Movies Trivia

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

20

The novels Jane Eyre, from 1847, and Wuthering Heights, from 1848, were written by two people who had something in common. What were their names and relationship?

14

Some of her best-known works are Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss, and Silas Marner. Her real name was Mary Ann Evans, but her pen name was ... what?

11

Which author first wrote, "Parting is such sweet sorrow"?

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

From which Shakespearean plays do the following lines come? a. "It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." b. If music be the food of love, play on."

12

He was a lecturer in mathematics at Oxford, and in 1865, produced the children's classic known as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." What was his pen name and his real name?