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.
What single word is missing in the titles of the following book series? …, Run, … Redux, … Is Rich, … At Rest, … Remembered.
To whom did Helen Keller dedicate her autobiography, The Story of My Life?
William Sidney Porter, Who we know as O. Henry, spent some time in Honduras. What was he doing there?
What famous American novelist has written several mysteries under the pen name Edgar Box?
What was the name of Dick and Jane’s baby sister in elementary school primers of old?
What do the initials J. D. stand for in author J. D. Salinger’s name?
Which book had the longest stay on the New York Times paperback bestsellers list?
Who wrote The Da Vinci Code?
Who wrote the novel Jurassic Park, which the Spielberg film was based on?
Who wrote East Of Eden?
With connection to ‘generational’ literature, what happened in 1750 in the Mandinka tribe in the village of Juffure, The Gambia?
What book knocked Henry Kissinger’s White house Years out of first place on the best-seller list in November 1979?
Which American novelist wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls?
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’?
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’?
How did James F Fixx, promoter of jogging for good health, die in 1984?
What American novelist was challenged to a duel and beaten by a woman he later married?
What is the only novel to top the best-seller lists for two consecutive years?
Who wrote the horror novels Carrie and Misery?
What was Captain Queeg’s first name and rank in the 1951 novel – and later movie – The Caine Mutiny?
Which word needs to be added to Is Rich and At Rest to completer the book titles?
Which writer of horrific happenings was himself involved in a road accident while out walking in 1999?
Vladimir Nabokov wrote Lolita in what language?
Under which name did American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens write?
What book was Mark David Chapman carrying with him when he killed John Lennon on 12/8/80?
Which writer of horrific happenings was himself involved in a road accident while out walking in 1999?
Of the trio of female US novelists who have sold over 30 million books, who was the second to be published?
Name Ernest Hemmingway’s book dealing with bullfighting.
Who wrote the novels Humboldt’s Gift and Herzog?
What famous American writer was granted a patent for a best-selling book that contained no words?
What famous American author appeared in the 1976 movie comedy Murder by Death?
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Norman Bean became famous as which author?
Which American novelist wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls?
Who wrote The Lady Who Liked Clean Rest Rooms?
Which Suzanne wrote Philosophy In A New Key in 1942?
Which Raymond wrote the novel The Big Sleep?
Of the trio of female US novelists who have sold over 30 million books, who was the second to be published?
What was the name of the broken-down, partially blind old horse Ichabod Crane rode in Washington Irving’s Legend of Sleepy Hollow?
The Flying Nun was based on which book?
Who released an album called Thriller in 1982?
Parker and Barrow were the surnames of which famous couple?
Who had a UK number one with “Baby Jump” in 1971?
Which musical featured the song Too Darn Hot?
What film title is this? F*ND*NG N*M*
What was Friedrich Serturner the first to extract from opium and use as a pain reliever?
In the 90s Silvio Berlusconi won the general election in which country?
Which song written by the poet Banjo Paterson is Australia’s most widely known folk song?
What was the nickname of the first official Presidential airplane (a C-45 piloted by Major Henry T. Myers in 1944)?
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