Loaded Questions 4/22/23 - Literature
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I’ve loaded up 3 weeks of questions in the last 24 hours, so we are back. Please enjoy this set of literature questions, and hopefully you are reading a good book too (even though streaming is getting pretty good these days).
1. A brilliant gem is the namesake of what Nathaniel Hawthorne short story, found in his "Twice-Told Tales"? Matthew and Hannah search for this object, which has the ability to blind someone if looked at directly.
2. Reverand John Ames is dying of a heart disease in the town of Gilead, Iowa in the 2004 novel "Gilead" by what author, who won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the book?
3. Comic book creators Sammy and Joe invent the immensely popular character The Escapist in what 2000 novel by Michael Chabon?
4. What American-British travel writer is the author of the books "The Mother Tongue" in 1990, "A Walk in the Woods" in 1998, and "A Short History of Nearly Everything" in 2003?
5. Ashoke is a student at MIT in the beginning of what 2003 debut novel by Jhumpa Lahiri?
6. What mountain is the site of the Monkey King's 500 year imprisonment in "Journey to the West"?
7. What author of the Wayside School series received a Newberry Medal for his 1998 novel "Holes"?
8. Who defeats in the 1940 presidential election against FDR in the 2004 novel "The Plot Against America" by Philip Roth?
9. In the Brothers Grimm story "The Town Musicians of Bremen", the musicians are what four animals?
10. What collection of sonnets of the 1380s was written by Petrarch and is said to be inspired by Laura?
11. In what Rudyard Kipling short story does the wife of Daniel Dravot bite him to reveal to the citizens of Kafiristan that Daniel is in fact not a god?
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1. A brilliant gem is the namesake of what Nathaniel Hawthorne short story, found in his "Twice-Told Tales"? Matthew and Hannah search for this object, which has the ability to blind someone if looked at directly.
The Great Carbuncle
2. Reverand John Ames is dying of a heart disease in the town of Gilead, Iowa in the 2004 novel "Gilead" by what author, who won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the book?
Marilynne Robinson
3. Comic book creators Sammy and Joe invent the immensely popular character The Escapist in what 2000 novel by Michael Chabon?
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
4. What American-British travel writer is the author of the books "The Mother Tongue" in 1990, "A Walk in the Woods" in 1998, and "A Short History of Nearly Everything" in 2003?
Bill Bryson
5. Ashoke is a student at MIT in the beginning of what 2003 debut novel by Jhumpa Lahiri?
The Namesake
6. What mountain is the site of the Monkey King's 500 year imprisonment in "Journey to the West"?
Mount Wuhang
7. What author of the Wayside School series received a Newberry Medal for his 1998 novel "Holes"?
Louis Sachar
8. Who defeats in the 1940 presidential election against FDR in the 2004 novel "The Plot Against America" by Philip Roth?
Charles Lindbergh
9. In the Brothers Grimm story "The Town Musicians of Bremen", the musicians are what four animals?
Donkey, dog, cat, hen
10. What collection of sonnets of the 1380s was written by Petrarch and is said to be inspired by Laura?
Il Canzoniere
11. In what Rudyard Kipling short story does the wife of Daniel Dravot bite him to reveal to the citizens of Kafiristan that Daniel is in fact not a god?
The Man Who Would Be King