Literature - 1 point
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
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| Comics and Magazines | What is the name of the comic strip, drawn by Bill Watterson and which ran from 1985 to 1995, that features a boy and his toy tiger? | Calvin and Hobbes | 2023/04/17 |
| Comics and Magazines | Gnitty, an armoured knight with a bent sword, appears in the logo for which British satirical magazine | Private Eye | 2023/04/17 |
| Comics and Magazines | Whose football career lasted from 1954 to 1993, when it was finally ended after a helicopter crash forced the amputation of his left foot? | Roy Race (a.k.a. Roy of the Rovers) | 2023/04/17 |
| Comics and Magazines | What was the nickname of comic strip football player Hamish Balfour, the Hebridean player for Princes Park who had the hardest shot in the world? | Hotshot Hamish | 2023/04/17 |
| Comics and Magazines | After which commentator and presenter did the magazine Private Eye name its feature highlighting gaffes and nonsensical remarks made by sports commentators? | David Coleman | 2023/04/17 |
| Comics and Magazines | What is the name of the regular feature in the Private Eye magazine highlighting pretentious writing in the media? | Pseud's Corner | 2023/04/17 |
| Comics and Magazines | What was the humourous name of the Scottish football manager in the comic Hotshot Hamish? | Mr McBossy | 2023/04/17 |
| Comics and Magazines | A debutante emerging from a cloud of butterflies and roses was the first cover of which magazine, launched in 1892? | Vogue | 2024/04/11 |
| Comics and Magazines | The magazine Grand Royal, which ran for six editions in the 1990s, was founded by which New York hip-hop and rap-rock trio? | Beastie Boys | 2024/12/07 |
| Comics and Magazines | The character Eric Wimp was the alter ego of which comic book superhero, adapted into a cartoon in the 1980s? | Bananaman | 2025/01/01 |
| Fairy Tales and Fables | By what name is the story Chicken Licken, or Chicken Little, traditionally known in the UK? | Henny Penny | 2024/12/23 |
| Classical | Nicknamed 'The Father of Comedy', which ancient Greek playwright was the author of works whose titles translate as The Clouds, The Wasps, The Birds, and The Frogs? | Aristophanes | 2024/04/18 |
| Classical | Is Greek mythology, who was turned into a spider as punishment for boastfully defeating the goddess Athena in a weaving contest by producing a work that mocked the Gods? | Arachne | 2024/10/31 |
| Classical | According to Hesiod’s retelling of the myth in 700BC, what was the only item left in Pandora’s jar - later referred to as Pandora’s Box - after she opened it in curiosity and released a plague of ills upon humanity? | Hope *The Greek is Elpis. | 2024/12/07 |
| North America | 'I think I can, I think I can' is a mantra repeated in which US vehicle-based folktale with the moral that perseverance can overcome physical limitations? | The Little Engine that Could | 2024/10/22 |
| North America | The Stephen King book Doctor Sleep, which was adapted into a film in 2019, is a sequel to which famous King horror story, itself adapted to film in 1980? | The Shining | 2024/10/22 |
| North America | In the book series The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot, later adapted into films staring Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews, teenager Mia Thermopolis discovers she is the sole heir to the throne of which fictitious European nation? | Genovia | 2024/10/22 |
| North America | What item of clothing connects a characters from books by Stephen King, Dr Seuss, and Lewis Carroll? | Hat *Rose the Hat from Stephen King's Doctor Sleep; The Cat in the Hat by Dr Seuss; The Mad Hatter from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. | 2024/10/31 |
| UK & Ireland | What was the name of the epistolary novel written by a teenage Jane Austen, and never submitted for publication, in which the recently widowed title character attempts to manipulate men into maintaining her comfortable lifestyle? | Lady Susan | 2023/04/17 |
| UK & Ireland | George Knightley, otherwise known as Mr Knightley, is the male lead in which Jane Austen novel? | Emma | 2023/04/17 |
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Literature - 2 points
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
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| Plays | In William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, what are the surnames of the titular characters? | 1. Montague 2. Capulet | 2024/10/22 |
| Plays | What two plays by William Shakespeare have titles in which consecutive words start with the same letter? | 1. Love's Labours Lost 2. Pericles, Prince of Tyre *There is some argument about how much of Pericles Shakespeare wrote, and it was not included in his work's until the third folio. | 2025/02/08 |
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Literature - 3 points
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Updated |
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| Children's | Not including posthumous 'beginner book' collections, which three books authored by Dr Seuss feature a colour in their title? | 1. One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish (1960) 2. Green Eggs and Ham (1960) 3. Mr Brown Can Moo! Can You? (1970) *Since Dr Seuss died in 1991, there have been 'beginner book' collections of his work with green, orange, aqua, and violet in the title. | 2024/04/08 |
| Plays | Which three plays by William Shakespeare, all classified as comedies, feature characters called Sebastian - although one Sebastian is actually Julia in disguise? | 1. Twelfth Night 2. The Tempest 3. The Two Gentlemen of Verona | 2025/01/16 |
| Memoir | In Elizabeth Gilbert’s 2006 memoir Eat, Pray, Love, subsequently adapted into a film, which three countries - all beginning with the same letter - respectively relate to the actions in the book’s title? | 1. Italy (eat) 2. India (pray) 3. Indonesia (love) | 2024/12/07 |
| Prizes | What three men named Thomas or Tomas have won the Nobel Prize for Literature? | 1. Thomas Mann (1929) 2. T.S. Eliot (1948) 3. Tomas Tranströmer (2011) | 2025/01/09 |
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Literature - 4 points
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
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| Prizes | Which four Irish writers have won the Nobel Prize for Literature? | 1. W.B. Yeats (1923) 2. George Bernard Shaw (1925) 3. Samuel Beckett (1969) 4. Seamus Heaney (1995) | 2024/11/14 |
| English-language Fiction | What are the names of the four March sisters in Louisa May Alcott's book Little Women? | 1. Meg 2. Jo 3. Beth 4. Amy | 2023/04/22 |
| English-language Fiction | Who are the four central characters in Kenneth Grahame’s novel The Wind in the Willows? | 1. Rat (‘Ratty’) 2. Mole (‘Moley’) 3. Badger 4. Mr Toad | 2024/12/07 |
| English-language Fiction | In the book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, who were the four attendees at the Mad Hatter’s tea party? | 1. Alice 2. The Mad Hatter 3. The March Hare 4. The Dormouse | 2025/01/20 |
| Classical | In Virgil’s Aeneid, what four types of wood are described as being used in the construction of the Trojan horse - although scholars believe the poet was most likely seeking varied language rather than accuracy? | 1. Fir 2. Maple 3. Oak 4. Pine | 2024/12/14 |
| Plays | What are the four ‘drawing room plays’ of Irish writer Oscar Wilde? | 1. Lady Windermere’s Fan 2. A Woman of No Importance 3. An Ideal Husband 4. The Importance of Being Earnest | 2025/01/01 |
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Literature - 5 points
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
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| Plays | Which five plays by William Shakespeare contain a character called Antonio? | 1. The Merchant of Venice 2. Much Ado About Nothing 3. Twelfth Night 4. The Tempest 5. The Two Gentlemen of Verona | 2025/01/15 |
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Literature - 6 points
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
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| English-language Fiction | Name the six completed novels written by Jane Austen. | 1. Sense and Sensibility 2. Pride and Prejudice 3. Mansfield Park 4. Emma 5. Northanger Abbey 6. Persuasion | 2023/04/17 |
| English-language Fiction | What are the six fiction novels written by George Orwell? | 1. Burmese Days 2. A Clergyman’s Daughter 3. Keep the Aspidistra Flying 4. Coming Up for Air 5. Animal Farm 6. Nineteen Eighty-Four | 2025/01/20 |
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Literature - 7 points
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
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| Plays | Although the death toll in the final version of the play is six, who are the seven characters that die in the first edition - or first quarto - of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet? | 1. Mercutio 2. Tybalt 3. Lady Montague 4. Benvolio 5. Paris 6. Romeo 7. Juliet *In the first quarto, Montague says his wife has died of grief, and mentions Benvolio is dead too. In the second quarto, the mention of Benvolio dying is removed. | 27 December 2024 |
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Literature - 8 points
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| North America | Mentioned in both the book by Chuck Palahniuk and its 1999 film adaptation, what are the eight rules of Fight Club? | 1. You do not talk about Fight Club. 2. You do not talk about Fight Club. 3. If someone yells “stop!”, goes limp, or taps out, the fight is over. 4. Only two guys to a fight. 5. One fight at a time. 6. The fights are bare knuckle. No shirt, no shoes, no weapons. 7. Fights will go on as long as they have to. 8. If this is your first time at Fight Club, you have to fight. | 2025/03/01 |
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Literature - 9 points
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Updated |
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| English-language Fiction | In J.R.R. Tolkein's The Lord of the Rings, who are the nine members of The Fellowship of the Ring? | 1. Gandalf 2. Aragorn (a.k.a. Strider or Elessar) 3. Frodo Baggins 4. Samwise 'Sam' Gamgee 5. Peregrin 'Pippin' Took 6. Meriadoc 'Merry' Brandybuck 7. Legolas 8. Gimli 9. Boromir | 2024/04/08 |
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Literature - 10 points
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
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| Prizes | Although there have been several winning writers who took on US citizenship, who are the 10 Nobel Laureates in Literature who were born in the United States? | 1. Sinclair Lewis (1930) 2. Eugene O’Neill (1936) 3. Pearl Buck (1938) 4. T.S. Eliot (1948) 5. William Faulkner (1949) 6. Ernest Hemingway (1954) 7. John Steinbeck (1962) 8. Toni Morrison (1993) 9. Bob Dylan (2016) 10. Louise Glück (2020) *Saul Bellow (1976) was an American writer, but was born in Canada before moving to the US as a child ** Eliot renounced his US citizenship in 1927 | 2024/10/30 |
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