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    Which writer said "I serve champagne to my real friends and real pain to my sham friends"?

    • Helen Frankenthaler
    • William Baziotes
    • Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
    • Francis Bacon
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  • 2. 

    Which animal is associated with Pallas Athena?

    • Dove

    • Horse

    • Lion

    • Owl

    Correct Answer
    A. Owl
  • 3. 

    Who was headlined as a SPOOFSTER in The Saturday Evening Post in 1963?

    • Sheb Wooley

    • Stan Freberg

    • Allen Sherman

    • Ben Calder

    Correct Answer
    A. Allen Sherman
  • 4. 

    What is the name of the goat who fed Zeus after he was born?

    • Ione

    • Andromeda

    • Iphigenia

    • Amaltheia

    Correct Answer
    A. Amaltheia
  • 5. 

    Who wrote "The Magic Mountain"?

    • Thomas Mann

    • D.H. Lawrence

    • Henry James

    • Joseph Conrad

    Correct Answer
    A. Thomas Mann
  • 6. 

    The desert people in the "DUNE" series were called what?

    • Ewoks

    • Fremen

    • Sandcrawlers

    • Sandpeople

    Correct Answer
    A. Fremen
  • 7. 

    Which mythological character did not die by suicide?

    • Aegeus

    • Ajax

    • The Sphinx

    • Jason

    Correct Answer
    A. Jason
  • 8. 

    What was the real first name of the main character in Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations"?

    • Patrick

    • Handel

    • Finn

    • Philip

    Correct Answer
    A. Philip
  • 9. 

    Which goddess changed "Ulysses" men into swine?

    • Merlin

    • Medea

    • Hera

    • Circe

    Correct Answer
    A. Circe
  • 10. 

    Who was Zeus' mother?

    • Rhea

    • Cybelle

    • Gaea

    • Hestia

    Correct Answer
    A. Rhea
  • 11. 

    The Greeks hailed him as Apollo. What did the Romans call him?

    • Hyperion

    • Sol

    • Apollo

    • Helios

    Correct Answer
    A. Apollo
  • 12. 

    What is the intended metaphor in the first stanza of "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls" referring to?

    • The Years Of Mourning Over A Loved One

    • How Luck Comes And Goes

    • The Passage Of Time

    • The Orbit Of The Earth

    Correct Answer
    A. The Passage Of Time
  • 13. 

    Who wrote the African-American literary classic "Their Eyes Were Watching God"?

    • Ralph Ellison

    • Alice Walker

    • Zora Neale Hurston

    • James Baldwin

    Correct Answer
    A. Zora Neale Hurston
  • 14. 

    What year and what publication did "The Night Before Christmas" originally appear in?

    • 1823, Troy, New York Sentinel

    • 1920, Readers Digest

    • 1940, New York Times

    • 1863, Anthology Of Stories

    Correct Answer
    A. 1823, Troy, New York Sentinel
  • 15. 

    What is the first line of Jane Austen's novel "Pride and Prejudice"?

    • My Dear Mr. Bennet, Said His Lady To Him One Day, "Have You Heard That Netherfield Park Is Let At Last?"

    • The Family Of Bennet Had Long Been Settled In Derbyshire

    • The Day Passed Much As The Day Before Had Done

    • It Is A Truth Universally Acknowledged, That A Single Man In Possession Of A Good Fortune, Must Be In Want Of A Wife

    Correct Answer
    A. It Is A Truth Universally Acknowledged, That A Single Man In Possession Of A Good Fortune, Must Be In Want Of A Wife

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