Are You Smarter Than An English Professor?

What famous author was a descendant of the Salem witches?

Who was not a Brontë sister?

What is the painting 'La Gioconda' more usually known as?

What was the first book sold on Amazon.com?

Ludwig Van Beethoven was born in 1770 in which city?

Which of these is NOT a Haagen-Dazs ice cream flavour?

In George Orwell's Animal Farm, what kind of animal is Boxer?

What is the real name of J.R.R. Tolkien?

Which shape is mentioned when talking about rhetorical appeals?

Which Stephen King novel takes place mostly in the functional Overlook Hotel?

Fill in the blank: the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy ____.

Who is the protagonist of James Joyce's Ulysses?

What is the most commonly used word?

There is a word that rhymes with orange.

John Milton's Paradise Lost was written during which century?

What author wrote his last novel in crayon?

What is semiotics the sign of?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes made his first appearance in print with which novel?

Which of these writers were known for their writing style based on their career as a journalist?

Is "I am" a complete sentence?

What was the first novel written on a typewriter?

What is the most common colour toilet in France?

Which war did the poet Wilfred Owen fight in?

What is the national animal of Scotland?

Is the Oxford comma correct?

What was Marilyn Monroe's natural hair colour?

How many of Snow White's seven dwarfs have names ending in the letter Y?

Which of Shakespeare's plays features a sorcerer named Prosero?

Ankara is the capital city of:

Which bird is known to roam the UWaterloo campus?

What dystopian novel by George Orwell told of life in a future totalitarian state dominated by "Big Brother"?

At the beginning of Lord of the Flies, which character controls the boys' only means of making fire?

On average, how many times does the human heart beat in a year?

Which of Shakespeare's plays is the shortest?

Which is NOT part of the streams in the English department?

What is the best selling novel of all time?

What writer had more than 70 different pen names?

Which philosopher came first?

What singer's real name is Stephani Joanne Angelina Germanotta?

English is a Germanic language.

Where was Shakespeare born?

What was the first soft drink in space?

What happened to the original manuscript of Jogn Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men?

Fill in the blank: Charlotte Brontë wrote Jane Eyre, Emily Brontë wrote Wuthering Heights, and Anne Brontë wrote ____?

Who invented the word vomit?

Which of the following characters appears in 3 of Shakespeare's plays?

Which poem did John Keats NOT write?

What is the tiny piece at the end of a shoelace called?

In A Christmas Carol, how many ghosts visited Scrooge?

Which holiday song was released first?