2022 Literary Trivia Night

This member of the Muscogee Creek Nation was the first indigenous U.S. poet laureate.

Which of the following is not a color of a wizard in The Lord of the Rings?

When this writer progressively went blind, he turned to poetry because he could memorize an entire work-in-progress.

In what war did Mary Seacole, author of Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands, serve as a nurse?

Which of these writers has an undergraduate degree from Auburn University?

Which of these is not the name of a Clan in the book series Warrior Cats?

Which Nicholas Sparks book follows a man in the armed forces who tracks down a woman from a photograph?

Cupid is linked to Valentine's Day since his arrows cause people to fall in love. Who's his mother in Roman mythology?

Neil Gaiman wrote an episode of which popular BBC TV series?

Ruth Bader Ginsburg studied with this famous writer when she was a student at Cornell University.

True or False: George Orwell's first novel was 1984.

Who found Anne Frank's diary and saved it for her father after her family was captured by Nazis?

In the ancient Indian epic The Ramayana, Rama travels the world to save his beloved wife named which of the following?

In The Sun Is Also a Star, Daniel believes love is a mystery of the heart, what does Natasha ascribe love to?

Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House features a main character, Eleanor, who spent years doing what?

Which of the following is NOT one of Voldemort’s Horcruxes in the Harry Potter series?

In Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, what is the name of the paranoid android?

In this book, who does Alex (main character) start off hating before eventually falling in love with them?

In which book from the Twilight saga do Edward and Bella get married?

Who wrote the saying, "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars"?

How many sonnets did William Shakespeare write throughout his life?

What is the name of the streetcar line Tennessee Williams named his famous play after?

Who created the fictional religion of Bokononism for the novel Cat's Cradle?

This novelist's memoir is titled Living To Tell the Tale

Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues is set where?

What's the name of Rachel Smythe's Webtoon that is a modern-day deconstruction of the myth, The Abduction of Persephone?

Which famous journalist wrote the biography Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty?

Which transcendentalist wrote Walden?

Who wrote the historical fantasy novel The Poppy War?

Who wrote the sci fi/romance novel titled 11/22/63?

When Jane Eyre says, "Reader, I married him," who is she talking about?

How many times is Elizabeth Bennet proposed to in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice?

Which crush does Lara Jean end up with in To All the Boys I've Loved Before?

What Nobel Prize winner couldn't hold a pen for five years after being stabbed in the neck by a terrorist in 1994?

What James Baldwin novel tells of the spiritual awakening of 14-year-old John Grimes?

In the YA fantasy book Inkheart, certain people have the power to transport characters from books into reality by…

In the nonfiction novel In Cold Blood, who murdered the Clutter family?

Art Spiegelman turned down the offer to turn this highly acclaimed memoir into an animated movie.

What name did Gloria Watkins adopt for her black feminist works like Sisters of the Yam?

Which of these memoirs was written by Frank McCourt?

Toni Morrison dedicated this novel to "sixty million and more" victimized by slavery.