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.
By what title is Cedric Errol otherwise known in a literary work? Mayor of Casterbridge, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Scarlet Pimpernel, Captain Nemo
Who wrote The Lady Who Liked Clean Rest Rooms?
Kaleidoscope. Daddy, Palomino and Changes name the author?
Joan Peters became famous as who?
In which decade was Charles Schulz born?
The Poseidon Adventure is about a disaster on what type of transport?
The fictional character ‘Blackford Oakes’ is a protagonist of a series of novels written by which conservative American commentator best known as the host of the TV show Firing Line?
Which Dickens character owned a pet dog called Bullseye?
What were the names of Scarlett O’Hara’s sisters in the Margaret Mitchell classic Gone With the Wind?
What famous American writer worked as an entertainer aboard a Swedish ocean liner cruising the Caribbean before being drafted to serve in World War II?
What color was Moby Dick?
How many years after American expatriate Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer was published in France did the novel become legal in the United States?
What was the title of Kitty Kelley’s book about Frank Sinatra?
Why did 70-year-old Miguel Ramirez sue writer Ernest Hemingway?
Which book did Americans rate as their favorite – second only to the Bible in 1900?
Which American writer was court-martialed in 1830 for neglect of duty?
Which was the home planet for the aliens in H G Wells’ War of the Worlds?
What book by William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White that is one of the most influential prescriptive treatments of English grammar in the US is often required reading in high schools?
What first name did author Margaret Mitchell originally give her Gone With the Wind heroine, Scarlett O’ Hara?
Which character created by Washington Irving fell asleep for 20 years?
How did writer L. Frank Baum pick Oz for the name of the fantasyland in his Wizard of Oz stories?
What is the name of Dr. Seuss’s egg-hatching elephant?
Can you fill in the phrase in the title of Hannah Arendt’s 1963 book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the X? The phrase refers to Eichmann’s deportment at his trial, displaying neither guilt nor hatred, claiming he bore no responsibility for shipping Jews to their deaths because he was simply “doing his job.”
What book about four days in Iowa took Robert J. Waller two weeks to write, and topped bestseller lists for seven months?
What was the working title of Joseph Heller’s a best-selling Catch 22?
The 1954 publication of the book Seduction of the Innocent which protested the harmful effects of mass media on children led to a U.S. Congressional inquiry into what genre of publishing?
Where did Samuel Clemens get the idea for his pseudonym, Mark Twain?
What famous American writer created the Cisco Kid?
Which book had the longest stay on the New York Times paperback bestsellers list?
What was the first word that the blind Helen Keller learned in sign language from her teacher Annie Sullivan?
Who wrote The Da Vinci Code?
What was the name of Dick and Jane’s baby sister in elementary school primers of old?
The first published drawings of what famous children’s book author-illustrator appeared in a physics text entitled Atomics for the Millions?
What writer-friend nicknamed T. S. Eliot “Old Possum”?
Why was the novel ‘Fahrenheit 451’ by Ray Bradbury so named?
Whose book Sexual Politics was a landmark in feminist thinking?
What was Scarlett O’Hara’s real first name?
Which Suzanne wrote Philosophy In A New Key in 1942?
Which American novelist wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls?
What American novelist was challenged to a duel and beaten by a woman he later married?
Who wrote the horror novels Carrie and Misery?
Which writer of horrific happenings was himself involved in a road accident while out walking in 1999?
Which American-born Sinclair won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930?
What did L. Fran Baum, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, call his home in Hollywood?
What do the initials J. D. stand for in author J. D. Salinger’s name?
WHO SAID “SOMETIMES TOO MUCH DRINK IS BARELY ENOUGH”?
Rex Stout created what corpulent orchid loving private eye?
RED CONNORS PLAYED BY EDGAR BUCHANAN WHICH COWBOYS PARTNER?
WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE PIG LEADER IN GEORGE ORWELL’S ANIMAL FARM?
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