Loaded Questions 9/1/22 - Literature
Book em, Dano!
Happy Thursday everyone! A literary olio for you all, hope you enjoy reading about reading!
1. "Sonata Mulattica", "On the Bus with Rosa Parks", and "Thomas and Beulah" are poetry collections by what author who won the 1987 Pulitzer for Best Poetry Collection?
2. "A Bear Call Paddington" is a 1958 children's book by what English author, who wrote more than 20 books featuring the bear? He died in June 2017.
3. Rachel Verinder wears a diamond necklace to a ball in what 1868 Wilkie Collins novel?
4. "Channeling" is the equivalent of magic in the "Wheel of Time" series, which began with 1990 novel "The Eye of the World", written by what author who died in 2007? He also wrote about Conan the Barbarian.
5. Jim is trapped in a WWII Japanese POW camp in China in what 1984 novel by J.G. Ballard?
6. Miss Amelia Evans and her hunchbacked Cousin Lymon operate what title business in a small Georgia town in what 1951 novella by Carson McCullers?
7. Known for its film adaptations, "The Postman Always Rings Twice" is a 1934 hardboiled mystery by what author who also wrote "Mildred Pierce"?
8. Pioneered by British poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, what poetic rhythm is designed to imitate the rhythm of natural speech?
9. The recipient of the 2006 Nobel in Literature, who has written the colorful works "The White Castle", "The Black Book", and "My Name Is Red"?
10. The Crimson Hexagon is a room within what structure?
11. Published posthumously, the 1944 work "Stephen Hero" was an early version of what 1916 novel?
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1. "Sonata Mulattica", "On the Bus with Rosa Parks", and "Thomas and Beulah" are poetry collections by what author who won the 1987 Pulitzer for Best Poetry Collection?
Rita Dove
2. "A Bear Call Paddington" is a 1958 children's book by what English author, who wrote more than 20 books featuring the bear? He died in June 2017.
Michael Bond
3. Rachel Verinder wears a diamond necklace to a ball in what 1868 Wilkie Collins novel?
The Moonstone
4. "Channeling" is the equivalent of magic in the "Wheel of Time" series, which began with 1990 novel "The Eye of the World", written by what author who died in 2007? He also wrote about Conan the Barbarian.
Robert Jordan
5. Jim is trapped in a WWII Japanese POW camp in China in what 1984 novel by J.G. Ballard?
Empire of the Sun
6. Miss Amelia Evans and her hunchbacked Cousin Lymon operate what title business in a small Georgia town in what 1951 novella by Carson McCullers?
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
7. Known for its film adaptations, "The Postman Always Rings Twice" is a 1934 hardboiled mystery by what author who also wrote "Mildred Pierce"?
James M. Cain
8. Pioneered by British poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, what poetic rhythm is designed to imitate the rhythm of natural speech?
Sprung rhythm
9. The recipient of the 2006 Nobel in Literature, who has written the colorful works "The White Castle", "The Black Book", and "My Name Is Red"?
Orhan Pamuk
10. The Crimson Hexagon is a room within what structure?
The Library of Babel
11. Published posthumously, the 1944 work "Stephen Hero" was an early version of what 1916 novel?
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man