13moviesFamous novelists: a. American author of "The Good Earth" b. British author of "A Passage to India" c. German author of "Siddhartha" and "Steppenwolf"Show AnswerShare
16moviesThey 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?Show AnswerShare
12moviesWhich English idiom evolved from of the ancient legend about a bird, silent throughout its lifetime, that sings loudly just before death?Show AnswerShare
16moviesIn 1616, English writer Ben Johnson said, "He was not of an age but for all time." About who was he referring?Show AnswerShare
10moviesThe title of a book about Charles Manson was taken from the title of a Beatles song. What was it?Show AnswerShare
14moviesThe 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?Show AnswerShare
20moviesThe 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?Show AnswerShare
6moviesWhich tragic king from classical mythology unknowingly killed his father and married his mother?Show AnswerShare
7moviesName the authors of each of these novels: a. Shogun b. Stranger in a Strange Land c. Thorn BirdsShow AnswerShare
3moviesThis German-Swiss writer wrote "Siddhartha," "Steppenwolf," "Narziss und Goldmund," and "The Glass Bead Game." Who is he?Show AnswerShare
19moviesWhich English clergyman, mathematician, and author wrote "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"?Show AnswerShare
19moviesWhich romantic British poet, about 200 years ago, wrote, "Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink..." ? Browning, Byron, or Coleridge?Show AnswerShare
10moviesName the authors of each of these famous novels: a. For Whom the Bell Tolls b. Gone With the Wind c. Lady Chatterly's Lover:Show AnswerShare
