This Great Authors Trivia Is a Literary Brain Workout
1.
Who wrote "Charlotte's Web"?
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E.B. White
2.
What town is named after the author of "The Last of the Mohicans"?
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Cooperstown
3.
In what piece will you find "I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference"?
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A Robert Frost Poem
4.
What was the name of the theatre that burnt to the ground during a performance of Henry the 8th in 1613?
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The Globe
5.
Which author wrote "The Glass Menagerie" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"?
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Tennessee Williams
6.
Who wrote "Salem's Lot"?
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Stephen King
7.
Which author's books have been outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare?
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Agatha Christie's
8.
What author was only popular after his death and married his first cousin?
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Edgar Allan Poe
9.
Where did J.K. Rowling write most of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone?
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In Edinburgh Cafes
10.
Charles Darwin is known best as this?
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Scientist
11.
What philosophy did Dr. Timothy Leary preach in the 60's?
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Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
12.
The book "The Martian Chronicles" was written by whom?
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Ray Bradbury
13.
The book "The Time Machine" was written by whom?
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H G Wells
14.
Who wrote the sci-fi book "The War of the Worlds"?
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H.G. Wells
15.
Who wrote the sci-fi book "Frankenstein"?
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Mary Shelley
16.
Who wrote the sci-fi book "Journey to the Center of the Earth"?
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Jules Verne
17.
Whose work is incorrectly quoted "A rose is a rose is a rose"?
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Gertrude Stein
18.
The movie "This Boy's Life" was based on the life of which author?
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Tobias Wolff
19.
In what year did famed mystery author Agatha Christie die?
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1976
20.
Which writer killed his wife while trying to shoot a glass off her head?
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William S. Burroughs
21.
Which soon-to-be famous poets were both students, in the same class, of Robert Lowell?
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Sylvia Plath And Anne Sexton
22.
Who wrote the biography of Alice B. Toklas?
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Gertrude Stein
23.
Who wrote "A Passage to India"?
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E.M. Forster
24.
In what year did Charles Darwin publish his first work explaining the theory of natural selection?
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1858
25.
Who is the only author to get a death sentence for his work?
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Salman Rushdie
26.
Which author taught at Harvard while working as an astrophysicist?
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Carl Sagan
27.
Who wrote, "who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present, controls the past"?
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George Orwell
28.
Who wrote the 1979 book "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"?
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Douglas Adams
29.
Who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954?
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Ernest Hemingway
30.
Edward Albee wrote this famous play in the sixties?
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Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
31.
Who coined the phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out"?
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Timothy Leary
32.
Who wrote the sci-fi book "Foundation"?
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Isaac Asimov
33.
Who wrote the sci-fi book "Ender's Shadow"?
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Orson Scott Card
34.
The book "The Dispossessed" was written by whom?
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Ursula K Le Guin
35.
The book "I, Robot" was written by whom?
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Isaac Asimov
36.
Who wrote the sci-fi book "The Man in the High Castle"?
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Philip K. Dick
37.
The book "Lord of Light", was written by whom?
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Roger Zelazny
38.
The book "Dangerous Visions" was written by whom?
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Harlan Ellison
39.
Who wrote the sci-fi book "Slaughterhouse-Five"?
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Kurt Vonnegut
40.
The book "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" was written by whom?
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Jules Verne
41.
Who wrote the sci-fi book "The Year's Best Science Fiction"?
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Gardner Dozois
42.
The book "The Puppet Masters" was written by whom?
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Robert A Heinlein
43.
The book "Earthman, Come Home" was written by whom?
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James Blish
44.
Who wrote the play that the movie "About Last Night" was based upon?
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David Mamet
45.
Which author was dressed and treated as a girl by his mother?
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Ernest Hemingway
46.
What is the name of Charles Bukowski's fictional alter-ego?
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Henry Chinaski
47.
Who wrote "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"?
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Robert Pirsig
48.
Which novelist once employed Samuel Beckett?
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James Joyce
49.
J.D. Salinger and which writer are thought by some to be one and the same?
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Thomas Pynchon
50.
Which famous author owned Joan Miro's painting "The Farm"?
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Ernest Hemingway
51.
Which play begins with "O for a muse of fire, to ascend the brightest heavens of invention"?
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Henry V
52.
What famous poet went on a walking tour of France and Switzerland, before settling in England with his sister?
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William Wordsworth
53.
What famous writer was a high school dropout who worked as an office boy for "The New Yorker"?
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Truman Capote
54.
Which famous writer was recognized as a social satirist later in his career?
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Kurt Vonnegut
55.
Which famous writer wrote the opera "Libretto"?
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Jules Verne
56.
Which journalist was the first to infiltrate the Hell's Angels?
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Hunter S. Thompson
57.
Which newspaper columnist also wrote fourteen best selling books?
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Erma Bombeck
58.
Toni Morrison wrote which classic in 1969?
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The Bluest Eye
59.
Where was the word "nerd" first used in print?
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Dr. Seuss' "If I Ran The Zoo"
60.
Where did members of the "Saturday Club" (which included Emerson, Longfellow and Oliver Wendell Holmes) meet?
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Omni Parker House Hotel, Boston
61.
Who wrote the science fiction book "Stranger in a Strange Land"?
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Robert A. Heinlein
62.
Who wrote the sci-fi book "Neuromancer"?
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William Gibson
63.
Who wrote the sci-fi book "Ringworld"?
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Larry Niven
64.
Who wrote the science fiction novel "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress"?
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Robert A. Heinlein
65.
Who wrote the sci-fi book "Hyperion"?
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Dan Simmons
66.
Who wrote the sci-fi book "Gateway"?
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Frederik Pohl
67.
The book "Starship Troopers" was written by whom?
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Robert A Heinlein
68.
Who wrote the sci-fi book "Rendezvous With Rama"?
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Arthur C. Clarke
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Who wrote the sci-fi book "A Canticle for Leibowitz"?
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Walter M. Miller
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The book "The Stars My Destination" was written by whom?
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Alfred Bester
71.
The book "Flowers for Algernon" was written by whom?
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Daniel Keyes
72.
Who wrote the sci-fi book "The Mote in God's Eye"?
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Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
73.
The book "Startide Rising" was written by whom?
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David Brin
74.
The book "The Shadow of the Torturer" was written by whom?
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Gene Wolfe
75.
Who wrote the book "More Than Human"?
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Theodore Sturgeon
76.
Who wrote the sci-fi book "Red Mars"?
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Kim Stanley Robinson
77.
The book "Doomsday Book" was written by whom?
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Connie Willis
78.
The book "The Gods Themselves" was written by whom?
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Isaac Asimov
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Who wrote the sci-fi book "The Caves of Steel"?
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Isaac Asimov
80.
Who wrote the sci-fi book "The Day of the Triffids"?
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John Wyndham
81.
The book "The Diamond Age" was written by whom?
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Neal Stephenson
82.
Who wrote the sci-fi book "To Your Scattered Bodies Go"?
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Philip Jose Farmer
83.
The book "Ubik" was written by whom?
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Philip K Dick
84.
Who wrote the sci-fi book "The Uplift War"?
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David Brin
85.
The book "Cryptonomicon" was written by whom?
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Neal Stephenson
86.
The book "A Princess of Mars" was written by whom?
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
87.
Who wrote the sci-fi book "Solaris"?
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Stanislaw Lem
88.
The book "Blood Music" was written by whom?
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Greg Bear
89.
The book "The Space Merchants" was written by whom?
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Pohl & Kornbluth
90.
Who wrote the sci-fi book "The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch"?
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Philip K. Dick
91.
The book "Bujold Barrayar" was written by whom?
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Lois McMaster
92.
The book "The Sirens of Titan" was written by whom?
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Kurt Vonnegut
93.
The book "Mission of Gravity" was written by whom?
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Hal Clement
94.
Who wrote the sci-fi book "City"?
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Clifford Simak
95.
The book "Lucifer's Hammer" was written by whom?
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Niven & Pournelle
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Who wrote the sci-fi book "The Fountains of Paradise"?
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Arthur C. Clarke
97.
The book "The City and the Stars" was written by whom?
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Arthur C. Clarke
98.
The book "Grey Lensman" was written by whom?
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E E "Doc" Smith
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Who wrote the sci-fi book "The Postman"?
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David Brin
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The book "Double Star" was written by whom?
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Robert A Heinlein
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