Movies Trivia

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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?

18

They are characters from Shakespearean plays The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream : Ariel, Miranda, and Phoebe, but scientists have used their names for another purpose. What is 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"?

7

The first major American dictionary was published in 1828 by which person?

14

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ..." are the first words of what 1859 novel, and who is the author?

18

Name the authors of each of these novels which went on to become films: a. The Bonfire of the Vanities b. The Firm? c. The French Lieutenant's Woman

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?

7

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

11

The well-known line: “Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die” comes from the English poem, “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” written by whom?

20

Which character narrates the novel, Moby Dick?

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 ?

9

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

7

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