Movies Trivia

19

Which person, in 1983, wrote a book entitled "How To Live To 100 - or More" - and he did!

14

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

12

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.

6

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

5

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

7

Each of these works of literature became a film. Name the author of the book. a. The Firm b. Jurassic Park c. The Color Purple d. A Clockwork Orange

11

In 1917, after a printer's error caused all his words to be printed in lower case, this Massachusetts poet continued the practice -- and became famous because of it. Who was he?

10

In which locations are each of these Shakespearean plays set: a. Hamlet: the country: b. Macbeth: the country: c. Romeo and Juliet: the city: d. Othello is a general commanding the forces of

18

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?

10

In his work Metamorphoses, the Roman poet of love, Ovid, created a god of dreams, after whom a drug is named. Who was this god?

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

19

Which romantic British poet, about 200 years ago, wrote, "Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink..." ? Browning, Byron, or Coleridge?

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?

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?

15

Around 1750, which famous person published an almanac written under the pen-name of Richard Saunders?