Literature and Musical Works

Question 1

New England novelist, The House of Seven Gables, Twice-Told Tales, The Scarlet Letter

Accepted Answer

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question 2

Which of these is not a work by John Keats?

Accepted Answer

"The Owl and the Pussycat"

Question 3

French (1824-1895), Author of Camille

Accepted Answer

Alexandre Dumas (the younger)

Question 4

Russian novelist, epileptic, hated Ivan Turgenev, wrote Crime and Punishment, The Idiot

Accepted Answer

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Question 5

Which of the following is NOT part of The Leatherstocking Tales?

Accepted Answer

The Pilot

Question 6

English novelist; outlived her two sisters; author of Jane Eyre

Accepted Answer

Charlotte Brontë

Question 7

Norwegian poet and playwright, "Father of Modern Drama", A Doll's House

Accepted Answer

Henrik Ibsen

Question 8

Nigerian novelist, short-story writer; author of Anthills of the Savannah and Things Fall Apart

Accepted Answer

Chinua Achebe

Question 9

British composer of Enigma Variations and Pomp and Circumstance

Accepted Answer

Sir Edward Elgar

Question 10

American, boyhood neighbor of Harper Lee, author of Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood

Accepted Answer

Truman Capote

Question 11

French (1802-1870), Author of The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo

Accepted Answer

Alexandre Dumas (the elder)

Question 12

Who wrote The Leatherstocking Tales?

Accepted Answer

James Fenimore Cooper

Question 13

Greek epic poet (buzz), Trojan War, Iliad, Odyssey

Accepted Answer

Homer

Question 14

Czech composer (if this were real, you should buzz here), Symphony No. 9 "New World"

Accepted Answer

Antonín Dvořak

Question 15

English Romantic poet, "Kubla Khan", "Christabel", "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

Accepted Answer

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Question 16

English Novelist, satirist, friend of D.H. Lawrence, Brave New World

Accepted Answer

Aldous Huxley

Question 17

American statesman, author, inventor, Poor Richard's Almanack

Accepted Answer

Benjamin Franklin

Question 18

French composer of Djamileh and Carmen

Accepted Answer

Georges Bizet

Question 19

Russian dramatist and physician, wrote Uncle Vanya, The Seagull, and The Cherry Orchard

Accepted Answer

Anton Chekov

Question 20

Italian composer, 39 operas, including La Cenerentola, The Barber of Seville, and William Tell

Accepted Answer

Gioachino Rossini

Question 21

African-American novelist, lived in France, author of Go Tell it on the Mountain

Accepted Answer

James Baldwin

Question 22

Irish novelist, stream of consciousness, Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Accepted Answer

James Joyce

Question 23

Novelist, author of Shogun, Noble House, and Tai-Pan

Accepted Answer

James Clavell

Question 24

Author of Billy Budd, Omoo, Moby Dick

Accepted Answer

Herman Melville

Question 25

German-born British Composer, Music for the Royal Fireworks and Messiah

Accepted Answer

George Frideric Handel

Literature and Musical Works

Questions 25

Literature and Musical Works

Questions 25