Trivia Tuesday

July, 28 2020

Literature

Round 1:

Literature

1. What was the working title of Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone With the Wind?

a) The Plantation

b) Tara

c) Ba! Ba! Black Sheep

d) The Rhett Butler Affair

2. What famous literary character offers this sage advice: "Neither a borrower nor a lender be"?

a) Ebenezer Scrooge

b) Tom Sawyer

c) Albus Dumbledore

d) Polonius

3. What novel is set on a desert planet inhabited by giant sandworms?

a) Stranger in a Strange Land

b) Foundation

c) Dune

d) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

4. Which Stephen King novel takes place mostly in the fictional Overlook Hotel?

a) IT

b) The Shining

c) Doctor Sleep

d) Salem's Lot

5. What is the best selling novel of all time?

a) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

b) The Hobbit

c) Don Quixote

d) Moby Dick

6. Which of Shakespeare's plays features a sorcerer named Prospero?

a) A Midsummer Night's Dream

b) Twelfth Night

c) Macbeth

d) The Tempest

7. Who is the protagonist of The Hunger Games?

a) Katniss Everdeen

b) Sarah Connor

c) Peeta Mellark

d) Hermione Granger

8. Which of her own characters did Agatha Christie call "a detestable, bombastic, tiresome, egocentric little creep"?

a) Sir Henry Clithering

b) Parker Pyne

c) Miss Marple

d) Hercule Poirot

9. What did Aldous Huxley and C. S. Lewis have in common?

a. Born in the same town

b) Died on the same day

c) Both descendants of Shakespeare

d) Married the same woman

10. Who is the only author to publish books in 9 of the 10 Dewey Decimal categories?

a) Corin Telado

b) Stephen King

c) Isaac Asimov

d) R. L. Stine

Round 2:

Poetry

11. What poet wrote the following lines: "Two roads diverged in a wood, and... I took the one less traveled by"?

a. Langston Hughes

b. Emily Dickinson

c. Walt Whitman

d. Robert Frost

12. Which poet rarely used capital letters?

a) T. S. Elliott

b) E. E. Cummings

c) A. E. Housman

d) W. B. Yeats

13. What famous poem begins with the line: "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary..."

a) The Raven

b) Paul Revere's Ride

c) The Dance of the Dead

d) The Ghost

14. Which of the ancient Greek dramatists is generally considered to have been the greatest in terms of the poetic value of his plays?

a) Aeschylus

b) Sophicles

c) Euripides

d) Aristophanes

15. He included an unflattering description of himself in on of "The Canterbury Tales."

16. This author is credited for writing two of the most famous epic poems of all time: The Iliad and The Odyssey.

17. This author legitimized Roman rule in the Mediterranean with his work The Iliad.

a) Ovid

b) Horace

c) Lucan

d) Virgil

18. This ancient poet was banished from Rome by Emperor Augustus, even though he was regarded as the best poet of his age.

a) Lucretius

b) Ovid

c) Virgil

d) Seneca

19. What is the word used for fear of poetry?

a. Muniphobia

b. Anstophobia

c. Bibliophobia

d. Metrophobia

20. The three best selling poets of all time are Khalil Gibran, Lao-Tzu, and ______?

Round 3:

Comic Strips

by Christine Bone

21. What comic strip, created by Bill Watterson, featured the adventures of a boy and his toy tiger?

22. What is the favourite food of Garfield the cat?

23. In the mid-20th century, it was popular to hold an annual dance where the women would invite the men to be their dates (rather than the usual other way round). This dance is named after what character from Li’l Abner?

24. Which Peanuts character appeared earliest?

a) Linus

b) Lucy

c) Schroeder

d) Sally

Trivia Tuesday

Round 1:

Literature

1. What was the working title of Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone With the Wind?

2. What famous literary character offers this sage advice: "Neither a borrower nor a lender be"?

3. What novel is set on a desert planet inhabited by giant sandworms?

4. Which Stephen King novel takes place mostly in the fictional Overlook Hotel?

5. What is the best selling novel of all time?

6. Which of Shakespeare's plays features a sorcerer named Prospero?

7. Who is the protagonist of The Hunger Games?

8. Which of her own characters did Agatha Christie call "a detestable, bombastic, tiresome, egocentric little creep"?

9. What did Aldous Huxley and C. S. Lewis have in common?

10. Who is the only author to publish books in 9 of the 10 Dewey Decimal categories?

Round 2:

Poetry

11. What poet wrote the following lines: "Two roads diverged in a wood, and... I took the one less traveled by"?

12. Which poet rarely used capital letters?

13. What famous poem begins with the line: "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary..."

14. Which of the ancient Greek dramatists is generally considered to have been the greatest in terms of the poetic value of his plays?

15. He included an unflattering description of himself in on of "The Canterbury Tales."

16. This author is credited for writing two of the most famous epic poems of all time: The Iliad and The Odyssey.

17. This author legitimized Roman rule in the Mediterranean with his work The Iliad.

18. This ancient poet was banished from Rome by Emperor Augustus, even though he was regarded as the best poet of his age.

19. What is the word used for fear of poetry?

20. The three best selling poets of all time are Khalil Gibran, Lao-Tzu, and ______?

Round 3:

21. What comic strip, created by Bill Watterson, featured the adventures of a boy and his toy tiger?

22. What is the favourite food of Garfield the cat?

23. In the mid-20th century, it was popular to hold an annual dance where the women would invite the men to be their dates (rather than the usual other way round). This dance is named after what character from Li’l Abner?

24. Which Peanuts character appeared earliest?

25. Lynn Johnston, creator of For Better or For Worse, lived in what northern Manitoba town during much of her career?

26. Gary Larson is the creator of what single-pane strip, often featuring animals?

27. What strip, started in 1938 and still running today, pioneered a serialized soap opera format? (Hint: the title is a woman’s name)

28. What comic strip couple had children named Cookie and Alexander? (give the first names of both parents)

9. Garry Trudeau is the creator of what strip, often focused on political satire?

30. Bloom County featured a penguin named what?