Movies Trivia

10

Name the author of each of these works of literature which eventually went on to become films or stage shows: a. The Last of the Mohicans? b.the stage show Les Miserables? c. the play Glengary Glen Ross?

17

Which British author created a world of elves, orcs, ents, and of course hobbits, and what is the title of his famous trilogy?

16

Which tragic king from classical mythology unknowingly killed his father and married his mother?

9

Which Irish-born novelist and playright, whose plays include Waiting for Godot (1952), won the 1969 Nobel Prize for literature?

3

Who was the author of The Hobbit?

7

Which servant appeared in English author P. G. Wodehouse's comic stories about snooty English upper classes?

9

Name the authors of each of these books: a. The Fountainhead b. The Day of the Jackal c. Bright Lights, Big City

20

Charles Lindbergh, first aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for his autobiography. What is the title?

11

Can you name the author and main character of the popular 1950s novel about a sensitive but rebellious youth who runs away from his boarding school, The Catcher in the Rye ?

15

This classic Russian novel features Rodya Raskolnikov, who kills two old women because he believes that he is beyond the bounds of good and evil. What's the title, and who wrote it?

7

What alphabet is used for writing Russian and several other Eastern European languages?

16

According to Greek mythology, every time one of this dragon-like monster's heads was cut off, two more grew in its place. It was finally killed by Hercules. What was it?

3

The female Danish writer Isak Dineson spent 20 years in Kenya on a coffee plantation, and wrote what autobiographical work in 1937 which became a film in the 1980's?

1

The 19th century baseball poem, “Casey at the Bat,” is set in what town?

19

Which English clergyman, mathematician, and author wrote "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"?