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1
Who is the narrator in F. Scott Fitzgerald's
The Great Gatsby?
The author is the narrator.
Nick Carraway
Daisy Fay Buchanan
Jay Gatsby
2
The War of the Worlds
and
The Time Machine
were written by:
Arthur C. Clarke
Philip K. Dick
Isaac Asimov
H. G. Wells
3
Real-life Pocahontas, renamed Rebecca Rolfe, died in which city:
Los Angeles
London
Paris
New York
4
Which of these novels
wasn't
written by George Orwell?
Animal Farm
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Coming Up for Air
5
How many wives did King Henry VIII behead?
2
3
6
4
6
Which film wasn't directed by Stanley Kubrick?
The Shining
2001: A Space Odyssey
Star Wars: A New Hope
A Clockwork Orange
7
Who wrote Moby Dick?
Thomas Hardy
Herman Melville
Charles Bukowski
Roald Dahl
8
What was the religion of Salem’s inhabitants, famous for their witch trials?
Mormon
Puritan
Catholic
Evangelist
9
How many states are there in the US?
50
52
49
51
10
Which of these movies
wasn’t directed
by Alfred Hitchcock?
Rear Window
Psycho
To Kill a Mockingbird
Vertigo
11
Bloomsday is celebrated on 16 June in Ireland, and even in Croatia, in celebration of....
Thomas Pynchon
James Joyce
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Oscar Wilde
12
Who is the author of The Handmaid's Tale, recently made into a TV series?
Margaret Atwood
Sylvia Plath
Toni Morrison
Alice Munro
13
The titular character of Virginia Woolf's novel about a gender-bending immortal is...
Pauline
Opal
Orlando
Godiva
14
Franklin D. Roosevelt, the commander and chief during WWII, ended up in a wheelchair due to:
car crash
a war injury
an attempted assassination
polio
15
Whose face
isn't
chiseled on Mount Rushmore?
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Woodrow Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt
16
What was the real name of Mark Twain?
Eric Arthur Blair
George Elliot
Samuel Clemens
Isaac Asimov
17
From which city did The Beatles originate?
London
Liverpool
Delaware
Manchester
18
What did the Confederate States of America want to achieve with the civil war?
to preserve their religion
to secede from the Union
to reduce taxes
to preserve slavery
19
Who was one of the most famous painters well known for his unique style of drip painting?
Roy Lichtenstein
Jackson Pollock
20
How did Hamlet's darling Ofelia end her life?
she hanged herself
she stabbed herself
she drowned
she poisoned herself
21
In Citizen Kane, Kane's dying words 'rosebud' refer to:
a dog
his long lost love
a sled
a cat
22
Agatha Christie's novel
And Then There Were None
was published in the UK under the title:
Ten Little Niggers
Ten Little Soldiers
Ten Blind Mice
Ten Little Indians
23
The Big Orange is the name of which US city?
San Francisco
L.A.
Cleveland
Chicago
24
In the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Jack Nicholson is being held in one institution:
a mental hospital
a prison
school
25
The only woman who has ever won an Oscar for best director is:
Kathryn Bigelow
Jennifer Kent
Jane Campion
Sofia Coppola
26
Why did the uncle of Elizabeth II, Edward VIII, abdicate the throne in 1936?
he was gay
he was an anarchist
he was a Nazi sympathizer
he married a divorced American woman
27
Who was the lead actor in the film Rebel Without a Cause, who tragically died in a car crash?
Marlon Brando
James Dean
28
Who amongst these women
did not
win a Nobel prize in literature?
Harper Lee
Doris Lessing
Alice Munro
Toni Morrison
29
What was the name of Mary Shelley's fictional monster?
He didn't have a name.
Prometheus
Boris Karloff
Frankenstein
30
Who was the first American in space?
Buzz Aldrin
Neil Armstrong
John Glenn
31
Who wrote
The Jungle Book?
Bram Stoker
H.G. Wells
Rudyard Kipling
E. M. Forster
32
What connects Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and Terry Pratchett?
they were all conservatives
they all wrote autobiographies
they died poor and forgotten
they all had dementia
33
The movie Blade Runner was based on Philip K. Dick's novel titled
Future Perfect
The Sound and the Fury
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
As I Lay Dying
34
What's the tile of Vladimir Nabokov's novel dealing with the attraction towards a teenage girl?
Fatal Attraction
Sins of My Father
Lolita
35
Which American author killed himself with a shotgun?
Gorge Orwell
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mark Twain
36
The film and the novel Gone with the Wind deals one major historical event in American history:
the War for Independence
the Civil War
the war with Mexico
37
Which american poet and writer committed suicide by thrusting her head in an oven?
Alice Munro
Sylvia Plath
Virginia Wolf
Margaret Atwood
38
Who was the Irish author who lived in Pula for a while?
James Joyce
Oscar Wilde
William Butler Yeats
T.S. Elliot
39
Which language was almost declared the official language of the US, but alas it was not?
Italian
Dutch
French
German
40
Coppola's film Apocalypse Now was based on Joseph Conrad's novel
Song of Solomon
Gravity's Rainbow
Heart of Darkness
The Bell Jar
41
The Pilgrims came to America in a ship named:
Mayflower
Victoria
Rose
Maria
42
One of David Bowie's stage alter egos
was not
:
Davy Jones
Thin White Duke
Major Tom
Ziggy Stardust
43
Which two authors participated in the Spanish civil war?
George Orwell
John Steinbeck
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
44
10 Things I Hate About You is an adaptation of Shakespeare's play:
The Taming of the Shrew
As You Like It
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Much Ado About Nothing
45
In the musical Hair, there's one major historical event happening in the background:
Korean War
Vietnam War
46
What are the last words Humphrey Bogart says to Ingrid Bergman in the film Casablanca?
We'll always have Paris.
Here's looking at you, kid.
Of all the gin joints in town in, you had to walk into mine.
47
It is considered bad luck to mention
Macbeth
by name while inside a theatre so they call it:
"the witches play"
"the revenge play"
"the Scottish play"
"the bloody play"
48
One of these works wasn't written by Charles Dickens. Which one?
North and South
A Tale of Two Cities
The Pickwick Papers
David Copperfield
49
Who is the LSD-taking author of a dystopian novel Brave New World?
Kurt Vonnegut
Aldous Huxley
James Joyce
William Faulkner
50
Which movie
wasn't
based on one of Stephen King's novels?
Carrie
The Shawshank Redemption
The Shining
The Exorcist
51
Oscar Wilde
did not
write one of these works.
A Woman of No Importance
The Importance of Being Earnest
Much Ado About Nothing
The Picture of Dorian Gray
52
Which animal represents the Democratic party in the US?
a bear
a donkey
an elephant
53
Who was one of the fathers of the Declaration of Independence and a father to 4 slave children?
Alexander Hamilton
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
54
What was the first name of New York City, originally ruled by the Dutch?
New Amsterdam
Den York
Harlem
55
Which president was involved in the Watergate scandal?
George H. W. Bush
Ronald Reagan
Jimmy Carter
Richard Nixon
