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