American Literature

If you think you have a Thoreau understanding of trivia, these American Literature questions are the Wright ones for you. Hopefully you've been Twain-ing long enough, but we'll Lee-ave it up to you.

Who wrote “Jaws”?

December 19, 2017 By

What single word is missing in the titles of the following book series? …, Run, … Redux, … Is Rich, … At Rest, … Remembered.

December 19, 2017 By

To whom did Helen Keller dedicate her autobiography, The Story of My Life?

December 18, 2017 By

William Sidney Porter, Who we know as O. Henry, spent some time in Honduras. What was he doing there?

December 18, 2017 By

What famous American novelist has written several mysteries under the pen name Edgar Box?

December 18, 2017 By

What was the name of Dick and Jane’s baby sister in elementary school primers of old?

December 18, 2017 By

What do the initials J. D. stand for in author J. D. Salinger’s name?

December 18, 2017 By

Which book had the longest stay on the New York Times paperback bestsellers list?

December 18, 2017 By

Who wrote The Da Vinci Code?

December 18, 2017 By

Who wrote the novel Jurassic Park, which the Spielberg film was based on?

December 18, 2017 By

Who wrote East Of Eden?

December 18, 2017 By

Which children’s book series where there is ‘an old house in Paris that was covered in vines’ and where there ‘lived twelve little girls in two straight lines’ is famous for having the closing line ‘That’s all there is, there isn’t any more’?

December 17, 2017 By

How did James F Fixx, promoter of jogging for good health, die in 1984?

December 17, 2017 By

What American novelist was challenged to a duel and beaten by a woman he later married?

December 17, 2017 By

What is the only novel to top the best-seller lists for two consecutive years?

December 17, 2017 By

Who wrote the horror novels Carrie and Misery?

December 17, 2017 By

What was Captain Queeg’s first name and rank in the 1951 novel – and later movie – The Caine Mutiny?

December 17, 2017 By

Which word needs to be added to Is Rich and At Rest to completer the book titles?

December 17, 2017 By

Which writer of horrific happenings was himself involved in a road accident while out walking in 1999?

December 17, 2017 By

Vladimir Nabokov wrote Lolita in what language?

December 17, 2017 By

Under which name did American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens write?

December 17, 2017 By

What book was Mark David Chapman carrying with him when he killed John Lennon on 12/8/80?

December 17, 2017 By

Which writer of horrific happenings was himself involved in a road accident while out walking in 1999?

December 17, 2017 By

Of the trio of female US novelists who have sold over 30 million books, who was the second to be published?

December 17, 2017 By

Name Ernest Hemmingway’s book dealing with bullfighting.

December 17, 2017 By

Who wrote the novels Humboldt’s Gift and Herzog?

December 17, 2017 By

What famous American writer was granted a patent for a best-selling book that contained no words?

December 17, 2017 By

What famous American author appeared in the 1976 movie comedy Murder by Death?

December 17, 2017 By

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

December 17, 2017 By

Norman Bean became famous as which author?

December 17, 2017 By

Which American novelist wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls?

December 17, 2017 By

Who wrote The Lady Who Liked Clean Rest Rooms?

December 17, 2017 By

With connection to ‘generational’ literature, what happened in 1750 in the Mandinka tribe in the village of Juffure, The Gambia?

December 17, 2017 By

What book knocked Henry Kissinger’s White house Years out of first place on the best-seller list in November 1979?

December 17, 2017 By

Which American novelist wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls?

December 17, 2017 By

Which famous book begins with the line ‘No One would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own’?

December 17, 2017 By

Which Suzanne wrote Philosophy In A New Key in 1942?

December 16, 2017 By

Which Raymond wrote the novel The Big Sleep?

December 16, 2017 By

Of the trio of female US novelists who have sold over 30 million books, who was the second to be published?

December 16, 2017 By

What was the name of the broken-down, partially blind old horse Ichabod Crane rode in Washington Irving’s Legend of Sleepy Hollow?

December 16, 2017 By

The Flying Nun was based on which book?

December 16, 2017 By

Who had a UK number one with “Baby Jump” in 1971?

December 14, 2017 By

Which musical featured the song Too Darn Hot?

December 14, 2017 By

What film title is this? FNDNG NM

December 14, 2017 By

What was Friedrich Serturner the first to extract from opium and use as a pain reliever?

December 14, 2017 By

In the 90s Silvio Berlusconi won the general election in which country?

December 14, 2017 By

Which song written by the poet Banjo Paterson is Australia’s most widely known folk song?

December 14, 2017 By

What was the nickname of the first official Presidential airplane (a C-45 piloted by Major Henry T. Myers in 1944)?

December 14, 2017 By

CHARLIE WATTS BOOKS ‘ODE TO A FLYING BIRD’ IS A TRIBUTE TO WHICH JAZZMAN?

December 14, 2017 By

IN WHICH US STATE WAS THE MENTAL ASYLUM OF ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST?

December 14, 2017 By