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Which sport did Beckett excel at?
Which writer did Beckett work for as secretary?
Samuel Beckett
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Which writer did Beckett work for as secretary?
Joyce
Goethe
Camus
De Beauvoir
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Which sport did Beckett excel at?
cricket
football
rugby
tennis
3
Who said of him, ‘the more he grinds my nose in the shit the more I am grateful to him.’?
Harold Pinter
Ezra Pound
T.S. Eliot
James Joyce
4
What was the name of his only film starring Buster Keton?
How It Is
Film
All Strange Away
Ill Seen Ill Said
5
De Beauvoir wrote which famous feminist text in 1946?
She Came To Stay
The Second Sex
The Mandarins
The First Sex
6
Which painting inspired the set of Waiting for Godot?
Guernica - Picasso
Bather – Cezanne
Mona Lisa – Da Vinci
Two Men contemplating the Moon – Caspar David Friedrich
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Which artists are associated with Beckett?
Duchamp
Giacometti
Turner
Picasso
8
What was the name of the play which featured nothing but a mouth?
Catastrophe
Not I
Endgame
Eh Joe
9
What philosophy was connected with de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre?
Surrealism
Existentialism
Dadaism
Fascism
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He was born in Dublin: where did he go and settle down and live?
Zürich
Paris
Berlin
London
11
What described non- authentic lives according to Sartre?
Bad faith
Middle class
Boring
Uptight
12
Which line didn’t he write?
I can’t go on. I go on.
Sometimes life gets lonely
Imagination dead imagine
We’re born astride the grave
13
What was the main idea of existentialism?
You are doomed to existential despair
Your essence comes before your being
You can choose your essential identity
You are who fate decides you are
14
Which existentialist text did Sartre write in 1943?
Being and Nothingness
Existentialism and Humanism
Iron In the Soul
Murphy
15
In 1953 he wrote which ground-breaking play?
Endgame
Faust
Waiting for Godot
Cat on a hot tin roof
16
Who first published his short story ‘Le Fin’?
Camus
Sartre
John Calder
Heidegger
17
What’s the opening line of ‘Company’?
The sun shone brightly and nothing is forbidden
There’s love for you
I wrote midnight. It wasn’t midnight
A voice comes to one in the dark, imagine
18
What was Beckett’s attitude to failure?
Ever tried. Ever failed. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Never tried. Never failed. Try again. Fail again if you dare
Failure is our inheritance and suicide the answer
If at once you fail, try try and try again until you win
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In what year did he die, five months after his wife?
1978
1989
2004
1980
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When did he win the Nobel Prize?
1969
1968
1966
1967
