Movies Trivia

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The real name of this 19th century British novelist was Mary Anne Evans. Her novels include Silas Marner and Middlemarch. She wrote under what pseudonym?

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About what kind of bird did each of these people write: a. Edgar Allen Poe b. John Keats c. Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Who is the main female character in Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind?

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A famous line from Shakespeare is Othello's description of himself as “ ONE THAT LOVED NOT .... what?

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The three witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth utter what eerie chant?

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In this 1865 classic novel, a minor thief tries to bury his past and become a respectable town mayor, but the police inspector won't let him. Name the novel and the author.

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In 1945, English author George Orwell published what novel, a fable about the failure of communism?

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Which English idiom evolved from of the ancient legend about a bird, silent throughout its lifetime, that sings loudly just before death?

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The 13th Century Italian poet named Dante Alighieri wrote a poem about an imaginary journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, which is considered perhaps the greatest poem of the Middle Ages. What is the name?

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Which British novelist experienced a great deal of success in 1933 and 1934, when he wrote the books Lost Horizon, and Goodbye, Mr. Chips ?

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When this book went on sale in the fall of 1991, it sold hundreds of thousands of copies in less than one month and shot up to #1 on the New York Times Bestsellers list. This book was the sequel to Gone With the Wind . What is its title, and who was the a

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Which classic novel opens with the lines: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness." And who was the author?

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Name a Shakespearean play containing TWO people's names in the title.

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Which 19th-century American publisher compiled the first standard reference work for quotations?

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In 1953, Ernest Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for literature, for what novel?