PSU MFA Trivia Night!

Question 1

Which of these writers did *not* marry a movie star?

Accepted Answer

Jonathan Safran Foer

Question 2

The recent Netflix series The Haunting of Bly Manor was based on which novella by Henry James?

Accepted Answer

The Turn of the Screw

Question 3

Which of the following is a poetic term for...

Accepted Answer

Trochee

Question 4

Made famous by Robin Wall Kimmerer in her book Braiding Sweetgrass, what is the Potawatomi word for

Accepted Answer

Puhpowee

Question 5

Who wrote the 2016 title The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial--

Accepted Answer

Maggie Nelson

Question 6

This August 1961 entry is from the diary of ...

Accepted Answer

Susan Sontag

Question 7

Which New York School poet wrote these lines?

Accepted Answer

Alice Notley

Question 8

Who wrote a 2019 memoir containing the chapters

Accepted Answer

Carmen Maria Machado

Question 9

Which one of these computer names is real, and *not* a fictional one from a novel?

Accepted Answer

Lisa

Question 10

When Muhammed Ali published his autobiography, The Greatest, with Random House, who was his editor?

Accepted Answer

Toni Morrison

Question 11

What poet got suspended from Oregon State for staying out all night with his girlfriend (who was expelled)?

Accepted Answer

George Oppen

Question 12

All but one of these titles went unused in their resulting book. Which is the one that stuck?

Accepted Answer

Three Guineas

Question 13

Which one of the following pairs were never roommates or housemates?

Accepted Answer

Sylvia Plath and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy

Question 14

Portland-based musician/poet Dao Strom created an album entitled Traveler’s Ode ...

Accepted Answer

The cooling tower of a defunct power plant

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