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