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    What is the name of Charles Bukowski's fictional alter-ego?

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  • 2. 

    Who wrote "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"?

    • Jack Canfield

    • John Naisbitt

    • Robert Pirsig

    • Stephen Covey

    Correct Answer
    A. Robert Pirsig
  • 3. 

    What famous writer was a high school dropout who worked as an office boy for "The New Yorker"?

    • Ray Bradbury

    • Clive Barker

    • Truman Capote

    • Stephen King

    Correct Answer
    A. Truman Capote
  • 4. 

    Which famous writer was recognized as a social satirist later in his career?

    • H.G. Wells

    • Kurt Vonnegut

    • Jules Verne

    • Stephen King

    Correct Answer
    A. Kurt Vonnegut
  • 5. 

    Which journalist was the first to infiltrate the Hell's Angels?

    • Edward R. Murrow

    • Geraldo Rivera

    • Hunter S. Thompson

    • Peter Jennings

    Correct Answer
    A. Hunter S. Thompson
  • 6. 

    Which newspaper columnist also wrote fourteen best selling books?

    • Heloise

    • Erma Bombeck

    • Ann Landers

    • Dave Barry

    Correct Answer
    A. Erma Bombeck
  • 7. 

    What writer said "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about"?

    • Mark Twain

    • Oscar Wilde

    • Truman Capote

    • Clive Barker

    Correct Answer
    A. Oscar Wilde
  • 8. 

    Who wrote the play that the movie "About Last Night" was based upon?

    • David Mamet

    • Neil Simon

    • Samuel Beckett

    • Susan Sontag

    Correct Answer
    A. David Mamet
  • 9. 

    Which novelist once employed Samuel Beckett?

    • William Faulkner

    • D.H. Lawrence

    • Ford Madox Ford

    • James Joyce

    Correct Answer
    A. James Joyce
  • 10. 

    J.D. Salinger and which writer are thought by some to be one and the same?

    • Will Self

    • Thomas Pynchon

    • Trevanian

    • Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

    Correct Answer
    A. Thomas Pynchon
  • 11. 

    Which famous author owned Joan Miro's painting "The Farm"?

    • Andre Breton

    • Henry Miller

    • Carl Jung

    • Ernest Hemingway

    Correct Answer
    A. Ernest Hemingway
  • 12. 

    Which play begins with "O for a muse of fire, to ascend the brightest heavens of invention"?

    • A Midsummer Night's Dream

    • Antony And Cleopatra

    • Henry V

    • Macbeth

    Correct Answer
    A. Henry V
  • 13. 

    What famous poet went on a walking tour of France and Switzerland, before settling in England with his sister?

    • Percy Shelley

    • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    • Robert Walden

    • William Wordsworth

    Correct Answer
    A. William Wordsworth
  • 14. 

    Which famous writer wrote the opera "Libretto"?

    • Jules Verne

    • H.P. Lovecraft

    • H.G. Wells

    • Stephen King

    Correct Answer
    A. Jules Verne
  • 15. 

    Which author was dressed and treated as a girl by his mother?

    • Jack Kerouac

    • Tennessee Williams

    • Ernest Hemingway

    • Truman Capote

    Correct Answer
    A. Ernest Hemingway

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