Literature Trivia Questions VII

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Although he was the villain of The Three Musketeers, he also created the Academie Francaise in 1635, which regulated the language and encouraged literature. Who was he?

       a. Charlemagne
       b. Cardinal Richelieu
       c. Louis XIV
       d. Napoleon


It's a poetry syllogism! According to poems by Keats, one can infer that "truth" is a "joy forever". Why?

       a. You can never have both
       b. Both are definitions of "love"
       c. Both are definitions of "beauty"
       d. You can never have one without the other


What writer so accurately described the submarine periscope in "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" that it prevented a later inventor from patenting its real-life equivalent?

       a. Jules Verne
       b. HG Wells
       c. Arthur Conan Doyle
       d. Edgar Rice Burroughs


This Shakespeare character walks into a bar and orders a beer in iambic pentameter. How would he do so?

       a. Forsooth, I doth crave ale, anon!
       b. Hello, I want a beer, dear girl, and soon
       c. A beer delivered unto me shall be like a newborn sun on an April morn
       d. Yo, bitch. Get me a brew. Chop, chop!


In what minimalist Thornton Wilder play do folding chairs represent gravestones?

       a. The Bridge of San Luis Rey
       b. Blithe Spirit
       c. Our Town
       d. Private Lives


What pronoun did Graves put in front of Claudius, Hammer in front of the Jury and Asimov in front of Robot?

       a. He
       b. You
       c. I
       d. We


In what Shakespeare play does Brutus have the most lines?

       a. Titus Andronicus
       b. Julius Caesar
       c. Anthony and Cleopatra
       d. Troilus and Cressida


What did Roth say to Columbus, Isherwood to Berlin and Hilton to Mr Chips?

       a. Goodbye
       b. Never Again
       c. Good Luck
       d. Bring It On


What Shakespeare play was inspired when colonists aboard the Sea Venture, who were headed for Virginia, were instead shipwrecked and founded Bermuda?

       a. Twelfth Night
       b. As You Like It
       c. The Tempest
       d. Measure for Measure


As of 2005, who was the only former president to get a novel published, namely "The Hornet's Nest," about North Carolina and the American Revolution?

       a. Woodrow Wilson
       b. Jimmy Carter
       c. George HW Bush
       d. Gerald Ford


What magazine infamously darkened OJ Simpson's mug shot before putting it on its cover?

       a. National Review
       b. Newsweek
       c. Time
       d. New Republic


Name the novel that describes a future society where books are outlawed and firefighters burn any house that contains them.

       a. Fahrenheit 451
       b. Sun and Shadow
       c. Pillar of Fire
       d. Twice 22




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