What character was called Sherrinford Hope in an 1886 story, where he had a sidekick named Ormond Hacker, but was renamed for the author's cricket buddy and an American philosopher?
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Canadian novelist David Morrell created what character as a cop-killing psychopath who dies in the end?
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What name completes the opening line of "Moby Dick", "Call me ..."?
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What L Frank Baum book is said to be a parable about turn-of-the-century populism, labor, agrarian reform and the free coinage of silver?
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Who said "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread"?
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What rotten investor cultivated an eccentric image based on cigars and white suits when finances forced him to go on an international lecture tour?
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Which novel begins with the line "Early in the spring of 1750...." ?
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Based on something Proust describes in the opening chapter of Swann's Way, what is the Proust effect?
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What author, who died at the age of 84, wrote in the novel Timequake that his alter ego, Kilgore Trout, also died at the age of 84?
Question 10 of 10
Bloomsday is a commemoration that is celebrated each year in Dublin and is named after the central character in which James Joyce book?
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