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Trivia No. 49
Trivia No. 49
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1
What Greek word means summitting/ finishing touch-referring to the publisher's logo and details at the end of the book?
Yearbook.
Appendices.
Bibliography.
Colophon.
2
Who wrote the 1947 book The Fountainhead?
Martin Fletcher.
Heather Morris.
Simon Mower.
Ayn Rand
3
According to Matthew 27 in the Bible what prisoner was released by Pontius Pilate instead of Jesus?
Pilate.
Barabbas.
Jeremiah.
Judas.
4
Japanese three-line verses called Haiku contain how many syllables?
17.
15.
18.
16.
5
Who wrote the 1891 book "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (Thus Spake Zarathustra)?
Heinrich Heine.
Friedrich Nietzsche.
Hermann Hesse.
Thomas Mann.
6
What term and type of comedy is derived from the French word for stuffing?
Farce.
Stand-up.
Slapstick.
Mordant.
7
James Carker is a villain in which Charles Dickens novel?
Hard Times.
Dombey and Son.
Sketches by Boz.
The Pickwick Papers.
8
By what does the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis assert that people's perceptions and attitudes are affected particularly?
Cover.
Price.
Words.
Language.
9
Is Rudolph a girl or a boy?
A girl.
A boy.
10
What word, meaning 'measure' in Greek, refers to the rhythm of a line of verse?
Beat.
Emphasis.
Stress.
Meter.
11
Who wrote the 1845 poem "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"?
Wilhelm Grimm.
Hugo Wolf.
Robert Browning.
Jakob Grimm.
12
What were cheap books of the 16-18th centuries called due to the traders traveling and selling them?
Chapbooks.
Novels.
Work of art.
Encyclopedia.
13
What term - originally meaning 'storehouse' - refers to a periodical of various content and imaginative writing?
Periodical.
Article
Journal.
Magazine.
14
Who wrote Dr Zhivago?
John Mankiewicz.
David Lean.
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak.
David Shore
15
What was Samuel Langhorne Clemens' pen name?
William Faulkner.
John Steinbeck.
Mark Twain.
Richard Wright.
16
Which American poet and humanist wrote and continually revised a collection of poems called Leaves of Grass?
William Butler Yeats.
Walt Whitey
Emily Dickinson.
Hermann Hesse.
17
Stanley Kubrick successfully requested the UK ban of his own film based on what Anthony Burgess book?
A Clockwork Orange.
Earthly Powers.
Nothing Like the Sun.
The Kingdom of the Wicked.
18
Who detailed experiences before & during World War I in Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man, and Memoirs of an Infantry Officer?
Wilfred Owen.
Siegfried Sassoon.
Tony Bradman.
John Boyne.
19
By what name is the writer François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778) better known?
Voltaire.
Albert Camus
Honoré de Balzac.
Victor Hugo.
20
The ISBN (International Standard Book Number) code was increased to how many digits from 1 January 2007?
11
12
13
10
21
Who wrote the significant scientific book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published in 1687?
Isaac Newton.
Charles Darwin.
John James Audubon.
Steve Irwin
22
Is Singapore or Bangkok or Mumbai the furthermost ahead?
Singapore.
Bangkok.
Mumbai.
23
What Japanese term refers to a book construction made using concertina fold, with writing on
Shōsetsu.
Waka.
Orihon.
Zasshi.
24
What is the dog in Norton Juster's 1961 popular children's/ adult-crossover book The Phantom Tollbooth?
Thor.
Tock.
Ted.
Toto.
25
What famous 1818 novel had the sub-title 'The Modern Prometheus'?
Frankenstein.
Don't Forget the Bubbles.
Machine of Death.
The Dying Man.
26
What was the 1920s arts group centred around Leonard and Virginia Woolf and the district of London named?
The Bloomsbury Group.
The Auden Group.
The Savage Club.
English Coffeehouses.
27
What significant law relating to literary and artistic works was first introduced in 1709?
Trademark.
Patent
Trade Seceret.
Copyright.
28
Which pioneering American poet and story-teller wrote The Fall of the House of Usher?
Edgar Allen Poe.
Langston Huges
John Steinbeck.
Nathaniel Howthorne.
29
What 16th century establishment in London's Bread Street did writers meet up on the first Friday of each month?
The Mermaid Tavern.
The Old Boot.
Croydon Clock Tower.
The Chalk Scibblers.
30
By what term is the period between 1450 and 1600 in Europe used originally by the Italians?
Reformation.
Renaissance.
Enlightenment.
Classic.