Trivia On Nobel Prize Literature
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- 1.
What is the name of the god that is the focus of Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse's "Demian"?
- A.
Abraxas
- B.
Beatrice
- C.
Zeus
- D.
Abba
Correct Answer
A. Abraxas -
- 2.
What Nobel Prize-winning novelist also wrote screenplays, including "The Big Sleep"?
- A.
William Goldman
- B.
William Faulkner
- C.
James A. Michener
- D.
T. S. Eliot
Correct Answer
B. William Faulkner -
- 3.
From what Ivy League university was Nobel Prize winning playwright Eugene O'Neill expelled?
- A.
Brown
- B.
Princeton
- C.
Yale
- D.
Harvard
Correct Answer
B. Princeton -
- 4.
"Long Day's Journey Into Night" is a semi-autobiographical play by what 1936 Nobel Prize winner?
- A.
Arthur Miller
- B.
Eudora Welty
- C.
Eugene O'Neill
- D.
Tennessee Williams
Correct Answer
C. Eugene O'Neill -
- 5.
Where was 1930 Nobel Prize winner Sinclair Lewis born?
- A.
Quebec
- B.
Minnesota
- C.
Iowa
- D.
Mississippi
Correct Answer
B. Minnesota -
- 6.
Who was the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1930?
- A.
Eugene O'Neill
- B.
T.S. Eliot
- C.
Sinclair Lewis
- D.
Ernest Hemingway
Correct Answer
C. Sinclair Lewis -
- 7.
Who played Lennie Small in the 1992 film of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men"?
- A.
Dennis Hopper
- B.
Edward Norton
- C.
John Malkovich
- D.
Kevin Spacey
Correct Answer
C. John Malkovich -
- 8.
Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow was the first American to receive what other literary honor?
- A.
Pulitzer Prize
- B.
International Literary Prize
- C.
Randolph Caldecott Medal
- D.
Newbery Medal
Correct Answer
B. International Literary Prize -
- 9.
Where was Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow born?
- A.
Lachine, Quebec
- B.
Chicago, Illinois
- C.
Jerusalem, Israel
- D.
Paris, France
Correct Answer
A. Lachine, Quebec -
- 10.
Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck wrote under what male pseudonym?
- A.
George Eliot
- B.
John Henry
- C.
D. H. Lawrence
- D.
John Sedges
Correct Answer
D. John Sedges -
- 11.
What Irish playwright accepted the 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, but declined the monetary prize?
- A.
Oscar Wilde
- B.
William Butler Yeats
- C.
George Bernard Shaw
- D.
Edward Lear
Correct Answer
C. George Bernard Shaw -
- 12.
What Irish poet and Nobel Prize winner founded The Rhymer's Club with Ernest Rhys?
- A.
William Butler Yeats
- B.
Robert Frost
- C.
John Keats
- D.
Ezra Pound
Correct Answer
A. William Butler Yeats -
- 13.
What religion was Nobel Prize-winner Jean-Paul Sarte?
- A.
Jewish
- B.
Atheist
- C.
Methodist
- D.
Catholic
Correct Answer
B. Atheist -
- 14.
What French poet won the first Nobel Prize for Literature in 1901?
- A.
Arthur Rimbaud
- B.
Sully Prudhomme
- C.
Charles Baudelaire
- D.
Guillaume Apollinaire
Correct Answer
B. Sully Prudhomme -
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