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Question 1 of 10
JD Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye and John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men both got their names from poems by what Scotsman?
Question 2 of 10
Who wrote the book The Last Of The Mohicans?
Question 3 of 10
What hunchbacked Catholic poet and essayist never grew taller than 4 ft 6 in, due to a tubercular spinal infection?
Question 4 of 10
Which country's name comes from the Spanish word for "silver"?
Question 5 of 10
In which year did Arthur Conan Doyle have his first Sherlock Holmes story published by Strand magazine?
Question 6 of 10
Who was brought back to literary life with A Moveable Feast, and despite being dead, kept publishing books, including Islands in the Stream, The Garden of Eden and True at First Light?
Question 7 of 10
Who wrote The Day of the Triffids?
Question 8 of 10
Give us the word that has been changed in this line from Joyce Kilmer's "Trees." I think that I shall never see, a penguin lovely as a tree?
Question 9 of 10
What Victor Hugo novel includes a 100-page, blow-by-blow, description of the Battle of Waterloo?
Question 10 of 10
Asked to read at John F. Kennedy's inauguration, this poet became befuddled and was blinded by the sunlight, couldn't read the poem he had written for JFK, instead read "The Gift Outright" ... and referred to JFK as "president-elect John Finley." Who was he?
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Movie Quiz
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