INCITE Wine and Cheese Trivia

Which author was a taste-tester for Cadbury's chocolate when he was a child?

Which author was known to give himself nicknames, including "Revolver" and "The Inimitable"?

Which author refused to begin or end a piece of work on a Friday?

Which author was a next-door neighbor of Harriet Beecher Stowe?

Because of his failing eyesight, how did James Joyce write much of his novel Finnegans Wake?

Which author was known to dress up as an axe-wielding warrior and chase his neighbor?

What other author had once lived in the apartment where Sylvia Plath committed suicide?

How old was Mary Shelley when she started writing Frankenstein?

How many rejections did Louis L'Amour receive before he was published?

What problem plagued Washington Irving, author of "Rip Van Winkle" and "Sleepy Hollow"?

Which author had a career as a pop singer and released an album called "Angels and Demons"?

What did Friedrich von Schiller keep on his desk because he felt the scent helped him write?

What was the name of male author Evelyn Waugh's first wife?

Which author's first book was a biography of Duran Duran, published in 1984?

Which writer accidentally shot his wife dead?

Which author coined the term "verbicide," to denote the killing of a word?

What word did Dr. Seuss include in a draft of Hop on Pop to test his publisher's attention?

What pseudonym did Samuel Clemens use before settling on "Mark Twain"?

How did playwright Tennessee Williams die?

Which name is author Jonathan Swift credited with inventing?

Which author has an asteroid named after him?

Which writer coined the phrase "the pen is mightier than the sword"?

Which author was also a butterfly researcher at Harvard?

Which writer died after collapsing on stage while acting in one of his own plays?

What was Maurice Sendak's inspiration for the monsters in Where the Wild Things Are?

Whose novel was rejected with the note, "We found the heroine as boring as her husband did."

Who wore a mourning dress to her first wedding and left her husband on their wedding night?

Which author insisted his bed always face northward when he slept?

When staying in hotels, what author always carried a coil of rope with him in case of fire?

Which novel did author Jack Kerouac type on one continuous roll of paper that was 120 ft long?

Which author once took home the urinal from his favorite bar?

Which author was sentenced to death by firing squad in 1849? (The sentence was later changed.)

In Florida's Key West, there is an annual lookalike contest for which author?

Which author planned to write a third Charlie Bucket book but died before he could complete it?

Who created his famous heroine by imagining what Pippi Longstocking would be like as an adult?

Which writer is credited with inventing one of the first bra straps?

Which author wrote on the same typewriter for over 50 years then auctioned it when it broke?

Which writer was a huge fan of Groucho Marx and even wrote him a fan letter?

Which author's great-great-grandfather was one of the judges at the Salem witch trials?

Which author, when he worked for a publishing company, played pranks on visiting authors?

Which author was a descendant of one of the women accused in the Salem witch trials?

Which writer legally gave his birthday away to a little girl?

Which author was once the manager of the U.S.'s first Saab dealership?