard's "Bandits"?The contras
What comic-strip cat announced: "Groveling
is not one of my strong suits"?Garfield
What Robert Bolt work was subtitled "A Play
of Sir Thomas More"?"A Man for All Seasons"
What line follows "Drink to me only with
thine eyes"?And I will pledge with mine
Who were the first two sons of Adam and Eve?Cain and Abel
What British storyteller explained how the
camel got his hump?Rudyard Kipling
What author checked out of the Mayo Clinic
two days before checking out of life?Ernest Hemingway
What bird, according to Greek legend, was
given the 100 eyes of Argus?The peacock
Who is the hero of the book "Knight Templar"?The Saint, or Simon Templar
Whose vision of paradise included "a jug of
wine, a loaf of bread - and thou"?Omar Khayyam's
Who wrote "Little Men"?Louisa May Alcott
Who wrote a book on survival skills for
women titled "Superwoman"?Shirley Conran
Where is the sheep in the nursery rhyme about
Little Boy Blue?In the meadow
What George Orwell novel reveals the horrors
of Room 101?"Nineteen Eighty-Four"
What fabulous horse did Bellerophon ride,
according to Greek mythology?Pegasus
What three-word title did Thomas Wolfe lift
from John Milton's "Lycidas"?"Look Homeward, Angel"
What hard-drinking poet penned the radio
play "Under Milk Wood"?Dylan Thomas
What Shakespeare play is alternately titled
"What You Will"?"Twelfth Night"
Where, according to the title of a Shirley
MacLaine book, can you get there from?Here
What 1956 John Osborne play centers on an
angry young man named Jimmy Porter?"Look Back in Anger"
What European city is rococo art considered
to have originated in?Paris
What southern Spanish city was Don Quixote
born in?Seville
What kind of animals temporarily take over
Toad Hall, in "The Wind in the Willows"?Weasels
What Nobel Prize-winning author wrote "The
Dean's Daughter" and "Mr. Sammler's Planet"?Saul Bellow
What comic-book heroine pilots an invisible
airplane?Wonder Woman
How many days did Jesus Christ fast in the
wilderness, according to the Bible?Forty
What kind of painting gets its name from the
Latin word for "wall"?The mural
What Russian communist wrote "Imperialism,
the Highest State of Capitalism"?V.I. Lenin
What French sculptor's first free-standing
figure was "Bronze Age"?Auguste Rodin's
What fictional feline had seven books on the
"New York Times" bestseller list in 1982?Garfield
What mystery set on misty moors brought
Sherlock Holmes back from his literary death?"The Hound of the Baskervilles"
What Biblical king promised the dancing
Salome anything she wanted?Herod
What author's tales of sexual awakening
include "The Virgin and the Gypsy"?D.H. Lawrence's
What's the first word of the novel "Lolita"?Lolita
What word is the opposite of "synonym"?Antonym
What Joseph Heller character wants to "live
forever or die in the attempt"?Yossarian
What statesman's war histories include "The
Grand Alliance" and "The Hinge of Fate"?Winston Churchill's
What diminutive English poet was dubbed
"The Bard of Twickenham"?Alexander Pope
What novelist immortalized The Old Curiosity
Shop, at 13 Portsmouth Street, London?Charles Dickens
What Shelagh Delaney play features a white
girl who falls in love with a black sailor?"A Taste of Honey"
What prostitute penned: "The world wants to
be cheated, so cheat"?Xaviera Hollander
What comic-book girl is always dressed in
polka-dot dresses?Little Dot
What animal does Robert Burns call a "wee,
sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie"?A mouse
What magical John Fowles novel became a 1968
movie starring Anthony Quinn?"The Magus"
What controversial novel centers on Leopold
and Molly Bloom?"Ulysses"
Who won fame with his anti-psychiatry
classic "The Divided Self"?R.D. Laing
What Russian novel opens: "On top of
everything, the cancer wing was Number 13"?"Cancer Ward"
What rabbit leads the migration in
"Watership Down"?Hazel
What comic strip introduced a character
named Beauregard Bugleboy?"Pogo"
What four-letter word is slang for cocaine,
deceptive talk and TV interference?Snow
What kind of creature is Richard Adams's
Shardik?A bear
What book brought Vanna White a $250,000
advance?"Vanna Speaks"
Which of Jean-Paul Sartre's novels has the
sickest title?"Nausea"
What romantic Shakespeare title character is
banished after he kills Tybalt?Romeo
What country's relationship with the U.S. is
examined in "The Closest of Enemies"?Cuba's
What tomcat is the subject of a 1974 Mary
Daniels biography?Morris
What would an artist put on a wooden
stretcher?A canvas
What's Nicholas Monsarrat's most famed World
War II novel?"The Cruel Sea"
What New York museum staged the first major
pop art exhibition in the U.S., in 1963?The Guggenheim Museum
What language did feminist author Ding Ling
write more than 300 works in?Chinese
What island was home to Ernest Hemingway's
estate called Finca Vigia?Cuba
What New York City landmark did Marc Chagall
paint the mural "The Triumph of Music" for?The Metropolitan Opera
What Morris West novel centers on the
alleged miracles of Giacomo Nerone?"The Devil's Advocate"
What 1977 prison tale begins at Istanbul's
Yesilkoy International Airport?"Midnight Express"
What hard-hitting crime writer penned "The
Big Kill" and "My Gun is Quick"?Mickey Spillane
What comic strip depicted Ronald Reagan as a
Max Headroom-style TV character?"Doonesbury"
What kind of animal frees the lion, in one
of Aesop's fables?A mouse
What Dashiell Hammett novel centers on the
murder of Julia Wolf?"The Thin Man"
Who was Uncas the last of?The Mohicans
What Keith Waterhouse novel centers on an
incorrigible liar named William Fisher?"Billy Liar"
What character in "Catch-22" can nobody get
in to see unless he's out?Major Major
What did Bill Cosby title his bestselling
1986 book?"Fatherhood"
What Australian novel saw its U.S. paperback
rights sold for $1.9 million in 1977?"The Thorn Birds"
What language were the adventures of Tintin
first published in?French
Who dresses as a man and disguises herself
as a lawyer in "The Merchant of Venice"?Portia
Whose law argues: "If anything can go
wrong, it will"?Murphy's
What Russian novelist did Theodore Roosevelt
call "a sexual and moral pervert"?Leo Tolstoy
Who's Kanga's son, in the Winnie-the-Pooh
stories?Roo
What did writer Peter De Vries call "the
worst form of self-abuse"?Celibacy
What kind of projectile killed Cock Robin?An arrow
Who does Uncle Remus claim is "sassy ez a
jaybird"?Brer Rabbit
What novel was named for its main character,
Yuri Andreyevich?"Doctor Zhivago"